Incorporating Ecocomposition into our WRIT 101 Classrooms: Grace's I-search Handout

• Core aspects that may be incorporated into WRIT 101 curriculum:

· connect students to the community, to the public sphere, and to active citizenry

• direct the writing of the Personal Academic Argument or “Greening UM” op-ed toward a specific audience and encourage students to submit it for publication

· provide opportunities for experiential learning

• may resemble service learning linked with regular discussions about the students-traveler’s role in the world in a wider context
• may be an outside writing project for a local non-profit organization

· foster deeper understanding of and create additional emphasis on ecology

• regularly discuss students’ relationship with place, natural, and manmade environments
• discuss ecological or environmental concepts in relation to each assignment
• facilitate thorough bioregional research during Life Place unit

Key texts:

Dobrin, Sidney I and Christian R. Weisser, ed. Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches. New York: State University of New York Press, 2001. Print.

Dobrin, Sidney I and Christian R. Weisser. Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition. New York: State University of New York Press, 2002. Print.

Notable professors/authors:

Cooper, Marilyn M.

Dobrin, Sidney I.

Drew, Julie

Hothem, Thomas

Ingram, Annie Merrill.

Johnson-Sheehan, Richard

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie

Owens, Derek.

Weisser, Christian R.