Fall Semester 2007

Classes start on Thursday (which strikes me as odd, but what do I know). I've registered for three classes, which is technically part time (four is considered full time; in order to register for a full time graduate course load one needs signatures):

• ENG 509: Sociolinguistics and the Teaching Writing
  
• ENG 626: 20th Century American Literature - African American Short Stories
  
• ENG 646: Individual and Small Group Instruction
  

Books I'll be reading this semester:

• L.S. Vygotsky - Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
• G. Lakoff & M. Johnson - Metaphors We Live By
• V. Villanueva - Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color
• S. Romaine - Language in Society: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
  
• D. Crystal - Language and the Internet
• G. Smitherman - Word From The Mother: Language and African Americans
  
• L. Delpit & J. Dowdy - The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
  
• S. Bruce & B. Rafoth - ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors
• A. E. Geller, M. Eodice, F. Condon, M. Carroll, & E. Boquet - Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice
• P. Gillespie & N. Lerner - The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring

No word yet on the short stories I'll be reading in ENG 626; I've been able to discover what books are required for the other two classes vis-à-vis the LIU Bookstore site; yet nothing was listed for the other.