Week Twelve: What is your thesis for the article for this course? What sources will you cite to build this argument?



I'm still working on fine-tuning what I would like this paper to be about, but throughout the semester I've been drawn to accessibility, and would like to pursue that line of thought further by doing a paper on universal design for learning (UDL) in the composition classroom. As I don't know as much about the topic as I'd like to, I am looking forward to using this paper as a way to explore how UDL, comp theory, and disability studies intersect, and what can be gained by applying accessible teaching strategies in FYC.

This topic is still ridiculously huge, so I plan to further refine it as I begin reading and collecting sources for the data. Off the top of my head, I can see myself incorporating the following readings from 5060:

-Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked by Ede & Lunsford, since this has become my go-to article for everything (at it positions writer as audience as well, which I think is important)
-A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing by Flowers/Hayes
-Underlife by Brooks
-some Fulkerson & Elbow, since they both lay down a lot of good frameworks to draw off of

But mostly:
-The Politics of the Interface by Selfe & Selfe --
-Contact Zones in English Studies by Patricia Bizzell
-Multi-Modal Composition in a New Key by Yancey

For additional readings, I know that Jay Dolmage has published a few articles on UDL which will serve as a great place to start. In short, I need to read more on this area of composition to develop a more concrete reading list, which is what I'm going to start during this upcoming week.