
Pat C. Hoy II
New York University (ret.)
3 Weeks
Paper: Evidence-based essay (with MLA citation)
Evidence –> Idea –> Essay
Available Summer 2020!
Pat Hoy (New York University) uses a carefully crafted pedagogical scaffold to not only help students build inductive reasoning skills, but to kindle an academic curiosity and create pathways for students to transfer those skills beyond the writing classroom.
Developed over 30 years at New York University, Hoy’s methodology, which he calls ‘Progressions’ works with the best NYU students as well as students coming into the first-year writing sequence less-prepared (and invested) to do the work necessary to build and harness requisite skills. The Deepening draws students out of the thesis-driven, formulaic writing they’ve been trained to do, and encourages them to encounter readings in new ways–starting with evidence, and culminating in an original, evidence-based essay that teachers will actually want to read.
table of contents
Introduction for Instructors
Reading and Induction
From “Healing Conceptual Blindness” Rhetoric Review
Progressions
Surfaces
Depths and Principles
Working with Students in and out of Class
Overview of Progressions
The Deepening Progression
Lesson 1: The Essay
Essay: “On visibility,” John Berger
Essay: “Criticism,” Matthew Goulish
Video: The Double Life of Veronique, Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writing Exercise 1: Paragraph
Lesson 2: Reading
Essay: “Woman’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?” Susan Sontag
Essay: “Transfiguration,” Annie Dillard
Essay: “No Name Woman,” Maxine Hong Kingston
Writing Exercise 2 Letter
The Box Diagram
Lesson 3: Probing
Essay: “The Banking Concept of Education,” Paolo Freire
Essay: “Stone Horse,” Barry Lopez
Essay: “The Nature of Scientific Reasoning,” Jacob Bronowski
WE #3 (Scene)
Lesson 4: Experimental Evidence / Scene Work
Essay: “Letter to Students,” Pat C. Hoy II
Essay: “Incidental Trees,” Samarah Hennet
Essay: “150,000 Candles,” Justina Lee Sik Chi
Writing Exercise 4: Paragraphs
Lesson 5: Considering Form & Deepening Ideas
Essay: “Imagining ‘I’,” R. Paul McAdory
Writing Exercise 5: Letter
Lesson 6: Deepening Ideas
Essay: “Marlboro Man and Migrant Mother,” Kathleen McClure
ESSAY Assignment
Lesson 7: Collaboration
Music: Dave Brubeck, “Take Five”
Reading Rubrics
Nice / Gaps / Ideas
Idea
Deepened
Lexical Matters—A Baker’s Dozen (Glossary)