COURSE CALENDAR This calendar is tentative; I will revise it based on our class needs. The most updated version of this syllabus can be found on TRACS. EW=Easy Writer Emerging RS=The Runaway Species (University’s Common Experience book) Week Day Date Homework/Assignments Due In Class 1 T 8/28 None Discuss course syllabus and course calendar. Discuss successful reading strategies and annotations. UNIT 1: Where are we now? R 8/30 Review ENG 1310 course syllabus in preparation for a quiz. EW: 1) “Learning from Low Stakes Writing,” 44-45; 2) “Analyzing and Reading Critically,” 7a-7d, 46-49 Read and annotate The Runaway Species “Introduction,” 1-10 Discuss Unit 1 theme: “Where are we now?” Syllabus quiz. Share your annotations of the RS “Introduction.” 2 T 9/4 EW: 1) “Visuals and Media and Manipulations of Visuals and Media,” 2) “Doing Field Research,” 82-83 Emerging: “My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project,” 473-491 TRACS Post #1 due 9/03 Discuss EW readings. Apply concepts from EW 33-36 (and other visual analysis principles) to “My Crowd Experiment.” R 9/6 EW: 1) “A Writer’s Choices,” 16-23; 2) Writing in Academic Genres, 60-64 Emerging: “The Limits of Friendship,” 236-241; “Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind,” 492-504 Discuss EW readings Compare genres/styles of Emerging readings. Explore how academic genres can help and/or hinder our writing. 3 T 9/11 EW: 1) Building Arguments 8C-8F, 54-58; 2) Exploring, Planning, and Drafting, Emerging: “Consider the Lobster,” TRACS Post #2 due 9/10 Discuss argument structure and rhetorical situation in “Consider the Lobster.” Essay #1 (primary research) assigned; annotate/discuss prompt and begin brainstorming together.
8 T 10/16 Bring to your conference your draft for Paper #2 + Graded Paper #1. 1:1 Conferences (no class) Failure to bring draft to conference will result in a 5-point reduction on essay #2 grade. UNIT 3: Where are we going? R 10/18 Essay #2 due EW: “Conducting Research,” 76-84 Secondary research best practices 9 T 10/23 Emerging: “Bad Feminist,” 168-177 TRACS Post #5 due 10/22 Discuss Emerging reading: Gender Equality. R 10/25 Emerging: “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education,” 257-262 Discuss Emerging reading: Empathy. Essay #3 assigned 10 T 10/30 two potential secondary sources for Essay #3 1) MLA Style, 256-263; 2) “Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism,” 15a (97-99) and 15d (101-103). Drafting workshop for Essay #3 MLA Integrating sources Academic honesty R 11/1 Essay #3 draft due. (Failure to bring draft to class will result in a 5-point reduction on essay #3 grade.) Peer review: global issues 11 T 11/6 Revised Essay 3 draft due. (Failure to bring draft to class will result in a 5-point reduction on essay #3 grade.) Peer review: local issues UNIT 4: How can you affect the future? R 11/8 Essay #3 due EW: “Writing to Make Something Happen in the World,” 69-74 Writing for change 12 T 11/13 Emerging: “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets,” pp. 424-433 Post #6 due 11/12 WikiLeaks R 11/15 Emerging: “It Gets Better and Actions it Better,” 405-413 The “It Gets Better” movement 13 T 11/20 Emerging: “Making Conversation and the Primacy of Practice,” 43-61 TRACS Post #7 due 11/19 Cosmopolitanism R 11/22 Thanksgiving Break No 14 T 11/27 Essay #4 draft due. (Failure to bring draft to class will result in a 5-point reduction on essay #3 grade.) Peer review Unit 5: Essay Remix and Presentation