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 M 8/27 None Discuss course syllabus and course calendar. Discuss successful reading strategies and annotations. UNIT 1: Where are we now? W 8/29 Review ENG 1310 course syllabus in preparation for a quiz. EW: “Learning from Low Stakes Writing,” 44-45 Discuss Unit 1 “Where are we now?” Discuss the purpose of low-stakes writing tasks Syllabus quiz. F 8/31 EW: “Analyzing and Reading Critically,” 7a-7d, 46-49 Read and annotate (in class) The Runaway Species “Introduction,” 1-10 TRACS Post #1 due 9/04 Discuss reading critically your annotations of the RS “Introduction.” 2 M 9/3 Labor Day No class W 9/5 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 Discuss EW readings. Apply concepts from EW 33-36 (and other visual analysis principles) to “My Crowd Experiment.” Discuss TRACS Post #1 (due 9/04) F 9/7 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 TRACS Post #2 due 9/9 Discuss EW readings Compare genres/styles of Emerging readings. Explore how academic genres can help and/or hinder our writing. 3 M 9/10 EW: 1) Building Arguments 8C-8F, 54-58; 2) Exploring, Planning, and Drafting, Emerging: “Consider the Lobster,” Discuss argument structure and rhetorical situation in “Consider the Lobster.” Discuss TRACS Post #2 (due 9/9)
Essay #1 (primary research) assigned; annotate/discuss prompt and begin brainstorming together. W 9/12 EW: 1) “Sharing and Reflecting on Your Writing,” 39-41; 2) Sample student 7e, 49-52 Be prepared to discuss your progress on Essay #1. F 9/14 TRACS reading: Richard Straub’s “Responding – Really Responding—to Other Students’ Writing” Discuss and practice the peer review process (in preparation for next class). 4 M 9/17 Essay #1 draft due. (Failure to bring draft to class will result in a 5-point reduction on Essay #1 grade.) EW: “Reviewing” and “Revising,” 37-38 Peer review: global issues W 9/19 EW: 1) “Editing,” 38-39; 2) “The Top Twenty” (1-10) Grammar, Punctuation, and F 9/21 Revised Essay #1 draft due. (Failure to bring draft to class will result in a 5-point reduction on essay #1 grade.) Peer review: local issues UNIT 2: Where have we been? 5 M 9/24 Essay #1 due. Discuss writing process for Essay #1 Discuss Unit #2 theme: “Where have we been?” W 9/26 Emerging: “The War Photo No One Would Publish,” 73-84 Discuss Emerging reading: media censorship F 9/28 Emerging: “Ghetto Bitches, Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas,” 358-371 TRACS Post #3 due 9/27 Discuss Emerging reading: stereotyping 6 M 10/1 Emerging: “From Civil Rights to Megachurches,” 85-108 Discuss Emerging reading: community Discuss TRACS Post #3 (due 3/07) W 10/3 Emerging: “AIDS, Inc.” Post #4 (synthesis of readings for this unit) due 10/4 Discuss Emerging reading: public health F 10/5 Review Emerging readings for this unit. Discuss TRACS Post #4 (due 10/4) Essay #2 assigned: annotate/discuss prompt and begin brainstorming together.
7 M 10/8 EW: “Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes,” 14d, 91-96. Discuss expectations for sources/quotations in Essay #2 W 10/10 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. F 10/12 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. 8 M 10/15 Bring to your conference your draft for Paper #2 + Graded Paper #1. 1:1 Conferences (no class) Failure to draft to conference will result in a 5-point reduction on essay #2 grade. UNIT 3: Where are we going? W 10/17 Essay #2 due Discuss writing process for Essay #2 Discuss Unit #3 theme: “Where are we going?” F 10/19 EW: “Conducting Research,” 76-84 TRACS Post #5 due 10/21 Secondary research best practices 9 M 10/22 Emerging: “Bad Feminist,” 168-177 Discuss TRACS Post #5 (due 10/21) Discuss Emerging reading: Gender Equality. W 10/24 Emerging: “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education,” 257-262 Discuss Emerging reading: Empathy Essay #3 assigned F 10/26 EW: MLA Style, 256-263 MLA workshop 10 M 10/29 Bring two potential secondary sources for Essay #3 EW: “Integrating Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism,” 15a (97-99) and 15d Drafting workshop for Essay #3 Integrating sources Academic honesty
W 10/31 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 F 11/2 Error Inventories from Essays 1 & 2 Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage 11 M 11/5 Revised 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 We Improve the World? W 11/7 #3 due Discuss writing process for Essay #3 Discuss Unit #4 theme: “How Can We Improve the World?” EW: “Writing to Make Something Happen in the World,” 69-74 Writing for change Essay #4 assigned F 11/9 Emerging: “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets,” pp. 424-433 TRACS Post #6 due 11/11 WikiLeaks 12 M 11/12 Emerging: “It Gets Better and Actions Makes it Better,” 405-413 The “It Gets Better” movement Discuss TRACS Post #6 (due 11/11) W 11/14 Emerging: “Making Conversation and the Primacy of Practice,” 43-61 TRACS Post #7 due 11/15 Cosmopolitanism F 11/16 Drafting workshop for Essay #4 Discuss TRACS Post #7 (due 11/15) 13 M 11/19 Error Inventories from Essays 1, 2, & 3 Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage W 11/21 Thanksgiving Break No Class F 11/23 Thanksgiving Break No 14 M 11/26 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 W 11/28 Essay #4 due. TRACS Post #8 due 11/29 (provide a link to an online video/PowerPoint/Prezi and discuss the elements that make it effective) Discuss writing process for Essay #4 Essay #5 assigned: Essay Remix and Presentation F 11/30 EW: “Creating Presentations,” 65-69 Discuss multimodal projects.
Discuss TRACS Post #8 due 11/29 15 M 12/3 Bring to class the essay you’ll be transforming into a presentation. Bring to class The Runaway Species Drafting workshop W 12/5 Draft of Essay #5 Peer Review F 12/7 Reading Day No Class FINAL: Essay #5 Presentation