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Schedule: 8/20/2012 12/3/2012

(Due dates are for the next class, e.g.: the due date column adjacent to Monday, means the assignment is due Wednesday.) Week 1 5 - Module 1: Reading Texts Rhetorically Due: Post on Blog Due: Read Lunsford About College Writing Pg. 3 40 Post on Blog

Aug. 20

Monday: What is writing? Syllabus Overview/Ice-Breaker Wednesday: Short lecture on genres, Blog skills, and accessing the library remotely

Aug. 22

Aug. 24

Friday: Syllabus Quiz Lecture: What is genre and visual design? Brief overview of Rhetorical Situation.

Due: Read Rhetorical Situation and Their Constituents GrantDavie Post on Blog

Aug. 27

Monday: Rhetorical Situation & Vocabulary Discuss Grant-Davie

Due: Find an article through the library database. Read Swales, Creating A Research Space Post on Blog

Aug. 29

Wednesday: Academic articles and moves in different Academic Genres

Due: Read the article you found Post on Blog

Aug. 31

Friday: Separate the moves in the article you found. What textual clues let you know a move is being made?

Due: Williams Problems into Problems Pgs. 1 -52 Post on Blog

Sep. 3 Sep. 5

Monday: Have a happy holiday! Wednesday: Writing Introductions, structuring papers Friday: Review of Rhet Situation, document elements, visual design, creating a PROBLEM Vocabulary Quiz Due: Read Williams, Problems into Problems Pgs. 53 - 81 Due: Read Flower and Haas, Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning

Sep. 7

Read Lundsford, Critical Reading Pg. 105-112

Post on Blog Sep. 10 Monday: Discussion on Flower and Haas. How do we use comparative skills? Introduce large assignment Due: Find a second article and read it Read Lundsford, Analyzing Arguments, Pg. 113 - 125 Post on Blog Sep. 12 Wednesday: Workshop: Compare the two articles you found Due: Read Lundsford, Analyzing Arguments, Pg. 113 125 Post on Blog Sep. 14 Friday: Drafting arguments between the two articles. Due: Read Lundsford, Constructing Arguments, Pg. 125 145 Rough draft of first assignment Post on Blog Sep. 17 Monday: Giving good feedback for peer reviews Due: Rough draft Post on Blog Sep. 19 Wednesday: Peer Review first assignment Due: Final draft Post on Blog Sep. 21 Friday: Jeopardy!!! Due: Post on Blog & Then relax!!!

Week 6-10: UNIT 2: Process Sep. 24 Monday: Lecture: What is Process? Wednesday: Discuss Process Blog: Post annotation for Clark on blog. Read: Clark, Irene. Process Due: What did you learn from Process & Emig Annotation

Sep. 26

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Friday: Discuss Emig Personal reflection Monday: Discuss Perl, The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers. Wednesday: Discuss Sommers, Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers. Friday: Discuss: Berkenkotter & Murray, Decisions and revisions: The planning strategies of a publishing writer and Response of a laboratory rator being protocoled. Monday: Discuss: Flower, Linda and John Hayes. "A Cognitive Process Theory of Writing." College Composition and Communication 32.4 (1981): 365-387. Wednesday: Discuss: Flower & Hayes, The Cognition of Discovery: Defining a Rhetorical Problem. Friday: Discuss: Rose, Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writers Block. Monday: Discovering Different Writing Strategies Wednesday: Usability Lecture & Introduce Second Assignment Friday: Working in New Digital Environments Introduce Wikispaces, Prezi, YouTube, Embedding, Wordpress, Blogs, Tumblr, Google Sites etc Monday: In class work day Wednesday: Peer Review

Post on Blog What did you learn from Emig & Perl Annotation

Oct. 1

Post on Blog & Sommers Annotation Post on Blog & Berkenkotter & Murray Annotation Post on Blog & Flower and Hayes Annotation

Oct. 3

Oct. 5

Oct. 8

Post on Blog & Flower and Hayes Annotation

Oct. 10

Post on Blog & Rose Annotation

Oct. 12

Post on Blog

Oct. 15

Post on Blog Read about: Usability Post on Blog

Oct. 17

Oct. 19

Post on Blog

Oct. 22 Oct. 24

Post on Blog Post on Blog

Oct. 26

Friday: Final Due Post on Blog Week 11-14 Module 3: Discovering a Discourse

Oct. 29

Monday: Discourse Communities and Swales, The Concept of Discourse Communities. Wednesday: Investigating your discourse communities

Post on Blog

Oct. 31

Due: Bring in at least one writing example from a discourse community you belong to. Read for next time: A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum Post on Blog

Nov. 2

Friday: How do discourse communities influence writing?

Nov. 5

Monday: Lecture: What is genre

Post on Blog Read for next time: Berlin, Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class Post on Blog

Nov. 7

Wednesday: Investigate genre and culture

Nov. 9

Friday: What is Critical Cultural Studies? & Introduce final assignment Monday: RE-mix!!! Identify how remix can lead us to re-examine different cultural messages. Wednesday: In-class Workday Friday: Share your remix Monday: In class workday on final assignment Wednesday: Peer Review Friday: No class Enjoy the turkey day!

Post on Blog Due: Begin drafting your proposal Post on Blog

Nov. 12

Nov. 14 Nov. 16 Nov. 19

Due: Work! Post on Blog Work on final assignment

Nov. 21 Nov. 23

Due: Re-vision your assignment Due: Submit your final assignment by Monday

Nov. 26 Nov. 28 Nov. 30 Dec. 3

Monday: Creating a WordPress Portfolio Wednesday: Embedding Google Docs and other elements in WordPress Friday: Final day wrap up What have you learned this semester? Monday: Sumbit the URL for your final portfolio

Due: work on portfolios Due: Work on portfolios Due: Final Portfolio