English 102

Spring 2015
Schedule
Week 1
TR Jan 22 Welcome, Intro, Discuss Syllabus
Week 2
T Jan 27 Read: p. 354-357 Shitty First Drafts Discuss: Ethnography
TR Jan 29 Read: p. 24-37 Friday Night at Iowa 80 and 58-59 FreeWriting Discuss: reading
and essay #1

Week 3
T Feb 3 Read: p. 101-102, p.111-117, Prof Williams Sample essay #1 (on website) Discuss:
Blogging, Positioning Yourself
TR Feb 5 Due: Blog Post Read: p.63-65, p.119-122 Discuss: Pov, rhetoric, and permission

Week 4
T Feb 10 Due: Essay #1 I, Researcher Draft for workshop Read: All Souls chapters 1-3
Discuss: Essay #2 and reading
TR Feb 12 Due: Essay #1 I, Researcher and Blog Post Read: p. 165-175, p.186-195 Discuss:
Space and observation

Week 5
T Feb 17 Read: p.66-69 On Keeping a Notebook, p.78-84, and All Souls chapters 4-6
Discuss: Notetaking and reading
TR Feb 19 Due: Blog Post Read: p.124-126, p.129-135 Everyday Use, and Prof Williams
Essay #2 sample (on website) Discuss: Artifacts and reading

Week 6
T Feb 24 Discuss: Midterm Portfolio Read: All Souls chapters 7-9
TR Feb 26 Due: Essay #2 The Lay of the Land draft for workshop and Blog Post Read: All
Souls to end

Week 7
T Mar 3 Read: 345-347 Discuss: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography

TR Mar 5 Due: mid-term portfolio and Blog Post Read: p. 219-222 and p. 225-228 Discuss:
Interview
Week 8 Spring Break
Week 9
T Mar 17 Read: p.230-233 and p.234-242, Prof Williams Sample Essay #3 (on website)
Discuss: Recording and transcribing
TR Mar 19 Due: Blog post Read: p. 244-248 An Anthropologist on Mars, p. 264-266, p.271274 and p.281-286 Discuss: Interviews and language in writing
Week 10
T Mar 24 Read: p.311-313, p.325-330, p. 343-345, and p. 335-340 On Dumpster Diving
Discuss: Archives
TR Mar 26 Due: Blog Post Read: p.139-140 Discuss: Secondary Sources
Week 11
T Mar 31 Read: Skim Purdue Owl MLA and APA Guide Discuss: Documentation and Citation
TR Apr 2 Due: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography draft for workshop and
blog post Discuss: Essay #4 The So What?
Week 12
T Apr 7 Due: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography Read: p. 351-354 and Prof
Williams Sample Essay #4 (on website) Discuss: Drafting
TR Apr 9 Due: Blog Post Read: p.358-260, p. 361-371, and p. 381-382 Discuss: Revising and
final drafting

Week 13
T Apr 14 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due
TR Apr 16 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due
Week 14

T Apr 21 Group Project Workday

TR Apr 23 Due: Final Blog Post, Group Project Workday

Week 15
T Apr 28 Group Presentations
TR Apr 30 Group Presentations
Final Exam Due: Final Portfolio and Reading
12:30 class- Thursday May 7th 11-1
3:25 class- Thursday May 7th 2-4