Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments
 
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Class Date Topics to be Covered Reading Assignment Due Writing Assignment Due Points
1 6/26 Welcome to the Class: Objectives and Means
Why Writing is Difficult
The English Language’s Specific Challenges
The Scale of Abstraction
— — 1
2 6/27 Research and Writing as a Recursive Process
Writing as Inquiry
Genre and Voice
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Library Research: Scholarly Journals vs. Trade Journals

Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Prologue: Becoming a Researcher
Chapter 1
Thinking in Print: The Uses of Research, Public and Private
Chapter 2
Connecting with your Reader: Creating a Role for Yourself and Your Readers

— 1
3 6/28 Research Topics, Questions, and Problems
Discipline Awareness Project: Periodical Analysis Assignment
Organization for Comparison Essays
Setting up Quotations and Paraphrases
Format Rules
 Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Chapter 3
From Topics to Questions
Chapter 4
From Questions to a Problem
Chapter 5
From Problems to Sources		 — 1
4 6/29 Quoting vs. Paraphrasing
Coherence and Transitions
Punctuation as a Set of Tools, not Rules
Sentence and Syntax Variety and Rhythm

Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Chapter 6
Engaging Sources
Chapter 14
Incorporating Sources		 First Research Exercise 1
— 7/3-7/4 No Class
4th of July Observance
5 7/5 Peer Response Session #1: Instructions and Procedure
Revision Advice
MS Word Revision Tools
Basic Rhetoric
The Toulmin Model
 Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Prologue: Assembling a Research Argument
Chapter 7
Making Good Arguments: An Overview
Chapter 8
Making Claims
Chapter 9
Assembling Reasons and Evidence		 Discipline Awareness Project:
Periodical Analysis		 2
6 7/6 Peer Response Session #1
Warrants, continued

 Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Chapter 10
Acknowledgments and Responses
Chapter 11
Warrants		 Peer Response for Discipline Awareness Project:
Periodical Analysis		 2.5
Revision of Discipline Awareness Project:
Periodical Analysis and Reflective Commentary due Friday, 7 July, by midnight
7 7/10 The Hall Scale
Identifying and Working with Secondary Source Quotations
Extending, Applying, Rebutting
 Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Prologue: Planning Again
Chapter 12
Planning and Drafting
Chapter 13
Organizing Your Argument
Second Research Exercise: Research Proposal 1
8 7/11

Structural Options for Essays
Subheads

Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Organizing Your Argument
Chapter 16
Introductions and Conclusions
Chapter 17
Revising Style		 Third Research Exercise:
Choosing and Working with Quotations		 1
9 7/12 Peer Response Session #2 Instructions and Procedure
Charts, Tables, and Graphs 		Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Chapter 15
Communicating Information Visually
 Research Project Part I:
Sources, Quotations, Planning, Thesis		 2
In-Class Exercise #1: Two Introductions
10 7/13 Peer Response Session #2
Writing Workshop
— Peer Response for Research Project Part I:
Sources, Quotations, Planning, Thesis		 2.5
Revision of Research Project Part I:
Sources, Quotations, Planning, Thesis with Reflective Commentary due Friday, by midnight
11 7/17 No Class — Individual Conferences 2
12 7/18 No Class — Individual Conferences
13 7/19 Clarity, Concision, and Other Stylistic Matters

 Booth et al
The Craft of Research
Chapter 17
Revising Style: Telling Your Story Clearly
Advice on Cutting Words		 In-Class Exercise #2: Revising for Style 1
14 7/20 Peer Response Session #3 Instructions and Procedure
Bad Writing 		— Research Project Part II: Position Paper 2
15 7/24 Peer Response Session #3— Peer Response for Research Project Part II: Position Paper 2.5
16 7/25 Writing Workshop — In-Class Exercise #3: More Revision 1
17 7/26 Peer Response Follow-Up
Writing Workshop 		— Peer Response for Research Project Part II: Position Paper Stage 2 2.5
18 7/27 Final Workshop
Class Evaluations		 — — 2
 
Revision of Research Project: Position Paper with Reflective Commentary due Friday, 7/28 by noon
 
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