Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments

Week Date Points Topics to be Covered Assignments Due
1 1/23 .75 Welcome to the Class: Objectives and Methods
Why Writing is Difficult
Objectivity, Empathy, Courtesy, Hygiene
The English Language’s Specific Challenges
2 1/28 .75 Argument
The Rhetorical Triangle
Platonists and Sophists
Basic Logic
2 1/30

Class Canceled due to Snow

3 2/4 1 Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Academic, Trade, and Popular Journals
Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 Quotations
Finding Useful Type 1 and Type 2 Secondary Source Quotations
The Scale of Abstraction
MLA Quotation and Citation Format
Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship Assignment
Read Karen Rosenberg, “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” (Blackboard)
3 2/6 1 Toulmin Analysis
Logical Fallacies
Finding Useful Type 1 and Type 2 Secondary Source Quotations, continued
How Quotations Fit into an Argument
Read the Format Rules for submissions in this class and follow them on your exercise.
Exercise: Mining a Source for a Quotation
4 2/11 Section H17
Class Canceled due to Snow
1.25 Section H29
Library Research Day
Class meets in Fenwick Library, Room 1014A
Do not come to our usual classroom first
Exercise: Toulmin Analysis
4 2/13 1.5 Section H17
Library Research Advice
Stylistic Issues

Section H17
Exercise: Toulmin Analysis

Section H17
Read Advice on Cutting Words, Conventions for Writing in the Humanities, and The Incredibly Annoying Error List
1.25 Section H29
Peer Response #1 Guidelines
Stylistic Issues
Clarity
Coherence and Transitions
Concision

Section H29
Read Advice on Cutting Words, Conventions for Writing in the Humanities, and The Incredibly Annoying Error List

Section H29
Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship

5 2/18 2 Section H17
The Hall Scale
Using Type 1 Quotations Effectively
Extending, Applying, Rebutting
Section H17
Read Kyle D. Stedman, “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” (Blackboard)

Section H17
Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship

2 Section H29
Peer Response Session #1
Reflective Commentaries
Revision Guidelines
MS Word Revision Tools

Section H29
Peer Response for Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship

5 2/20 Class Canceled due to Snow

Section H29
Revision of Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship, complete with your Reflective Commentary, due Friday, 2/22 by midnight

6 2/25 2.25 Section H17
Peer Response Session #1
Reflective Commentaries
Revision Guidelines
MS Word Revision Tools

Section H17
Peer Response for Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship

1.25 Section H29
The Hall Scale
Using Type 1 Quotations Effectively
Extending, Applying, Rebutting
Section H29
Read Kyle D. Stedman, “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” (Blackboard)
6 2/27 1.25 Both Sections (from this point on)
Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Commentary, Thesis, and Citations Assignment
Using Quotations Effectively, continued
Writing for a Specific Audience

Section H17
Exercise: Working with a Quotation

Section H17
Revision of Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship, complete with your Reflective Commentary, due Saturday, 3/2 by midnight

Section H29
Exercise: Working with a Quotation

7 3/4 1.25

Thesis Statements
MLA Quotation and Citation Format

Both Sections
Read the Writing Center’s Guidelines on Thesis Statements
Both Sections
Exercise: Defining an Audience
7 3/6 1.5 Thesis Statements, continued
Gathering Quotations
Bad Writing
Exercise: Tentative Thesis Statement
3/11
& 3/13
Spring Break
8 3/18 1 Stylistic Issues Redux Exercise: Correcting a Stylistic Error
8 3/20 .75 MLA Quotation and Citation Format
Works Cited Pages
9 3/25 1 Works Cited Pages, continued Exercise: The Works Cited Page
9 3/27 1.25 Research Project: The Essay Assignment
Peer Response #2 Guidelines
Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Commentary, Thesis, and Citations
10 4/1 2 Peer Response Session #2
Conference Sign-Up
Peer Response for Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Commentary, Thesis, and Citations
Revision of Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Commentary, Thesis, and Citations complete with your Reflective Commentary due Thursay, 4/4 by midnight
10 4/3 2 Individual Conferences
11 4/8
11 4/10
12 4/15
12 4/17 1 Closed-Form and Open-Form Essays
Introductions and Conclusions
Subheads
13 4/22 1 Introductions, continued Exercise: Closed-Form and Open-Form Introductions
13 4/24 1 Peer Response #3 Guidelines Research Project: The Essay
14 4/29 2 Peer Response Session #3 Peer Response for Research Project: The Essay
14 5/1 .75 Revision Workshop
15 5/6 1 Peer Response Follow-Up
Class Evaluations
Peer Response for Research Project: The Essay, Stage 2
 
Revision of Research Project: The Essay complete with your Reflective Commentary due Friday, 10 May, by midnight
 
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