ENGH302H: Advanced Composition for the Humanities Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments

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.
3	2/6	1		Exercise: Mining a Source for a Quotation
4	2/11	—	Section H17 Class Canceled due to Snow	—
4	2/11	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
		1.5	Section H17 Library Research Advice Stylistic Issues	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
		1.25		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)
		2		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
6	2/25	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
7	3/4	1.25	Thesis Statements MLA Quotation and Citation Format	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
10	4/1	2	Peer Response Session #2 Conference Sign-Up	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