Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments | |||||
Week |
Date |
Points | Topics to be Covered | Reading
Assignment Due |
Writing
Assignment Due |
1 | 8/27 | .75 | Welcome to the Class: Objectives and Means Why Writing is Difficult Objectivity, Empathy, Courtesy, Hygiene The English Language’s Specific Challenges The Scale of Abstraction |
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1 | 8/29 | 1 | Research and Writing as a Recursive Process Writing as Inquiry Discourse Communities and Genre How Ideas Develop Over Time |
The Craft of Research 1-26 |
Exercise: Initial Thoughts on a Topic |
2 | 9/3 | No Class — Labor Day | |||
2 | 9/5 | .75 | The Role of Questions in Research Types of Problems Proposals Annotated Bibliography, Audience Analysis, and Proposal Assignment |
The Craft of Research 27-64 |
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3 | 9/10 | 1 | Finding Useful Secondary Sources Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources Academic, Trade, and Popular Journals |
The Craft of Research 65-104 “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” |
Exercise: Planning for an Audience |
3 | 9/12 | 1 | Research, continued Stylistic Issues Clarity Coherence and Transitions Concision |
The Craft of Research 248-267 |
Exercise: Initial Research |
4 | 9/17 | .75 | Argument The Rhetorical Triangle Platonists and Sophists Basic Logic |
The Craft of Research 105-154 |
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4 | 9/19 | .75 | Toulmin Analysis How Quotations Fit into an Argument |
— | Annotated Bibliography, Audience Analysis, and Proposal |
5 | 9/24 | 2 | Peer Response #1 MS Revision Tools Reflective Commentaries |
— | Peer Response for Annotated Bibliography, Audience Analysis, and Proposal |
5 | 9/26 | .75 | Finding Useful Type 1 and Type 2 Secondary Source Quotations Quotations The Hall Scale Using Type 1 Quotations Effectively Extending, Applying, Rebutting |
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Revision of Annotated Bibliography, Audience Analysis, and Proposal due by midnight, 9/28 along with Reflective Commentary |
6 | 10/1 | 1 | Finding and Using Type 1 Quotations Effectively, continued Understanding Sources in Context Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship Assignment |
— | Exercise: Mining a Source for a Quotation |
6 | 10/3 | 1.25 | Library Research Day Class meets in Fenwick Library Do not come to our usual classroom first |
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7 | 10/9 | 1 | Columbus Day Recess |
— | In-Class Exercise: Scholarly Writing as a Record of Influence |
7 | 10/10 | 1 | Stylistic Issues Redux | — | Exercise: Correcting a Stylistic Error |
8 | 10/15 | .75 | Discipline Awareness Project Workshop | — | Come to Class with your Project in its Current Form |
8 | 10/17 | 1 | Making an Argument with a Quotation Bad Writing |
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9 | 10/22 | 1.25 | Peer Response Instructions | — | Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship |
In Class Exercise: Working with a Quotation | |||||
9 | 10/24 | 2 | Peer Response #2 | — | Peer Response to Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship |
Revision of Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship with Reflective Commentary due by midnight, 10/26 |
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10 | 10/29 | 2 | |||
10 | 10/31 | ||||
11 | 11/5 | ||||
11 | 11/7 | ||||
12 | 11/12 | 1 | Thesis Statements | Thesis Statements |
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12 | 11/14 | 1 | Closed-Form and Open-Form Essays Subheads Introductions and Conclusions |
Essay Structure Options |
Exercise: Thesis Statement and Planning |
13 | 11/19 | 1.25 | Introductions, continued Works Cited and Reference Lists |
— | In-Class Exercise: Closed-Form and Open-Form Introductions |
13 | 11/21 | No Class — Happy Thanksgiving | |||
14 | 11/26 | 1 | Works Cited and Reference Lists, continued | — | Exercise: Works Cited or Reference List |
14 | 11/28 | .75 | Peer Response #3 Instructions | — | Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Citations, Commentary, and Introductions |
15 | 12/3 | 2 | Peer Response Session #3 | — | Peer Response for Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Citations, Commentary, and Introductions |
15 | 12/5 | 1 | Peer Responses, continued Class Evaluations |
— | Peer Response for Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Citations, Commentary, and Introductions Stage 2 |
Revision of Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Citations, Commentary, and Introductions with Reflective Commentary due Sunday, 12/9 by midnight | |||||||
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