Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments


Class Date Points Topics to be Covered Assignment Due
1 5/20 1 Welcome to the Class: Objectives and Means
Why Writing is Difficult
The Scale of Abstraction
Writing as Inquiry
Research and How Ideas Develop Over Time
Audience, Discourse Communities, and Genre
2 5/21 1.5 Argument
Conceptual vs. Practical Essays
The Rhetorical Triangle
Platonists and Sophists
Basic Logic
Toulmin Analysis
Logical Fallacies
Read the Format Rules for submissions in this class and follow them on your exercise.
Exercise: Initial Thoughts on an Area of Inquiry
3 5/22 1.5 Toulmin Analysis, continued
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 Quotations
Research Methods
Finding Useful Secondary Source Quotations
Read Stephen Jay Gould, “The Median Isn’t the Message” (Blackboard)
Read Lewis Thomas, “How to Fix the Medical Curriculum” (Blackboard)
4 5/23 1.5 Setting Up Quotations
Formatting Quotations
Citing Quotations Parenthetically
Discipline Awareness Project: Tracing the Path of Scholarship Assignment
Read Karen Rosenberg, “Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources” (Blackboard)
Read Kyle D. Stedman, “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” (Blackboard)
5/27 Memorial Day — Class Does Not Meet
5 5/28 1.5 The Development of the Writer: Objectivity, Empathy, Courtesy, Hygiene
Writing for a Specific Audience
Transitions
Concision
Finding Useful Secondary Source Quotations, continued
Read Advice on Cutting Words and The Incredibly Annoying Error List
Exercise: Mining a Source for a Quotation
6 5/29 2 Peer Response #1 Instructions
Revision Advice
MS Word Revision Tools
The Hall Scale
Discipline Awareness Project:
Tracing the Path of Scholarship
7 5/30 2 Peer Response Session #1
Workshop: Revising (revision)
Research Project I: Sources, Quotations, Commentary, Thesis, and Citations Assignment
Using Type 1 Quotations Effectively: Extending, Applying, and Rebutting
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
8 6/3 1.5 Using Type 1 Quotations Effectively: Extending, Applying, and Rebutting, continued
Bad Writing
Exercise: Quotations and Planning
9 6/4 1.5 Thesis Statements
Closed-Form and Open-Form Essay Structures
Stylistic Issues
Exercise: Correcting Errors
10 6/5 1.5 Thesis Statements, continued
Introductions
Closed-Form and Open-Form Essay Structures, continued
Review the Writing Center’s Guidelines on Thesis Statements
Exercise: Thesis Statement and Planning
11 6/6 1.5 Closed-Form and Open-Form Essay Structures, continued
Documentation: MLA Works Cited and APA Reference Pages
Exercise: Closed-Form and Open-Form Introductions
12 6/10 1.5 Documentation, continued Exercise: Works Cited or Reference List
13 6/11 2 Individual Conferences
(Class does not meet. We meet individually in my office.)
14 6/12 1.5 Peer Response #2 Instructions
Subheads
Research Project I: Sources, Quotations, Thesis, Citations, Commentary, and Thesis
In-Class Exercise: Organizing the Essay with Subheads
15 6/13 2 Peer Response #2
Workshop (revision)
Peer Response for Research Project: Sources, Quotations, Citations, Commentary, and Thesis
Revision of Research Project I: Sources, Quotations, Citations, Commentary, and Thesis with Reflective Commentary due by midnight
16 6/17 1.5 Peer Response #3 Instructions
Workshop (to begin peer responses)
Research Project: The Essay
17 6/18 2 Peer Response Session #3
Workshop (revision)
Class Evaluations
Peer Response for Research Project: The Essay
18 6/19 Class Does Not Meet Revision of Research Project: The Essay complete with your Reflective Commentary due by 5:00 p.m.