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Module 1: Monday, August 30th

First Meeting (Friday, August 27th, 10:30 am):
– Introductions
– Go over syllabus, schedule, website, and textbook
– Questions
– Ticket out of the meeting: Intro Survey

Online:
Take Module 1 under Weekly Modules (main menu) by Thursday night.
Module 1 contents:
– Introductions
– Mentimeter interactive poll: What’s the hardest thing about writing?
– Syllabus
– Intro to textbook (JTC)
– Ted Talk by Anne Lamott

No meeting on Friday, September 3rd

Module 2, Monday, September 13th (previous week is Baruch holiday)

Online (by Thursday night)
– Read the following from Join the Conversation textbook (hereafter JTC):
> “Writing in your Courses at Baruch” (p.8)
> Introduction to Section 2, by Lisa Blankenship and Seth Graves (pp. 13-15)
– Comments on the readings (by Thursday night, always)

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Questions
– Form groups of 3 for next week

Module 3, Monday, September 20th

Online:
– With your group, pick one chapter (most are really short, 3-4 pages) from Bad Ideas About Writing and comment on the Google Doc

Friday meeting:
– Reactions to Google Doc
– Overview of Assignments
– Questions

Module 4, Monday, September 27th

Online:
– Read from JTC:
> “On Writing as Style and Entering a Conversation,” by Lisa Blankenship (pp. 16-18)
> Intro to Section 3: “Literacy as (re)Making Language,” by Seth Graves (pp. 47-50)
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Intro to Assignment 1 (Literacy Narrative) in relation to the Seth Graves reading + how to start writing (addressing writer’s block with the free-writing method) and how focusing on language helps you put on your analytical lenses
– Questions

Module 5, Monday, October 4th

Online:
– Read the following from JTC:
> “Translingualism,” by Kamal Belmihoub and Lucas Corcoran (pp. 61-65)
> Choose between the following three literacy narratives:
* “Mother Tongue,” by writer Amy Tan (pp. 80-84)
* “No Words,” by former student B. Manson (pp. 85-88)
* “Caught Between Two Worlds,” by former writer Lucia Ku (pp. 89-92)
> Read “The Maker’s Eye: Revising your Own Manuscript” from the JTC (pp. 27-30)
– Comments on the readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Proofreading techniques
– Questions
– Assignment 1 due Tuesday

Module 6, Tuesday, October 12th (Monday 11th is a holiday)
Assignment 1 (literacy narrative) due today by 11:59 pm, by email, using the template provided (no pdfs!)

Online:
> Read from the JTC:
> “Suffer Less: On Writing as Process,” by Kate Eickmeyer (pp. 19-23)
> “Shitty First Drafts,” by Anne Lamott (pp. 24-26)
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Retrospective exercise in a Google Doc on the difficulties of writing
– Questions

Module 7, Monday, October 18th

Online:
– Read from JTC:
> Intro to Section 4, by Lisa Blankenship (pp. 93-94)
> “What is Rhetoric?” by S. Graves, L. Corcoran, and L. Blankenship (pp. 95-100)
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Group feedback on Assignment 1 + questions
– Self-reflective writing on feedback received
– I’ll introduce Assignment 2

Module 8, Monday, October 25th

Online:
– Read from JTC:
> “Tools for Analyzing Texts,” by L. Blankenship, S. Graves, and K. Eickmeyer (pp. 101-113)
– Collaborative text analysis with Hypothesis browser extension
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Questions
– Assignment 2 due in two weeks

Module 9, Monday, November 1st

Online:
– Read from JTC:
> “Excerpt from Citizen,” by Claudia Rankine (pp. 120-126)
> “You Left Out the Part About…,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (pp. 127-128)
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Questions
– Making the switch from description to analysis
– Assignment 2 due Monday

Module 10, Monday, November 8th

Online:
– Read from JTC:
> Intro to Section 5, by Seth Graves (pp. 145-147)
> “The Research Process,” by Seth Graves, Lucas Corcoran, and Kamal Belmihoub (pp. 148-149)
> “Organizing an Argument,” by Kate Eickmeyer (pp. 200-209)
– Comments on the readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and practice analysis with image (JTC, p. 118)
– Making the switch from analysis to interpretation (addition of research)

Module 11, Monday, November 15th
Assignment 2 (rhetorical analysis) due today by 11:59 pm, by email, in a Word doc (no pdfs!)

Online:
– Read from JTC:
> Intro to Section 5, by Seth Graves (pp. 145-147)
> “The Research Process,” by Seth Graves, Lucas Corcoran, and Kamal Belmihoub (pp. 148-149)
> “Organizing an Argument,” by Kate Eickmeyer (pp. 200-209)
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Discuss readings and responses
– Group feedback on Assignment 2
– Intro to Assignment 3 + How to do academic research (share-screen demo with Newman Library and JSTOR)
– Questions

Module 12, Monday, November 29th

Online:
– Read the following from JTC:
> “Plagiarism and Academic Integrity,” by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz (pp. 183-188)
> “Organizing your Ideas,” by Lisa Blankenship (pp. 195-199)
– Zotero Tutorial
– Comments on readings

Friday meeting:
– Quick poll: How far along Assignment 3 are you?
– Final tips on organizing thoughts on paper
– Proofreading: Word editing with spell and grammar check + read-aloud feature, and proofreading (share-screen demo)
– Last-minute questions about Assignment 3

Last class meeting: Wednesday, December 8th (optional office hour)

Assignment 3 (final paper) due by email, using Word doc template (no pdfs!) on Monday, December 13th by 11:59 pm