• Introductions to each other and the course
• Diagnostic writing: Write a short autobiographical piece that presents a chapter in your history as a writer. Describe what you now view as an especially formative experience in how you came to be the writer you are today. What practices and ideas has this experience or set of related experiences led to? You might begin by jotting down ideas or making a list of important experiences, people, or classes that have influenced your thinking about writing, then flesh out these ideas into a draft. Due by end of class in hard copy or via email to me at [email protected]

• Assignment for next class: Read chapters 1-3 in George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By; read “On Reading and Thinking Critically” and respond to prompts (on the right column of this course blog) for both no later than 11:59pm Tuesday, September 30; annotate hard copy of Lakoff and Johnson based on our class discussion and today’s reading.

August 31 Discuss readings

Sign up for discussion leads

Assignment for next class: Read Claudia Rankine’s “The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning” and respond to prompts.

Week 2

September 5: No Class, Labor Day

September 7 Discuss Readings

Assignment for next class:

1. Richard Manning’s “The Trouble With Iowa” and respond to prompts.
2.  Using Google Drive, create a folder and give it the title:  ENG 2100 HMWE (YOUR NAME).  Share this folder with: [email protected]
3. Begin brainstorming for Creative Nonfiction Essay

 

Week 3

September 12 Discuss readings

Assignment for next class: Read Anne Lamott’s Shitty First Drafts and Ekaterina Alexandrova’s “Why Soviet Women Want to Get Married.”

September 14 Discuss Readings

Assignment for next class: Read Read Jun’ichiro’ Tanizaki’s In Praise of Shadows

 

Week 4

September 19 Discuss Tanizaki

Form writers’ groups.

Refining Paper 1 concepts.

Assignment for next class: Read Richard Straub’s “Responding to Other Students’ Writing.”

September 21 Discuss Straub

Thesis and topic sentence exercise

Audience and Evidence exercise.

Introduce homework self-assessment assignment.

Assignment for next class:  * Post Draft 1 of Paper 1 by 6 pm on Friday. Read and comment on drafts from your writer’s group by class time on Monday. 

 

Week 5

September 26

Peer review of Draft 1: Creative Non-Fiction Essay

Assignment for next class: Read “Letter to My Nephew” from James Balwin’s The Fire Next Time and work on Paper 1 revision.

September 28 Discuss Baldwin.

Review and discuss rubric for paper grading.

Assignment for next class:*

1. Post final draft of paper I: Creative Nonfiction Essay by 6 p.m. on Friday.
2. Read Seymore Hersh’: “The Killing of Osama Bin Laden” and respond to prompt.
3. Find and post a newspaper article headline that contains a metaphor (thinking all the way back to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By.)

 

Week 6

October 3 No Class, Rosh Hashana

October 5 Discuss Hersch.

Introduce Critical Analysis Essay assignment.

Audience and Evidence exercise: the rhetorical act.

Assignment for next class: Read Walter Benjamin’s, “The Storyteller.” Photograph a subway ad and post the image on courseblog with a rhetorical critique.

 

Week 7

October 10 No Class, Columbus Day

October 12 No Class, Yom Kippur

 

Week 8

October 17 Discuss readings. Tie together readings from past few weeks to Paper II.

Discuss criteria for a successful critical analysis essay

Brainstorm ideas for critical analysis essay

Assignment for next class: Read “What is Academic Writing” 

October 19 Discuss reading, in class invention work for paper 2.

Assignment for next class: Work on Critical Analysis Essay. Post Draft 1

 

Week 9

October 24 Peer Review Critical Analysis Essays

            READ: Revising Attitudes, Brock Dethier

October 26 Small group writing workshops

            Assignment for next class: Draft 2 of Paper II, and writer’s letter.

 

Week 10

October 31 Conferences on paper drafts

Assignment for next class: Bring final draft to class for line editing

November 2 Sentence–level editing using Richard Lanham’s “Revising for Concision”

* Assignment: Post final draft of Paper II and writer’s letter

 

Week 11

November 7 Introduce Paper 3: Research Based Argumentative Essay

Assignment for next class: Complete worksheet to get a start on your research. Initial question, 4 sources, and one Reflective Annotated Bibliography on at least one source (hard copy due in class on Wednesday).

November 9 Work on narrowing research question

Moving from research report to argumentative essay

Assignment for next class: Draft prospectus for your research project

 

Week 12

November 14 Class meets in library

            Assignment for next class: Finalize your project prospectus

November 16 Individual conferencing in lieu of formal class meeting

Assignment for next class: Final annotated bibliography due for all 8 sources

 

Week 13

November 21 Working with methods to summarize, paraphrase, and quote

Assignment for next class: Outline with thesis and topic sentences

November 23 Working with thorough analysis of evidence, and tying analysis to thesis.

Assignment for next class: One full body paragraph.

 

Week 14

November 28 Reading aloud: using oral performance to strengthen tone and clarity

            Assignment for next class: Full Draft of Research Based Argumentative Essay

November 30 Peer review Research-Based Argument Essays

* Assignment: Post final draft of paper III and writers letter

 

Week 15

December 5 Introduce visual essay project.

• Introduce Remix Project
• • Creative Commons / Copyleft and Copyright
    • Lawrence Lessig, “Laws That Choke Creativity” TEDTalk on Creative Commons and CopyLeft (18:55)
    • Justin Cone, “Building on the Past” (2:00)
    • creative commons, “Get Creative!” (7:00)
    • creative commons licenses

    • http://www.flickr.com/: hosts over 200 million Creative Commons licensed photos
  • Possible technologies (WeVideo, iMovie, Audacity, and others)

• Assignment for next class: Begin brainstorming for Remix Project; Research-Based Argument Essay + revised Writer’s Letter due to your personal folder in Google Drive by class time.

View samples of visual essays, discuss technology resources available.

Discussion of multimodality: from the illuminated manuscript to snap chat.

Assignment for next class: Brainstorm ideas for Visual Essay. Locate image and sound resources.

December 7 In class conferences on visual essay.

In class studio work on visual essays (in computer lab).

Week 16

December 12 Last Day of Classes In class studio work on visual essay (in computer lab).

Assignment: Work on your visual essay. Final draft and letter due Wednesday by class meeting time.

December 14 (Exam Week)

No class.

Finals Week

December 19 (Exam Week)

* Presentation of your visual essay during our class finals time: 10:30-12:30