RWS 1301 Spring 2018 Weekly Schedule (Provisional -- Subject to change)
Brita Arrington
NG = The National Geographic Website;
HANDBOOK: The Undergraduate Rhetoric and Writing Studies Handbook
Week 1
Topic: Class Introduction, Review Syllabus, Blackboard
Readings:
HANDBOOK Ch.1 & Ch. 4, Intro and Assignment 1
NG (Explore Website)
Writing: In class
Week 2
Topic: Discourse Map
Readings:
Swales, John. “The Concept of Discourse Community” Genre Analysis : English in Academic and Research Settings. Boston: Cambridge UP. (1990) 21-32, Print.
Purdue Library Guide “Discourse Community” http://guides.lib.purdue.edu/c.php?g=353142&p=2378497
HANDBOOK Ch. 4, Assignment 2; Ch. 2
Writing: Wix Shell Due/Topic Email Sent
Week 3
Topic: Prewriting/Library Research (Meet in Library on THURSDAY)
Readings:
TBD
Writing: Community Discourse Ethnography DUE – Sunday Midnight
Week 4
Topic: Narrowing a Topic for the Semester/Rhetorical Analysis
Readings:
HANDBOOK Ch. 4, Assignment 3 & 6
Other TBD
Writing: Rhetorical Analysis Proposal DUE/ Topic for the Semester (E-mail)
Community Discourse Map Assignment Reflection (Blackboard)
Week 5
Topic: Rhetorical Analysis Assignment INTRO
Readings:
HANDBOOK Ch. 4, Assignment 6
Other TBD
Writing: Rhetorical Analysis Assignment DUE – Sunday Midnight
Week 6
Topic: Peer Review/ Revision
Annotated Bibliography for Community Problem Report INTRO
Readings:
Eli Review. Feedback and Revision.
Eli Review. The Basic Revision Moves, Part 2.
HANDBOOK CH. 4, Assignment 5
Writing: Revision of Rhetorical Analysis, Assignment Reflection (Blackboard)
Week 7
Topic: Annotated Bibliography INTRO
Readings:
TBD
Writing: Annotated Bibliography DUE– Sunday Midnight
Week 8
Topic: Community Problem Report/ APA/Plagiarism
Readings:
HANDBOOK CH. 4, Assignment 4
DeVoss, D., & Rosati, A. C. (2002). “It wasn’t me, was it?” Plagiarism and the web. Computers & Writing, 19(2), 191-204. (see Blackboard)
Writing: Community Problem Proposal (email) DUE, Revision of Annotated Bibliography
MAR 12-16 SPRING BREAK
Week 9
Topic: Community Problem Report INTRO
Readings:
Other TBD
Writing: Community Problem Report DUE – Sunday Midnight
Week 10
Topic: Visual Argument INTRO
Readings:
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Other TBD
Writing: Revision of Community Problem Report/Assingment Reflection
Week 11
Topic: Visual Argument
Readings:
HANDBOOK CH. 4, Assignment 7
TBD
Writing: Visual Argument DUE - – Sunday Midnight
Week 12: Peer Review Community Problem Report and Visual Argument Assignment
Readings:
TBD
Writing: Reflection on Visual Argument (Blackboard)
Week 13:
Topic: Prep for Final Presentations
Readings: TBD
Writing: Outline for Visual Argument Presentation (E-mail)
Week 14:
Topic: Visual Argument Presentation/Revisit the E-Portfolio
Readings: N/A
Writing: Final Reflections for Semester
Week 15
Topic: Presentations of Visual Argument/Course Evaluations
Readings: N/A
Writing: N/A
Finals Week: E-Portfolio Reflection DUE