Composition I: 52-1151-24

Fall, 2006 / Monday & Wednesday: 4:00 – 5:15 p.m. / (Room 420B, Congress building) 

Instructor: Kristin Scott, MFA, A.M.  

Department of English, Columbia College Chicago 

** Please READ this IMPORTANT NEW IMMUNIZATION POLICY going into effect on Nov. 6, 2006

   Course Description    Required & Useful Text/Resources    Contact Instructor

Wed, Sept. 6th:	Introductions and review of syllabus & course requirements.  Types of writing In class writing exercise Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #1 (click on assignment for details) - due next week.  See Formatting Guidelines and Examples from Sample Paper.
Mon, Sept. 11th:	Response Assignment #1 Due Reading Due:  "From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" by Audre Lorde (handout) "Writer's Block," Amy Sobotta, South Loop Review, Vol. 8, 2005 (handout).   Comparison/Contrast exercise in class. Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #2: Compare and/or contrast either "Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number One?" with "My New Nose" (click on assignment for details) - due Wed.
Wed, Sep. 13th:	Response Assignment #2 Due Reading Due:  "Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number One?" by Lorraine Ali, Mirror on America: Short Essays and Images from Popular Culture (handout). "My New Nose" by Dan Barden, Mirror on America: Short Essays and Images from Popular Culture (handout). Assignment/s:  Essay #1 Assignment: Writing to Express Dimensions of the Self - due next week. (Discussion and Brainstorming)
Mon, Sept. 18th:	Essay #1, First Draft Due / Bring 4 copies!!!  Reading Due:  "Las Mañanitas" by D'Andra Galarza (handout)  In Class Writing Workshop Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #3 - due Wed.
Wed, Sept. 20th:	Response Assignment #3 Due Reading Due:  Kim Addonizio, "What do Women Want?"   Lisa Redmond, "The Truth About My Hair," South Loop Review, Vol. 8, 2005 (handout).  Frida Kalo's diary entries w/ accompanying art (black & white images on handout; to see color images, click on link above).   VanGogh's letter to his brother Theo on 30, April 1885 & accompanying art, "The Potato Eaters" (black & white images on handout; to see color image, click on link above).     Assignment/s:  1) Response Assignment #4: Make a WRITING CENTER APPOINTMENT for next week / YOU MUST come into class on Monday with the date and time of your appointment. 2) Peer Review Form / due next week. Go over Personalized Editing Checklist and Guidelines for Peer Editing.
Mon, Sept. 25th:	Essay #1 Peer Reviews Due  (you will also get teacher's comments on draft) In-Class Peer Review Workshop
Wed, Sept. 27th:	As per assignment #4, your "class session" is to be held individually in the WRITING CENTER by appointment with a writing consultant. THEREFORE, there is no IN-CLASS session today.
Mon, Oct. 2nd:	Essay #1 FINAL PAPER DUE! with ALL drafts & peer reviews,  Assignment/s:  Essay #2 Assignment: Writing to Explain and Support an Opinion or Belief  - due next week.  Response Assignment #5 - due Wed.
Wed, Oct. 4th:	Response Assignment #5 Due   Reading/"Seeing" Due:  "Self Portrait," by Kristina Wolter, South Loop Review, Vol. 8, 2005.   Ann Telnaes' cartoons: Women's Issues; Civil Rights; War on Terrorism; Environment / choose one cartoon from EACH category that you like best and print a copy to bring to class Walt Handelsman: Bush's stance on Gay Marriage   Assignment/s:  Reminder - finish your first draft of Essay #2 for next Monday.
Mon, Oct. 9th:	Essay #2 First Draft Due / Bring 4 copies!!!    In-Class workshop    Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #6 - due Wed.
Wed, Oct. 11th:	Response Assignment #6 Due   Reading Due:  "Voter Turnout, or the Infantilization of Teeanagers," Friday, January 20, 2006, blog posting, Peaktalk.  "Government Kills Blacks with AIDS Virus: The Real AIDS Conspiracy Revealed," Reason Online, March 10, 2006. "You Have the Right to be a Free-Loading American," 06.05.06 (6:01 pm) blog posting, SistersTalk. / YOU MUST SCROLL DOWN on the page to find blog entry. "Dear frat guy buying a pregnancy test while sweating profusely in Ralphs at 9:30 pm" (blog entry on July 24, 2005)   Assignment/s:    Peer Review Form  - due next Monday
Mon. Oct. 16th:	Essay #2 Peer Reviews Due  (you will also get teacher's comments on draft) In-Class Writing Workshop   Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #7  - due Wed.
Wed, Oct. 18th:	Response Assignment #7 Due   Reading Due: "Idiot Nation," Michael Moore (handout) Assignment/s: Make sure you finish Essay #2 final draft for Mon.
Mon, Oct. 23rd:	Essay #2 FINAL PAPER DUE! (with ALL drafts & peer reviews) In-Class Writing Workshop Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #8 - due Wed.
Wed, Oct. 25th:	Response Assignment #8 Due Reading Due: pgs. 13-17 from Chapter One, "A New Medium For StoryTelling," from Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, by Janet H. Murray (handout) Assignment/s:  Essay #3 Assignment: Writing to Understand and Respond to a Text  - due next week.
Mon, Oct. 30th:	Essay #3, First Draft Due    In-Class writing workshop   Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #9 - due Wed.
Wed, Nov. 1st:	Individual Conferences   Response Assignment #9 Due   Reading Due:  "Too Much Information?" Newsweek International, August 25, 2003  Tapscott, Don. "The Net Generation and The School"
Mon, Nov. 6th:	Individual Conferences   Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #10 - due Wed.
Wed, Nov. 8th:	Response Assignment #10 Due   Reading Due:   "Blogging as a Form of Journalism" J.D. Lasica, OJR Senior Editor, Annenberg Center for Communication at USC. "Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism" Eric Engberg, CBS News Online, Nov. 8, 2004.  Assignment/s: finish Essay #3 final paper for next Monday
Mon, Nov. 13th:	Essay #3 FINAL PAPER DUE!   Assignment/s:  Essay #4 Assignment: Writing to Persuade - two paragraph proposals due next class.
Wed, Nov. 15th:	Two paragraph proposals for Essay #4 Due In-class writing/essay smash workshop / Individual consultations on research Using MLA Format in papers (see Works Cited page)  Assignment/s:  Research Source Assignment - due next week with First Draft
Mon, Nov. 20th:	Essay #4, First Draft Due /  1 pg. Essay Smash process paper draft due    In-class writing / essay smash workshop  (depending on which essay choice you made) Assignment/s: NONE
Wed, Nov. 22nd:	NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Mon, Nov. 27th:	Essay #4, First Draft Due /  1 pg. Essay Smash process paper draft due  Assignment/s: NONE (continue working on your essay/project)
Wed, Nov. 29th:	In-Class Quiz on Reading    Reading Due:  Iverem, Esther. “Will They Call it Victim Art Now? Post Sept. 11 Notes on Art and Images of Suffering,” SeeingBlack.com, 21, Feb. 2002. Danto, Arthur. "9/11 Art as a Gloss on Wittgenstein," Artnet, Sept. 9, 2005. Assignment/s:  Response Assignment #11 - due next week
Mon, Dec. 4th:	Response Assignment #11 Due Reading Due:  Gussow, Mel. "The Art of Aftermath, Distilled in Memory," 11/14/2001 Sozanski, Edward. "After tragedy, an outpouring of art," 10/21/2001 Assignment/s: NONE (continue working on your essay/project)
Wed, Dec. 6th:	In-Class Portfolio Workshop   Final questions & answers re: Essay #4 & two page process paper for those who chose Essay Smash format Assignment/s: NONE (continue working on your essay/project & portfolio, if not finished)
Mon, Dec. 11th:	Essay #4 FINAL PAPER DUE! FINAL 2 pg Essay Smash Process Paper Due! (with ALL drafts & research source assignment)   In-Class Portfolio Workshop Assignment/s: make sure you turn in your final writing portfolio on Wed.
Wed, Dec. 13th:	Final Writing Portfolios Due  (all drafts and previous writing assignments are due in a binder)