Instructor: Kristin Scott
Office Hours: By Appointment
E-Mail:
Class Blog: http://eng101fall08.wordpress.com
* Please note on the reading schedule that every other Wednesday, beginning August 27th,
we will be meeting in a computer classroom in Innovation Hall, Room 327.
See Course Description
Course Schedule:
Week One:
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Monday |
8/25: Introduction to course
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Wednesday |
8/27: Read: “Academically Speaking: Audience, Language, Power” from Frame Work: Culture, Storytelling, and College Writing (handout). Writing Workshop / Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
8/29: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: Composing and Revising, sections C1-C4.
* Response Assignment # 1 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Two:
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Monday |
9/1: Labor Day – No Class!
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Wednesday |
9/3: Read “The Writing Process” from Frame Work (available on blackboard)
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Friday |
9/5: Read Chapter 1, section on “Active Reading” (pp 6-22) in Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture.
* Response Assignment # 2 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Three:
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Monday |
9/8: Read Chapter 1, sections on “Reading Images” and “The Writing Process” (pp 22-36) in Common Culture.
View: Ann Telnaes' cartoons: Women's Issues; Civil Rights; War on Terrorism; Environment / choose one cartoon from two categories that you like best and print a copy to bring to class.
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Wednesday |
9/10: Read “Approaches to Prewriting” from Frame Work (handout) / Essay #1 Assigned –Brainstorming / Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
9/12: MEET ME IN THE LOBBY OF FENWICK LIBRARY
* Response Assignment # 3 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Four:
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Monday |
9/15: Essay #1 Draft DUE / Peer Review Workshop (please come with enough copies of your essay to give a copy to each of your peer reviewers and myself).
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Wednesday |
9/17: Read “The Tribe Has Spoken” (pp 182-193) in Common Culture |
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Friday |
9/19: “Keeping it Real: Why We Like to Watch Reality Dating Television Shows” (pp 193-200) in Common Culture.
* Response Assignment # 4 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Five:
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Monday |
9/22: Essay # 1 FINAL – DUE / Brainstorming workshop for Essay # 2 - Intended argument summaries due on Friday |
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Wednesday |
9/24: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: Academic Writing, sections A1-A3 / Writing and Research Workshop /
Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
9/26: Read: “Revision Workshop: Writing for an Academic Audience” in Frame Work (handout) / Discuss locating and evaluating sources
* Response Assignment # 5 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Six:
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Monday |
9/29: Read “Advertising’s Fifteen Basic Appeals” (pp 73-91) in Common Culture.
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Wednesday |
10/1: Read “The Evolution of the Seven Deadly Sins: From God to the Simpsons” in Common Culture / Intended argument summaries due |
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Friday |
10/3: Essay #2 Peer Workshop (come prepared to update peers on where you are in the writing and research process)
* Response Assignment # 6 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Seven:
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Monday |
10/6: Read Intro to Chapter on Technology, “Breaking Down Borders” and “Cyberhood vs. Neighborhood” (pp 337-351) in Common Culture.
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Wednesday |
10/8: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: Research, sections 1-3 / writing workshop (in-class revision) /
Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
10/10: Read “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves” (pp 351-371) in Common Culture.
* Response Assignment # 7 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Eight:
Week Nine:
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Monday |
10/20: Read “Responding to Another Writer’s Draft” in Frame Work (handout)
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Wednesday |
10/22: Essay # 2 Peer Review Workshop / Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
10/24: Read “Child of the Americas” and “Legal Alien” (available on Blackboard) / Writing Workshop on close reading
* See readings & assignment for next week on class blog.
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Week Ten:
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Monday |
10/27: Essay # 2 Final DUE / Read “Borg Journalism” (pp 407-418) in Common Culture. |
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Wednesday |
10/29: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: MLA, sections 2b, 3a, 3b / / “Bumper Sticker Wisdom” in-class writing |
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Friday |
10/31: Essay # 3 Assigned / Brainstorm topics
* Response Assignment # 9 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Eleven:
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Monday |
11/3: Read “The Asian Invasion (of Multiculturalism) in Hollywood (pp 543-565) in Common Culture. |
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Wednesday |
11/5: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: MLA, sections 4a, 4b, and 4c / Writing Workshop
Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
11/7: Read “Case Study: When Sources Conflict” and “The Armenian Genocide: Two Dynamically Different Accounts” from Frame Work (handouts)
* Response Assignment # 10 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Twelve:
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Monday |
11/10: Essay # 3 Draft DUE (bring copies for peers and myself) / Peer Workshop
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Wednesday |
11/12: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: MLA, sections 5a, and 5b |
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Friday |
11/14: Read “Revising your Draft: Sources” from Frame Work (handout)
* Response Assignment # 11 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Thirteen:
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Monday |
11/17: Peer Review Workshop on Essay # 3 |
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Wednesday |
11/19: Read A Writer's Reference Chapter: Writing about Literature, sections L1-L4 / Writing Workshop /
Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
11/21: Read “Developing and Supporting an Analysis” from Frame Work (handout).
* Response Assignment # 12 Due online at class blog (prior to class start time) / See readings & assignments for next week on class blog.
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Week Fourteen:
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Monday |
11/24: Read “Revising Your Draft: Quoting Text for Support” from Frame Work (handout)
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Wednesday |
11/26: THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
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Friday |
11/28: THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
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Week Fifteen:
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Monday |
12/1: Review of key writing concepts / issues
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Wednesday |
12/3: Workshop for research questions and issues / Class Meets in Innovation Hall, Room 327
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Friday |
12/5: Last Day of Class – Final Essay # 3 DUE / Wrap up and final in-class writing assignment
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