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The
following assignments detail the output or products you will each take
with you at the end of the course. Make the seminar fit your needs; design
your work around your own courses and interests. Within this course, the
goal is to introduce computer-assisted writing techniques, allow you to
practice them in class, and provide opportunities for discussion and investigation.
Class Activities
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Online
portfolios, a three step process. Weekly journal prompts will be posted
to the classlist on Tuesdays. 1. Student journal entries answering
the questions posed in the prompt are due to list by Friday evening.
2. After reading entries, students select one classmate's entry and
respond/react; those responses to one classmate are due to list by
Sunday noon ; ie, student portfolios consist of weekly entry plus
weekly responses to a classmate. 3. Bring hardcopy of your journal
entry and response to your classmate to class at the next meeting.
We will also keep hardcopy portfolios as well as online portfolios.
The final in-class essay will be a reflective essay using your portfolios
as the text. Note: If, as a result of our classlist activity, your
email account is exceeding your limit, you may delete the list responses
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Class exercises to include written and oral work, discussions of readings,
online chat sessions, and group work |
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Writing
in the Matrix exercise |
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Textual analysis exercise |
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Web
assignment |
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Collaborative
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Course Texts:
- Class texts . The
class readers are Holeton's Composing Cyberspace and Moulthrop's Victory
Garden.
- Group projects: Everyone
will also read and participate in a collaborative oral presentation,
activity and written review on either 1. Fishman/McCarthy, 2. Hawisher/Selfe,
3. Murray, or 4. Grubber.
- Supplemental articles
and online information
- Portfolios
** Reading assignments
are to be completed [so that you are prepared for discussion] for class
as indicated below. For example, be prepared to discuss all of chapter
one in Holton on February 5.
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Week
one: |
1.29.02
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overview
of course; Web Criteria Unit; introduce Web Assignment |
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Week
two: |
2.5.02 |
Composing
Cyberspace [CC] chapter one, Technology access assignment |
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Week
three: |
2.12.02
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CC,
chapter two |
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Week
four: |
2.19.02
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CC,
chapter three |
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Week
five: |
2.26.02
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CC,
chapter four |
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Week
six: |
3.5.02
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Presentation
1: Hawisher/Selfe; distribute article and discuss, Michael Day's 'Writing
in Matrix' exercise |
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Week
seven: |
3.12.02 |
class
will not meet; online assignment- 'Writing in the Matrix' due; CC,
chapter five |
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Week
eight: |
3.19.02
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discuss
CC, chapter five; Web Assignment due |
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Week
nine: |
3.26.02
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Spring
Break; no class |
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Week
ten: |
4.2.02
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Presentation
2: Fishman/Dewey; introduce Victory Garden |
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Week
eleven: |
4.9.02 |
CC,
chapter six |
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Week
twelve: |
4.16.02
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CC,
chapter seven |
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Week
thirteen: |
4.23.02
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Presentation
3: Gruber |
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Week
fourteen: |
4.30.02 |
CC,
chapter eight; Textual Analysis Assignment |
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Week
fifteen: |
5.7.02
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CC,
chapter nine |
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Week
sixteen: |
5.14.02 |
Presentation
4: Murray; In-class Reflective essay based on portfolio |
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