Daily Plans for English 688 

 
Home
Syllabus
Assessment Paper
Book Review
Collaborative Presentations
Daily Plans
Newspapers
Technology Access
Textual Analysis
Web page Assignment
Web Evaluations
Writing in the Matrix

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

· 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 every third week.
   
· Class exercises to include written and oral work, discussions of readings, online chat sessions, and group work
   
· Writing in the Matrix exercise
   
· Textual analysis exercise
   
· Web assignment
   
· Collaborative Presentations

 

Course Texts:

  1. Class texts . The class readers are Holeton's Composing Cyberspace and Moulthrop's Victory Garden.
  2. 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.
  3. Supplemental articles and online information
  4. 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.

Assignments:    
Week one: 1.29.02 overview of course; Web Criteria Unit; introduce Web Assignment
     
Week two: 2.5.02 Composing Cyberspace [CC] chapter one, Technology access assignment
     
Week three: 2.12.02 CC, chapter two
     
Week four: 2.19.02 CC, chapter three
     
Week five: 2.26.02 CC, chapter four 
     
Week six: 3.5.02 Presentation 1: Hawisher/Selfe; distribute article and discuss, Michael Day's 'Writing in Matrix' exercise
     
Week seven: 3.12.02 class will not meet; online assignment- 'Writing in the Matrix' due; CC, chapter five
     
Week eight: 3.19.02 discuss CC, chapter five; Web Assignment due
     
Week nine: 3.26.02 Spring Break; no class
     
Week ten: 4.2.02 Presentation 2: Fishman/Dewey; introduce Victory Garden
     
Week eleven: 4.9.02 CC, chapter six
     
Week twelve: 4.16.02 CC, chapter seven
     
Week thirteen: 4.23.02 Presentation 3: Gruber
     
Week fourteen: 4.30.02 CC, chapter eight; Textual Analysis Assignment
     
Week fifteen: 5.7.02 CC, chapter nine
     
Week sixteen: 5.14.02 Presentation 4: Murray; In-class Reflective essay based on portfolio