Please be sure to bring your writing journal to each class. Also, be sure to bring either Conversations (noted as C below) or A Student's Guide to First-Year Composition, 19th ed. (noted as SG below) when readings are due from those texts.

January

W 13 Introductions -- to the course and to each other; get a university e-mail account and send me your e-mail address; read Writing Words for this week***try to keep a consistent daily writing practice in your journal***check out some guidelines for this Writing Practice

F 15 Read in Student's Guide (2-35) [be sure to bring journal to class]. Reader response #1 due.

M 18 Martin Luther King,Jr. Holiday - class canceled

W 20 Read in Conversations, "Education" by E.B. White (21-23). Also read pages 1-20, and pay particular attention to the rhetorical analysis of White's piece. Reader response #2 due.

F 22 Student's Guide, Chapter 10 (179-244). Reader response #3 due.

M 25 review Table of Contents in Conversations and choose a few articles which interest you -- read these articles and choose the one on which you would most like to write a rhetorical analysis

W 27 turn in your proposalfor the paper -- your proposal should include 1) the citation for your text/s, 2) your reasons for your choice [why did you choose this particular article?], 3) how you plan to analyze the text/s, 4) what obstacles/challenges you anticipate [for a full description of the rhetorical analysis assignment, click here]

F 29 library session - meet in main library, room A315; complete the first three tutorials for Research Instruction Online, or RIO (the tutorials are "Using Sabio," "Database Basics," and "Finding Articles")

February

M 1 quiz on library session (the quiz will count as a reader response); Adrienne Rich, "Claiming an Education" (C, 89-94); Reader response #4 due -- first discuss Rich's purpose and audience, and then discuss one of the three rhetorical appeals; (remember to read Writing Words for this week)

W 3 workshop -- bring in all your writing

F 5 Draft #1, Essay #1 due *** be sure to bring in 5 copies of your essay *** exchange papers and do peer review letters for Monday -- for guidance, readStudent Guide (31-35), and reread peer letters in chapter 10

M 8 peer review group conferences - meet in my office;

W 10 peer review group conferences - meet in my office;

F 12 continue working on draft revisions

M 15 Draft #2 due

W 17Guide, Appendix C (487-501); A Pocket Style Manual (91-95); bring in the draft of your essay to be revised and all peer and instructor comments

F 19 Essay #1 Portfolio due

M 22 Student Guide, Chapter 11; reader response #5 -- choose on of the three student essays to write one -- which essay do you find the most persuasive and why?

W 24 answer questions on page 219, Student Guide -- present proposal to class

F 26 library session - meet in main library, room A315; be prepared to research your topic

March

M 1 proposal for Essay #2, Persuasive Essay; see assignment description

W 3 return proposals and discuss

F 5 bell hooks, "Pedagogy and Political Commitment: A Comment" (C, 82-89); reader response #6

M 8 annotated bibliography due; see assignment description and SG, page 223

W 10 Alice Walker, "Everyday Use" (C, 74-82); reader response #7

F 12 Chi-fan Ku, "An Internal Divide" (SG, 117-121); reader response #8

March 13-21 Spring Break

M 22 review readings

W 24 Draft #1, Essay #2; remember to bring 5 copies

F 26 continue writing peer review letters

M 29 peer review groups -- bring letters for peers and be sure to keep a copy for your portfolio

W 31 review Logical Fallacies in Student Guide (250-253)

April

F 2 reader response #9 - respond to your own paper and the peer review letters and write a plan of revision; check your own essay for logical fallacies; refer to Student Guide, "What is a Writing Strategy?" (186-188) to evaluate your own writing strategy

M 5 Draft #2 due; circulate in class

W 7 TBA

F 9 TBA

M 12 Essay #2 Portfolio due; (remember that I will not grade essays which do not contain an appendix of xeroxed copies of sources from which you've quoted)

W 14 TBA

F 16 TBA

M 19 proposal for Essay #3 due

W 21 Trifles by Susan Glaspell in Conversations (302-314); reader response due

F 23 Student Guide (289-294; 299-311)

M 26 Draft #1 of Essay #3 due; bring 4 copies to exchange

W 28 buy final packet from University Bookstore, read essay and bring to class

F 30 peer review letters due

M 3 preparations for final

W 5 Essay #3 Portfolio due; evaluations

F 7 Final Exam - 8-10am, Family and Consumer Resources, Room 114. ***Please be sure to go to the Final Exam link on this website and read the information there.***