reflections as you continue to write and thus improve upon your work. For the final assignment of the semester, you will substantively revise an assignment of your choice—taking into consideration the rhetorical concepts and strategies you have learned, the ideas you have raised in your reflective writings, and the feedback you have received from me and from your peers. Your goal in this revision is to rethink important aspects of the assignment such as the rhetorical appeals, supporting arguments, arrangement, introductions and conclusions, integration of research, and so on. In an accompanying two page, single-spaced memo, you will identify the aims of your revisions, how you have attempted to reach those goals, and your rationale for those specific choices. Reflective Memo 2 pages, single-spaced; Revision 4-5 pages. Spring 2017 Course Schedule IA: Inventing Arguments, 2nd edition TSIS: They Say/I Say, 3rd edition DKH: DK Handbook, 4th edition JM: Just INTP: Interpolations Day Session Objectives Reading Due Writing Due Week 1 Introductions; Discuss Syllabus; Day 1 What is rhetoric and the academic W 1-25 writing course? Day 2 Rhetoric and Argument; Duffy, Arguments” Discussion #1 “Virtuous F 1-27 Academic Conversations; Summary Assignment IA Core of an Argument” “The DKH 190-191 Week 2 Language Diversity; Summary; TSIS 30-51; TSIS 121-128; IA Discussion Board #2 Day 3 Critical Reading Young Writers Use They “Should M 1-30 Own English?” 508-516; Two Sample Student Summaries (Canvas) Day 4 Critical Reading and Summary IA 441-457; IA Lamott Discussion Board #3 “Revising” W 2-1 example; Discuss issue First Drafts” 438-440 “Shitty possibilities for course assignment sequence; Style: Cohesion; Set up conferences for semester topics Day 5 Workshop; Cohesion and DKH 284-288; IA and Draft Academic Summary “Cohesion F 2-3 Coherence; Reflective Writing Coherence” 390-396 Week 3 Reflect on Summary; Introduce INTP Geller, Assignment #1: “Examining Day 6 Inquiry assignment and Annotated Predictive Genetic Testing Using Academic Summary M 2-6 Bibliography assignments Huntington’s Disease as a Due; Reflective Writing Model”; IA Introduction to Due “An Inquiry” 340-342
reflections as you continue to write and thus improve upon your work. For the final assignment of the semester, you will substantively revise an assignment of your choice—taking into consideration the rhetorical concepts and strategies you have learned, the ideas you have raised in your reflective writings, and the feedback you have received from me and from your peers. Your goal in this revision is to rethink important aspects of the assignment such as the rhetorical appeals, supporting arguments, arrangement, introductions and conclusions, integration of research, and so on. In an accompanying two page, single-spaced memo, you will identify the aims of your revisions, how you have attempted to reach those goals, and your rationale for those specific choices. Reflective Memo 2 pages, single-spaced; Revision 4-5 pages. Spring 2017 Course Schedule IA: Inventing Arguments, 2nd edition TSIS: They Say/I Say, 3rd edition DKH: DK Handbook, 4th edition JM: Just INTP: Interpolations Day Session Objectives Reading Due Writing Due Week 1 Day 1 W 1-25 Introductions; Discuss Syllabus; What is rhetoric and the academic writing course? Day 2 F 1-27 Rhetoric and Argument; Academic Conversations; Summary Assignment Duffy, “Virtuous Arguments” IA “The Core of an Argument” DKH 190-191 Discussion #1 Week 2 Day 3 M 1-30 Language Diversity; Summary; Critical Reading TSIS 30-51; TSIS 121-128; IA Young “Should Writers Use They Own English?” 508-516; Two Sample Student Summaries (Canvas) Discussion Board #2 Day 4 W 2-1 Critical Reading and Summary example; Discuss issue possibilities for course assignment sequence; Style: Cohesion; Set up conferences for semester topics IA “Revising” 441-457; IA Lamott “Shitty First Drafts” 438-440 Discussion Board #3 Day 5 F 2-3 Workshop; Cohesion and Coherence; Reflective Writing DKH 284-288; IA “Cohesion and Coherence” 390-396 Draft Academic Summary Week 3 Day 6 M 2-6 Reflect on Summary; Introduce Inquiry assignment and Annotated Bibliography assignments INTP Geller, “Examining Predictive Genetic Testing Using Huntington’s Disease as a Model”; IA “An Introduction to Inquiry” 340-342 Assignment #1: Academic Summary Due; Reflective Writing Due
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