COURSE CALENDAR This calendar is tentative; I will revise it based on our class needs. The most updated version of this syllabus can be found on TRACS. Writer EW=Easy Emerging (University’s Common Experience book) RS=The Runaway Species Week Day Date Homework/Assignments Due In Class Discuss course syllabus and course calendar. M 8/27 None 1 Discuss successful reading strategies and annotations. UNIT 1: Where are we now? Discuss Unit 1 Review ENG 1310 course syllabus in are we now?” “Where preparation for a quiz. W 8/29 Discuss the purpose of EW: from Low Stakes Writing,” “Learning low-stakes writing tasks 44-45 Syllabus quiz. EW: and Reading Critically,” “Analyzing 7a-7d, 46-49 Discuss reading critically F 8/31 Read and annotate (in class) The your annotations of Runaway Species 1-10 the RS “Introduction,” “Introduction.” TRACS Post #1 due 9/04 2 M 9/3 Labor Day No class Discuss readings. EW EW: 1) and Media and Apply concepts from EW “Visuals Manipulations of Visuals and Media,” 33-36 (and other visual W 9/5 2) Field Research,” 82-83 analysis principles) to “Doing “My Emerging: Crowd Experiment: The Crowd Experiment.” “My Mob Project,” 473-491 Discuss TRACS Post #1 (due 9/04) EW: 1) Writer’s Choices,” 16-23; 2) Discuss EW readings “A Writing in Academic Genres, 60-64 Compare genres/styles of Emerging: Limits of Friendship,” Emerging readings. “The F 9/7 236-241; WEIRD: How Culture Explore how academic “Being Shapes the Mind,” 492-504 genres can help and/or TRACS Post #2 due 9/9 hinder our writing. Discuss argument EW: 1) Building Arguments 8C-8F, 54-58; structure and rhetorical 2) Exploring, Planning, and Drafting, situation in the “Consider 3 M 9/10 Lobster.” Emerging: the Lobster,” “Consider Discuss TRACS Post #2 (due 9/9)
COURSE CALENDAR This calendar is tentative; I will revise it based on our class needs. The most updated version of this syllabus can be found on TRACS. EW=Easy Writer Emerging RS=The Runaway Species (University’s Common Experience book) Week Day Date Homework/Assignments Due In Class 1 M 8/27 None Discuss course syllabus and course calendar. Discuss successful reading strategies and annotations. UNIT 1: Where are we now? W 8/29 Review ENG 1310 course syllabus in preparation for a quiz. EW: “Learning from Low Stakes Writing,” 44-45 Discuss Unit 1 “Where are we now?” Discuss the purpose of low-stakes writing tasks Syllabus quiz. F 8/31 EW: “Analyzing and Reading Critically,” 7a-7d, 46-49 Read and annotate (in class) The Runaway Species “Introduction,” 1-10 TRACS Post #1 due 9/04 Discuss reading critically your annotations of the RS “Introduction.” 2 M 9/3 Labor Day No class W 9/5 EW: 1) “Visuals and Media and Manipulations of Visuals and Media,” 2) “Doing Field Research,” 82-83 Emerging: “My Crowd Experiment: The Mob Project,” 473-491 Discuss EW readings. Apply concepts from EW 33-36 (and other visual analysis principles) to “My Crowd Experiment.” Discuss TRACS Post #1 (due 9/04) F 9/7 EW: 1) “A Writer’s Choices,” 16-23; 2) Writing in Academic Genres, 60-64 Emerging: “The Limits of Friendship,” 236-241; “Being WEIRD: How Culture Shapes the Mind,” 492-504 TRACS Post #2 due 9/9 Discuss EW readings Compare genres/styles of Emerging readings. Explore how academic genres can help and/or hinder our writing. 3 M 9/10 EW: 1) Building Arguments 8C-8F, 54-58; 2) Exploring, Planning, and Drafting, Emerging: “Consider the Lobster,” Discuss argument structure and rhetorical situation in “Consider the Lobster.” Discuss TRACS Post #2 (due 9/9)
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