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Spring 2016

Calendar/Schedule of Assignments
(This schedule is subject to change.)

All reading assignments are due on the weeks they are listed on the schedule
below. You are responsible for completing all assigned readings prior to
listening to or reading lectures and prior to participating in weekly
discussions/assignments. Each reading assignment is identified in the
Readings column.
Also note that assignment due dates are in the Assignments column.
Linked titles = electronic
readings. Click on links to access
and read essays.

WITW = Writing in the Works

Important Dates
January 15, 2016
January 27, 2016
March 17, 2016

Last day to add a class

Last day to drop a class with a refund
Last day to withdraw from a class with a grade of W
This schedule is subject to change.

Week/Date
Week One:
January 11

Readings
All items in the Week One Lecture Link button to
begin the English 111 course orientation
Diagnostic Essay Assignment Guidelines
Cisneros, My Name excerpt
Essay Formatting Guidelines
(all above items are linked in Week Ones content folder)

Assignments
15 Jan: Academic
Honesty Agreement
15 Jan: Diagnostic
Essay
15 Jan: Original
Introduction
Discussion Post (DP)

Week One requires submission of three assignments by 15 January. This will not be the
norm, but it is a necessity in Week One to ensure preliminary/diagnostic assignments are
completed in a timely manner.

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Week/Date
Week Two:
January 18

Readings
The Rhetorical Situation (WITW, pp. 2-17)
Pareles, Lavish Worlds, and the Headwear to Match
(WITW, pp. 18-19)
The Writers Process (WITW, pp. 21-26)
audience, purpose, context, voice, media (click on
links to access readings)

Assignments
18 Jan: Introduction
responses to two
classmates
22 Jan: Original DP
posts

Week Three:
January 25

The Writers Process (WITW, pp. 31-37)

paragraphs, introductions, conclusions (click on links
to access readings)

25 Jan: DP
responses to two
classmates
29 Jan: Original DP
posts

Week Four:
February 1

Writing About Others: Profiles (WITW, pp. 171192)

Anatomy of a Profile (WITW, pp. 175-178)

Week Five:
February 8

Writing About Others: Profiles (WITW, pp. 184192)

Matthai, A Fine Balance: The Life of a Muslim
Teenager (WITW, pp. 197-200)

Week Six:
February 15

Collaboration, Peer Review, and Writing as a Public

Act (WITW, pp. 45-53)
Peer Review (Click on link to access and read
article)

Week Seven:
February 22

Writing an Evaluation: Film Reviews (pp. 279-300)

Anatomy of a Film Review (WITW, pp. 282-285)
Roger Ebert Reviews (click on link to access and read
reviews)
"Distinguishing Fact from Opinion" (WITW p.71-72)

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1 Feb: DP responses
to two classmates
5 Feb: Original DP
posts
8 Feb: DP responses
to two classmates
10 Feb: SPE posted
to your blog site by
midnight
12 Feb: Original DP
posts
15 Feb: DP
responses to two
classmates
17 Feb: Completed
draft of Profile Essay
19 Feb: Peer review
responses
22 Feb: Final
revision of Profile
Essay in Blackboard
by midnight
26 Feb: Original DP
Responses

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Week Eight:
February 29

Week Nine:
March 7

Week Ten:
March 14

Spring 2016

Readings
Integrating Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and
Summarizing (WITW, pp. 505-507)
Kaling, Flick Chicks: A Guide to Women in the
Movies
Denby, Call the Doctor: Contagion
Denby, Dream Factory: Inception

Assignments
29 Feb: DP
responses to at least
two classmates
2 Mar: 300-600
word summary of
movie of your choice
in your blog site by
midnight
(click on links to access and read articles)
4 Mar: Original DP
responses
7 Mar: DP responses
Document Review Guidelines (click on link to
to two classmates
access and read article)
9 Mar: Completed
Note: not participating in peer review will result in a 10% draft of Movie
Review Essay
downgrading of your Profile Essay. Please contact me
11 Mar: Peer review
should you not be able to participate in peer review.
responses.
Writing for Your Community: Proposals (WITW, pp. 14 Mar: Final
revision of Movie
443-459)
Review by midnight
Swift, A Modest Proposal(click on link to access
in Blackboard
and read essay)
18 Mar: Original DP
responses
~{{~ Spring Break: classes not in session 21-27 Mar ~{{~

Week Eleven:
March 28

Research (WITW, pp. 479-496)

Week Twelve:
April 4

Baron, Dont Make English Official: Ban It Instead

Fish, Whos in Charge Here?
Singer, The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Pollock, You Say You Want a Resolution?

Week Thirteen:
April 11

Document Review Guidelines (click on link to

access and read article)

Note: not participating in peer review will result in a

10% downgrading of your Modest Proposal. Please

28 Mar: DP
responses to at least
two classmates
30 Mar: 300-600
word Pitch in your
blog site by midnight.
1 Apr: Original DP
responses
4 Apr: DP responses
to at least two
classmates
8 Apr: Original DP
responses
11 Apr: DP
responses to at least
two classmates
13 Apr: Complete
draft of Modest

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Week/Date

4
Readings
contact me should you not be able to participate in
peer review.

Week Fourteen: DIY Media and Design: PowerPoint Proposal

April 18
(WITW, pp. 460-465)
Delivering the Speech
Your First Speech
(click on links to access and read articles)
Week Fifteen:
April 25

Week
Sixteen/Finals
Week:
May 2

No reading assigned.
Please follow instructions in Week 15s DB forum for
presenting.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions or
assistance.
No reading assigned
Use final exam week to complete portfolios

Have a wonderful summer!

Spring 2016
Assignments
Proposal for in-class
Peer Review
Workshop
15 Apr: Peer review
response letters in
Blackboard by
midnight
18 Apr: Final
revision of Modest
Proposal essay by
midnight in
Blackboard
22 Apr: Original DP
responses
25 Apr: DP
responses to at least
two classmates
29 Apr:
Presentations
2 May: Responses to
at least two
classmates
presentations
6 May: Final
reflective portfolio in
blog site by midnight