English 102

Spring 2017
Schedule
Week 1
W Jan 18 Welcome, Intro, Discuss Syllabus
F Jan 20 Class Will Not Meet
Week 2
M Jan 23 Read: p. 354-357 Shitty First Drafts (also available on website in readings)
Discuss: Ethnography, blogging
W Jan 25 Read: p. 24-37 Friday Night at Iowa 80 and 58-59 FreeWriting Discuss: reading
and essay #1
F Jan 27 Due: Blog Post in response to prompt on blog
Week 3
M Jan 30 Due: Blog Post in response to prompt on blog Read: p.63-65, p.119-122, p. 101102, p.111-117 Discuss: Positioning Yourself, Pov, rhetoric, and permission
W Feb 1 Due Essay #1 I, Researcher Draft for workshop Read: p. 165-175, p.186-195
Discuss: Space and observation, essay #2
F Feb 3 Due: Essay #1 I, Researcher Read: p.66-69 On Keeping a Notebook and p.78-84
Discuss: Notetaking and reading
Week 4
M Feb 6 Due: Blog Post Read: p.124-126, p.129-135 Everyday Use Discuss: Artifacts and
reading
W Feb 8 Research Day Class Will Not meet
F Feb 10 Research Day Class Will not meet
Week 5
M Feb 13 Due: Blog post Read: On Writing Well ch 6&7 (in links on website) and Prof.
Williamss Reading the Gardner p.6-9 and 14-17 (under research tab on website) Discuss:
Descriptive writing
W Feb 15 Research Day Class Will not meet

F Feb 17 Research Day Class Will not meet

Week 6
M Feb 20 Presidents Day No Class
W Feb 22 Monday Class Schedule Due: Essay #2 The Lay of the Land draft for
workshop Discuss: Midterm Portfolio
F Feb 24
Week 7
M Feb 27 Career Services Visit
W Mar 1 Due: midterm portfolio
F Mar 3
Week 8-Spring Break
Week 9
M Mar 13 Read: p. 219-222 and p. 225-228 Discuss: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated
Bibliography
W Mar 15 Read: 345-347, p.230-233 and p.234-242 Discuss: Recording and transcribing
F Mar 17 Due: Blog post Read: p. 244-248 An Anthropologist on Mars Discuss: Interviews
Week 10
M Mar 20 Library Research Visit- Meet at Maxwell Library reference desk
W Mar 22 Due: Blog post Read: p. 264-266, p.271-274, p.281-286, p.311-313, p.325-330,
and p. 343-345 Discuss: language in writing and Archives
F Mar 24
Week 11
M Mar 27 Due: Blog Post Read: p.139-140 and p. 335-340 On Dumpster Diving Discuss:
Secondary Sources.
W Mar 29 Due: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography draft for workshop
Discuss: Essay #4 The So What?
F Mar 31 Due: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography

Week 12
M Apr 3 Read: p. 351-354, p.358-260, p. 361-371, and p. 381-382 Discuss: drafting
W Apr 5 Read: Professor Williamss Bowling Ethnography (in readings on website) Office of
Undergraduate Research Visit
F Apr 7 Discuss: Group Presentations
Week 13
M Apr 10 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due
W Apr 12 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due
F Apr 14 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due
Week 14
M Apr 17 Patriots Day- No Class
W Apr 19 Group Presentation Work Day
F Apr 21 Group Presentation Work Day
Week 15
M Apr 24 Group Presentation Work Day and Discuss Final Portfolio
W Apr 26 Due: Group Presentations
F Apr 28 Due: Group Presentations
Week 16
M May 1 Due: Essay 4 for workshop
Final Exam Due: Final Portfolio and Final exam (in class essay)
MWF 10:10 class- Mon, May 8th 8:00-10:00
MW 1:150 class- Mon, May 8th 11:00-1:00