WRIT 1622 Sec 4

Winter 2019

Course Calendar

Homework is listed the day it is due // In-Class Exercises are noted by not described

Week 1
Thursday 1.10
Homework:
•   Read Syllabus
•   DQ Set #1:
o   Read Packet of Open Letters
o   Read “The Rhetorical Situation” by Lloyd Bitzer
•   Review UC Davis framing materials
In Class:
•   Exercise #1
 
Week 2
Tuesday 1.15
Homework:
•   Exercise #2: find strong Open Letter example
•   Exercise #3: Invention for WP #1 (Stasis Exploration)
In Class:
•   Exercises #4 & #5
 
Thursday 1.17
Homework:
•   Draft of WP #1 (Open Letter)—print 3 copies for class
•   Review Logical Fallacies website
In Class:
•   Exercise #6 & Peer Feedback for WP #1
 
Week 3
Tuesday 1.22
Homework:
•   DQ Set #2:
o   Read “Our Shared Reality is Fraying” by Arie Kruglanski
o   Read Nasty Talk by Gina Masullo Chen (excerpts)
In Class:
•   Exercise #7
 
Thursday 1.24
Homework:
•   WP #1—submit via Canvas
•   DQ Set #3:
o   Listen to “Why Isn’t the Sky Blue” from RadioLab
In Class:
•   Exercise #8  

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Week 4
Tuesday 1.29
Homework:
•   DQ Set #4:
o   Read “A Voice of Hate in America’s Heartland” by Richard Fausset
•   DQ Set #5:
o   Read “The Scare Quote: 2016 in a Punctuation Mark” by Megan Garber
•   Locate text for WP #2
In Class:
•   Exercises #9 & 10  

Thursday 1.31
Homework:
•   DQ Set #6:
o   Read “This Article Won’t Change Your Mind” by Julie Beck
In Class:
•   Exercise #11  

Sunday 2.3
Homework:
•   WP #2—submit via Canvas

Week 5
Tuesday 2.5
Homework:
•   DQ Set #7
o   Read “The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What Your
Want to See in The Colbert Report” (excerpts)
o   Read: “Selective Perception and Attention at the World Cup” by Alan Castel
 
Thursday 2.7
Homework:
•   DQ Set #8
o   Read: “Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal” by Amanda Robb
o   Read: “LOL Something Matters” by Daniel Engber
In Class:
•   Exercises #12 & #13

Sunday 2.10
Homework:
•   WP #3—submit via Canvas

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Week 6
Tuesday 2.12
Homework:
•   DQ Set #9:
o   Read “Truth Isn’t the Problem—We Are” by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
•   DQ Set #10:
o   Read: choice of second editorial—TDB
In Class:
•   Exercises #14 & #15
 
Thursday 2.14
Homework:
•   DQ set #11:
o   Read “Four Tough Things Universities Should Do to Rein in Costs” – Steven
Pearlstein, TWP
o   Read “Four Tough Things Columnists Should Do Before Writing About
Universities” – Daniel W Drezner, TWP
•   Pre-Writing for WP #4: Rhetorical Situation Analysis—submit via Canvas
In Class:
•   Exercise #16

Week 7
Tuesday 2.19
Homework:
•   Draft 1.0 of WP #4—print 3 copies for class
In Class:
•   Peer Feedback for WP #4  
 
Thursday 2.21
Homework:
•   DQ Set #12:
o   Read “Genres in the Wild” by Lisa Bickmore
o   Read “What Writers Really Do When They Write” by George Saunders
In Class:
•   Exercise #17

Week 8
Tuesday 2.26
Homework:
•   Draft 2.0 of WP #4—submit via Canvas
•   Work on Genaroo—find examples for your presentation & some frameworks
In Class:
•   Author’s Note draft & Genaroo studio time
 

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Thursday 2.28
Homework:
•   Genaroo

Week 9
Tuesday 3.5
Homework:
•   Pre-Writing for WP #5: Proposal—submit via Canvas
•   DQ Set #13:
o   Read “Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability To Tell Fake News From Real, Study
Finds” from NPR
In Class:
•   Exercise #18  

Thursday 3.7
Homework:
•   DQ Set #14:
o   Read “The Braindead Megaphone” by George Saunders
•   Read Style Packet
In Class:
•   Exercise #19

Week 10
Tuesday 3.12
Homework:
•   Draft of WP #5
In Class:
•   Peer Workshop for WP #5 & Exercise #20
 
No Class on Thursday 3.14

Week 11
Tuesday 3.19 [we ARE meeting during our final exam period]
Homework by 2pm:
•   WP #4—submit via Canvas
•   WP #5—submit via Canvas
In Class:
•   WP #5 presentations & Author’s Note

Homework by 11:59pm:
•   Portfolio—submission details TBD  

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