Course Schedule

Assignments
Readings:
Week/Dates Topic *Bolded Items
Complete the following prior to the indicated class day in addition to
Require
reading the week’s Module Pages in Webcourses.
Submissions*

Syllabus Quiz
(Financial Aid
Assignment

Reading
Response 1

View Initial
Week 1 Proposal
Assignment
(1/11-1/17)
View Lecture(s)
Welcome and M: Course Syllabus, and Welcome Module and submit
Introduction to alternative
Late Registration W: Writing About Writing (WAW) “Chapter 1” pp.3-19.
Writing About assignments in
(January 11-15)
Writing F: WAW “Chapter 1” pp. 20-24 webcourses if
Add/Drop/Swap absent for a live
Deadline (Friday, session within
January 15) 24hrs. *This
applies to every
session, the
Zoom recordings
and alternative
assignments are
available in
Webcourses*

Week 2 Scholarly M: No Class Reading

Research and Response 2
(1/18-1/24) W: WAW, “Chapter 2” pp. 30-49 and WAW, “Chapter 3” pp.54-61.
Rhetoric
Martin Luther King F: WAW “Rhetoric: Making Sense of Human Interaction and Meaning
Jr. Day: No Classes Making”-Doug Downs, pp. 369-393. Initial Proposal
(Monday, January Due
18)
View Annotated
Tuition/Fee/Housing Bibliography
Payments due Assignment
(Friday, January 22)
Schedule
Conference 1
 (I will post the
sign-up in
Announcements)

M: WAW “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice”-Ann Conference 1

M. Johns, pp. 560-82.

W: Webcourses "Activity Theory: An Introduction" by Donna Kain

and Elizabeth Wardle
Reading
(https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1372156/files/84058720?wrap=1)
Response 3
Discourses and (https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1372156/files/84058720/download?
Week 3 Genres download_frd=1)

(1/25-1-31) Webcourses “Navigating Genres” Kerry Dirk Conference 1

(https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1362910/files/80770859/download? Memos Due
wrap=1)

F: Webcourses, Stylus, “The Genres of Chi Omega" by Victoria

Marro (https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1372156/files/84058718?
wrap=1)
(https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1372156/files/84058718/download?
download_frd=1)

Reading
Response 4

Submit Rough
M: WAW, “Chapter 3” pp.61-2 and 70-72. Draft of
Annotated Bib to
Research W: EasyWriter "Evaluating Sources and Taking Notes" pp.91-106
Peer Review
Week 4 Methods: EasyWriter "Reading and Listening Analytically, Critically and Group
(2/1-2/7) Secondary Respectfully”" pp.42-5
Sources Library
F: WAW "Responding--Really Responding--to Other Students' Research
Writing" by Richard Straub pp.217-28 Modules Due

Peer Review and

M: EasyWriter "MLA Style" pp.118-67 Reflection 1 Due
Week 5 Research Tools: W: On Compiling an Annotated Bibliography Annotation Verbs
Annotated Handout
(2/8-2/14) Bibliography (https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1362910/files/80770858/download? Annotated
wrap=1) Bibliography
Final Draft Due

Week 6 Research M: WAW “Helping Students Use Textual Resources Persuasively” by Stylus Study
Methods: Margaret Kantz pp. 452-69 Due
(2/15-2/21)
Situating Original
W: WAW "Chapter 3” pp. 61-69
 Research & Cars Model Handout Rough Draft of
Stylus (https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1362910/files/80770866/download? Formal Proposal
wrap=1) to Peer Review
Group
F: "Communities of Practice a Brief Introduction
(https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1362910/files/80770869/download?
wrap=1) " by Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner

Peer Review
Reflection 2 Due

"Done Draft" of
Formal Proposal
and Plan Due

M: EasyWriter "Conducting Research" pp.82-91

Week 7 Research Tools:
W: EasyWriter "Researching Writing and Literacy at UCF" pp. R1- Citi Training Due
(2/22-2/28) Proposals
R34 (Gold Pages) Optional
Resubmission of
Annotated
Bibliography
(Exact date will be
in
Announcements)

Reading
Response 5
M: WAW "Chapter Four: Composing" pp. 83-6.

WAW "Shitty First Drafts" by Anne Lamott pp.87-91.

Week 8 Drafting
Scholarly Articles W: WAW "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" by James
(3/1-3/7)
Porter pp. 416-30.

F: EasyWriter "Developing a Working Thesis" pp.10-11

Week 9 Drafting M: WAW "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Final Revised
Scholarly Service Workers" by Tony Mirabelli pp. 524-42. Draft of Formal
(3/8-3/14)
Articles: Proposal Due
W: WAW "Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language:
CodingPrimary
A Cognitive analysis of Writer's Block" by Mike Rose pp. 158-72. "Primordial"
Data
Draft of
Scholarly Article
to Peer Review
Group
 Reading
Response 6

Peer Review
Reflection 3 Due

Drafting Schedule
Scholarly M:WAW "Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Conference 2
Week 10
Articles: Meaning" by Christina Haas and Linda Flower pp. 432-49.
Synthesis Matrix
(3/16-3/21) Synthesizing Review EasyWriter pp.42-5.
Sources "Done" Draft of
Scholarly Article
Due for
Feedback

Conference 2
Week 11

(3/22-3/28) Drafting
Conference 2
Scholarly M: EasyWriter "Planning and Drafting" pp. 12-16.
Withdrawal Memo
Articles: IMRAD
Deadline (Friday,
March 26)

Reading
Response 7

M: WAW "Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced

Adult Writers" by Nancy Sommers pp.143-55.

Week 12 W: EasyWriter "Reviewing, Revising, and Editing" pp. 22-5.

Revising Your
(3/29-4/4) Writing F: EasyWriter "The Top 20" pp. 26-35.

Week 13 Creating M: Webcourses "Creating Portfolios" by Andrea Lunsford Reading

Portfolios (https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1372156/files/84058719?wrap=1) Response 8
(4/5-4/11)

(https://webcourses.ucf.edu/courses/1372156/files/84058719/download?
download_frd=1) Final Scholarly
Article Due
W: (IN the back of EasyWriter) Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for
Students by Nedra Reynolds and Elizabeth Davis pp. PK1-PK21.
 F: (IN the back of EasyWriter) Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for
Students by Nedra Reynolds and Elizabeth Davis pp. PK25- PK39.

Week 14

(4/12-4-18)
Spring Break NO Class
Spring Break (all
classes are online
after this week)

Week 15 Wireframe
Worksheet
(4/19-4/25)

Financial Aid
Award/Adjustments M: Read Webcourses content, Join Live Zoom Draft Portfolio to
Repayment Portfolio Peer Review
W: Read Webcourses content pages, Join Live Zoom
Deadline for Course Workshop Group
Withdrawal/ Last F: Join Live Zoom for Peer Review Activities
Day to Remove
Incomplete/Grade Peer Review
Forgiveness Reflection 4 Due
Deadline (April 26)

Week 16 Final Portfolio

Due
(4/26) Last Day of Portfolio
Class Workshop
(Cont.) M: Join Zoom for Portfolio Workshop

Final No New Readings

Final Exam Period
Exam/Evaluation:
(Wednesday, April
Portfolios
28 - Tuesday, May
4)