Course Calendar

Please note that this calendar is designed to be flexible: we may make changes along the way, depending on your interests and the needs of the class. Should you miss a class, you are responsible for knowing about—and adjusting for—any changes. Professional protocols and collegiality call for you to alert us if you’ll be missing on a day when we’re having a workshop or when you are scheduled to present materials.

Week 1
Introductions, key concepts, & course goals
Thursday
9/10		 Reading: CDA 2-16
In class: Introductions, key terms, course goals
Due: course survey

Week 2
Designing Compositions Rhetorically:
Purpose, Audience, Context
Tuesday
9/15		 Reading: CDA 18-77
In class: Thinking Through Production and good-communication criteria (12)
Thursday
9/17		 In class: preparing for reading, analyzing, summarizing, and reporting: rhetorical précis
Due: How-you-have-been-shaped-as-a-communicator text

Week 3
Reading and Writing Rhetorically:
Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
Tuesday
9/22		 Reading: CDA 79-107
In class: Reading, analyzing, summarizing, reporting
Due: Rhetorical précis — “Health Care Reform: It’s Our Battle, Too” (DePaulia, 9/14/09 page 7)
Thursday
9/24		 In class: Reading, analyzing, summarizing, reporting
Due: Rhetorical précis — Shepard Fairey: Inspiration Or Infringement? (23-minute audio)

Background & context for the NPR piece:

Week 4
Planning and Drafting a Textual Analysis:
Written Modes of Communication
Tuesday
9/29		 Reading: CDA 181-222; 320-323
In class: Thinking through production (written modes)
Due: Textual Analysis Draft (bring three copies)
Thursday
10/1		 In class: Reporting on your analysis
Due: Feedback forms (CDA 220)

Week 5
Advocacy and Argument
(and why you’ll want to be in good writing groups the next several years)
Tuesday
10/6		 Due: Textual analysis, final draft
In class: Creating conditions for argument & advocacy
Thursday
10/8		 Reading: CDA 111-142
In class: Thinking through production (advocacy)
Due: Argument-Advocacy Project statement of purpose

Week 6
Writing Workshops: Advocacy and Argument
Tuesday
10/13		 Reading: Revising, Editing, Proofreading–CDA 213-217
In class: Writing workshop
Due: Argument-Advocacy Project (750-1000 words)
Thursday
10/15		 In class: Writing workshop

Week 7
Personal Literacy Narratives: Text, Video, Audio
Tuesday
10/20		 In class: In conjunction with the National Day on Writing, we will compose multimodal literacy narratives, drawing on our recent work on written modes of communication, and looking ahead to oral and visual modes.

The literacy narrative work that we begin today results in a composition–your choice of modes: oral, written, or visual–that you will submit to the Gallery of Writing

Due: Advocacy-argument paper, final draft (750-1250 words)
Thursday
10/22		 Reading: CDA 13-16
In class: Multimodal Literacy Narratives:
Statement of Purpose or Storyboard

Week 8
Visual Modes of Communication
Tuesday
10/27		 Reading: CDA 263-313
In class: Thinking through production (visual);
Multimodal Literacy Narrative Workshop
Thursday
10/29		 In class: Multimodal Literacy Narrative Workshop
Due: Multimodal Literacy Narrative draft/iteration

Week 9
Oral Modes of Communication
Tuesday
11/3		 Reading: CDA 223-261
In class: Thinking through production (oral);
Multimodal Literacy Narrative Workshop
Thursday
11/5		 In class: Brief presentations
Due: Multimodal Literacy Narrative;
local files delivered in class

Week 10
Conclusion and Portfolio Development
Tuesday
11/10		 Reading: CDA 90-96 and Reynolds: Portfolio Keeping
In class: Portfolio-storyboard workshop and rhetorically analyzing portfolio platforms
Thursday
11/12		 In class: Workshop notes and peer-editorial feedback
Tuesday
11/17		 Final day for MyCompLab and iWeb workshops; problem solving and proofreading

Finals Week
Section #121: Tuesday, 11/24: Portfolio and Reflective Essay
Section #114: Thursday, 11/19: Portfolio and Reflective Essay

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