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 9/9 In class: Introductions, key concepts, & course goals
Due: Course Survey
Preview:
 

Week 2
Designing Compositions Rhetorically:
Purpose, Audience, Context
Tuesday 9/14 Reading: NYT — Op-Ed, Week in Review, and Arts & Leisure — I’ll email you the section and page # on Sunday
In class: Summaries and rhetorical précis
Due: Written summary, Op-Ed
Background:
 
Thursday 9/16 Reading: NYT, section/articles TBA
In class: Summaries and rhetorical précis, continued
Due: Rhetorical Précis
Background:
 

Week 3
Reading and Writing Rhetorically:
Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
Tuesday 9/21 Reading: NYT, as assigned by reading groups
In class: Team-based article analysis & presentation
Due: Rhetorical Précis
Background: 
Thursday 9/23 Reading: NYT: Sunday Arts & Leisure
In class: 

Week 4
Planning and Drafting a Textual Analysis:
Written Modes of Composition
Tuesday 9/28 Reading: NYT, Sunday Sports Section
Due: Textual Analysis draft 

Background:

Thursday 9/30 Reading: NYT articles/section TBA
In class: Team-based article analysis & presentation
Due: Writing workshop: Textual Analyses

Week 5
Advocacy and Argument (and why you’ll want to be in good writing groups the next several years)
Tuesday 10/5 Reading: NYT, as assigned by reading groups
— St. Martin’s Handbook  

Rhetorical Situations

3a: Your rhetorical situation
3b: Deciding to write
3c: The topic or problem
3d: The assignment

Exploring, Planning, and Drafting
5a: Exploring a topic
5b: Narrowing a topic


Due: Textual Analysis, Final Draft
(moved to next Tuesday 10/12)

Thursday 10/7 Reading: NYT articles/section TBA

St. Martin’s Handbook

5c: Drafting a working thesis
5d: Gathering information
5e: Organizing verbal and visual information
5f: Planning
5g: Drafting
5h: Your writing process

In class: Proposal Writing Workshop
Due: Advocacy & Argument Proposal and a new textual analysis peer review

Week 6
Writing Workshops: Advocacy and Argument
Tuesday 10/12 Reading: NYT, as assigned by reading groups
In class: Team-based article analysis & presentation and Writing Workshop 

11a: The purposes of argument
11b: Determining whether a statement can be argued
11c: Formulating a working thesis
11d: Finding good reasons
11e: Ethical appeals
11f: Logical appeals
11g: Emotional appeals
11h: Using sources in an argument
11i: Organizing an argument
11j: Designing an argument
11k: A student argument essay

Due: Advocacy & Argument Draft and
Textual Analysis, Final Draft
Thursday 10/14 Reading: NYT articles/section TBA
In class: Team-based article analysis & presentation and Writing Workshop
Due: Peer Editing Feedback

Week 7
Multimodal Literacy Narratives: Text, Video, Audio
Tuesday 10/19 Reading: NYT, as assigned by reading groups
In class: Literacy Narratives
Due: Advocacy & Argument, Final Draft
Thursday 10/21 In class: Multimodal composing workshop
Due: Literacy Narrative storyboard

Week 8
Multimodal Literacy Narratives
Tuesday 10/26 Reading: NYT, focusing on mid-term elections
 


In class: Multimodal composing workshop; storyboards, continued

Background:

NYT: “Your Brain on Computers”
NYT: “How Is Technology Changing [Our] Classroom?”
NYT: “In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks”

DALN: “What is a literacy Narrative?”
DALN: Multimodal search term

YouTube: Multimodal Literacy Project
Thursday 10/28 Reading:
In class: Multimodal composing workshop
Due: Iteration #1

Week 9
Multimodal Literacy Narratives
Tuesday 11/2 Reading: NYT —
 

In class: Multimodal composing workshop
Due: Iteration #2
Portfolio note: integrating feedback example and key terms
Thursday 11/4 Multimodal composing workshop

Week 10
Conclusion and Portfolio Development
Tuesday 11/9 In class: Digital Portfolio Workshops
Reading: St. Martin’s e-Handbook: 

66e: Portfolio planning
66f: Completing a portfolio
66g: A student’s portfolio cover letter

Workshop materials for this week and next:
Thursday 11/11 In class: Digital Portfolio Workshops

How do I …

Tuesday 11/16

 In class: Portfolio checklist
Due: Multimodal literacy narrative
Review: Evaluation and assessment (PDF)

Finals Week

Our scheduled exam time: Tuesday, November 23: 8:45‐ 11:00 a.m. We will meet during this time for the final, official delivery of your WRD103 Portfolio, via downloaded .ZIP files

Extra optional office hours if you need help with your portfolio during Finals Week:

  • Tuesday 11/16, noon-2:00 p.m.
  • Wednesday 11/17, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
  • Thursday, 11/18, noon-2:00 p.m.
  • Sunday 11/21, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
  • Monday 11/22, noon-2:00 p.m.
  • Tuesday November 23: 8:45‐11:00 a.m.