Course Calendar

• In-class reading: Career Counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? (NYT)
• Digication: log in, create “Summary” section, and compose summary
• Due: course survey

3/30

• “NYTimes.com’s Plan To Charge People Money For Consuming Goods, Services Called Bold Business Move” (The Onion; adult language)
• Getting acquainted with Page 1 (PDF)
• He Dreamed He Saw Kim Jong-il
• Cabrini-Green to Exit With Poetry and Lights
• Cabrini-Green today: 3/30/2011 — click video

In class: article summaries
Due: Career Counselor summary

Background: review in e-Handbook — summary and paraphrase (14f) and elements of argument (9a-g), especially claims, assumptions, and premises

• Perlin: “Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges” (p.11)
• Vargas-Cooper: “We Work Hard, But Who’s Complaining?” (p.11)

In class: Rhetorical précis method of summary
Due:

• Revised “Career Counselor” summary in rhetorical précis format
• Rhetorical précis #2: your choice — Perlin or Vargas-Cooper

• NYT: Heffernan’s “Miss G.: A Case of Internet Addiction”
• Butler, “Much Respect: Toward a Hip-Hop Theory of Punishment,” 2004 (PDF)”

In class: From text to context
Due: Rhetorical précis — Heffernan and Butler; we’ll do the Butler précis in class.

• “Even on Religious Campuses, Students Fight for Gay Identity”
• “Does College Make You Smarter?”

Due: Online library workshop

Background:

• What majors and disciplines might be interested in this?
• Or this?
• Or this?

Reading: St. Martins e-Handbook, “Conducting Research” (16)
Due: Revised inquiry questions and Argument analysis final draft

Note that for your mid-term self assessment & reflection, you may choose to submit it via an MSWord attachment in e-mail, if you prefer, rather than posting it to Digication. Your choice.

• Sample WRD104 Contextual Analysis
• Sample WRD104 Contextual Analysis
• Sample: The Contextual Effects of Race on White Voter Behavior: The 1989 New York City Mayoral Election
• Sample: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time” and Letter
• Sample: Evaluating the Framing of Islam and Muslims Pre- and Post-9/11: A Contextual Analysis of Articles Published by the New York Times
• Sample: Who Survives on Death Row?: An Individual and Contextual Analysis (PDF)

Background:

• Wordle
• Source Remix
• Ideology versus opinion
• St. Martin’s 6b: Peer Review
• St. Martin’s 14c: Evaluating usefulness and credibility

Individual Conferences, TBA

“Gist & predict”: editing for visual and logistical coherence
University Center for Writing-based Learning (UCWbL)
St. Martin’s 6b: Peer Review

• The role of peer review
• Tools of peer review
• The process of peer review
• Responses based on the stage of the draft
  • early-stage drafts
  • intermediate-stage drafts
  • late-stage drafts

Preview: WRD104 course portfolios

• First Year Writing Program: Assignment and Resources
• WRD104: Possible Approaches

• WP: “All Americans have a duty …”
• LA Times: “A U.S. military worth saluting”
• NYT: “Forgetting Why We Remember”

“Most Americans know that Memorial Day is about honoring the nation’s war dead. It is also a holiday devoted to department store sales, half-marathons, picnics, baseball and auto racing. But where did it begin, who created it, and why? “

Preparing for the submission of final materials and projects

Section #310: Monday  June 6, 8:45 – 11:00 am
Section #330: Wednesday June 8, 11:45 – 2:00 pm

• Your WRD104 Course Digication site
• Our WRD104 Collective Portfolio

We will meet during our assigned Final Exam time for the final, official delivery of your WRD104 Portfolios. Extra optional office hours will be available if you need help with your portfolio before and during Finals Week