Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Date In-Class/Topic Assignment
Date In-Class/Topic Assignment
* = Reading and Writing Literacies ** = Reading and Writing Literacies supplemental ^ = Course Website
Date
Aug. 29
In-Class/Topic
Introductions & syllabus What is good writing? Individual/class learning goals
Assignment
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Sept. 5
Literacy, writing Introducing the Literacy Memoir Assignment Discourse Communities Activity Literacy/learning inventory
Read, I just wanna be average** Timeline with 5 most important moments in your academic career
Sept. 10
Literacy and social construction; genre Discussion: What is a blog? MAPS Blog #1 Assigned
Sept. 12
communities Sept. 17 Peer Review Peer review workshop Peer review session #1 Sept. 19 Effective Revision Global Concerns Revision Strategies More Arrangement Rubric Revisions? Sept. 24 Introducing Unit #2 Assignment #1 Debrief What is culture? What are artifacts? Ethos, pathos, logos Sept. 28 ** Mackadocious^ and Nikki Minaj^ Assignment #1 Due The Skin We Ink^ and We Real Cool^ CURIOUS RESEARCHER TBA Blog #1 Due Draft Assignment #1 Due
Cultures, discourse, power Topic Discussion Ethos, pathos, logos Blog #2 Assigned
Oct. 1
Oct. 3
Blog #2 Due
Citation, plagiarism, authority workshop Rubric Development Oct. 8 Oct. 10 Peer Review Peer Review Session #2 Writing style Rubric Revisions? Oct. 15 Introducing Unit #3 Assignment #2 Debrief Interview Workshop/Activity Researching Disciplines The Mind at Work Activity Discussion Oct 22 Literacy Log assigned Changing Nature of Literacy Literacy Log Presentation
Draft Assignment #2 Due Children, Wired and Poetry for Everyday Life* Little Brown Handbook TBA Assignment #2 Due Class ethos and politics of inquiry^ and Learning the Language* The Mind at Work^ and One Carpenters Life**
Oct. 17
Blog #3 due WIDE Report^,Wired: New Literacies, Everything bad is good for you^ Curious Researcher TBA Little Brown Handbook
Oct. 24
Oct. 29 Oct. 31
Effective Research Strategies Literacy and other texts The Truth Wears Off* Rubric Development Peer Review Draft Assignment #3 Due
Nov. 5
Nov. 7
Assignment #3 Due Multimodality: Challenges to Thinking about Language^ I think therefore IM* and Teaching Visual Literacy in a Digital Age**
Nov. 12
The Visual World and CRAP What resumes can tell us about visual culture Proposals Assigned
Nov. 14
Nov. 19
Proposals Due
TBA
Nov. 21
The Design Process Rubric Development Peer Review Peer Review Session #4
Nov. 26
Nov. 28 Dec. 3
Rubric Revisions? OFFICE HOURS Introducing Assignment #5 Presentations Day 1 Presentations Day 2 Presentations Day 3?
Dec. 5 Dec. 10
Dec. 12
Assignment #5 Due