These assignments are due in class on the dates indicated (i.e. the readings listed for a particular day will be discussed on that day). There will be NO LATE assignments accepted for daily grades or make-ups of in-class quizzes or assignments. Both this schedule and individual assignments are subject to change. For all online texts, you should bring in a printed copy of the text on the day it is being discussed in class or you will lose 10% of your participation grade.

• EW = Lunsford's The Everyday Writer
• SB = Williams' Sin Boldly (In the D2L Course Packet)
• D2L = These readings can be found in the Course Packet on the Content page of the course's Desire2Learn site under "Readings" (http://d2l.uwc.edu/).

Week 1 (1/25-1/29)

• Monday: Course Introduction 

   

• Wednesday: Course Introduction Contd. and Syllabus Quiz 

• Friday: Introduction and "Some Really Crude Basics" (SB xi-8); Email Etiquette (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/636/01/)

Week 2 (2/1-2/5)

• Monday: "About College Writing" (EW 3-16);  "Choosing Your Voice" from Sin Boldly (SB 39-53); Discussion of Email/ Editorial/ Academic Essay

   

• Wednesday: "Writing to the World" (EW 201-205); John Peters' "Five Ways of Interpreting a Text" (D2L)

   

• Friday: Gloria Anzaldúa's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" from Borderlands (D2L); "Becoming a Strong Reader" (D2L)

Week 3 (2/8-2/12)

• Monday: "Language that Builds Common Ground" (EW 206-210); Email me an Editorial

   

• Wednesday: "Language Variety" (EW 211-13); "Word Choice/Spelling" (EW 214-223);

   

• Friday: "Drafting and Revising" (D2L); Peer Review of Email/ Editorial/ Academic Essay

Week 4 (2/15 - 2/19)

• Monday: Peer Review of Email/ Editorial/ Academic Essay; Format Workshop

   

• Wednesday: Email/ Editorial/ Academic Essay Due; "Critical Thinking and Argument" (EW 113-125); Read uploaded Editorials on this page: Editorials

   

• Friday: No Class - Instructor at UWC Women's Studies Program Spring Meeting

Week 5 (2/22 - 2/26)

• Monday: "Critical Thinking and Argument" (EW 126-148); "Choosing a Topic and Telling Your Story" from Sin Boldly (SB 9-27)

   

• Wednesday: Topic Workshop; "The Writing Process" (EW 43-67)

   

• Friday: "The Writing Process" (EW 67-101)

Week 6 (3/1 - 3/5)

• Monday: "Arguing Your Case" and "How to Lose Your Case" (SB 87-109); Charles Murray's "For Most People, College is a Waste of Time" (D2L); Kate Zernike's "Making College 'Relevant'" (D2L)

   

• Wednesday: Malcolm X's "Homemade Education" from The Autobiography of Malcolm X (D2L) 

   

• Friday: No Class - Instructor at Lieutenant Governor's Conference on LGBT Youth

Week 7 (3/8 - 3/12)

• Monday: Joseph Marr Cronin and Howard E. Horton's "Will Higher Education Be the Next Bubble to Burst?" (D2L); Jonathan R. Cole's "Can American Research Universities Remain the Best in the World?" (D2L)

   

• Wednesday: Peer Review of Process Analysis and Solution Proposal

   

• Friday: Peer Review of Process Analysis and Solution Proposal

Week 8 (3/15 - 3/19)

• Monday:  "Research" (EW 149-200)

   

• Wednesday: Process Analysis and Solution Proposal Due; Library Day

   

• Friday: Research Day

Week 9 (3/22 - 3/26)

• Spring Break - No Classes

Week 10 (3/29 - 4/2)

• Monday:  "MLA Documentation" (EW 374-422; 185-192)

   

• Wednesday: Richard Fulkerson's "General Strategies for Argument" and "The Main Types of Claims: Lessons from Classical Rhetoric" (D2L)

   

• Friday: Midterm Evaluations Due; Judith Syfers’ “Why I Want a Wife” (D2L); Audrey Bilger's "Wife Support" (D2L)

Week 11 (4/5 - 4/9)

• Monday:  Peer Review of Annotated Bibliographies; Format Workshop for Annotated Bibliographies

   

• Wednesday: George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" (D2L)  

   

• Friday: No Class - Instructor at UWC English Department Spring Meeting      

   

   

Week 12 (4/12 - 4/16)

• Monday: Annotated Bibliographies Due; Geoffrey K. Pullum's "50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice" (D2L); Grammar Girl on Pullum's Review (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/strunk-and-white.aspx)

   

• Wednesday: Dennis Baron's "Teaching Grammar Doesn't Lead to Better Writing" (D2L)

• Friday: Thesis statement workshop

Week 13 (4/19 - 4/23)

• Monday: Subtopic workshop

   

• Wednesday: Organization workshop

  (Bring four different-colored highlighters and brainstorming ideas/thoughts)

   

• Friday: Revisions of Email/ Editorial/ Academic Essay and Process Analysis Due; Conferences

Week 14 (4/26 - 4/30)

• Monday: Informal Peer Review (must have introduction and two body paragraphs written)

   

• Wednesday: Informal Peer Review contd.

   

• Friday: No Class - Instructor at Conference

Week 15 (5/3 - 5/7)

• Monday: Wendy R. Leibowitz's "Technology Transforms Writing and the Teaching of Writing" (D2L)

   

• Wednesday: Steve Kolowich's "Text Generation" and "Tweeting in Class" (D2L)

   

• Friday: In-Class Work Day (Required); Revisions of Annotated Bibliographies Due

Week 16 (5/10 - 5/14)

• Monday: Peer Review of Synthesis Essay; http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.swf

   

• Wednesday: Peer Review of Synthesis Essay

   

• May 13th: Office Hours (10am-12pm and 1-3pm)

   

• Friday, May 14th at 9am: Final Essay Due