Read or watch all assignments before coming to class on the dates below. Please note that the fourth-hour labs do not meet in person. All lab assignments are due on Sundays by midnight.
| Week 1: Course Introduction | ||
| Th Jan 14 | Course Introduction | |
| Literacy Narrative | ||
| Week 2: Reading like a writer; literacy | ||
| Su Jan 14 | Lab: The Writing Process | |
| Tu Jan 16 | Read: Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer” Watch: Woodson, “What Reading Slowly Taught Me About Writing” |
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| Th Jan 18 | Read: A Guide to Literacy Narratives Read: Brandt, “Sponsors of Literacy” |
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| Week 3: Literacy sponsorship; sample literacy narratives | ||
| Su Jan 21 | Lab: Using Quoted Material | |
| Tu Jan 23 | Read: Amy Tan, “Mother Tongue” Read: Ferguson, “How I Got My Twang Back” |
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| Th Jan 25 | Read: Gloria Anzaldua, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Read: Baca, “Coming into Language” |
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| Week 4: Drafting and Receiving Feedback on the Literacy Narrative | ||
| Su Jan 28 | Lab: Commenting on Other Students’ Writing Literacy Narrative Draft Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Jan 30 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Th Feb 1 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Week 5: Revising the Literacy Narrative | ||
| Su Feb 4 | Lab: Writing a Revision Plan Literacy Narrative Revision Plan Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Feb 6 | Watch in Class: Does Grammar Matter Read: Luu, “Black English Matters” |
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| Th Feb 8 | Final Literacy Narrative Due | |
| Language Use and Debates | ||
| Week 6: Introduction to Language Debate Paper and Using Sources; A Sample Debate over Black English | ||
| Su Feb 11 | Lab: Finding, Evaluating, Citing Sources | |
| Tu Feb 13 | Read: Vershawn Young, “Should Writers Use They Own English?” | |
| Th Feb 15 | Read: John McWhorter, “Blackness and Standard English Can Coexist” Read Samples from Chester U blog (Read 2 or 3 of these) |
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| Week 7: More on Using Sources; A Sample Debate about the Word “Like” | ||
| Su Feb 18 | Lab: Research is More Than a Mining Activity; Students Work on Research Questions | |
| Tu Feb 20 | Read: David Grambs, “The Like Virus” Read: John McWhorter, “Like, Degrading the Language? No Way” |
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| Th Feb 22 | Watch: CofC Library, “There is No One Perfect Source” Read: Stedman, “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” |
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| Week 8: Drafting and Receiving Feedback on the Language Debate Paper | ||
| Su Feb 25 | Lab: Thesis Statements Language Debate Draft Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Feb 27 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Th Feb 29 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Week 9: Spring Break | ||
| No Lab | ||
| Tu Mar 5 | Spring Break | |
| Th Mar 7 | Spring Break | |
| Week 10: Revising the Language Debate Paper | ||
| Su Mar 10 | Lab: Paragraphing, Downshifting Language Debate Revision Plan Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Mar 12 | Read: “Attending to Style” | |
| Th Mar 14 | Final Language Debate Paper Due Prepare: Be ready to share your language debate research with the class |
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| Visual Rhetoric | ||
| Week 11: Analyzing Visual Texts | ||
| Su Mar 17 | Lab: Sentence Clarity and Precision | |
| Tu Mar 19 | Read: Elements of Art Watch: Aimee Shattock, “How to Analyze a Visual Text” Watch: Joel Clements, “Visual Rhetoric: How to Analyze Images” |
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| Th Mar 21 | Bring a Visual Text to Class that you would like to analyze | |
| Week 12: Drafting and Receiving Feedback on the Visual Rhetoric Paper | ||
| Su Mar 24 | Lab: Opening Paragraphs and Hooks Visual Rhetoric Draft Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Mar 26 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Th Mar 28 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Week 13: Revising the Visual Rhetoric Paper | ||
| Su Mar 31 | Lab: Writing Conclusions Visual Rhetoric Revision Plan Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Apr 2 | Practice Rhetorical Analysis with Poetry Sir Philip Sidney Sonnet 1 John Donne, The Flea |
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| Th Apr 4 | Final Visual Rhetoric Paper Due | |
| Rhetorical Analysis of Poetry | ||
| Week 14: Rhetorical Analysis of Poetry | ||
| Su Apr 7 | Lab: Rhetorical Analysis of Written Text | |
| Tu Apr 9 | Read: CofC Writing Lab–Handout on the Rhetorical Situation | |
| Th Apr 11 | Read: Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress” Read: Robert Browing, “My Last Duchess“ |
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| Week 15: Drafting and Receiving Feedback on the Poetry Analysis | ||
| Su Apr 14 | Lab: Review of Grammatical Conventions Poetry Analysis Draft Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Apr 16 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Th Apr 18 | Draft Conferences; Peer Comments Due | |
| Week 16: Revising the Genre Remix Project | ||
| Su Apr 21 | Lab: Applying the Paramedic Method to your own prose Poetry Analysis Revision Plan Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight |
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| Tu Apr 23 | Last Day; Class Wrap-Up | |
| Su Apr 28 | Final Poetry Analysis Due in OAKS assignment folder by midnight | |