Course Schedule
All changes to this schedule will be announced in class and on Sakai.
Assignments are to be completed before the date listed. Please bring your texts to class daily.
| Week | Day | Date | Topic | Reading Assignment | Assignment Due | |
| 1 | Tu | 8.25 | Intro to Course
Rhetorical Situation |
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| Th | 8.27 | Terms of Art | Rewriting, introduction and chapter 1
(8.27 is the last day to add/drop) |
Assign Coming to Terms | ||
| 2 | Tu | 9.1 | Recognizing rhetorical moves | Freakonomics, ch1
Rewriting, ch2 |
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| Th | 9.3 | Rhetorical moves, cont’d | Freakonomics, ch2
Rewriting, ch3 |
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| 3 | Tu | 9.8 | Peer Review
Levels of edit |
Due: draft of Coming to Terms (hard copy) | ||
| Th | 9.10 | Professor Review | Bring draft to conference | |||
| 4 | Tu | 9.15 | IMRAD | pdf on Blackboard, “Reading and Writing Research Reports” | Assign 30 day challenge | |
| Th | 9.17 | Conventions of Science Writing | pdf of report on Delphic Oracle gases on Blackboard | |||
| 5 | Tu | 9.22 | Conducting a literature review | |||
| Th | 9.24 | Digital research tools | Bring 30 day challenge data to class | |||
| 6 | Tu | 9.29 | Inventing Research Questions and problems | Freakonomics, chs3-4 | Assign Researched Argument | |
| Th | 10.1 | Data visualization | bring 30 day challenge data to class | |||
| 7 | Tu | 10.6 | NO CLASS – Midterm Break | |||
| Th | 10.8 | Arguing from Data | Freakonomics, chs5-6 | |||
| 8 | Tu | 10.13 | Infographics | Assign Infographic; Bring 30 day challenge report progress to class | ||
| Th | 10.15 | Visual Rhetoric | ||||
| 9 | Tu | 10.20 | Peer Review | Bring hard copy of 30 day challenge report | ||
| Th | 10.22 | Professor Review | Bring hard copy of 30 day challenge report to conference | |||
| 10 | Tu | 10.27 | Building argument through research | Stiff, to p.60 | ||
| Th | 10.29 | Forwarding | Stiff 61-112; review Rewriting, ch2 | |||
| 11 | Tu | 11.3 | Countering | Stiff 113-166; review Rewriting, ch3 | ||
| Th | 11.5 | Rhetorical moves cont’d | Stiff 167-220; Rewriting, ch4 | |||
| 12 | Tu | 11.10 | Mini peer review | Bring researched argument progress to class (1-2 pages) | ||
| Th | 11.12 | Paragraphing | Stiff, 221 to end | |||
| 13 | Tu | 11.17 | Style and Usage | Bring researched argument progress to class (4+ pages) | ||
| Th | 11.19 | Revision; Peer Review | Rewriting, ch5 | Bring researched argument progress to class (5+ pages) | ||
| 14 | Tu | 11.24 | Cont’d | |||
| Th | 11.26 | NO CLASS – Thanksgiving Break | ||||
| 15 | Tu | 12.1 | Professor Review | Bring researched argument to conference | ||
| Th | 12.3 | Course Evaluations; Wrap up | Due: Researched argument and Infographic | |||
