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    This document provides a weekly syllabus for a composition and rhetoric course over 16 weeks. It outlines the potential content, assigned readings, and writing assignments due each week. In the first few weeks, students will be introduced to course policies and critical reading habits, and discuss chapters from the core text Language Awareness. For their first essay, students will write a narrative integrating sources from the text. Subsequent weeks involve additional readings, discussions of rhetorical strategies, and drafting essays on technology and political language. The final project requires students to remediate one of their essays into a different medium. Regular writing assignments include chapter practice assessments and drafts of the three major essays.

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    This document provides a weekly syllabus for a composition and rhetoric course over 16 weeks. It outlines the potential content, assigned readings, and writing assignments due each week. In the first few weeks, students will be introduced to course policies and critical reading habits, and discuss chapters from the core text Language Awareness. For their first essay, students will write a narrative integrating sources from the text. Subsequent weeks involve additional readings, discussions of rhetorical strategies, and drafting essays on technology and political language. The final project requires students to remediate one of their essays into a different medium. Regular writing assignments include chapter practice assessments and drafts of the three major essays.

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    This document provides a weekly syllabus for a composition and rhetoric course over 16 weeks. It outlines the potential content, assigned readings, and writing assignments due each week. In the first few weeks, students will be introduced to course policies and critical reading habits, and discuss chapters from the core text Language Awareness. For their first essay, students will write a narrative integrating sources from the text. Subsequent weeks involve additional readings, discussions of rhetorical strategies, and drafting essays on technology and political language. The final project requires students to remediate one of their essays into a different medium. Regular writing assignments include chapter practice assessments and drafts of the three major essays.

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    Weekly Syllabus*

    Week
    1: Aug. 24-28

    2: Aug. 31Sept. 4
    3: Sept. 7-11

    4: Sept. 14-18

    Potential Content and Reading Assignments


    Introduction to the course, policies, texts, grading
    rubric, and Blackboard; in-class diagnostic writing
    Discussion of writing myths, rhetorical situation
    Critical reading habits and practice
    Read and discuss Chapter 1 from Language Awareness
    Discuss annotations and critical reading
    Read and discuss Chapter 2 (Writing in College)
    No Class: Labor Day (Sept. 7)
    Read selections from Chapter 4 (Power of Language:
    Malcolm X, Keller, Raymond, Pipher) and begin
    Chapter 6 (Language Communities: Roberts, Lederer)
    In-class writings
    Discuss Essay 1 (narrative on literacy, language, or
    discourse community; integrating one source from LA)
    Discuss Tan (Ch. 6), Dumas (Ch. 10)--narrative models
    Brainstorming and drafting for Essay 1
    Read and discuss selections from Chapter 7 (Writers on
    Writing: Lamott, Zinsser, Flower, Murray)
    Peer Review introduction and modeling

    No Class: Assurance of Learning Day (Sept. 25)


    Discuss thesis statements; drafting
    Peer Review (Sept. 23) in Noel Studio Discovery
    Classroom

    6: Sept. 28Oct. 2

    No Class All Week; Conferences with Instructor


    Required instructor conferences
    Revising and editing Essay 1
    Optional consultations with Noel Studio

    7: Oct. 5-9

    Class Cancelled: Oct. 7-9


    Read Chapter 3 of Language Awareness
    Introduction to argumentation (group activity)
    Read and discuss Prologue, Introduction, Chapter 1,
    and Chapter 2 of Hamlets BlackBerry

    5: Sept. 21-25

    8: Oct. 12-16

    9: Oct. 19-23

    Fall Break: Oct. 12-13; Midterms due Oct. 14


    William Powers Workshop & Chautauqua Lecture:
    Oct. 15 *Note: Must attend at least one for workshop
    credit (see Grading Distribution)
    Read, analyze, and compare rhetorical strategies in
    Chapter 4 and Chapter 8 of Hamlets BlackBerry
    Read Chapters 12-13 of Hamlets Blackberry
    Discuss Essay 2 (problem/solution essay on
    technology, integrating evidence from HB and Ch. 11)
    Read selections from Chapter 11 (Crystal, Wellner,
    Kahn, Carr)
    Discuss evidence, rhetorical strategies, and
    synthesizing main points with Ch. 11 texts and
    Hamlets Blackberry
    brainstorming problems/solutions, thesis, evidence, and
    synthesis for Essay 2; drafting

    Due

    CPA #1 (Ch. 1): 8/31


    CPA #2 (Ch. 2): 9/4
    CPA #3 (Ch. 4): 9/9
    CPA #4 (Ch. 6): 9/11

    CPA #5 (Tan,
    Dumas): 9/14
    CPA #6 (Ch. 7): 9/16
    CPA #7 (Ch. 7): 9/18

    Essay 1: First Draft


    9/23 (on Blackboard
    and copy for peers)
    Essay 1: 10/2 (before
    midnight on
    Blackboard)

    CPA #8 (Ch. 3) 10/5


    CPA #9 (Pro.- Ch. 2):
    10/7 (turn in 10/14)

    CPA #10 (Ch. 4 & 8)


    and CPA #11:
    10/14
    CPA #12 (Ch. 1213): 10/16

    CPA #13 (Crystal):


    10/19
    CPA #14 (Wellner,
    Kahn, Carr): 10/21
    CPA #15: 10/23

    10: Oct. 26-30

    11: Nov. 2-6

    12: Nov. 9-13

    13: Nov. 16-20

    14: Nov. 23-27

    15: Nov. 30Dec. 4


    16: Dec. 7-11

    Saundra McGuire/Metacognition Workshop: Oct.


    29, 6-8 PM *Attendance required for workshop credit
    MLA/APA, 2nd Person, Sentence Variation
    Peer Review
    Optional instructor conferences/Noel Studio visit
    Post-writing activity for problem/solution essay
    Discuss rhetorical appeals; application
    Introduction to political language
    Discuss Essay 3 (rhetorical analysis of political text or
    media-based advertisement, integration of 2 or more
    sources from Chapters 8 or 12)
    Read and discuss selections from Chapter 8 (Language
    That Manipulates: Woolfolk Cross, Orwell, and Lutz);
    political language, propaganda
    Read selections from Chapter 12 (Language and
    Advertising: Bryson, Lutz, Severson, Federman)
    Discuss visual rhetoric
    Group work with ads
    In-class writings
    Brainstorming for Essay 3
    Drafting/Revising Essay 3
    Peer Review in Noel Studio
    Optional instructor conferences/Noel Studio visit
    Discuss Remediation Project details (transform one of
    the three essays into a different medium)
    Thanksgiving Break: Nov. 25-27
    Brainstorm for Remediation Project in Noel Studio
    Discovery Classroom
    Drafting final project and presentations
    Required instructor conferences
    Exam Week
    Project presentations

    Essay 2: First Draft


    10/28 (on Blackboard
    and copy for peers)

    Essay 2: 11/2
    (before class on
    Blackboard)
    CPA #16 (Cross):
    11/4
    CPA #17 (Orwell,
    Lutz): 11/6
    CPA #18 (Bryson,
    Lutz): 11/9
    CPA #19 (Severson,
    Federman): 11/11
    CPA #20 (Prep. for
    Essay 3): 11/13
    Essay 3: First Draft
    11/16 (on
    Blackboard and copy
    for peers)
    Essay 3: 11/23
    (before class on
    Blackboard)
    Remediation: 1st
    Draft (12/4)
    Remediation Project
    Presentations:
    12/7: 10:30-12:30

    Final Reflection:
    12/9 before 9 AM on
    Blackboard
    *Please note that all content, dates, etc. are tentative and subject to change if need arises. I will
    inform you in advance of any necessary alterations.

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