English 102

Spring 2018
Schedule

Week 1
W Jan 17 Welcome, Intro, Discuss Syllabus, In class writing

Week 2
M Jan 22 Read: p. 354-357 Shitty First Drafts (also available on website in readings)
Discuss: Ethnography, blogging

W Jan 24 Due: Blog Post 1 in response to prompt on blog Read: Friday Night at Iowa 80 (in
reading on website) Discuss: reading and essay #1

Week 3
M Jan 29 Class Cancelled Due: Blog Post 2 in response to prompt on blog

W Jan 31 Read: Excerpts from Fieldworking on Observation (in readings on website will be
posted by Mon night 1/29) Discuss: Positioning Yourself, Pov, rhetoric, and permission

Week 4
M Feb 5 Due Essay #1 I, Researcher Draft for workshop Read: Excerpts from Fieldworking on
space (in readings on website) Discuss: Space and observation, essay #2

W Feb 7 Due: Essay #1 I, Researcher Read: "On Keeping a Notebook" and notetaking excerpt
(in reading on website) Discuss: Notetaking and reading, essay #2

Week 5
M Feb 12 Due: Blog Post 3 in response to prompt on blog.

W Feb 14 Due: Blog post #4 Research day. Class will not meet. Use this time to go to
your site or to make up for the time you have spent at your site.

Week 6
M Feb 19 President’s Day No Class

W Feb 21 Monday Class Schedule Due: Blog post #5 Read: Excerpts from
Fieldworking on People and artifacts. Discuss: observing people, artifacts, and drafting

Week 7
M Feb 26 Read: On Writing Well ch 6&7 (in links on website) and Prof. Williams’s “Reading
the Gardner” p.6-9 and 14-17 (under research tab on website) Discuss: Descriptive writing.
(Class will end at 2:30 for site observation time)

W Feb 28 Career Services Visit

Week 8-Spring Break

Week 9
M Mar 12 Due: Essay #2 The Lay of the Land draft for workshop Writing time. Bring
ethnography research and laptop to class.