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English 103
Fall 2008
Assignments marked Dueor Read are to be done for the day they are listed on the schedule
and completed by the beginning of class.
Week 1
T 8/26 Discuss: Class Introduction.-syllabus, goals of 103, a look at the semester.
Modes of composition
TR 8/28 Read: Course Syllabus and bring any questions to class. Envision p2-6. Shitty First
Drafts by Ann Lamott. http://www.writingcenter.emory.edu/bird.html
Discuss: Rhetoric, Elements of rhetorical situations, Reading. Blogs.
Week 2
T 9/2 Read: Handout: (How I learned about the Power of Writing and Proficiency) and Envision
p7-14.
Discuss: Visual Literacy Narrative Essay. Readings. Blogs.
Week 3
T 9/9 Read: Envision p220-222, 239-245, 249-252.
Discuss: Composing visual arguments. Working with images in Microsoft Word 2007.
Fair Use and Documenting Sources.
TR 9/11 Due: Blog
Read: Handouts on examples of visual literacy narratives
Discuss: Examples and Composing Visual Arguments.
Week 4
T 9/16 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative draft for workshop.
Discuss: Peer workshop and Revision.
Week 5
T 9/23 Group project workday
.
TR 9/25 Due: Group Presentations, Blog (about group project reading/research)
Discuss: Definition Essay
Week 6
T 9/30 Read: Envision p66-76, 78-85
Discuss: Reading
Week 7
T 10/7 Read: Envision p245-249
Discuss: Mid-term Portfolios and websites
Week 8 Conference week: Class cancelled for conferences for definition essay and electronic
portfolios. Mid-term Portfolios due by 5pm Friday 10/17. Post the link to your website on
blackboard.
T 10/14 Conferences
TR 10/16 Conferences
Week 9
T 10/20 Discuss: Meaning Essay. Work on websites
Week 10
T 10/28 Read: Envision 37-63
Discuss: Meaning Essay. Rhetorical appeals and context.
TR11/6 Due: Meaning Essay for workshop. Revised essay to be submitted on blackboard by
5pm Sunday.
Discuss: Workshop. Essay 4
Week 12
T 11/11 Meet by the spiral staircase at Bracken Library.
Due: Movie for review
Week 13
T 11/18 Read: Envision p231-235 and Handout: sample movie reviews.
Discuss: Magazine layout, Word 2007
Week 15
T 12/9 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences
TR 12/11 Due: Final Portfolios due by the end of the class period.