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Fall 2018 Schedule

Project 1: Engaging Literacies: Sustainability Literacy Narrative

WEEK ONE__________________________________________

Wednesday 8/22

  • Class Activities:

Friday 8/24–Extra Hour

  • Class Activities:
    • Reading like a writer
  • Readings Due: 
  • Assignment Due: 
    • Blog 1–Reading Like A Writer (RLW). Due at midnight on Thursday. In a brief post of around 400 words, share some of the ways that you applied the tips and tools in Bunn’s essay to Davis’s essay. Be sure to cite evidence from both Bunn and Davis, incorporate media in fitting ways (image or video), and conclude by reflecting briefly on where you think you are in your own reflective and “writerly” approach to composition. What do you think your peers would say if asked to read your first blog post “like a writer”?

WEEK TWO_____________________________________

Monday 8/27

  • Readings Due:

Wednesday 8/29

  • Class Activities:
    • Practicing summary
    • Sustainability literacy
  • Readings Due:
    • Anders Edwards, from The Heart of Sustainability (2015) . Available under “Readings” tab–password protected.
  • Assignments Due: 
    • Student Info and Goals Sheet
    • Blog 2–Summary and Response (S&R). Due by start of class. 400-500 word summary & response related to the the Anders selections. Refer to “Writing an Effective Summary.” The bulk of the post should be summary-based. Please save your “response” for the concluding paragraph.
    • Blog Cleanup: Please go back and categorize your blog post 1 by section #. Also, review that post in light of our conversation during the first week of class and add an image or video, a tag, and a link. Please also pay attention to image alignment and paragraph use.

Friday 8/31–Extra Hour

***Sustainability Literacy Narrative (SLN) Draft: Due Sunday 9/2 by 8pm***

Please upload your SLN in the designated OAKS Dropox. While you need not include any additional media in the draft (images, video, etc.) we will discuss how you might use these elements when you post the final draft to the course blog.

 

WEEK THREE_____________________________________

Monday 9/3 – Friday 9/7

  • Activities: 
    • During week 3, we will hold one-on-one conferences to discuss your sustainability literacy narratives and your Goal-Setting questionnaires
  • Assignments Due:
    • Sustainability Literacy Narrative (SLN) Draft: Due Sunday 9/2 by 8pm. Please upload your SLN in the designated OAKS dropox. While you need not include any additional media in the draft (images, video, etc.) we will discuss how you might use these elements when you post the final draft to the course blog.

WEEK FOUR______________________________________

Monday 9/10

  • Class Activities:
    • Group Peer Review (focusing on sample SLN)
  • Readings Due:
    • Richard Straub, “How To Respond–Really Respond–To Other Students’ Writing” (available under “Readings” tab–see past e-mails for password)
    • Writing Tips (note linked readings within page)

Wednesday 9/12

  • Class Activities:
    • Revision workshop–electronic
    • See e-mail for instructions on electronic peer review
  • Assignment Due: 
    • Electronic copy in OAKS by start of class: revised draft of SLN in your group folder (see e-mail for instructions)
    • Remember to post feedback some time Wednesday night for the other files in your group folder.
  • Readings Due: 

Friday 9/14–Extra Hour–see e-mail for hurricane extension

  • Class Activities:
    • Transitioning to Unit 2: finding a sustainable focus
  • Assignment Due:
    • On the Blog: Final SLN project posted to the blog by Friday 9/14 at the start of class

Project 2: Sustainability in Professional and Community Contexts: Rhetorical Situation Analysis

WEEK FIVE_______________________________

Monday 9/17–In light of the weather-related cancellations, we will work on today’s material when we return on Wednesday. 

  • Class Activities:
  • Readings Due: 
  • Assignment Due
    • As we move from this first unit to the the subsequent units, we will shift our analytical gaze beyond the self to various professional, community, and academic contexts. In your SLN, you concluded by projecting the values grounding your story into your present and future endeavors. Now, you have the opportunity to begin selecting an area of interest in which you will explore ideas and arguments related to sustainability for the rest of the semester.Please be prepared to introduce the class to your chosen emphasis this semester in the the broader field of sustainability and how that interest might filter through various community, professional, and academic contexts. Please also note just not just what that area it is, but why it is important to you–or, in other word, why you think it will “sustain” your interest across the semester.

Wednesday 9/19

  • Monday’s Original Class Activities (do for today):
  • Monday’s Readings Due (do for today): 
  • Monday’s Assignment Due (do for today)
    • As we move from this first unit to the the subsequent units, we will shift our analytical gaze beyond the self to various professional, community, and academic contexts. In your SLN, you concluded by projecting the values grounding your story into your present and future endeavors. Now, you have the opportunity to begin selecting an area of interest in which you will explore ideas and arguments related to sustainability for the rest of the semester.Please be prepared to introduce the class to your chosen emphasis this semester in the the broader field of sustainability and how that interest might filter through various community, professional, and academic contexts. Please also note just not just what that area it is, but why it is important to you–or, in other word, why you think it will “sustain” your interest across the semester.
  • Wednesday Class Activities:
    • Practicing rhetorical analysis with some examples from media.
    • Building your RSA: from rhetorical inventory to argumentative story
  • Revised Assignment Due:
    • On the Blog: Final SLN project posted to the blog by the start of class today.

Friday 9/21–Extra Hour

  • Class Activities:
  • Assignments Due: 
    • Blog 3–Rhetorical Inventory: In a blog post of 300-350 words, please select an artifact (it need not be one that you might choose for this project) and replicate the kinds of analysis we performed in our last class class on Wednesday as we discussed and applied the principles of rhetoric. Please identify the exigence, audience, and constraints in particular, and also identify key rhetorical appeals related to ethos, pathos, and logos. Make sure to embed videos, link to the article or website, and/or include pictures relevant to the artifact. Conclude your post by briefly noting the argumentative “story” you might choose to draw out from this inventory.
    • Be ready to share three artifacts that you are considering analyzing for Project 2 and create a rhetorical inventory for the one your are most likely to analyze. I will be asking you to engage these artifacts in small groups, and then for each group to present to the class, so be prepared to share and discus yours with your small groups.

 

WEEK SIX________________________________

Monday 9/24

  • Assignment Due
    • For this assignment, you must select an artifact to analyze. As we discussed in class, this artifact can be just about anything: a local organization, a website, an article, a photograph, a building. During this class, you will introduce your artifact to the class, essentially a summary of and response to that source and concluding with some ideas about how you plan to analyze it.
  • Readings Due: 

Wednesday 9/26

  • Class Activities:
  • Assignment Due:
    • Bring a fully developed first paragraph to  class, with emphasis on strategic opening moves and a focused argumentative thesis. Hard copy.

No friday extra hour this week

*** DUE: First Draft of Rhetorical Situation Analysis due on Sunday 9/30 by 8 pm ***
Upload the draft to the designated OAKS dropbox folder

WEEK SEVEN_________________________________

Monday, 10/1 – Wednesday 10/3 

  • Out-of-Class Activities:
    • Attend individual conferences (link to sign-up sheet available via e-mail) on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday.
    • Please see e-mail for details on required peer review activity for Thursday / Friday
  • Assignments Due:
    • On the Blog–Rhetorical Situation Analysis (RSA): post your final RSA draft to the course blog by Sunday 10/7 at 5pm

Friday 10/5: Style Workshop: on Good Writing

Project 3: Entering the Disciplines: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Academic Conversations

WEEK EIGHT___________________________________

Monday 10/8

  • Class Activities:
  • Assignment Due:
    • As noted on the schedule for last week, the RSA was due as a blog post on Sunday evening (10/7).
  • Readings/ Viewings Due:
    • Watch the CofC Library Tutorials and follow the link to OWL above the tutorials to review MLA Guidelines (these items are also accessible under “OWL” in the navigation bar).Be prepared to answer questions such as “what’s the difference between a catalog and a database,” “what are the different databases used to search,” and “how can you use research guides to help with your research process.”

Wednesday 10/10—DIAC: Fundamentals of Research

  • Class Activities:

    • Library Workshop #2: Please meet again in the Rotunda of the library, or proceed to one of the two instruction rooms behind the information desk and computer banks where we met on Monday.
    • CARS model (in class)
  • Assignment Due:
    • Bring in one article that will be part of your DIAC project and be prepared to analyze it in class in relation to the CARS model, which we will discuss in class.
    • Please also bring in any questions you have about your research so far.

Friday 10/12

  • Class Activities:

    • Library Workshop #3: Mentored research time

WEEK NINE_____________________________________

Monday 10/15

Wednesday 10/17

  • Readings Due:
    • Read DIAC Sample–we will discuss and fill out the grading grid through a class activity

Friday 10/19–Extra Hour

  • Research Consultation Conferences
    • From Wednesday through Friday, we will be meeting to discuss Research Progress Reports individually.
  • Assignment Due: Blog Post 4 (by start of regularly scheduled class)–Journal Article Summary and Review: For this assignment, you will select a peer-reviewed article that you intend to include in your DIAC and offer a two paragraph overview of the source. Be sure to introduce your author (establish their ethos), offer a big-picture overview of the article, set up and integrate a quote, and attend to important details as well (key findings, methodology, how the results were determined). Please also think of ways that you can engage the source analytically. Be sure to maintain the summary frame (using attributive tags like “as Evans argues…”) so as to more clearly distinguish what the article says and what you say by way of explaining the article. Ideally, you will be able to integrate this two-paragraph overview into your DIAC draft.

Second, after you have offered this overview, take a step back and use the CARS model to introduce the broader disciplinary discourse in play. Note how the article establishes its territory, identifies a niche, and how to will attempt to fill that niche. Here, quote some phrases that reflect these key academic “moves.” Though this portion of the post will not translate directly to the DIAC, it will give you a chance to sharpen your awareness of disciplinary discourse.

WEEK TEN____________________________________

Monday 10/22

  • Class Activities:
    • Group Workshop activity on Intro Paragraphs (emphasis on the conversational thesis)
  • Assignment Due:
    • In Class: Intro Section of yourDIAC including your conversational thesis (bring hard copy to class). This section will most likely be two paragraphs. Remember to capture the “contours” and “characters” of the conversation in your conversational thesis (see both our samples for some examples of how to manage this).

Wednesday 10/24—DIAC Peer Review:

  • Class Activities:
    • Preparing for Peer Review, Engaging Peer Work
  • Assignments Due: 
    • Complete DIAC Draft Hard copy in Class–2 copies

Friday 10/26

***Submit complete DIAC Drafts, revised after peer review, in designated OAKS dropbox by Sunday, Oct. 28 at midnight***

 

WEEK ELEVEN____________________________________

Monday 10/29 – Thursday 11/1

DIAC Conference Week: individual conferences to be held Monday – Thursday. 

Conference Sign-up Sheet

*** DUE: DIAC Final Drafts due on the blog by the start of class on Wednesday 11/7***

Project 4&5: Engaging New Audiences: Genre Remix and Sustainable Futures Narrative

WEEK TWELVE__________________________________________

Monday 11/5

Fall Break — No Class

Wednesday 11/7

Friday 11/9

  • Class Activities:
    • Genre Remediation Workshop
  • Assignments Due: 
    • Blog 5: Genre Proposal Posts: In a post of 400-500 words, please post a “genre pitch” to the course blog. You can view this as a preliminary draft of the reflective and analytical essay that will accompany your remediation project. In your post, first describe the materials you’re working with as it relates to your DIAC, RSA or some other project. Then, identify the genre in which you plan to compose and the audience for your remediation (this will either be the DIAC or the RSA); make sure the exigence and audiences for your remediation are clear. Please also identify relevant constraints, including those related to the broader historical or cultural context and audience, that you anticipate. You might also address constraints that you will face (technical skills, additional research required, etc.). Finally, in addition to your specific genre pitch, provide a genre analysis that relates the “moves” and “steps” that the genre, as you see it, encourages authors to make. If you plan to tweak the genre in any way, please indicate both how and why you might do that.

WEEK THIRTEEN___________________________________

Monday 11/12

  • Class Activities:
    • Library Workshop #4: Meet in one of the instruction rooms (room TBA).

Wednesday 11/14

  • Class Activities:
    • In-class workshop

Friday 11/16

  • Class Activities:
    • Project 4 Peer Review: bring in a draft of your remediation project (minus reflection)

WEEK FOURTEEN___________________________________

Monday 11/20

Wednesday 11/21 – 11/23—THANKSGIVING BREAK

WEEK FIFTEEN & SIXTEEN _______________________

Monday 11/26 – Friday 11/30: Remediation Presentations

Monday 12/3: 

  • Class Activities: 
    • Remediation Presentations Wrap-Up
    • C-I evaluations and Sustainable Futures conversation
    • HONS 110 survey (in class)

*** In Place of a Final: Due on the blog by Wednesday, Dec. 12 at 8:00 AM Sustainable Futures Narrative. Please also load your own allowed assignment revision (optional) by this date in the designated OAKS dropbox. ***

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