COURSE SCHEDULE
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KEY:
EA=
Everything’s An Argument
ISU=
ISU Student Guide
Other
readings (marked “PDF”) will be emailed to you
Week Eleven: Research Paper
March 24-28
Primary Objectives: Resolving research issues; progress on research
papers, portfolio assignment discussion
Readings:
- EA Chapter 19: “Using Sources”
Activities:
- In-class time to work on research paper
and address research paper issues
Homework:
Making sense of our writing/researching issues
Making sense of our writing/researching issues
Week Twelve: Research Paper Cont.
March31-April 4
Major Assignment DUE: Research paper due April 4th at midnight.
Primary Objectives: Presentation assignment, build presentation evaluating criteria, Get clear on the Portfolio Assignment
Readings:
- EA chapter 14: “Visual and Multimedia
Arguments”
Activities:
- Peer review of research papers
- Research paper presentation prep
Homework:
- Work on research paper and presentations
- Readings
Week Thirteen: Presenting Research
April 7-11
Research paper presentations all week
Five minute presentation. Set phone timer. If finish short, have
to stand there and entertain the class, or answer/ask questions. Handout. Some kind of
visual.
Week Fourteen: Portfolio Conferences
April 14-18
Portfolio conferences all week. Missing your scheduled conference
counts as an absence.
Homework:
- Stay on top of your portfolios. The more
you do now, the less work you will have for finals week. Be
like the
squirrel
Week Fifteen: Portfolios
April 21-25
Primary Objectives: Revision; Rethinking our writing
Readings:
- ISUComm Foundation Courses, pg 27, 28
- EW p. 104-125
- EA Chapter 13 “Style in Arguments”
- Handout: AFOSP’s revision strategies
Activities:
- Re-Vision. Discussion of
what it means to repurpose and re-see our writing
- Discussion. Review of
students’ journals/thought pieces on the readings
- In-class revision of a piece of the
instructor’s writing
Homework:
- Work on the portfolios
- Readings
Week Sixteen: Portfolios
Continued
April 28-May 2
Major
Assignment DUE: Portfolios
Activities:
- Time to work on portfolios in class
- Peer review of problematic parts of the
portfolio
- Meetings with students during and
outside of class as needed
Homework:
- Do 200 consecutive pushups :-)
Week Seventeen: Finals
May 5-9
It would be awesome if you could get rid of all of the stuff we already did at the top, so we can easily see today instead of what we did three weeks ago. Just a suggestion.
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