Syllabus

Paper due dates

All papers due in the appropriate D2L assignment folder by 11:59 pm that day.

• Mini-paper 1: Defining, referencing, and using a key term. Due January 29
• Literacy Task 1: Rhetorical Analysis of a Writing Experience. February 26
• Mini-paper 2: Defining, referencing, and using a key term. March 10
• Literacy Task 2: Connecting the classroom and the court. April 9
• Reflection: Your Theory of Writing. Day of final exam

·         Week by week plan

Chapter 1: Understanding the concepts of literacy	Readings to discuss	In-class activities	Homework
Week 1		Introduction to book and course. Introduction to writing transfer and key terms. In-class, write tentative definition of four key terms: audience, genre, rhetorical situation, and exigence.	For Thursday, read pp. 1-11. Skip “Threshold Concepts” section.
Week 2	Grant-Davie “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”	Introduce mini-paper 1. Discuss Grant-Davie. Revise definitions of audience, genre, rhetorical situation, and exigence.	For Tuesday, read Grant-Davie. For Thursday, answer 1st and 3rd bullet point on p. 349.
Week 3	Grant-Davie “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents.”	Applying the key terms to your previous writing experiences. In-class, answer #2 on p. 363, #9 on p. 364	Mini-paper due January 29th.
Week 4	None	Writing introductions Writing conclusions Quote sandwiches Introduce Literacy Task 1: Rhetorical Analysis of a Writing Experience, Assignment option 1 p. 478 Talking with your sources (gym work, if possible)	Write!
Week 5 Mandatory individual conferences in Dunlap 206C	None	No classes. Get writing. Conferences Tuesday and Thursday.	Bring 1000 words, if possible.
Week 6	Straub “Responding…”	Peer review drafts in class. Paragraphing exercise.	Be ready to share your paper as a Google doc.
Week 7	Editing one’s own writing.	Trimming 25 words. Varying sentences. Revise definitions of audience, genre, rhetorical situation, and exigence. Write tentative definitions of knowledge, discourse community, and context. Prep Swales reading.	Literacy Task 1 due February 26th
Week 8	Swales “The  Concept of a Discourse Community.” Mahiri and Sablo “Writing for Their Lives.”	Discuss Swales. Introduce mini-paper 2. Prep and discuss Mahiri and Sablo. In-class writing mini-paper 2.	Read Swales for Tuesday. Answer #5, p. 229 & meta moment p. 229. For Thursday, read Mahiri and Sablo. Answer #1, 4 on p. 155.
Week 9 Mandatory individual conferences in Dunlap 206C	None	No classes. Get writing. Conferences Tuesday and Thursday.	Bring full draft of mini-paper 2 to my office. Hard copy, if possible. Mini-paper 2 due March 10.
Week 10 Spring Break
Week 11	Roozen “Tracing Trajectories” Branick “Coaches Can Read, Too”	Introduce Roozen. In-class reading Roozen. Revise definitions of knowledge, discourse community, and context. Introduce literacy task 2: How can your non-school literacy aid your school literacy?	For Thursday, answer metamoment on p. 190 For Thursday, read Branick
Week 12	McCarthy “Stranger in Strange Lands”	Writing introductions, again Writing conclusions again In-class writing. 500 words by end of class Thursday.	For Tuesday, read McCarthy and answer # 3, 4, 5 on p. 261.
Week 13	None	Continued work on talking with your sources (gym, if possible). In-class writing	Write!
Week 14	Yancey "On Reflection" pages 1-20.	Introduce last key term: reflection. Reflection assignment: Your Theory of Writing	Literacy task 2 due April 9. Begin drafting final reflection.
Week 15	How People Learn, chapter 3: "Learning and Transfer."	In-class writing.	Write! Reflection due day of final exam.
Week 16	No class	Finals Week