Ohm
English 100
Fall 2003
Section 23, MWF 10:00 – 10:50 AM, ILC 117
Section 30, MWF 11:00 – 11:50 AM, ILC 117

Reading Schedule

               

Note: 

RP = English 100 Reading Packet

W= Rules for Writers

SG = A Student's Guide to First Year Composition

pdf = pdf file on course website

 

Week

Date

Description

ONE

 

Aug 25

 

Introduction to the Course; Syllabus

Read:    “Introduction to First-Year Composition” (SG); Chapter 1, “Overview of English 100/106” (SG);
Appendix A (SG); Syllabus

Assignment:  Write down questions regarding course—syllabus, policies, and overview

 

 

Aug 27

Course Description:  Analysis, Critical Thinking, & a Critical Citizenry
Questions Regarding Course Description

Read:       “Chapter 4: Reading” (SG);  “Chapter 6: The Writing Process” (SG); “Imagined Communities” (excerpt) by Benedict Anderson (handout)

 

Aug 29

Academic Writing

Discuss Writing as a Process

Read:    “Practices of Looking:  Images, Power, and Politics” by Sturken and Cartwright (RP) [1st half only]

 

TWO

 

Sept 1

 

Labor Day – No Class Today

 

 

Sept 3

Essay 1 Assigned (Handout)

In-Class Introductory Essay

Discuss “Practices of Looking”        

Read:    “Practices of Looking:  Images, Power, and Politics” by Sturken and Cartwright (RP)

Assignment:  Journal entry & notes on reading, “Practices of Looking”

 

 

Sept 5

Discuss “Practices of Looking”        

Read:    “Chapter 8:  Analysis” (SG pp. 133-144); “Chapter 10:  Analysis of a Visual Text” (SG pp. 157-176);“What is Analysis?” by Rosenwasser, & Stephen (pdf)

Assignment:  Journal entry on “Practices of Looking”
Find a mainstream news source to analyze

                                        

THREE

 

Sept 8

 

Discuss Analysis

Read:    “Collective Bias” by Charles G. Russell and Paul Many (RP); “Dehumanizing People and Euphemizing War” by Haig A. Bosmajian (RP)

Assignment:  Journal entry on readings (one for each)

 

 

Sep 10

Discussion of Readings/Images

Read:    “Terrorism:  Civilized and Barbaric” by Edward Herman (RP); “Eleven Ways of Looking at the Gulf War” by Arthur Asa Berger (RP)

Assignment:  Journal entry on readings (one for each)

 

 

Sept 12

Discussion of Readings

Read:    “Chapter 7:  Feedback and Assessment” (SG); “Strategies for Revision” by Fulwiler (RP)

 

FOUR

 

Sept 15

 

Draft 1 Due (bring 3 copies of your rough draft)

Discuss Peer Critique Workshop

Assignment:  Provide comments on peers papers

 

 

Sept 17

Peer Critique Workshop

Assignment:  Revise Draft

 

 

Sept 19

Draft 2 Due (bring 3 copies of your rough draft)

In-class Peer Critique Workshop

Assignment:  Revise Draft

 

FIVE

Sept 22

Essay 1 Due

This is a tentative schedule; I will most likely revise the syllabus throughout the semester.  Please note any changes.