Course Schedule

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.

TR 9/4 Due: Blog.

Read: Handout: (Excerpt from Malcolm X) and Envision 172-187.
Discuss: Readings and Invention.

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.

TR 9/18 Due: Visual Literacy Narrative.

Read: Envision p254-269, p271-276
Discuss: Group Project

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

TR 10/2 Due: Blog

Read: Handout: (Spam) and Envision 161
Discuss: Reading and interviews

Week 7
T 10/7 Read: Envision p245-249
Discuss: Mid-term Portfolios and websites

TR 10/9 Due: Blog (about website building/reading)

Discuss: Thesis statements, using quotes, 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

TR 10/23 Meet by the spiral staircase at Bracken Library.

Due: Blog. Post ad choice and write about it. If non-digital write about it.

Week 10
T 10/28 Read: Envision 37-63
Discuss: Meaning Essay. Rhetorical appeals and context.

TR 10/30 Read: Handout: Meaning Essays (Spam)

Discuss: Reading, personal testimony and counterargument
Due: Blog
Week 11
T 11/4 Read: Envision p141-152, p289-293, p296-310
Discuss: Using sources, MLA Documentation.

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

TR 11/13 Due: Blog.(Write one paragraph of movie summary and one paragraph of your
opinion)
Read: Handout: (sample reviews on blackboard)
Discuss: Reading, components of a movie review, analysis

Week 13
T 11/18 Read: Envision p231-235 and Handout: sample movie reviews (links to reviews on
blackboard).
Discuss: Analysis, writing a review

TR 11/20 Due: Blog (about movie we watched Tues. in class). Bring to class reviews you have
found and writing you have started.
Discuss: Layout in Word 2007, Writing
11/25 No class Fruesday
11/27 No Class Thanksgiving Break

Week 14
T 12/2 Due: Review Essay for Workshop
Discuss: Workshop

TR 12/4 Due: Review Essay. Post on blackboard before class.

Discuss: Final Portfolio

Week 15
T 12/9 Final Portfolio workshop/in-class conferences

TR 12/11 Workshop/in-class conferences.

Final Portfolio due by 5pm Friday, December 12, 2008. Post website link to blackboard.
Make sure all links work and be sure no documents are in office 2007/8 format.

Final Exam: Friday December 19, 2008 8:00 class- 8:00-9:30am

11:00 class- 10:00-11:30am