ENC 1102 Syllabus
*Note: anything on-line can be found on this web page under list of links.
* Note: ds means double spaced.
Week 1 (August 28-September 1)
Tuesday: Introductions. Write a brief biography and tell me about the most important thing that you learned in ENC 1101. Do not tell me that you didn't learn anything.
Print out ENC 1102 syllabus and course policy sheet. Tour the web page--the links, the rubrics (especially the detailed rubric link), and the various drafting questions.
Three lies, in-class exercise.
Thursday: Discussion of course policy sheet and syllabus.
1101 review--paper introductions and grammar.
Week 2 (September 4-8)
Tuesday: 1101 review--workshop review and discussion of drafting.
bring a copy of the essay located at www.oocities.org/soho/nook/9686/sampleno1.html sample paper
Explanation of prospectus. A prospectus comes from prospect which means looking ahead--pro (ahead) spect (view or look). In your prospectus you should plan out your research paper. You can use the prospectus as a way to set up your path for the research paper. For example, you might disucss what aspect of World War II you are going to focus on or which segement of the population you are focusing on in respect to AIDS. In the prospectus you should also mention areas or pose questions that you will have to answer in order to complete the research paper. You might write the prospectus as a short, compressed rough draft of a research paper that you might write. Ideally, your paper will resemble an essay, including introduction and conclusion. Do not use I.
Thursday: First draft of prospectus due for workshop.
Plagarism excercise. Did you print out the detailed grading rubric yet?
Citation.
Week 3 (September 11-15)
Tuesday: First prospectus due (2 pages, ds).
Read Newman's "The Idea of a University" (47) and Hart's "How to Get a College Education" (126). One page ds response due 1.
Explanation of annotated bibliography and research paper.
The annotated bibliography should include ten sources, and it should concern your first prospectus topic. One source must be from the Internet, but no more than two can be from the Internet. As least one source must be from some sort of periodical such as a magazine or journal. One source must come from a book. Annotations should be fifty to one hundred words and consist of two things: 1) A summary of the source's major point(s) 2) An explanation of why the source will or won't be useful for your research project. For example, I should see you say "This source will be useful to my research paper because . . ."
The research paper will come from one of the two prospecti and annotated bibliographies that you compose. You do not have to wait to complete both prospecti and bibliographies before beginning work on the research paper (although I must approve all topics for the research paper). If after deciding that you do not like your first potential paper topic, you can use the second prospectus and bibliography for the research paper. Either way, your research paper must come from one of the two prospecti and annotated bibliographies--unless you want to do a third prospectus and annotated bibliography that would be due before you write the research paper. Remember, the research paper should do more than spout research, summarize, and restate commonly know positions; the research paper should question, analyze, synthesize, make new points, and fresh conclusions. Also, the research paper should include a works cited page with a minimum of eight sources. I should see at least four to five quotes or paraphrases per page. Do not include any personal experiences
Go to this URL:
http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/firstsearch.html
It is a self-tutorial explaining how to use FSU's many databases.
Thursday: Library day. We will meet on the steps of the library, or, in the event of rain, snow, or fire from the sky, we will meet just inside the first set of double doors in the area before you pass through the scanners. Even though we will not be meeting in the classroom this still counts as class, and I will take roll.
Week 4 (September 18-22)
Tues: Read on-line excerpt from Monster, "Camouflaging the Chimera," and "We Never Know." All of these works are on-line. One page ds response due 2.
Thurs: First draft of annotated bibliography due for workshop.
Phrase splicing, in-class exercise.
Week 5 (September 25-29)
Tues: First annotated bibliography due.
Read Martin Luther King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail," which can be found either on-line or in our book (142). One page ds response due 3.
Thurs: First draft of second prospectus due for workshop.
Freud's Writing Parlor, in-class exercise.
Week 6 (October 2-6)
Tuesday: Second prospectus due (2 pages, ds, and follow the same description listed for the first prospectus. The second prospectus may be completely different from your first prospectus, or it may be a revised, focused, but very different version of your first prospectus. If your second prospectus, is not different enough from your first prospectus, you will suffer a severe, perhaps entire, loss of credit).
Read "How to Watch Your Brother Die" on-line and Kathleen Norris' "Little Girls in Church" (222). One page ds response due 4.
Thurs: Read Arthur Krystal's "Who Speaks for the Lazy?" (697). One page ds response due 5.
Week 7 (October 9-13)
Tuesday: First draft of second annotated bibliopgraphy due for workshop. Read the description above for the first annotated bibliography. The same things apply to this assignment also; the second bibliography should relate to your second prospectus.
Letter, in-class exercise.
Thursday: Second annotated bibliography due.
Read Walter S. Minot's "Students Who Push Burgers" (726) and Marge Piercy's "To Be of Use" (730). One page ds response due 6.
Week 8 (October 16-20)
No class. Individual conferencing. For the conference this week, I will expect you to bring a current draft of your research paper and be prepared to discuss any difficulties you are having with the paper. This is your time to ask me questions; consequently, you will set the conferencing agenda. Have in mind some questions that you want me to help you with, or select a paragraph for me to look at. Do not ask me to look over the entire paper.
Week 9 (October 23-27)
Tuesday: First draft of research paper due for workshop. This workshop session will concentrate on such issues as focus, examples, and organization.
Haiku, in-class exercise.
Thursday: Read "One Man's Declaration of Cyberspace" on-line, Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown part 2 section 2 on-line (the link should take you directly to it), and Pamela Samuelson's "The Digital Rights War" (315). One page ds response due 7.
Week 10 (October 30-November 3)
Tuesday: Second draft of research paper due for workshop. This workshop session will focus on such areas as argumentation, analysis, and smooth/proper integration of sources.
Hopper, in-class exercise.
Thursday: Third draft of research paper due for workshop. The paper will be entirely written at this point. This session is a time for others to help proofread your paper. Since your group had read your paper twice, I want you to find readers outside of your group. This workshop session will focus on sentence level issues such as word choice, grammar, and correct use of citation within the paper.
Interview With God, in-class exercise.
Week 11 (November 6-10)
Tuesday: Research paper due .
Read Neil Postman's "The Great Symbol Drain" (513). One page ds response due 8.
Explanation of zine, and if time allows, workshop.
Thursday: Read Mitchell Stephens "'By Means of the Visible': A Picture's Worth" (473). One page ds response due 9.
Workshop. Today, you will discuss what you are going to do for the zine. Zine workshop. Also, I suggest exchanging phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses. Usually, the person who is most important to the group seems to fall off the face of the earth at a crucial moment.
Week 12 (November 13-17)
Tuesday: Read Margaret Talbot's "Les Tres Riches Heures de Martha Stewart" (657). One page ds response due 10.
Thursday: Zine worskhop of individual contributions. I want a one page summary from each group. In this summary, I want to know who the target audience is, the name of your zine, what it will focus on, and a rough idea of what each person will be writing and doing for the zine. The typed summary is due today.
Zine is, of course, short for magazine. You may choose an already existent zine and model an issue around that zine, or you may create your own zine. Each magazine must have a cover (color would be good) and a statement of purpose. Each person must write a four or more page article, one column equaling at least a page, and one advertisement. Also, a table of contents listing each article, column, advertisement, and its author must be present. While this is a group project, the majority of the grade will be based on your own writing. Also, I have known students to spend rather extravagant sums of money, upwards of fifty dollars or more, on the zine. While you may spend those sorts of sums, expensive zines will not assure you of a high grade. Instead, I recommend running glossy, high-quality paper through a good printer, which is a much cheaper option and looks real snazzy. You can then bind the zine with a glue gun or with one of those plastic report covers. If you want to pay to have the zine spirally bound, like a notebook, this is your choice but is not necessary. due.
Week 13 (November 20-24)
Tuesday: Read Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" (467). One page ds response due 11.
Print out Thoreau's "Where I Lived & What I Lived For," which is a chapter from the on-line Walden.
Thursday: Thanksgiving holiday.
Week 14 (November 27-December 1)
No class. Individual conferencing. For the conference this week, I expect you to bring a current draft of your zine contributions. I will expect to see the article, the column, and the advertisement.
Week 15 (December 4-8)
Tuesday: Read Dave Barry's "Guys vs. Men" (372). One page ds response due 12.
Thursday: Last day of class. Zine due with typed process memo. If the process memo is not typed, I will not accept it. In the process memo you should describe your writing process for the zine and inform me of anything you did to help make the zine or put it together.
Week 16 (December 11-15)
Finals week