ENC 1145 Syllabus
*Note: anything on-line can be found on this web page under list of links.
* Note: ds means double spaced.
Week 1 (August 27-31)
Monday: Introductions. Write a brief biography and tell us about yourself. Where are you from? What is your major? What are your hobbies? What is your experience with the Internet? If you had to pick a picture of something or someone to represent yourself on-line what would you pick and why?
Print out ENC 1102 syllabus and course policy sheet. Tour the web page
Wednesday: Discussion of course policy sheet and syllabus.
1101 review--paper introductions and grammar.
Week 2 (September 3-7)
Monday: Labor Day. No class.
Wednesday: Thesis. Citation.
This prospectus is geared for an entirely different class in terms of content. However, the use of research and citation holds true as well as many of the comments contained within the brackets.
prospectus .
Plagiarism exercise.
Week 3 (September 10-14)
*Sometime this week send me your e-mail address with your first and last name in the subject header.
Monday:
Learning to research.
Go to this URL before class:
http://www.fsu.edu/~library/guides/firstsearch.html
It is a self-tutorial explaining how to use FSU's many databases.
Wednesday: Reading #1 "Escape Velocity" Mark Dery pg. 4.
Reading #2
Designwriting: A Post Literary Reading Experience Mark Amerika
Internet exercise #1.
Week 4 (September 17-21)
Monday: Reading #3 "Luddite vs. Fetishist" Bill Henderson and Tim Barkow pg. 36.
Before we discuss the reading, we will divide into six groups and look for information on the following people or groups who are mentioned in the reading. What we want to know is why each author mentions these people or groups; why are they important in each specific reference? Try rereading the sentence or paragraph in which the name appears. We'll share the results from each group as a class.
1 Doris Grumbach (36)
2 Rube Goldberg (36)
3 Wendell Berry (37)
4 Henry David Thoreau (throughout the reading). Also explain what a "gimcrack" is (39, 41, et. al.)
5 Charles Darwin (39)
6 We know that a Luddite is a person "who believes that increased technology actually decreases quality of life" (36), but what are the origins of the Luddites? How did they get started? Were there specific things that they were reading against?
Internet exercise #2.
Wednesday: Reading #4
"As We May Think" Vannevar Bush
Experiment #1 due.
Internet exercise #3.
Week 5 (September 24-28)
Monday: Reading #5 "The Same Mindless, Stupid Process" Neil Postman pg. 154.
Internet exercise #4.
Wednesday: Reading #6 "Virtual Reality Check" Joan Connell pg. 166.
Experiment #2 due.
Internet exercise #5.
Week 6 (October 1-5)
Monday: Reading #7 "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" John Perry Barlow pg. 201
Internet exercise #6.
Wednesday:
The Hacker Crackdown
Reading #8 Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown part 2 section 2 on-line
Experiment #3 due.
Internet exercise #7.
Week 7 (October 8-12)
Monday: Reading #9 "The Late Age of Print" Jay David Bolter pg. 279
Internet exercise #8.
Experiment #4 due
Wednesday: Prospectus due
Please make sure your prospectus is in accord with this list
Reading #10 "Intimate Strangers" Jill Smolowe pg. 389
Internet exercise #9.
Week 8 (October 15-19)
Monday: Reading #11 "Cyberspirit" Jeff Zaleski pg. 394
Reading #12 "Computer Shy" Marylaine Block pg. 495
Internet exercise #10.
Wednesday: Class Canceled (Prelims)
Week 9 (October 22-26)
Monday: Annotated bibliography due
annotated bibliography .
integration of quotes
Review of what's needed for workshop days.
Sign-up. Here's the deal: write your name under the appropriate section number. I want two people from each class to workshop each day.
If you sign up for an earlier date, I will expect a rougher version for workshop but more evidence of revision in the final product. Also, you will have less time to work on the first draft, but more time to revise.
If you choose a later date, you will have more time to work on the draft but less time to revise. Also, I will expect a more polished first draft but a less heavily revised final draft.
To those people who end up going the monday before the paper is due: If this is not what you would choose I am sorry. This was the only way to give everyone the Wednesday before Thanksgiving off, which I assume everyone wants. Also, I apologize for having to kill two days for my own examinations, but I had to go with the days that the professors on my committee decided to pick.
Reading #13 "As Bookends to the 20th Century" Ashley Dunn pg. 44.
Internet exercise #11. Edward Hopper's Nighthawk's Open in Internet Explorer if it doe not open in Netscape Navigator
Wednesday: Scan the syllabus and make sure that you are signed up.
If the annotated bibliography is not in my box by 4:30 P.M. this Thursday, I will not accept it for any amount of credit
Reading #14 William S. Burroughs theories about the cut-up and
Reading #15 Burroughs excerpt
Experiment #5 due.
Internet exercise #11 continued.
Week 10 (October 29-November 2)
Monday: You may revise the annotated bibliography. Here's the deal: you must turn in the original copy (with all pages) with my comments along with the revised copy and the revised copy must have ALL changes in bold. If you turned the annotated bibligraphy in late, you are not eligible to participate in the revision. You may gain up to half of the points you didn't get on the first try. For example, if you made an 86, you can get up to an extra 7 points. If you made an 80, you can get up to an extra ten points. If you made a 70, you can get up to an extra fifteen points. If you made a 62, you can get up to an extra 19 points. This revision opportunity will not be available on any future assignments (i.e. the journal and research paper). See below for final due date.
Perhaps I'm just overly sensitive. Please do not send me e-mail asking me to "reply ASAP." When I check my e-mail, I respond to all messages right then. Asking me to "reply ASAP" is not much better than asking me to "hurry up" or "get a move on."
Workshop #1 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Greg Besrutschko
2. Nicole Franklin
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Monica Kanninen
2.
Wednesday: CLASS CANCELED
Week 11 (November 5-9)
Monday: Final revision due for annotated bibliography in my box with a time stamp at 4:30 or by the start of your section's class. I will not accept this via e-mail
Passive voice getting you down?
Workshop #2 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Ryan Druyor
2. Caitlin Wiener
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. William Poling
2.
Wednesday: Workshop #3 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Megan Kuniansky
2. Elyssa Broussard
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Sean Shamy
2. Josh Levine
Week 12 (November 12-16)
Monday: Veteran's Day. No class.
Wednesday: Workshop #4 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. David Lipp
2. Brett Schneider
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Ruben Lojo
2. Kelly Hanlon
Week 13 (November 19-23)
Monday: Workshop #5 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Sarah Craig
2. Michael Northrup
3. Ana Velazquez Read and respond to Ana's essay via e-mail. Her essay will be mailed out and ready to read by the start of class Monday. However, you will read and respond to Ana's essay via e-mail before Wednesday. No print copies will be available. Ana will check her e-mail, read our responses, and produce a rating for everyone sometime after 5:00 Tuesday, so you should make 5:00 Tuesday your deadline for reading and responding to the essay. If you respond after 5:00 Tuesday Ana is under no obligation to give you any points for participation.
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Collin Shields
2. Larissa Maffei
Wednesday: Class cancelled by popular demand.
Week 14 (November 26-30)
Monday: Workshop #6 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Brian Kolshak
2. Matt Park
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Carmen Diaz
2. Calvin Burney
Wednesday: Workshop #7 (2 papers)
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Lindsay Marano
2. Leslie St. Pierre
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Jennifer Perez
2. Leslie Rapach
Journal due
Week 15 (December 3-7)
Monday: Workshop #8
ENC 1145-01 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Lindsay Mesches
2. Sonia Prusaitis
ENC 1145-03 PRINT YOUR NAME
1. Heather Hobby
2.
Wednesday: Last day of class. Research paper due
Week 16 (December 10-14)
Finals week