ENC 1101 Syllabus
Week 1 (August 25-29)
T: Introductions. Write a brief biography telling us some basic information about yourself--name, where you are from, what you like to do, what you might major in, and so forth.
T: Journal 1. Discussion of course policy sheet and syllabus.
Week 2 (September 1-5)
T: Journal 2. Discussion of thesis, narration, titles, and paper introductions, grammar, and what revision means. Plagiarism exercise.
T: Journal 3. Discuss paper 1 and workshop.
Print this out and bring it in
workshop questions
Paper 1: Vivid Narrative. In this paper, the focus is creating vivid imagery for the reader. Whether it is descriptive detail of the setting, action, or emotional expression, readers should be able to "picture" the elements and "see" the story. This can be any story from your personal experience. You might try recreating a particular moment in time. I would make the scope of the story as compressed as possible. You might think of this paper as an attempt to recreate a moment, or an incident, rather than a full story. Narrate in first person. Use present tense as much as possible.
Week 3 (September 8-12)
T: In class activity.
T: Journal 4. Presentation 1. Exercise 1 Conflict.
Week 4 (September 15-19)
T: Journal 5. Workshop paper 1. Bring three copies.
T: Journal 6. Presentation 2. Draft of paper 1 due.
Week 5 (September 22-26)
T: Journal 7. Presentation 3. Discuss paper 2.
Paper 2: See the instructions for paper one. This time relate the story through another character who was in your second story. This character might be another person, an animal, or maybe even an object. This is not a cut and paste operation. Everything about this paper should be different--introduction, descriptions, dialogue (if any), title, and so forth. Try to keep the time sequence as close as possible. Do not write a prequel or an epilogue to the first story.
Cliches to Avoid
T: Conferencing at my office. No class.
Week 6 (September 29-October 1)
T: Journal 8. Worshop paper 2. Bring three copies.
T: Journal 9. Exercise 2 Four things.
Week 7 (October 6-10)
T: Journal 10. Draft of paper 2 due. Presentation 4.
T: Conference. No class.
Week 8 (October 13-17)
T: Journal 11. Please look at and print this out before coming to class today. Edward Hopper's Nighthawk's Open in Internet Explorer if it does not open in Netscape Navigator. Exercise 3.
T: Journal 12. Discuss paper 3. Make a story based on the visual text like we did with Hopper. Use third-person narration. In other words, don't use "I." The narrator is not someone or something in the story and has no contact with the characters or events whatsoever. You will use the same visual text for papers three and four. Presentation 5.
Week 9 (October 20-24)
T: Journal 13. Presentation 6.
T: Journal 14. Workshop paper 3. Bring in three copies.
Week 10 (October 27-31)
T: Journal 15. Presentation 7.
T: Draft of paper 3 due. Discuss Paper 4.Choose a visual text to analyze (for example, a magazine ad, a propaganda poster or pamphlet, a work of art, a flyer, a religious icon, a building facade, a statue, a stained glass window, graffiti, a photograph, a cereal box). You must include the object, a photograph thereof, or a high-quality full-color (unless, for example, you are talking about a black and white photograph) copy with your paper. Do not put in anything that you would be crushed if you didn't get back. Through a careful analysis of elements such as color, placement, size, shape, line, lighting, and so forth explore such things as emphasis and connotation, audience awareness and intent, and the meaning(s) the visual text conveys. Address a particular theme and demonstrate how various elements of the visual text support and/or complicate that theme. The paper should have a clear focus. It should not be a haphazard assemblage of randow elements that do not connect. Do not use "I." This paper should not be about your feelings regarding the visual text but your analysis thereof.
Here are my notes and the first page and half of my analysis of Nighthawks Print this out and bring it in for today. Also look at pages 56-61 for more informaion about analyzing visual texts.
Week 11 (November 3-7)
T: Journal 16. Presentation 8.
T: Conference. No class.
Week 12 (November 10-14)
T: Veteran's Day. No class.
T: Journal 17. Workshop paper 4. Bring in three copies of paper 4.
Week 13 (November 17-21)
T: Journal 18. Draft of paper 4 due. Underline or italicize the thesis. Presentation 9.
T: Journal 19.
Week 14 (November 24-28)
T: Journal 20. Journals due. Exercise 4 Voice.
T: Thanksgiving. No class.
Week 15 (December 1-5)
T: Exercise 5. Bring in an odd or unique word, something strange. You will do the exercise on the back of the typed page with your weird word and definition. Presentation 10.
T: Portfolio due.
Week 16 (December 8-12)
Finals Week (No class)
Journal topics
Which group am I in and which presentation are we doing?
Just how does he come up with the grades?
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