t-1.10.06

• Introduction
• Introduce course
• Biographic surveys
• Take attendance
• Calendar
• Assignments
• Readings
• Discuss Rhetorical Principles
• Watch and discuss "Who Owns Writing?" by Doug Hesse

t-1.17.05

Defining Discipline

• Read over the syllabus and assignments thoroughly; in the body of a Blackboard email to the instructor (sent by noon today) address:
  • how has what you read compared to your expectations for this course
  • what was confusing about the syllabus
  • what was fair or unfair about the syllabus? Why?
  • any other comments
• Read Foucault, "The Means of Correct Training" (188-205) [BB]
• Read Dewey, "Interest and Discipline" (124-138) [BB]
• Exercise

t-1.24.06

Institutions & Writing

• Read Grabill, "Shaping Local HIV/AIDS Service Policies through Activist Research" [Technical Communication Quarterly, 9.1]
• Exercise

t-1.31.06

Discourse Communities

• Read Swales, "The Concept of Discourse Communities" (21-32) [BB]
• Read Ketter and Hunter, "Creating a Writer's Identity on the Boundaries of Two Communities of Practice"
• Exercise

t-2.7.06

Academic Discourse

• Read Bartholomae, "Inventing the University" [BB]
• Read Elbow, "Reflections on Academic Discourse: How it Relates to Freshman and College" [College English, 53.2]
• Exercise

t-2.14.06

Audience & Assessment

• Read Abbott & Eubanks "How Academic and Practitioners Evaluate Technical Texts" [BB]
• Submit Context Analysis as an email attachment through Blackboard Messages by the beginning of class
• No exercise

t-2.21.06

Genre: Introduction

• Read Swales, "The Concept of Genre" (33-67) [BB]
• Read Munter et al., "Business Emails" [BB]
• Exercise 

t-2.28.06

Genre: Generic Features

 

• Read Popham, "Forms as Boundary Genres in Medicine, " [BB]
• Read WPA discussion on the Five Paragraph Essay [BB]
• Exercise

t-3.7.06

Spring Break–No Class

t-3.14.06

Genre: Document Design

• Read Kinross, "Rhetoric of Neutrality" [BB]
• Read Bear [BB]
• Submit Genre Analysis as an email attachment through Blackboard Messages by the beginning of class
• No exercise
• Note  Last Day to Drop Classes

t-3.21.06

Workshop: Research

• Submit Group Plan to the instructor in the body of an email by Friday, March 24, 2005

t-3.28.06

Collaborative Writing

• Read Allen et al., "What Experienced Collaborators Say about Collaborative Writing" [BB]
• Read Monseau et al., "The Making of a Book" [BB]
• Exercise

t-4.4.06

Digital Writing

• Read Bernhardt, "The Shape of Text to Come" [College Composition and Communication, 44.2]
• Read Spinuzzi, "Compound Mediation in Software Development"
• Exercise

t-4.11.06

Visuals & Writing

• Read Doumont, Verbal Versus Visual [BB]
• Read Lupton & Miller, "McPaper" [BB]
• Read Gossett et al.'s "[Continuing to] Mind the Gap" [Kairos 7.3]
• Exercise  

t-4.18.06

Intellectual Property: Plagairism v. Boilerplates

• Read Barthes "Death of the Author"
• Read Howard "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty"[College English, 57.7]
• Read Vega, "Writing Proposals: An Interview with Paul Weber"
• Exercise  
• Email the instructor a final abstract describing your workshop.

t-4.25.06

Workshop Presentations:
Class will be held at the ODU Campus in Gornto 222

• Submit Group Portfolios to the instructor as a hard copy by the end of class.
• Submit Demonstrations of Application by the end of the day through Blackboard Messages on Wednesday, April 26th.

t-5.2.06

• Finals: No Exam; contact the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu or 757.863.4019) if you have any questions or concerns