This document outlines the schedule for a Spring 2017 semester class. It is divided into 18 weeks. Each week covers different reading assignments and writing assignments. Week 1 introduces why students will write and asks them to write about a time when words failed them. Week 2 has no class for MLK Day and assigns reading on curiosity and draft writing. Week 3 discusses writing about those around students and assigns reading on identifying stakeholders. Later weeks cover larger perspectives, research skills, presenting work, and completing a final research paper.

1. Spring 2017 Semester Schedule
Week One: M W F
Why Write?
Myself
Winter Break In Class​: Syllabus Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Jeremiah O'Hagan's
"Essaying"
Jan 9,11,13
In Class​: Essay 1: A Time
When Words Failed You
Week Two: M W F
No Class, MLK Jr. Day Reading Due ​BbLearn: Alain
de Botton's "On Curiosity"​;
Ann Lammott’s “Shitty First
Drafts”
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​, Ch 2 “Exigence”
& “The Communicators,” p
6 - 8
Jan 16,18,20 Writing Due​: Essay 1 Draft
Week Three: M W F
Why Write?
Those
Around Me
Reading Due​ ​Becoming
Rhetorical​, Ch 6 “Everyday
Problems,” p 63 - 65
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical, ​Ch 6 “Identify
Stakeholders - Presence
Generator,” p 67 - 70
Reading Due​ ​BbLearn:
"Dear Sugar," ​The
Rumpus​, 3 responses
Jan 23,25,27 Writing Due​: Essay 1
BbLearn: "Dear Sugar," ​The
Rumpus​, 3 letters
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetocial​, “What It Means -
Why Rhetoric
Production,”p1-3
Week Four: M W F
Reading Due: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​, “Purpose -
Appealing to Emotion”
p9-13
Reading Due​: BbLearn: Bill
Clinton’s White House Speech
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Excerpt ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 3 “Thinking -
Understanding How” p1-4
Jan30,Feb1,
3
Writing Due​: Essay Prep -
An Issue
Reading Due​: BbLearn:
Jennifer Lawrence “Why Do
I..”
Writing Due​: Essay Prep -
A Response
Week Five: M W F
Reading Due: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 1 p 4; Excerpt
Becoming Rhetorical ​Ch 8
“Explaining” p 1-4
Writing Due​: Essay 2)
Apologia​ Rough Draft, hard
copy
In Class​: Revisions
No Class - ​Instructor
Absence for Conference

2. Feb 6,8,10
Week Six: M W F
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 6 “Articulating
- For Discussion” p 70-73
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
"The Clan of the Nacirema"
Reading Due:
Feb 13,15,17
Week Seven: M W F
Why Write?:
A Larger
Perspective,
and What's
Mine?
No Class - President’s Day
R​eading Due BbLearn: Photo
Essay on Syrian Refugee
Children
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Ishmael​,pgs 21 - 54
Feb 20,22,24
Writing Due​: ​Apologia ​Final
Draft due Sunday midnight
Reading Due​ ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 4 “Visual
Rhetoric,” pgs. 24 - 30
In Class​: Small Prompt:
Going down the rabbit hole
Week Eight: M W F
Library Week
Meet in Library Lobby Meet in Library Second Floor
Classroom
Meet in Library Second
Floor Classroom
Feb 27,
Mar 1,3
Week Nine: M W F
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 10
“Evaluating” p XX
In Class​: Annotated
Bibliography Lesson
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 12
“Research” p XX
Mar 6,8,10
Week Ten: M W F
No Class - Spring Break
Mar 13,15,17
Week Eleven: M W F
Conferences
Catch up day Reading Due: BbLearn pdf,
Becoming Rhetorical​ Ch 7,
p 2 (H1) - 6 (not
Assignment/ Discussion
sections)

3. Mar 20,22,24
Week Twelve: M W F
Reading Due​:BbLearn pdf,
Becoming Rhetorical ​Ch 8
“Explaining” p 3 - 5, 7 - 9
Reading Due​:BbLearn pdf,
Becoming Rhetorical ​Ch 9
“Defining” p 1-5,
Reading Due​:BbLearn pdf,
Becoming Rhetorical ​Ch 9
“Defining” p 7 (Arguments
about…) - 10
Mar 27,29,31
Week Thirteen: M W F
Reading Due​: Article on
coming to a new
perspective
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 11 “Proposing”
p XX
Apr 3,5,7
Week Fourteen: M W F
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Activism, Organizations, etc
Apr 10,12,14
Writing Due​: Research Paper
First Draft
Week Fifteen: M W F
Why Write?:
Beyond the
Page
No Class: Conferences No Class: Conferences No Class: Conferences
Apr 17,19,21
Week Sixteen: M W F
Apr 24,26,28
Writing Due​: Research
Paper
Week Seventeen: M W F
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 13 “Creating
Visual Comp.” p XX
May 1,3,5
In Class: Work on
Multi-modal Presentation
Week Eighteen: M W F
Presenting/ Activity Forum Presenting/ Activity Forum No Class OR Party
May 8,10,12

4. * The final weeks and readings are as yet only roughly planned; they will be more fully
scheduled when Jodie Nicotra has completed these last chapters towards the middle of next
semester. Highlighted sections include page areas unknown; as well, the pagination to complete
chapter reading will be spread out to nearby “blank” days.