Imitative essay schedule

1. ENGL 309 | Rhetorical Style pg 1
PROJECT 4 SCHEDULE
Imitative Essay
All work is due by 11:59 p.m. on the day indicated. Late assignments will
lose one letter grade (or the equivalent number of points) per day. All links
are on the BbLearn Project 4 page.
Due Date Complete the Following
Wednesday,Week 9
(October 23)
1. Read the Project4 AssignmentSheet.
2. Read the Style Map Assignmentunder
Homework Assignments and Quizzes.
3. Read PerformingProse,Chapters 3-4 (and
review Chapter 2).
4. Read Vivian Gornick, “The Situation and the
Story” pp 13-25.
Sunday,Week 9
(October 27)
1. Read Susan Orlean’s essay “Lifelike”and
watch Project4, Slidedoc 1: How to Analyze
a Model Essay in Order to Imitate It.
2. Read your assigned modelessay from Best
American Essays2018 and beginyour Style
Map assignment.
Wednesday,Week 10
(October 30)
1. Read PerformingProse Chapters 5-7.
2. Watch Slidedocs2 and 3 (on “Tropes” and
“Schemes”):
3. Take the quiz on tropes and schemes (study
Performing Prose Ch6-7) (50 points).
Sunday,Week 10
(November 3)
 Complete your Style Map Assignment
and post it to the Project 4 Assignment
Drop Box.

2. ENGL 309 | Rhetorical Style pg 2
Wednesday,Week 11
(November 6)
1. Review your classmates’posted style maps,
and skim through the essays in Best
American Essays2018 that weren’t
mapped.Decide which one you’re going to
use for your imitative essay.
2. Do Homework Assignment1: Using the
Style Map as Invention for Your Imitative
Essay.
Sunday,Week 11
(November 10)
1. Submit a complete draftof your Imitative
Essay to the “Project4 Complete Draft
Blog.”
Wednesday,Week 12
(November 13)
1. Complete the Project 4 Draft Workshop
(instructions are posted on the “Project4
Complete Draft Blog”).
2. Work on revising your essay based on
feedbackand prepare to submit it (and the
memo)on Sunday.
Sunday,Week 13
(November 17)
1. Review the Project4 handout for the Memo
instructions.
2. Submit the final draft of your Imitative Essay,
your Memo, and Self-Evaluation to the
Project4 AssignmentDrop Box.