Schedule

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 letters
Jan 23,25,27 Writing Due​: Essay 1
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetocial​ , “What It Means -
Why Rhetoric
Production,”p1-3
Week Four: M W F
Reading Due ​BbLearn:
"Dear Sugar," ​The Rumpus​ ,
3 responses
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ , “Purpose -
Appealing to Emotion” p9-13
Jan30,Feb1,
3
Writing Due​: Essay Prep -
An Issue
Writing Due​: Essay Prep -
A Response
Week Five: M W F
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
T.C. Boyle's "Apologia", ​The
New Yorker …….. or
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Excerpt ​Becoming Rhetorical
Ch 3 “Thinking - Understanding
How” p1-4
Reading Due: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 1 p 4; Excerpt
Becoming Rhetorical​ Ch 8
“Explaining” p 1-4
Reading Due​ BbLearn: Ron
McFarland's "An Apologia
for Creative Writing

2. 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​ BbLearn:
Ishmael​ , Ch 3
Reading Due: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 4 “Visual” p
XX
Feb 13,15,17
Writing Due​: Essay 2)
Apologia Draft, hard copy
In Class​: Revisions
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Photo Essay on Syrian
Refugee Children
Week Seven: M W F
Why Write?:
A Larger
Perspective,
and What's
Mine?
No Class - President’s Day
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 5 “Multimodal” p
XX
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 12 “Research”
p XX
Feb 20,22,24
Writing Due​: ​Apologia Final
Draft due Sunday midnight
Reading Due​ BbLearn: Article
on NPR Journalist Facing
Charges for Covering Protest
Reading Due​ BbLearn:
Black Lives Matter
Week Eight: M W F
Library Week
Meet in Library Second Floor
Classroom
Meet in Library Second Floor
Classroom
Meet in Library Second Floor
Classroom
Feb 27,
Mar 1,3
Writing Due​: Small Prompt:
What is an issue you've
realized you can gain some
new perspective on?
Week Nine: M W F
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical Ch 10
“Evaluating” p XX
In Class​: Annotated
Bibliography Journey Lesson
Reading Due​: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 7 “Rhetorical
Arguments” p XX
Mar 6,8,10
Week Ten: M W F
No Class - Spring Break
Mar 13,15,17
Week Eleven: M W F
Writing Due​: Essay 3)
Personal Annotated
Bibliography Journey Draft
Mar 20,22,24 In Class​: Peer Review

3. Week Twelve: M W F
Writing Due: ​Annotated
Bibliography Final Draft
No Class - Optional
Conferences
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
* 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

4. semester. Highlighted sections include page areas unknown; as well, the pagination to complete
chapter reading will be spread out to nearby “blank” days.