This document provides the semester schedule for a Spring 2017 writing course. It is divided into 18 weeks. The first four weeks introduce concepts like why writing is important and the rhetorical situation. Students will write two essays, with the second being a researched apologia. Week 5 focuses on larger perspectives. Library research occurs in week 8 to prepare for an annotated bibliography assignment in week 9. Spring break is in week 10. Later weeks involve presenting research and exploring writing beyond the page. The final weeks involve completing a research paper and multi-modal presentation. Readings are from the textbook Becoming Rhetorical and other sources on the learning platform.

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​ BbLearn:
Ishmael​ , Ch 3
Reading Due: ​Becoming
Rhetorical​ Ch 4 “Visual” p
XX
Feb 13,15,17
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

3. Writing Due​: Essay 3)
Personal Annotated
Bibliography Journey Draft
Mar 20,22,24 In Class​: Peer Review
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

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.