1. The document provides a schedule for Project 4 assignments in an English 309 Rhetorical Style course, including an imitative essay and style map assignment. 2. Students must complete assigned readings, view slide presentations, take a quiz, and post drafts of their work by specific due dates in weeks 9 through 13 in order to receive feedback and submit final projects on time. 3. Late assignments will lose a letter grade per day past the due date.

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
Sunday,Week 9
(March11)
1. Read the Project4 AssignmentSheets
(Imitative Essay Assignmentand Style Map
Assignment).
2. Read PerformingProse,Chapters 3-4 (and
review Chapter 2).
3. Read Vivian Gornick, “The Situation and the
Story” pp 13-25.
4. Read Susan Orlean’s essay “Lifelike”and
watch Project4, Slidedoc 1: How to Analyze
a Model Essay in Order to Imitate It.
5. Read your assigned modelessay(s) (from
Best American Essays 2017)and begin your
Style Map assignment.
Week 10 NO CLASSWORK DUE – SPRING BREAK
Sunday,Week 11
(March25)
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).
4. Complete your Style Map Assignmentand
postit to the Project4 Assignment Drop
Box.

2. ENGL 309 | Rhetorical Style pg 2
Wednesday,Week 12
(March28)
1. Review your classmates’posted style maps,
along with the essays in Best American
Essays2017 and 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 12
(April 1)
1. Submit a complete draftof your Imitative
Essay to the “Project4 Complete Draft
Blog.”
Wednesday,Week 13
(April 4)
1. Complete the Project 4 Draft Workshop
(instructions are posted on the “Project4
Complete Draft Blog”).
2. Sign up for a conference with Victoria.
3. Work on revising your essay based on
feedbackand prepare to submit it (and the
memo)on Sunday.
Sunday,Week 13
(April 8)
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.