All due dates are tentative. Regular blogging is due every week unless specificed otherwise.
Week 1 - Expectations & Introductions
9.7
Week 2 - Justifications & Questions
9.12
Read: "Everyday Writing," "Internet-Age Writing Syllabus" & Stanford Study of Writing
Write: Personal writing history
9.14 - Our Lives With Writing
Read: "Blogging essential for a good career," "On Blogging and Becoming A Better Writer," "In Defense of Twitter," "Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004" & "There's an art to writing on Facebook or Twitter"
Introduction: Media representations of writing (MRW)
Week 3 - Our Lives With Writing
9.19
Read: "We Are All Writers Now," "Traditional Writing Skills Don't Work on the Web" & "Words for Print VS Words for Web"
Watch: TBD by students
9.21
Watch: TBD by students
Write: MRW
Week 4 - MRW
9.26
Pecha Kucha
Paul F., Corynn, Bob, Nicole, Alyssa, Kayla, Andrew
Write: MRW
9.28
Pecha Kucha
Philip, Ashlee, Alex, Justin, Kurtis, Jenna, Alex L.
Write: MRW
Week 5 - MRW / Facilitations
10.3
Pecha Kucha
Kara, Adam, Kendra, Amanda, Amber, Melissa, Ben, Cody G.
Write: MRW
10.5
Read: TBD
Student group: Paul F., Nicole V., Justin M., Kara B., Alyssa W.
Week 6 - Facilitations / Twitter
10.10
Read: TBD
Student group: Alex L., Cody G., Adam C., Amber C.
10.12
Write: Evaluation of & reflection on Twitter
Week 7 - Facilitations
10.17
Read: TBD
Student group: Alex C., Manda O., Andrew R., Kendra B.
10.19
Read: TBD
Student group: Benjamin C., Melissa C., Kayla D., Corynn B., Phil H.
Week 8 - Facilitations / Distraction-free Writing (DFW)
10.24
Read: TBD
Student group: Kurtis B., Bob H., Jenna F., Ashlee C.
10.26
Read: “Growing Up Digital, Wired For Distraction," “Attention Versus Distraction? What That Big NY Times Story Leaves Out" &“Goodbye, cruel Word”
Week 9 - DFW
10.31
Write: DFW
Read: “FocusWriter And Why I Now Despise Despise WriteRoom” , “Introducing u”
11.2
Read: “Writing in the Age of Distraction,” “Better Than Renting Out A Windowless Room,” “Like Hammers,"
Write: DFW
Week 10 - Writing studies project (WSP)
11.7
Conferences
215PM - Bob H.
230PM - Corynn B.
245PM - Benjamin C.
3PM - Alex C.
315PM - Amanda O.
330PM - Adam C.
345PM - Cody G.
4PM - Phil H.
415PM - Kayla D.
430PM
445PM
5PM
11.9
Conferences
2PM - Melissa C.
215PM - Alyssa W.
230PM - Paul F.
245PM - Kara B.
3PM - Jenna F.
315PM - Ashlee C.
330PM - Kurt B.
345PM - Amber C.
4PM -
415PM - Justin M.
430PM
445PM - Kendra B.
5PM - Alexandra L.
Week 11 - WSP
11.14
Pecha Kucha
11.16
Pecha Kucha
Week 12 - WSP
11.21
Write: 1st draft
11.23
Write: 1st draft
Week 13 - WSP
11.28
Write: 2nd draft
11.30
Write: 2nd draft
Week 14 - Reflections
12.5
Write: Self-reflective essay
12.7
Write: revisions
Week 15 - Exam Week
Conferences