COMMUNITY RHETORICS:

Writing in the Service-Learning "Contact Zone"

 Calendar of Due Dates and Course Content

Fall 2003

Week 1 / Week 2 / Week 3 / Week 4 / Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 / Week 8 / Week 9 / Week 10 / Week 11 / Exam Week

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

WEEKLY TOPICS

September 22

 

September 23

 

September 24

 

September 25

First Class: Introductions, Policies, and Procedures

September 26

 

 

WEEK #1

Who ARE You and Who Are "WE"and What Do We Mean by Rhetoric?

September 29

 

September 30

READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Mary Louise Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone" (handout)

€ Ch 1-3 (Writing for Real)
DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

€ Leap-of-Faith Part 1

October 1

 

October 2

IN CLASS TODAY:

Community Writing Orientation at the Haas Center for Public Service (during class time)
READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 4-6 (Writing for Real)

€ Gloria Anzaldua, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (handout)

€ Richard Rodriguez, "The Achievement of Desire" (handout)
DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

€ Leap-of-Faith Part 2

October 3

 

WEEK #2

Rhetorical Analysis

reading like writers

Presentation Materials As Effective (and Ineffective) Texts

It's All about Audience & Purpose

NOTE:

Meet with your agency mentor by Monday, OCT 13, AT THE LATEST to determine your Community Writing Project Assignment

October 6

 

 

October 7

READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ June Jordan, "Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan" (handout)

€ Paulo Freire, "The Banking Concept of Education" (handout)

€ Chaps 10-12, pp 188-225 (Penguin Handbook)

October 8

 

October 9

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentations:

#1 Gloria Anzaldua, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"

#2 Richard Rodriguez, "The Achievement of Desire"
READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 7-8 (Writing for Real)
DUE TODAY:

€ Leap-of-Faith Draft

October 10

Peer Review Conferences

€ Written peer review due at conference

WEEK #3

Presentation Materials As Effective (and Ineffective) Texts

Transcending the 5-¶ Essay!

induction and deduction

thesis and level of generalization

From Writer to Reader

Connecting personal and analytical writing

contextualizing, illuminating, and extending your ideas & experience with reference to sources

From Reader to Writer

Peer Review and Constructive Critique

October 13

Peer Review Conferences

€ Peer review due at conference

 

October 14

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentations:

#3 June Jordan, "Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan"

#4 Paulo Freire, "The Banking Concept of Education"
READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Consult Chap 26-31 , pp 327-368 (Penguin Handbook before revising)
DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

€ Community Writing Contract in class

October 15

 

October 16

READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Modules 1 and 2 in SKIL (Stanford's Key to Information Literacy)

€ Chap 16 , pp 207-214 (Penguin Handbook)
DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

€ 3 possible research topic ideas

October 17

DUE TODAY:

€ Leap-of-Faith Revision at my office by 5 p.m.

 

WEEK #4

Overview of the Research Project

Research reports vs. documented arguments, analyses, interpretations

Research topics: what's a "good" one?

Arguments

The subjects of and motives for argument

Elements and styles of argument

Developing a Research Question

Conducting preliminary research

 

October 20

 

October 21

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentation:

#5 Salt of the Earth
READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 9 (Writing for Real)

€ Salt of the Earth (on reserve in Green Media)
DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

€ Research Proposal and Research Topic Form in class

October 22

 

October 23

IN CLASS TODAY:

Library Workshop

Meet at 3:15 in the foyer of Green Library. See "Green East/South Portal" in Green's Online Tour.
READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Modules 3, 4, 5 in SKIL (Stanford's Key to Information Literacy)

€ Chap 17 , pp 187-206 (Penguin Handbook)

October 24

Open office hours for check-in on reserach paper topics

WEEK #5

Refining Your Research Question

Kinds of Sources: Reference, Primary, and Secondary

Library research

Online research

Interviews, surveys, field work

Preliminary Research

Using Stanford's Library and Community Resources in Your Research

What Is a Working Bibliography?

October 27

 

October 28

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentations:

#6 Mississippi Masala
READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 10 (Writing for Real)

€ Mississippi Masala (on reserve in Green Media)
DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

€ Working annotated bibliography

October 29

 

October 30

READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Module 6 in SKIL (Stanford's Key to Information Literacy)

€ Chap 18 , pp 207-214 (Penguin Handbook)

October 31

Check-in Conference re: Community Writing Assignments

WEEK #6

Evaluating and Refining a Working Bibliography

Balance, variety, currency

Evaluating Sources

Evaluating Arguments

Context, authority, logic, and bias

Research Methods and Strategies

Note-taking

Summary, paraphrase, quotation

November 3

Check-in Conference re: Community Writing Assignments

November 4

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentations:

#7 Paris Is Burning
READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 11 (Writing for Real)

€ Chap 19 , pp 215-223 (Penguin Handbook)

€ Paris Is Burning (on reserve in Green Media)

November 5

 

 

November 6

READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 12 (Writing for Real)

November 7

 

WEEK #7

Maintaining Intellectual Control in Research Writing

Writing with sources

Plagiarism

Alternative Documentation styles and stragegies

 

November 10

DUE TODAY:

by 5 p.m. at my office, Community Writing Project drafts for conferences 11/11 and 11/12

November 11

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentations:

#8 Big Eden
READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Big Eden (on reserve in Green Media)
Group or Individual Conferences on Community Writing Project Drafts

November 12

Group or Individual Conferences on Community Writing Project Drafts

November 13

READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Chap 20 , pp 223-230 (Penguin Handbook)

November 14

 

 

WEEK #8

Outlining the Research Paper: Planning Organization, Coverage, and Use of Evidence

Beginning and ending

Induction or deduction?

Establishing exigence

Presenting and explaining essential background

Patterns of claim, evidence, and warrant

November 17

 

November 18

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentation:

#9 Coming Home
READ/VIEW BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Coming Home (on reserve in Green Media)

€Consult Chaps 21-24 , pp 2233-325 (Penguin Handbook) as appropriate

DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

Research paper rough opening, closing, outline, and tentative thesis

November 19

 

November 20

READ BY TODAY'S CLASS:

€ Ch 14 (Writing for Real)

€ Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cock Flight"

November 21

 

 

WEEK #9

Academic Documentation Styles

Revision Strategies

November 24

 

November 25

IN CLASS TODAY:

Presentation:

#10 Clifford Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cock Flight"

READ BY TODAY:

€ Ch 13 and 14 (Writing for Real)

DUE IN CLASS TODAY:

Research paper draft

November 26

Peer Review Conferences on research paper drafts
DUE TODAY:

€ Written peer review in conference

November 27

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

November 28

 

WEEK #10

Sharing the (Considerable) Work... and Narrowing It down for Presentation

 

December 1

DUE TODAY:

€ Written peer review in conference

Peer Review Conferences on research paper drafts

December 2

IN CLASS TODAY:

Community Writing Presentations scheduled

December 3

 

December 4

IN CLASS TODAY:

Community Writing Presentations scheduled

Final Class Celebration!!

 

December 5

WEEK #11

Sharing the Work

Wrap-up & celebration

December 8

 

December 9

December 10

DUE TODAY:

Complete Portfolios (including cover letter, revised research paper, and final version of Community Writing Project as submitted to agency) by 5 p.m. at my office.

December 11

December 12

EXAM WEEK

 

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