WRITING for REAL

Rhetorics of the Service-Learning Contact Zone

Calendar of Due Dates

Spring 2003

 

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

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Mar 31

 

April 1

Writing #1/Part1 assigned

April 2

 

April 3

COMMUNITY WRITING ORIENTATION at the Haas Center for Public Service

Writing #1/Part1 due

Writing #1/Part 2 assigned

READINGS FOR TODAY:

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

€ Ch 1-3 (Writing for Real)

 

April 4

CRUCIAL: Meet with your agency mentor by APRIL 14 AT THE LATEST to determine your Community Writing and Speaking Projects -- complete the Community Writing and Speaking Contracts together

 

WEEK #1

Traveling in the "Contact Zone"

The importance of audience & purpose

What is rhetoric?

 

 

April 7

 

April 8

Writing #1/Part 2 due

Writing #1 draft assigned

READING FOR TODAY:

€ Ch 4-6 (Writing for Real)

 

April 9

 

April 10

ORAL COMMUNICATIONS WORKSHOP (during class time)

READINGS FOR TODAY (we will discuss these essays on Tuesday 4/15 with the film Salt of the Earth):

€ Anzaldua, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue";

€ Rodriguez, "The Achievement of Desire" (handouts)

April 11

 

WEEK #2

Rhetorical analysis: reading like writers/

From Writer to Reader: Point of view: the writer's "I"

Connecting personal and analytical writing

Developing an effective essay strategy (or transcending the 5-¶ essay)

induction and deduction; thesis and level of generalization

Introduction to oral rhetoric

 

April 14

 

 

April 15

Writing #1 draft due in class

Community Writing Contract and Community Speaking Contract due in class

Research Project overview

READINGS FOR TODAY:

€ FILM: Salt of the Earth (on reserve at Meyer Library);

€ Ch 7-8 (Writing for Real)

 

April 16

((For those doing reading presentations in class on 4/15, Writing #1 draft due at my office by 3 p.m.))

 

April 17

PEER REVIEW CONFERENCE Written peer review due at conference

3 possible research topic ideas due in class

READINGS FOR TODAY:

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

€ FILM: Mississippi Masala (on reserve at Meyer Library);

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

 

April 18

 

WEEK #3

Conference Sheet

Overview of the Research Project

Research reports vs. documented arguments, analyses, interpretations

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

Using sources: PROOF is not always the point

contextualizing, illuminating, and extending your ideas & experience

From Reader to Writer: Peer Review

Visual Rhetoric: information, persuasion, and propaganda

 

April 21

PEER REVIEW CONFERENCE Written peer review due at conference

 

April 22

Research Topic Form due in class

READINGS FOR TODAY:

€ FILM: Coming Home (on reserve at Meyer Library);

€ Ch 9 (Writing for Real)

April 23

 

April 24

Research Proposal due in class

Revision of Writing #1 due in class

LIBRARY WORKSHOP

Meet at 11:00 in the foyer of Green Library. See "Green East/South Portal" in Green's Online Tour.

READING FOR TODAY:

€ Chaps 16-18 , pp 270-326 (Penguin Handbook)

April 25

 

 

WEEK #4

Developing and refining a research question

Conducting preliminary research

Kinds of sources: reference, primary, and secondary

Library research

Online research

Interviews, surveys, field work

 

April 28

 

April 29

Working annotated bibliography due in class

CONFERENCES for groups to check in on Community Writing and Speaking assignments and for individuals to check in on research paper topics

READINGS FOR TODAY:

€ FILM: Paris Is Burning (on reserve at Meyer Library);

€ FILM: Big Eden (on reserve at Meyer Library)

 

April 30

 

May 1

Schedule Community Speaking Project Consultation with OCC Jennifer Hennings for between 5/4 and 5/6,

READING PRESENTATIONS CRITQUE

CONFERENCES for groups to check in on Community Writing and Speaking assignments; for individuals to check in on research paper topics

READING FOR TODAY:

€ Ch 10 (Writing for Real)

May 2

NOTE: Carolyn out of town

WEEK #5

Evaluating the working bibliography

Balance, variety, currency

Seeing and hearing ourselve s the way audiences do

 

May 5

Community Speaking Project Consultation with OCC Jennifer Hennings...

NOTE: Carolyn out of town

May 6

NO CLASS TODAY

Community Speaking Project Consultation with OCC Jennifer Hennings...

NOTE: Carolyn out of town

May 7

NOTE: Carolyn out of town

May 8

READINGS FOR TODAY:

Freire, "The Banking Concept of Education" (handout);

€ Ch 11 (Writing for Real)

 

May 9

 

 

WEEK #6

Research methods and strategies

Note-taking

Summary, paraphrase, quotation

Why argue?

The subjects of argument

What's a fact?

Audience, purpose, and the motives to articulate arguments

How to Argue

Elements of and strategies of argument

Evaluating arguments

Context, authority, logic, and bias

 

May 12

 

May 13

Community Writing Project drafts due for 5/16 conferences

READINGS FOR TODAY:

Geertz, "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cock Fight" (handout);

€ Ch 12 (Writing for Real)

 

May 14

 

 

May 15

Community Writing Project drafts due for 5/19 conferences

READINGS FOR TODAY:

Ch 13 (Writing for Real) ;

€ Chaps 19-20 , pp 327-354 (Penguin Handbook)

 

May 16

GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES on Community Writing Project

 

WEEK #7

Maintaining intellectual control in research writing

Writing with sources

Plagiarism

Alternative Documentation styles and stragegies

 

May 19

GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES on Community Writing Project

 

May 20

 

May 21

 

May 22

Research paper outline due in class

READING FOR TODAY:

€ Chaps 21, 23-25 , pp 356-396; 416-467 (Penguin Handbook)

May 23

 

 

WEEK #8

Outlining the research paper: Organizing principles, coverage, and sources

Beginning and ending

Establishing exigence

Induction or deduction?

Presenting and explaining essential background

Patterns of claim, evidence, and warrant

Academic Documentation styles and stragegies

 

May 26

 

May 27

 

 

May 28

 

May 29

Draft of research paper due in class

May 30

PEER REVIEW CONFERENCES on research paper drafts

Written peer review due in conference

 

WEEK #9

Revision strategies

June 2

PEER REVIEW CONFERENCES on research paper drafts

Written peer review due in conference

 

June 3

Presentations of Endquarter Work: Community Writing/Community Speaking Projects Showcase

Final Community Writing and Video-taped Community Speaking Projects due in class

 

READING FOR TODAY:

€ Ch 14 (Writing for Real)

 

June 4

 

June 5

NO CLASS: OPEN OFFICE HOURS INSTEAD

June 6

 

WEEK #10

Sharing the Work

Mentor visits

Wrap-up & celebration

June 9

Complete Portfolios due (including revised research paper and minus agency grant proposal) by 5 p.m. at my office.

 

June 10

 

June 11

Deadline for Agency Grant Proposal: 5 p.m., via email attachment to cbross@stanford.edu

June 12

June 13

EXAM WEEK

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