Course Calendar for English 328, Sections 1 and 2
(Updated Slightly on October 14)
This schedule is current as of October 14 (after slight changes) for both sections 1 and 2. Inevitably, there will be some changes, and I will announce them in class and publish them here.
Week 1
Sept 4: First day of classes! General course introductions.
Sept 6: Discuss the "Invent your own writing technology" assignment. Discuss the class electronic mailing list.
Week 2
Sept 9: "Personal/Professional Web Site Assignment" introduced; How to HTML, part one.
Sept 11: How to HTML, part two.
Sept 13: Discuss Walter Ong's "Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought," which is in the packet. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. Also, by the end of class today or so, you need to have the first part of your personal/professional web site assignment completed.
Week 3
Sept 16: Discuss Denis Baron's "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies," which is in the packet. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Sept 18: "Invent your own writing writing technology" assignment show and tell. Bring the first part of this assignment with you to class today (or, as appropriate, a photograph).
Sept 20: Peer Review of "Invent your own writing technology" essay. Bring 4 copies of the rough draft of your essay with you to class today.
Week 4
Sept 23: Peer Review, part 2. Bring written responses to your colleague's essays with you to class today. How to HTML, part three.
Sept 25: Discuss the Online Community and Discourse Assignment. Introduction to Google "s newsgroup readers. Introduction to Netscape Composer and HTML editing software.
Sept 27: "Invent you own writing technology" assignment due! Discuss first half of Strunk and White's Elements of Style. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment Introduced.
Week 5
Sept 30: Discuss second half of Strunk and White's Elements of Style. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Oct 2: In-class discussion of web-based "traditional" writing style guides.
Oct 4: Discuss first part of Booher's E-Writing, the "Introduction" and "Part 1," pages 1-47. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
By the end of this week, you need to send me an email to let me know about which newsgroup you have decided to follow for the Online Community and Discourse Assignment.
Week 6
Oct 7: Continued discussion of Booher's E-Writing, "Part 1" and "Part 2," pages 47-66. Be sure to post a message about Part II to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Oct 9: Continued discussion of Booher's E-Writing, "Part 3," pages 67-132. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Oct 11: Continued discussion of Booher's E-Writing, "Part 4," pages 133-286. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Week 7
Oct 14: Wrap-up discussion of Booher's E-Writing. Skim through "Part 5." Discuss the Traditional versus Electronic Style Assignment.
Oct 16: Continued discussion of the Traditional versus Electronic Style Assignment. Discuss web-based "e-writing" style guides (see the links page). Revisiting the personal/professional web site discussion.
Oct 18: Revisiting the personal/professional web site discussion. Discuss "SpiderPro 100 Dos and Don'ts of Web Design" and "From Sucky to Savvy" web sites, both of which are available online.
Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. More on the personal/professional web site.
By the end of this week, you need to send me an email "progress report" about the discussion on the newsgroup you have selected for the Online Community and Discourse Assignment.
Week 8
Oct 21: Discuss the "Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide," available on the web. Specifically, read/browse the sections on "Philosophy," "Interface Design," "Site Design," and "Page Design." Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting. More on the personal/professional web site.
Oct 23: Peer review of Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment, part one. Bring 4 copies of the rough draft of your essay with you to class today.
Oct 25: Peer review of Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment, part two. Bring written responses to your colleague "s essays with you to class today. In-class work on personal/professional web site.
By the end of this week, you will need to send me an email about your participation grade in class for the first part of the semester.
Week 9
Oct 28: Traditional versus Electronic Style Essay Assignment due! Discuss Hawisher's and Moran's "Rhetoric of Email," which is available in the course pack. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Oct 30: Discuss Spooner's and Yancey's "Email as a Genre," which is available in the course pack. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Nov 1: Discuss Porter's "Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy: A Communitarian Critique," which is available in the class course pack. Be sure to post a message to class electronic mailing list before our class meeting.
Week 10
Nov 4: Peer Review of Online Community and Discourse Assignment, part one. Bring 4 copies of the rough draft of your essay with you to class today.
Nov 6: Peer Review of Online Community and Discourse Assignment, part two. Bring written responses to your colleague "s essays with you to class today. In-class work on personal/professional web site.
Nov 8: Collaborative Web Project Assignment Introduced; In-class work on personal/professional web sites.
Week 11
Nov 11: Online Community and Discourse Assignment due! In-class work on personal/professional web sites and collaborative web projects. By the end of today's class, each collaborative group needs to be established.
Nov 13: Poster session for personal/professional web sites and peer review of brief web revisions essay. By today's class, you need to be ready to show to others your revised personal/professional web site and the brief essay you wrote about the revisions and changes you made to that site.
Nov 15: In-class work on collaborative and personal/professional web sites.
Week 12
Nov 18: Brief small group presentations about collaborative web projects. Each group will discuss the subject of their collaborative web project. In-class work on collaborative and personal/professional web sites. By about 1 pm today, your revised personal web site needs to be posted.
Nov 20: In-class work today on collaborative web projects.
Nov 22: In-class work today on collaborative web projects. Web-based portfolio essay assignment introduced.
Week 13
Nov 25: Catch-up day; In-class work today on collaborative web projects.
Nov 27 and Nov 29: No Classes--Thanksgiving
Week 14
Dec 2: In-class work today on collaborative web projects.
Dec 4: Poster session of collaborative web projects! By today 's class, each group's site must be up, running, and enough in place in order for others in the class to review and comment on it.
Dec 6: Collaborative web project due! While you and your group members will have time today to make the "finishing touches" on your web sites, I will begin evaluating the sites after 1 pm today.
Week 15
Dec 9: In-class small-group discussion of web-based portfolio essays and revisions.
Dec 11: (Wednesday) Last day of classes! Wrap-up of web-based portfolio discussions; last day issues.
Finals The web-based portfolio of writing projects needs to be posted by the time of our final.