Calendar

Follow the links at the bottom of this page for a schedule of assignments for each week this semester. Within each week, you will find daily listings of assignments. Each bullet point for the day is a different task for you to complete. Unless specifically noted otherwise, all assignments are to be completed before class on the day listed.

This course calendar may be updated throughout the semester. I'll notify you about any major changes, but you are still responsible for keeping up with the current schedule.

IMPORTANT: You must visit all of the links provided within the course calendar. There are many links to follow and read. Make sure you visit all of them. Some links provide easy access to other parts of the class site which will help you in your assignments. Some links are to required readings. Others provide you with detailed instructions on completing the assignments. Eventually, you may come to know the instructions which supplement assignments that are repeated throughout the course, but it's still a good idea to continue to revisit the instructions to make sure that you are satisfying all of the requirements.

Week 1: Course Introduction

Monday, January 7th

Syllabus, Course Policies, Introductions
Writing Activity: Course expectations

  • Homework: Purchase textbooks. For Wednesday, read pages 1-9 in compose, design, advocate.

    Conferences: Tuesday and Thursday , January 8th & 10th
    Small group discussion:
    What do you like about your writing?
    What would you like to improve about your writing?

    Wednesday, January 9th
    Introduction to first writing assignment: Literacy Narrative

    In your daily lives, how do you design, compose, and advocate?

    Computer Lab: Friday, January 11th
    Writing diagnostic

  • Homework for Monday: read the attached handout: "Writing a Literacy Narrative." [Note: you must be an authenticated user of this site to view attachments.]

    • Week 2: Literacy Narrative

    Monday, January 14th
    Writing Lab Tour: Meet in classroom & we'll go to the Writing Lab at 2:29.

    Discuss Literacy Narratives
    Generating ideas and prewriting

  • Reading for Wednesday: pages 3-13 in The Little, Brown Handbook.
  • Homework for Wednesday: read over your literacy narrative chapter (the .pdf that's attached to week one and is listed in the Handouts tab). Begin pre-writing: choose your topic(s) and begin generating ideas. Answer as many questions as you can from pages 32 and 33 on the handout under "Describe the setting," "Think about key people," and "Write about 'what happened'."

    Conferences: Tuesday, January 15th & Thursday, January 17th
    Permission forms & syllabus signature slips
    Blogs and blogging

    Wednesday, January 16th
    Bring to class: your compose, design, advocate textbook and your Little, Brown Handbook.
    Writing a statement of purpose.

  • Homework for Friday: Write 1st draft of your literacy narrative. Bring an electronic version to class with you (have it on your storage device). You must be able to email it to me during class.
    Computer Lab: Friday, January 18th

    Plagiarism workshop I (from the syllabus)
    Learning the Comment feature on Word

    End of class: email me your "commented on" first draft literacy narrative. Over the weekend or on Monday, I'll email comments back to you.

    No class on Monday: MLK, Jr. Day.

  • Homework for next Wednesday: revise your literacy narrative. Bring a hard copy of it to class on Wednesday.

    • Week 3: Literacy Narrative

    Monday, January 21st
    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no classes)

    Conferences: Tuesday, January 22nd & Thursday, January 24th
    Bring questions about your literacy narrative to conference.
    Make sure you have a hard copy of your literacy narrative (the one I commented on) AND your Little, Brown Handbook with you.

    Wednesday, January 23rd

  • For today: bring to class a hard copy of your revised literacy narrative. We will do some peer review today and work on using vivid description and dialogue.

    Computer Lab: Friday, January 25th

  • Due: a revision of Wednesday's literacy narrative. Bring an electronic version to class for peer review.

    The final draft of your literacy narrative is due on Monday, January 28th. Revisit the Literacy Narrative Assignment for what must be handed in.

    • Week 4: Profile Project, The Introduction

    Monday, January 28th

  • Due: the final draft of your literacy narrative is due today at the beginning of class. Revisit the Literacy Narrative Assignment to see what must be handed in (and in what order).

    Introduction to the Profile Assignment.

  • Homework for Wednesday: Reflection on Your Literacy Narrative.
  • Reading for Wednesday: in compose, design, advocate, read pages 143-149. Read this well enough to be able to apply what you've learned.

    Conferences: Tuesday, January 29th & Thursday, January 31st
    Bring topic ideas (notice the use of PLURAL: ideaS) and your Little, Brown Handbook to conference.

    Wednesday, January 30th

  • Hand in at the beginning of class: your Reflection on Your Literacy Narrative.

    More on profiles. Brainstorming, invention, planning.
    How to write a basic proposal.

  • Homework for Friday: Bring to class your written (typed) proposal for who you want to interview and why. In your proposal you must provide me with some background information about this person. Give me the name and contact information for your subject (email address is fine).
  • Reading for Friday: in compose, design, advocate, read pages 150-160.

    Computer Lab: Friday, February 1st
    Plagiarism workshop. We will work in small groups.
    If time remains, we'll work with Open Mind.

  • Reading for Monday: In cda, pages 256-258 and this web page about Analyzing Interviews. You must read this before you do your homework for Monday.
  • Homework for Monday: Write ten interview questions you have for your profilee. Bring your printed list to class.


    • Week 5: Interviewing/Profile

    Monday, Febraury 4th

  • Homework for today: Write ten interview questions you have for your profilee. Bring your printed list to class.

    Here's a link to the printed text and audio version of "A Day in the Life of a Tireless Imam."

  • Writing assignment for Wednesday: IF your proposal has been approved, you may make official contact with your selected profilee. Bring a printed copy of your contact correspondence to class on Wednesday.
  • Write at least ten more interview questions based on today's discussion/activity.
  • Reading assignment for Wednesday: Pages 445-464 in cda. Be prepared to discuss this essay in class. Pay close attention to the material before and after the actual essay "Higher Education."

    Conferences: Tuesday, February 5th & Thursday, February 7th

    Bring your Little, Brown Handbook to conferences. You will receive your evaluated Literacy Narrative and Reflection at the end of your conference.

    Wednesday, February 6th
    Today: Discussion of "Higher Education."

  • Reading assignment for Friday: pages 347-359 in cda, "analyzing documentary photography."
  • Writing assignment for Friday: using ideas and vocabulary you learned in your reading in cda, write a one-page (single-spaced) analysis of one of the photographs used in "Higher Education." How does the photograph add to the story? This assignment is worth 10 points. You will need to hand it in at the beginning of the hour.

    Computer Lab: Friday, February 8th
    Hand in your one-page analysis of one of the photographs in "Higher Education."

    Researching/interviewing activity
    Looking for/at publication venues.

  • Reading assignment for Monday: In cda, read Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot," pages 134-140 and "the pleasures of writing" and "The Declaration of Independence," pages 182-187. Don't be surprised if there's a quiz.
  • Writing assignment for Monday: Be preparing for your interview.

    Blog prompt (due by Monday, 2pm): By now you have been a member of the Purdue community for at least a semester. Describe the best place you have found in which to study. Try to use all of your senses to make this place real for the other blogger/readers. Why is this an ideal place to study? If you have not found an ideal place to study, describe the place in which you do study (and why it's not so ideal). Again, use your powers of observation. Listen. Sniff. Look around. Feel.

    • Week 6: Interviewing/Profile

    Monday, Febraury 11th
    Don't forget: your blog entry is due today by 2pm. Your blogging prompt is posted on last Friday's calendar.

    Discussion of Sarah Vowell's "The Partly Cloudy Patriot" and The Declaration of Independance.

  • Reading due for Wednesday: In cda, read "the contexts, audiences, and purposes of writing," "ethos, logos, and pathos as writing strategies," and "ethos in writing," pages 188-197.
  • Writing due for Wednesday: Keep working on your interview.

    Conferences: Tuesday, February 12th & Thursday, February 14th
    --The Wonderful World of Independent and Dependent Clauses (and how to use a comma well).
    --Your interview progress: an update, please.

    As always, bring your copy of The Little, Brown Handbook.

    Wednesday, February 13th

  • Reading due for Friday: In cda, read "logos in writing," and "pathos in writing," pages 198-211.
  • Writing due for Friday: Your interview should be done by Friday.

    Computer Lab: Friday, February 15th

    Working with forums, publication venues, and profiles.

  • Reading due for Monday: In cda, read "the written strategies of revising, editing, and proofreading," pages 213-218
  • Writing due for Monday: Select a group member to clean up and finish your forum.
  • Blog prompt for Monday (due by 2pm): Describe a time when you learned something the hard way. What was your hard lesson? What led up to it? What was the aftermath?
  • Bring to class on Monday: Your cda book AND a copy of your selected publication venue.

    • Week 7: Profile Drafting & Writing Description

    Monday, Febraury 18th

  • Bring to class on today: Your cda book AND a copy of your selected publication venue.
  • Blog prompt for today (due by 2pm): Describe a time when you learned something the hard way. What was your hard lesson? What led up to it? What was the aftermath?

    Today: discussion on rewriting, revision, editing, proofreading.
    Activity: examination and analysis of your publication venue.

  • Due Wednesday: your interview notes and typed copy of your interview transcript.

    Conferences: Tuesday, February 19th & Thursday, February 21st
    Discussion: Drafting your profile.

    Wednesday, February 20th

  • Due today: your interview notes and typed copy of your interview transcript.

    Small group work: dominant impression or the "angle" of your profile.
    Description and dialogue

    Computer Lab: Friday, February 22nd

  • Due today: an electronic draft of your profile. Bring your draft to class for electronic peer review. You will email your draft to me during class.
  • Blog prompt for Monday (due by 2pm): Write a serious letter to your 10-year-old self. What do you wish that person knew before he or she became you today? What do you need to tell yourself at ten years old to prepare you for today? What warnings or insights or bits of wisdom can you tell your 10-year-old YOU?
  • Writing assignment for Monday: Your well-considered peer review is due by Monday, 5pm. You must email a copy to the profile writer and to me.
  • Reading assignment for Monday: A profile about the real-life character Meryl Streep played in The Devil Wears Prada, Anna Wintour. Print a copy of this article and bring it to class on Monday. As you read it, use a highlighter to mark the places where Anna Wintour has dialogue. Then, mark the places where Anna Wintour is described. (Use two different highlighter colors if you have them.)

    Quote for the week: Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period. -Nicholas Sparks, author (1965- )

    • Week 8: Profile Drafting, Revising, Editing, Formatting

    Monday, Febraury 25th

  • Due: Today's blog entry (due by 2pm). Your prompt for this blog entry is posted on last Friday's page.

    Today: Description and dialogue. Bring your printed and marked-up copy of the online article I assigned for today.
    Writing Thank You notes.

  • Reading for Wednesday: A Celebration of the Semicolon.

    Conferences: Tuesday, February 26th & Thursday, February 28th
    Bring to conference: On your flash drive, a picture of your profile subject (ideally) OR a representative graphic that would accompany your profile article. Also bring an electronic version of your current profile draft.

    Wednesday, February 27th
    Bring to class a hard copy of the draft you've worked on since your first peer review. We will do an in-class peer review today.

    Introductions and Conclusions

    Computer Lab: Friday, February 29th
    Bring to class an electronic copy of your revised draft (since Wednesday's peer review) of your formatted profile.

  • Blog prompt for Monday (due by 2pm): Another letter--this time, to your 30-year-old self. What do you tell your future self? Do you apologize for something? Do you explain why you are doing what you are doing? Do you question yourself? Be imaginative, creative, insightful, fun. Think hard about this prompt. You might surprise yourself with what you say. As always, put some thought and effort into this blog. Use proper grammar and mechanics.

  • Homework for Wednesday: The final draft of your profile, appropriately formatted with a graphic, title, and pull-quote. Please see the complete list of what you must hand in for this project on the "Profile" assignment sheet (click on the Projects tab).

    • Week 9: Handing in your Profile

    Monday, March 3rd

  • Due: your blog entry for today (due by 2pm). Your blog writing prompt is posted on Friday's page.
  • Homework for Wednesday: The final draft of your profile, appropriately formatted with a graphic, title, and pull-quote. Please see the complete list of what you must hand in for this project on the "Profile" assignment sheet (click on the Projects tab).

    Here is a wonderful profile from Indianapolis Monthly about two professors here at Purdue: the married couple Porter Shreve and Bich Nguyen. Notice the introduction and conclusion. Also, what is the dominant impression that you get from this couple?

    Conferences: Tuesday, March 4th & Thursday, March 6th
    Bring your Little, Brown Handbook.
    Your grades so far.

    Wednesday, March 5th

  • Homework for Friday: Your Profile Reflection. Your assignment sheet for this assignment is attached (you must be logged in to view/open it). This assignment is worth 20 points. Email your reflection to me by 2pm on Friday. Your file must look like this: LastNameProfileRefl.doc.

    Computer Lab: Friday, March 7th

  • Homework for today: Your Profile Reflection. Your assignment sheet for this assignment is attached (you must be logged in to view/open it). This assignment is worth 20 points. Email your reflection to me by 2pm on Friday. Your file must look like this: LastNameProfileRefl.doc.
  • Homework for Spring Break: if you go home for break, ask your family about your ancestors. Go as far back as you can and get names, birth and death dates, and any details that you can. If you are NOT going home for break, call or email a family member to get some information.

    Bring Refuge to class on Monday after break.

  • One more Spring Break homework assignment: come back to Purdue safely.

    • Week 10: Spring Break

    SPRING BREAK: Monday, March 10th-Friday, March 14th

    HOMEWORK: Return to campus safely.

    Monday, March 17th: Last day to drop a course.

    Week 11: Refuge and Research

    Monday, March 17th
    Last day to drop a course.
    If you need to drop any course, please see your academic advisor.

  • Reading due for Wednesday: Refuge, pages 5-76.
  • Homework due for Wednesday: The first four CORE quiz scores must be emailed to me (see CORE explanation below).
  • Due in one week:
    The Hicks Undergraduate Library Audio Tour
    1) Go to the Hicks Undergraduate Library Circulation Desk.
    2) Tell the person behind the desk that you need to take the audio tour and that you'd appreciate it if you could fill out the card that says you were there. [Note: on the card, you put Linda Haynes, English 106, and Heavilon 303E.] You will be able to check out an audio iPod at the Circulation Desk so you may listen to the tour. You will be given a map of the library and a worksheet of questions to fill out.
    3) Take the tour, answer the worksheet questions, AND put the numbers on the map as the audio instructs you to do. You will need to hand BOTH of these sheets in for credit.
    4) You need to hand in the map and worksheet by Monday, March 24th.

  • Due this week (see each day for details):
    The CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education) Tutorial
    1) Go to the Purdue Libraries website.
    2) Under "Research Help," click on CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education).
    3) Create an account so that you can send your quiz scores to me, return to your work, and keep track of your CORE progress. Remember (or write down somewhere safe) your login and password for this account you've just created. Always use this account on your CORE tutorials.
    4) Send all of your quiz scores directly to me. As a safeguard, you should also send your quiz scores to yourself. (My email: lhaynes@purdue.edu)

    Conferences: Tuesday, March 18th & Thursday, March 20th
    Bring your Little, Brown Handbooks to conferences.

    Wednesday, March 19th

  • CORE quizzes due today by 2pm:
    Plan Your Project
    Topic Exploration
    Types of Information
    Search Basics
    Computer Lab: Friday, March 21st

  • CORE quizzes due today by 2pm:
    Types of Searches
    Keyword Search

    Today's class: The Annotated Bibliography and writing a proposal.
    You will write your preliminary proposals in class today. This proposal is worth 30 points.

    Please note: Monday's class will be held in the iLab (Hicks Undergraduate Library, G595. Please be on time for our guest lecturer, Professor Jennifer Sharkey, Assistant Professor of Library Science.

  • Homework for Monday: the Hicks Undergraduate Library Tour. You will need to hand in your filled in questionnaire and map.
  • Reading due in Refuge by Wednesday: Pages 77-152.

    • Week 12: Proposal and Research

    When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. -Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)

    Monday, March 24th

    CLASS WILL BE HELD IN THE HICKS UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY, G959 (the iLab).
    Jennifer Sharkey, Assistant Professor of Library Science, will be our guest lecturer. Please make every effort to be on time for this presentation.

    Due: Your Hicks Undergraduate Library Tour sheet and map. Hand them to me as you enter the iLab.

  • Reading due in Refuge by Wednesday: Pages 77-152.
  • Due this week:
    The rest of the CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education) Tutorial
    1) Go to the Purdue Libraries website.
    2) Under "Research Help," click on CORE (Comprehensive Online Research Education).
    3) Create an account so that you can send your quiz scores to me, return to your work, and keep track of your CORE progress. Remember (or write down somewhere safe) your login and password for this account you've just created. Always use this account on your CORE tutorials.
    4) Send your quiz scores directly to me. As a safeguard, you should also send your quiz scores to yourself. (My email: lhaynes@purdue.edu)

    Conferences: Tuesday, March 25th & Thursday, March 27th
    Bring LBH and the work you have been doing toward your project. We will discuss the direction of your research and the work you've accomplished so far.

    Wednesday, March 26th
    Today we'll discuss anything you need to talk about concerning Professor Sharkey's lecture from Monday.

    Your reading for today in Refuge is: Pages 77-152 (Ravens, Pink Flamingos, Snow Buntings, White Pelicans, Yellow-Headed Blackbirds, Redheads, Killdeer, Whistling Swan, Great Horned Owl, Roadrunner, Magpies, and Long-Billed Curlews.)

    You are dying to know more about Starlings, aren't you? This link will tell you all you care to know about sturnus vulgaris. In fact, if you'd like to know more about any of the birds in Refuge, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the place to look.

  • CORE quizzes due by 2pm today:
    LIbraries Catalog
    Indexes

    Computer Lab: Friday, March 28th

    Today we'll cover writing your formal proposal, creating your research timeline, and assembling and formatting your annotated bibliography.

  • CORE quizzes due by 2pm today:
    Internet
    Evaluating Sources
    Wrapping Up

  • Reading due in Refuge by Monday: Pages 153-232.
  • Writing due at the beginning of class on Monday: Formal research proposal and timeline + your preliminary annotated bibliography.

    • Week 13: More Research, Refuge, Analysis

    The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing. –Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)

    Monday, March 31st

  • Reading due in Refuge for today: Pages 153-232.
  • Writing due at the beginning of class today: Formal research proposal and timeline + your preliminary annotated bibliography.
  • Reading due in Refuge by Wednesday: Pages 233-290.

    Conferences: Tuesday, April 1st & Thursday, April 3rd
    Bring to conference your in-progress research, writing, and questions. Be ready to talk about what progress you've made toward your problem/solution.

    Wednesday, April 2nd

  • Reading due in Refuge by today: Pages 233-290.

    In class, we'll read the essay "The Clan of the One-Breasted Women," by Terry Tempest Williams (pages 281-290 in Refuge) and At The Bomb Testing Site, a poem by William Stafford.

  • Writing due on Friday: your final Annotated Bibliography.

    Computer Lab: Friday, April 4th

  • Final Annotated Bibliography due today.

    Discussion today will be about analyzing visuals and analyzing & responding to a text.

  • Due on Monday: Draft of your Williams and Stafford Response Essay.

    • Week 14: The Explanatory Report

    New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

    Monday, April 7th

  • Due today: Your Williams and Stafford Response Essay.

    Beginning your Explanatory Report: What information should you supply to your readers?
    Prewriting and planning

    Conferences: Tuesday, April 8th & Thursday, April 10th

    Explanatory Report, citing sources, your multimedia presentation (showing one example)

    Wednesday, April 9th

    More discussion of your Explanatory Report: citing sources
    Bring to class: your typed up notes/planning and writing that you did in class on Monday. (If you already have a draft of your report, bring that.) Also bring any source material (journal article, web site, etc.) that you might be using in your Explanatory Report.

    Handout: from They Say/I Say

  • Due Friday: Draft of your Explanatory Report

    Computer Lab: Friday, April 11th

  • Bring to class: an electronic version of your Explanatory Report
    In-class peer review

    Showing one more multimedia presentation example

    • Week 15: Reflecting on Research

    More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -Woody Allen, author actor, and filmmaker (1935- )

    Monday, April 14th

  • Due on Wednesday: Final revision of your Explanatory Report.
    Your Explanatory Report is worth 100 points
    Due: Wednesday, April 16th at the beginning of class.
    Use MLA format for your paper with your last name and page number in the upper right corner of all pages and the following information in the upper left corner of the first page:

    Your name

    Explanatory Report, Final Draft
    English 106-08-02

    Date you completed this draft

    Assemble in the following order (with the final draft on top), attached with a springy clip:
     Final draft in MLA format, properly cited, proofread carefully.
     Most recent updated and corrected Annotated Bibliography
     Graded Annotated Bibliography

     Drafts
/Revisions in reverse order of when written
     A copy of the peer review that was done on your report

     Your planning and pre-writing


    Conferences: Tuesday, April 15th & Thursday, April 17th
    Conferences are cancelled this week.

    Tuesday: ICaP Showcase 9:00-3:00 in Stewart Center.
    For 30 points, you will visit the Showcase at some time during the day, vote for your favorite project, and write a description of the Showcase in general and of two projects specifically. Write the description as if you are telling someone about it who has never been to a Showcase before.

    Wednesday, April 16th

  • Due today at the beginning of class: Final revision of your Explanatory Report.
  • Due on Friday: Explanatory Report and Research Reflection

    Computer Lab: Friday, April 18th
    Due today: Explanatory Report and Research Reflection
    In lab today: Working on multimedia projects

  • Homework: your multimedia projects and presentations

    • Week 16: Presentations

    It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?
    -Richard Bach, writer (1936-)

    Over the weekend (give yourself some time after you have presented):
    Reflection Questions Over Your Presentation: Thinking About Your Outcome
    25 point writing assignment

    In this reflection, you should NOT merely answer these questions one-by-one; you need to think about your essay in terms of these questions. Use the questions as pre-writing, but then, craft your reflection and organize it like a meditative essay in which you have actually examined your writing critically.
    • Did you find the Research Project/Explanatory Report/Presentation of the Outcome assignment interesting? Explain.
(You’ll be talking about the entire project here.)
    • What did you find most difficult about forming your Outcome?
    • What was most difficult about presenting your Outcome for the class? 

    • What did you find easiest about completing the project?

    • What do you wish you had spent more time on when completing this project?

    • What instruction proved most helpful to you when completing this project?

    • What did you need more help with when completing this project?

    • What are the strengths of your outcome and presentation, as you see it?

    • What are the weaknesses of your outcome and presentation, as you see it?

    • What would you do differently if you were to begin this project anew? What advice would you give a friend who is about to begin the same assignment?

    Email me your reflection as an attached Word document (.doc only, please) by Monday morning. Do not write your presentation reflection until after your presentation. Make sure you read it aloud and carefully proofread what you've written.

    Monday, April 21st
    Class today will be held in ENAD 233 for PRESENTATIONS.
    Go over Semester Analysis assignment.

    Conferences: Tuesday, April 22nd & Thursday, April 24th
    Final work on presentations

    Wednesday, April 23rd
    Class today will be held in ENAD 233 for PRESENTATIONS.

    Computer Lab: Friday, April 25th
    Class today will be held in ENAD 130 (our regular Friday computer lab) for PRESENTATIONS.

  • Your final paper is due via email by Wednesday, 2pm OR as a hard copy by 4:00pm in my office, Heavilon 303E: Semester Analysis, worth 100 points. The assignment sheet is attached.

    • Finals Week

    Your Semester Reflection must be emailed to me by Wednesday, 2pm OR as a hard copy delivered to my office (Heavilon 303E) by 4pm.

    You may pick up your work on:
    I will be in my office on: