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DATE
January 8

TOPIC
Introduction to Class Syllabus Icebreakers

ASSIGNMENT (DUE)
NADA

January 10 INTRODUCE ASSIGNMENT #1: LITERACY MEMOIR What is a memoir? What is literacy? What is this class? January 15 What is literacy, now? What is good writing?

Top 5 Moments in your Academic Career/Another Activity Please read: Blue Collar Brilliance

Please read: Mother Tongue* & Literacy as a Social Practice^ Blog #1 Assigned

January 17

Rough Draft Assignment #1 Due PEER REVIEW DAY Please Read: Shitty First Drafts^, PEER REVIEW Please read: Revision Strategies^ Stephen King on Writing^

January 22 Revision vs. Editing Global vs. Local January 24 INTRODUCE ASSIGNMENT #2: CULTURAL ARTIFACT ANALYSIS What is an artifact? What is culture? How is related to literacy?

Please read: The Skin We Ink^ BLOG #1 Due GRADED DRAFT OF ASSIGNMENT #1 due Monday, Jan. 28 @ 11:59 p.m.

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January 29 Discourse communities Powers effect January 31 More on discourse communities February 5 Different strokes for different folks: What culture means in different places February 7 PEER REVIEW DAY February 12 Writing style, argumentation, style workshop February 14 February 19 INTRODUCE ASSIGNMENT #3: DISCIPLINARY LITERACY What is a discipline? Who cares and why? February 21 TBD February 26 TBD February 28 WORKSHOP DAY Researching on the web, gathering sources TBD

Please read: Nicki Minaj #1^ and Nicki Minaj #2^

Please Read: Mackadocious^ and TBA Please Read: Poetics of Hip Hop^

Rough Draft Assignment #2 Due PEER REVIEW Please Read: SUVs and the Exploitation^ & Clothes Make the Professor^ Please Read: School vs. Education Final Draft Assignment #2 Due Please Read: Rhetoric of Celebrity Cookbooks*

Please Read: One Carpenters Life^ Please Read: The Mind at Work^ WORKSHOP

* = Your Textbook (print or online) ^=Course Website March 5 March 7 March 12 NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK NO CLASS - SPRING BREAK Interviewing Exercise ---

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Annotated Bibliographies Due Please Read: The Truth Wears off* Work on Assignment #3 Please Read: Forest Unseen^ Rough Draft Assignment #3 Due

March 14 March 19

NO CLASS IN LAS VEGAS Dialogues with Dave

March 21 PEER REVIEW DAY March 26 Citation, style guides, etc.

PEER REVIEW Please Read: Everything Bad is Good For You^ Please meet with me to discuss your progress on Assignment #3 and your revisions

March 28

INDVIDUAL MEETINGS NO CLASS

April 2

INTRODUCE ASSIGNMENT #4: THE REMIX What is remix? Why does it matter?

Final Draft Assignment #3 Due Please Watch: TBD

April 4

The medium is the messagehuh? MEME WORKSHOP

Please post a meme you think is exceptionally good to the course website

April 9

Visual grammar, design, and rhetoric GLIFFY WORKSHOP

Please read: TBD PROPOSAL DUE

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April 11 Proposal Writing Workshop

April 16 INTRODUCE ASSIGNMENT #5: REVISING LITERACIES PEER REVIEW DAY April 18 INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS

Rough Draft Assignment #4 Due PEER REVIEW

April 23 PRESENTATIONS April 25 PRESENATIONS FINAL EXAM PERIOD PRESENATIONS

Please meet to set-up final weeks of the semester and to discuss problems, issues, triumphs with your remix! Final Draft Assignment #4 Due PRESENTATIONS PRESENTATIONS

ASSIGNMENT #5 DUE PRESENTATIONS