English 102

Spring 2018
Schedule

Week 1
W Jan 17 Welcome, Intro, Discuss Syllabus, In class writing

Week 2
M Jan 22 Read: p. 354-357 Shitty First Drafts (also available on website in readings)
Discuss: Ethnography, blogging

W Jan 24 Due: Blog Post 1 in response to prompt on blog Read: Friday Night at Iowa 80 (in
reading on website) Discuss: reading and essay #1

Week 3
M Jan 29 Class Cancelled Due: Blog Post 2 in response to prompt on blog

W Jan 31 Read: Excerpts from Fieldworking on Observation (in readings on website will be
posted by Mon night 1/29) Discuss: Positioning Yourself, Pov, rhetoric, and permission

Week 4
M Feb 5 Due Essay #1 I, Researcher Draft for workshop Read: Excerpts from Fieldworking on
space (in readings on website) Discuss: Space and observation, essay #2

W Feb 7 Due: Essay #1 I, Researcher Read: "On Keeping a Notebook" and notetaking excerpt
(in reading on website) Discuss: Notetaking and reading, essay #2

Week 5
M Feb 12 Due: Blog Post 3 in response to prompt on blog.

W Feb 14 Due: Blog post #4 Research day. Class will not meet. Use this time to go to
your site or to make up for the time you have spent at your site.

Week 6
M Feb 19 President’s Day No Class

W Feb 21 Monday Class Schedule Read: Excerpts from Fieldworking on People and
artifacts. Discuss: observing people, artifacts, and drafting

Week 7
M Feb 26 Due: Blog post #5 Read: Prof. Williams’s “Reading the Gardner” p.6-9 and 14-17
(under research tab on website) Discuss: Descriptive writing. (Class will end at 2:30 for site
observation time)

W Feb 28 Read: On Writing Well ch 6&7 (in links on website). Career Services Visit

Week 8-Spring Break

Week 9
M Mar 12 Writing Day- Class Will Not Meet.

W Mar 14 Class Cancelled- Snow Day

Week 10
M Mar 19 Due: Essay #2 The Lay of the Land draft for workshop Discuss: Maps

W Mar 21 Library Research Visit- Meet at Maxwell Library reference desk Due:
Essay #2 The Lay of the Land Read: Excerpt from Fieldworking on Annotated Bibliography
Discuss: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography

Week 11
M Mar 26 Due: Blog post Read: Excerpt from Fieldworking on Interviewing Discuss:
Interviews, Recording and transcribing

W Mar 28 Due: Blog Post Read: Two Excerpts from fieldworking on language and archives
and Excerpt from Fieldworking on Secondary Sources Discuss: Secondary Sources, annotated
bibs, language in writing and Archives

Week 12
M Apr 2 Due: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography draft for workshop
Discuss: Essay #4 The So What?

W Apr 4 Due: Essay #3 The Interview and Annotated Bibliography. Read: Excerpt from
Fieldworking on Drafting, Read: Professor Williams’s Bowling Ethnography (in readings on
website) Discuss: drafting, Group Presentations

Week 13
M Apr 9 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due

W Apr 11 Class Cancelled for Conferences, Essay #4 draft due

Week 14
M Apr 16 Patriot’s Day- No Class

W Apr 18 Group Presentation Work Day

Week 15
M Apr 23 Group Presentation Work Day and Discuss Final Portfolio

W Apr 25 Due: Group Presentations

Week 16
M Apr 30 Due: Essay 4 for workshop

Final Exam Due: Final Portfolio and Final exam (in class essay)

Due: Essay #2 The Lay of the Land draft for workshop Writing time. Bring ethnography
research and laptop to class.