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Expository English
Composition
Information on this calendar applies only to courses taught by Owen
Williamson. Spring, 2011.
Major assignments are due online by 3:00 pm on Friday of the indicated
week.
MH = McGraw-Hill Guide; GFC = Guide to First-Year Composition
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 Week One
: Jan 18-21
 Introduction to
class and review of syllabus. Welcome survey.
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 Week Two:
Jan 24-28
 Assignment: Introduce
Homepage
nclude a 50 word introduction to your e-portfolio
Include 200 word biographical description of yourself
Provide a copyright and fair use statement
Resource: Explore
sample professional homepages.
Read and print out UTEP rules on
Web and
Internet Access and Use
Discuss "Genre." See GFC p. 267. Relate
this, and Discourse Communities, to Theme.
PICK UP MH TEXTBOOK AFTER CLASS IN BURGESS
201!
Resource: "Style"
(with possible exercise).
Read GFC p.66.
Resource:
Writing Rules
MH: Chapters 1-3
GFC: Chapter 2
Discourse Community Map and Response Activities (GFC p. 126-136)
Discourse Community Map and Response due
online by Jan. 29, at 7:30 am. Worth 5% of your grade.
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Week Three:
Jan. 28-Feb. 4
Library of links to agencies, groups, articles
and other resources on themes.
Links highlighted in
green
qualify as "agencies."
Resource:
How
to Write a Memo
Resource:
UTEP
Alumni Association Memo
(You can use this as
a format model)
Instructions: Writing a Memo.
Possible handout
Resource:
The "Who Cares?" test.
MH: Chapter 5
GFC: Chapter 3
Homepage Activities (GFC p. 138-145)
Homepage
due on your web portfolio by
Feb. 5, at 7:30 am. Worth 5% of your grade.
No change of semester theme
allowed after Feb. 5.
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Week Four:
Feb. 7-11
Annotated Bibliography
of
10-15 sources of
various types (book, article, website, etc.)
with
annotations of
100-150 words each.
APA Slide show (PowerPoint)
OWL Website
APA Style
Research--how to do it. Scholarly
sources and popular sources.
See GFC pps. 95-6 and 102.
Resources:
Scholar Google;
Science magazine
Searchall
search engine; ArXiv science preprint archive
Resource: UTEP Digital Commons
Dissertation/Thesis
Index
MH: Chapter 19
GFC: Chapter 5
 Agency Discourse Memo Activities
(p. 147-152)
10% of your grade.
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Week Five:
Feb. 14-18.
Community
problem Report
Discuss
Community Problem Report Grading
Rubric
Primary research:See GFC p. 75.
How to organize your paper
Exercise:
Connect your theme to your personal, educational, professional and
civic life.
 Discuss: Audience.
MH: Chapter 20, GFC: Chapter 4
Resource:
Index of
Prohibited Words for Academic Writing
Annotated Bibliography Activities (GFC p. 158-164)
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Week Six:
Feb. 21-25
(cont'd)
Sample problem
report on teen health
Sample problem report on El Paso's
water
Sample APA
scholarly paper 1
Sample APA
scholarly paper 2
Exercise
(tentative): Analyze
organization of a paper or a source on your biblio
MH: Chapter 6
GFC:
Community Problem Report
Activities (GFC pps. 166-173)
See GFC p. 174, follow instructions
10% of your grade.
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Week Seven:
Feb. 28-Mar. 4
Exercise:
Create a library of quotes for your report, with in-text
citations.
Exercise: Create an executive
summary of your report.
Exercise: List three discourse communities in favor of your
standpoint and three against. Indicate what genres each
discourse community typically uses for internal and for
external communication.
Finally, indicate how you. personally, relate to the discourse
communities in favor of your standpoint. Through
your research and composition, are you in fact joining any
of these discourse communities or drawing close to
any? To what degree?
Exercise:
Situating your work.
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Week Eight:
Mar. 7-11
Tentative exercise: How is knowledge typically created
and shared in the particular discourse community or
communities that have to do with your theme?
MH: Chapter 14, Chapter 9
Midterm Grades due.
10%of your grade
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Spring Break March
14-18, 2011
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Week Nine:
Mar. 21-25
- What real audience should
see this piece of writing, or might even pay
good money to read it? Why would they care?
- How well does this
composition serve that audience? Why or why not?
Send response to special e-mail indicated in
class.
. Is your article antagonistic or not?
Exercise: Practice analysis:
Article
from NY Times
MH: Chapter 7
Optional Resource:
Analysis Power Tools
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Week Ten:
Mar. 28 - Apr. 1
H/W: Find a
visual related to your theme!
Sample visual analysis:
from NY Times
R esources: Sample visual
arguments. E.g.:
"That
Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Earth"
and
The Poster as Propaganda
(slide show):
Bananas;
You are Here;
Dr. Pepper;
Global warming
Sample
video:
"The Pinky Show: Immigration."
MH: Chapter 18
GFC:
Visual Analysis Activities (GFC p. 190-196)
 Rhetorical
Analysis
is worth 10% of your grade.
C esar
Chávez Day, Thu., Mar. 31, no classes.
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Week Eleven:
Apr. 4-8
11:30-12:00
on Monday, April 5 (only): Student survey.
MH: Chapter 17
GFC:
Visual Analysis Activities (GFC p. 190-196)
Resource:
Analysis Power Tools
Resource:
Division .
How to
write a division: Where is it that you really differ with
your opponents?
Resource:
How to attack an opposing argument (refutation).
Possible exercise.
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Week Twelve:
Apr. 11-15
Resource:
Cicero's Classical Format for Persuasive Writing
Possible exercise: Writing an argument.
Discuss:
Opinion Piece Grading Rubric
Resource:
Antagonistic and
Non-Antagonistic Argumentation.
Resources:
Sample Opinion Piece;
sample letter to the editor; another
sample letter to the editor.
Explore
El
Paso Times Forums and
Blogs,
and
The Prospector (UTEP).
MH: Chapter 8
GFC:
Opinion Piece Activities (GFC p. 199-204)
Resource:
Common Errors
Resource:
Delivery
Tentative:
ENGL 1311 Symposium
. Class members will be presenting in an undergraduate
panel. Places are available for 25 students, first come,
first served.
Extra credit is available for
attendance.
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Week Thirteen:
Apr. 18-21
 Banana
Ketchup (Amnesty) Week Apr. 18-21, 2011!
Do Time Management Calculator
Assignment: Introduce
Visual Argument/Presentation
How to
make a brochure (video)
Discuss
Visual Argument Grading Rubric
Resource :
World-changing rhetoric
Possible exercise from A Taxonomy
of Change (items 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 14 only).
MH: Chapter 11.
GFC: Visual
Argument Activities Discuss
Brochure.
Discuss MS Publisher.
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To get extra credit,
get your Opinion Piece published and put a link to your
Opinion
Piece on your homepage.
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I f you used a screen name
on your Opinion Piece, advise me!
APRIL 22,
2011. Study Day, no classes.
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Week Fourteen:
Apr. 25-29
Assignment: Continue
Visual
Argument. Discuss Memo:
- Proper memo format for headings
- Single-spaced block format
- Traditional/professional font (Times New Roman,
Cambria, Georgia, etc.)
- 500-750 words in length
Information:
Free Speech and Assembly on Campus (UTEP)
MH: Chapter 11 continued; Chapter 16
GFC: How to Make
an Effective Brochure, pps. 218-219
GFC: Visual
Argument Activities IBrochure): pps 220-227
Resource:
Professional brochure samples
Resource:
Effective Brochure Design
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Week Fifteen:
May 2-5
Exercise: Delivery analysis on
your own brochure (f not completed last week).
GFC: Presentation
Guidelines (Brochure) p. 228.
Last day of regular classes: May 6.
Memo and all
other classwork except Brochure due
by May 5 at 3:00
pm.
NO
CLASS FRIDAY, MAY 6. STUDY DAY
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Week
16: Final Exam week
- Exams
are in normal classrooms.
Bring enough brochures
for the entire class!
UTEP Exam Policy:
Exemption from final
examination may not be given.
- Examination:
Visual Argument due on Final Exam day. Worth 20% of your grade: 15%
for brochure itself (including Memo), plus 5% for class presentation.
- GFC: Presentation
Guidelines (Brochure)
p. 228.
Final
grades e-mailed to students by May 24, 2011
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