ENGL 1001 Fall 2013
Eportfolio help: some options for organizing the electronic portfolio
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Learning outcome by learning outcome
Linear timeline of the term
Project by project
Likert-scale approach
Some things to help students with WordPress
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Glossary of terms
o Post vs page
o Blog as a genre
Web-writing style guide in writing spaces book folder in dropbox – we should give that to
students as required reading
Types of texts we want students to write/engage with
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Website writing (writing for your own site)
Essay writing (rough drafts, peer reviews, final copy; essays in various levels of formality)
Blog writing
Considerations we want to cover
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Rhetoric vs design
Print vs digital
o Maybe a table would be helpful for students: called/do/look/live/value or worth ???
General timelines:
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Use Writing Spaces “Wlak, Talk, Cook, Eat” with Understanding Rhetoric issue 5
Tentative Course Outline/Calendar
Week 1: Introductions and WordPress set-up
Intro course
WordPress Setup
Intro Each other
Assign food topics for research projects
 Food in government
 Food industrialization
 Food taboos
 Food advertising
 Food in news
Graphic Novel: I Can't Stop Thinking (video?)
Weeks 2 & 3 : Complete first Research Project
Week 2
Spaces for Writing and Writing in the Genres of the Web
Set up site promotional feeds (social media) and follow classmates’ sites and comment on their work
Week 3
Publish research project to site for peer, instructor, and other feedback
Discuss rhetoric of web pages
Reflection on WordPress, writing in genres of the web, social media promotion of site, research project;
what we’ve learned so far
Start something graphic
Week 4
Peer review the graphic
Discuss Supersized
Week 5
1st graphic piece due in published format online
Discuss UR issue 1
Use numbers 1, 2, or 4 for blog post
Start Debate in Graphic Form
Week 6
Lauren to come to class end of week for introduction to library and key word searching
UA: Issue 2
Use Drawing Conclusions #3 for essay to peer review in week 6
Begin research – either a new topic or reframing of initial topic
Need to recast academic sources for a public viewing audience on website to create an
informational argument on the site (see Fox vs NPR coverage of same story to see how this works; due
for publication in week 12)
Another research assignment from the ARG
Recast or Restart (?) of research project from earlier in the term as a website (graphic debate)
with and informational argument.
Weekly blog entries to act as annotated bibliography (3 a week)
Take blog entries and include them in an annotated bibliography for their site (page on the site).
Week 7
Midterm conferences (Fall Reading Days)
"On the Other Hand: The Role of Antithetical Writing"
"Reading Games: Strategies for Reading Scholarly Sources"
Begin annotated bibliography
Source, summary, how use it, why (3 new sources each week) BOB HAS THIS IN WEEK 6.
This will be posted each week as a blog entry (either one blog entry for all three (or more)
sources, or an entry per source – it’s up to you)
Eventually, you’ll post a single annotated bibliography as a new page on your site for the
research project and portfolio work
Week 8
UA: Issues 3 & 4
Week 9
UA: Issue 5
Lauren for subject-specific databases
Debate in Graphic Form published
Blog entry on sources: which database(s) did you use and why? What are you finding? Discuss
usefulness
Week 10
Working on projects
Week 11
Lauren early in week to discuss good sources
Annotated bibliography due
UA: Issue 6
Peer review informational argument
Week 12
UA: Issue 7
Publish informational argument
Week 13:
Revision discussions and plans for eportfolio
Week 14 Thanksgiving
Eportfolio revision and reflection plan due
Week 15
Eportfolio due 12.10 11:59 pm
Early
The construct of the book
This idea of gameful learning.
Why a graphic novel?
Scott McCloud-Videos
the role of play in learning
ARG Dude Videos
graphic novel
graphics in text
web design
Situated meaning with graphics