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Schedule
Instructor: Mary Davis
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Course/Section: 1302-5058
Material Covered
Begin at the Beginning
Current Issues and Enduring Questions and
A Writer's Guide overview
Syllabus overview
Activities and Assignments
Assignment discussion
for first weekly paper (plagiarism).
Students will be organized randomly into
groups, and discuss group presentation
requirements.
Collaborative Learning
Discussion
Test on knowledge
of logos, pathos, ethos
.Explanation of Calendar, Reading/Writing Assignments,
Group Presentation Requirements
. Students will take notes during the period
and discuss them with colleagues for
comparison. This will be first effort to
demonstrate knowledge of the collaborative
research processes. The notes will be
evaluated to determine strengths and
weakness in comprehending instruction.
Taking Notes/Time Management Discussion
Any other information/questions that arise
during class,
Plagiarism paper assigned
Draft for Peer Review due Tuesday, Sept. 2
Paper due Thursday, Sept. 4
THRAUG
28
Avoiding Plagiarism
Required trip to library first half of class for
presentation on citations, academic integrity,
and plagiarism.
Reading Assignment Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
42-45, 281, 283-286
A Writer's Reference
Pages L 24-25 and Page 359, Pages MLA 376-379 AND L
24-25 Plagiarism handouts. Information in syllabus.
More plagiarism information is posted on the blog.
Internet Assignment
Library Data Base Access
http://digital.films.com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/PortalVi
ewVideo.aspx?xtid=
40241&psid=0&sid=0&State=&title=Plagiarism: What
Do You Value?&IsSearch=Y&parentSeriesID=
(To copy and paste this address into your browser, be
sure that there are no spaces between the words, etc.)
2
Second Half: Computer
Lab/Layout/Turnitin.com/familiarize with blog.
Plagiarism videos:
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/the-problemwith-plagiarism/
9 minutes
Quentin Rowan, Wrote novels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjgM3KlxZO
Q 4 minutes
Jayson Blair discussion by professor
TUESEP
2
Thinking and Reading
"...it was at this school that Einstein first engaged in
the visualized thought experiment that help make him
the greatest scientific genus of his time: He tried to
picture what it would like to ride alongside a light
beam...this type of visualized thought
experiments...became a hallmark of Einstein's career."
Einstein His Life and Universe, Walter Issacson.
Reading Assignment Prior to Class
Draft Due Peer Review-Plagiarism
Use Checklist in Peer Review Page 28
Use Review Checklist Page 260
Use Checklist Examine Assumptions Page 28
Student Questions Discussion
Class Discussion of Issues Presented in Text
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60393641
Charlie Rose Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
on their book,
Think Like A Freak 18 minutes
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 1-52
Students Prepare four questions from below.
a. Driver license photo, 4-11
b. Homeschooling 12-13
c. "The Undercover Parent" 21-23
d. "Military Women in Combat" 29-30
e. "A First Amendment Junkie" 48-50
Logos, Ethos, Pathos
74-75, 404, 454
75,183,184,253-254, 268, 404, 454
75, 104-105, 404, 454
Work Session -- A Checklist for Critical
Thinking 19
APA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA Section, Pages 444497
A Writer's Reference, Outlines for
Summery/Analysis 71-72
Outline Exercise
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
242--Checklist for Imagining an Audience
Weekly Paper Assigned on
"The Undercover Parent" 21-23
In-class one- page paper arguing
the Baltimore Curfew
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/baltimores-newcontroversial-curfew-beginsfriday/27372646#!bDnwhM
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment.
THRSEP
4
First Overview
On Argument Methods
Student Questions Discussions
Toulmin Slides
http://www.slideshare.net/harut62892/thetoulmin-model-12853941?next_slideshow=1
Toulmin Argumentation -- Exercise University
of Richmond Writing Center
Reading Assignment Prior to Class
Students Prepare one question from each (6) assignments
below.
Current Issues and Enduring Questions:
1. Argument (Definition, Induction/Deduction) 74-107
2. Toulmin Argument (Warrants) 337-348
3. Rogerian Argument 6, 392-400
4. Analysis (Fallacies) 18, 160, 188-196, 266, 441
5. Logic 349-381
6. Rhetorical Analysis 404-415
3
Rogerian Argument-video
http://writingcommons.org/opentext/genres/academic-writing/arguments/318rogerian-argument
Fallacies (PowerPoint Presentation)
Logical Fallacies Worksheet
Work Sessions on terms/definitions
Page 400, 380, 101, 195,
Plagiarism Paper Due
TUESEP
9
First Group Presentation
Drugs: Should Their
Sale Be Legalized?
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Reading Assignment Prior to Class
Student Questions Discussion
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"The Undercover Parent" Draft Due
Use Idea Prompt (Toulmin) in Peer Review
Page 344
Warrants Page 339
Using Sources 267-333
A Writer's Reference
Section C 12-14
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Students Prepare four questions from drug essay:
Drugs: Should Their Sale Be Legalized? 546-580
546-580
Drugs: Should Their Sale Be Legalized?
Annotated Bibliography-10 sources Preparing
annotated bibliography-Handout to Work With
Pre-Capstone Project
Planning/Organization/Outlining
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 251253, 288
A Writer's Reference Section
C 12-14
MLA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, CMS Section, Pages
443-497
MLA Section, Pages 372-440
Paper Assigned on Drug Legalization
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment.
Additional Sources
www.wimp.com/marijuanaboss/ -- two
minutes, 30 seconds pro
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2013/07/r
on_paul_makes_a_fool_of_steph.html 9
minutes
Ron Paul Republican Conservative Pro/Con
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/syntheticmarijuana-harmful-teenagers-new-drugmenace-children-emergency-room-health16145370
www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?ac
tion=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=TopBar
&module=HPMiniNav&contentCollection=Opini
on&WT.nav=page
http://www.doctoroz.com/episode/weedaddictive
habit-forming 5 minutes
http://www.today.com/video/today/31827427
#31827427
six minutes, pro/con
THRSEP
11
An Eye for an Eye?
Group Presentation
"The Death Penalty: Is It Ever Justified"
483-494
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- 228-266
and
Justice Blackmun Dissent/Justice Scalia Upholding
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/angel/procon/deat
hissue.html
and
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- "The Death
Penalty: Is It Ever Justified" -- 483-494
Students Prepare four questions from:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions -- "The Death
Penalty: Is It Ever Justified" -- 483-494
Discussion by
Stephen Bright/Southern Center for Human
Rights and Yale Law School.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprcHrLz
Ics
Discuss student questions
In-class work session: Students will write a
brief discussion defending the opposite side of
capital punishment to which they adhere, using
information from Page 344 (Toulmin).
Capstone Project Work Session
Checklist for Analysis Page 195
Checklist Thesis Statement Page 237
Checklist for Audience Page 242
"The Undercover Parent" Paper Due
Revisit
APA Discussion/Practice for Works Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA Section, Pages 444497
CAPSTONE PROJECT ASSIGNED
Capstone project Assigned
First Assignment - Proposal
Due Thursday, Sept. 18
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment
4
TUESEP
16
You have your way. I have my way.
As for the right way, the correct way, and
the only way, it does not exist.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Argument Analysis 179-219
Hydraulic Fracturing P. 538-545
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
No Group Presentation
First Part of Class
Hydraulic Fracturing
Guest Speaker
Joann Hochstein, LSC Geology Professor
Second Part of Class
Peer Review of Drug Legalization Paper
Revisit Use Idea Prompt (Toulmin) in Peer
Review Page 344
Students Prepare two questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Hydraulic Fracturing P. 538-545
and
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Argument 179-219
Primary/Secondary Sources
A Writer's Reference Section 2 P-353.
Brainstorm examples
http://digital.films.com.lscsproxy.lonestar.edu/P
ortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=43788&loid=116050
&psid=0&sid=0&State=&title=Effective Internet
Search: Basic Tools and Advanced
Strategies&IsSearch=Y&parentSeriesID=
Use Section 3 ONLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0plq2E9ZjQ
3 minutes
Group Exercise with Primary/Secondary
Examples
Chicago Style Discussion/Practice for Works
Cited
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section,
Pages 498-537
Weekly Paper Assigned on Hydraulic
Fracturing. More information available after
class, during after-class study session, or by
appointment
THRSEP
18
A Picture is Worth a Thousand
Words
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Visual Rhetoric
141-177
and
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Nora Ephron Page 168-175
and
Logic (Induction/Deduction) 349-381
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Nora Ephron Page 168-175
Group Presentation (Using 3 Sources Listed
Below)
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
1.
Nora Ephron Page 168-175
2.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/theairbrushed-cover-and-the-damagedone/1117466
3. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140417road-designs-that-trick-our-minds
A Writer's Reference
C3 Revising
Pages 20-28
Work Sheets
Outcomes Discussion/Work Session
Capstone Project/Work Session
Proposal Due
Logic (Induction/Deduction) 349-381
Revisit Fallacies (PowerPoint Presentation)
Discuss cigarette advertising
Drug Legalization Paper Due
5
TUESEP
23
Group Presentation
Trifles Susan Glaspell
761-771
Draft of Weekly Paper on Fracking Due
Use Toulmin Model page 344 for
constructing a Toulmin argument and page
346 for a checklist for using the model.
What is Justice?
Capstone Project Discussion In-Class
Sources, Outline
List of 10 Sources for Bibliography Due
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Critical Reading
74-87
and
A Checklist for Analyzing an Argument
106
and
Trifles
761-771
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Trifles
761-771
Work Session
Revisit Annotated Bibliography-10 sources
Preparing annotated bibliography-Handout to
Work With--Page 287
Revisit APA Discussion/Practice References
A Writer's Reference, APA Section, Pages 444497
Test on A Writer's Reference
If time, drama definitions.
Weekly Paper Assignment
Trifles Susan Glaspell 761-771
More information available after class, during
after-class study session, or by appointment
THRSEP
25
Come Along If You Feel
Like
Happiness is the Truth
Pharrell Williams
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 87-107
and
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"I Want a Wife"-Judy Brady-- Page 802-804
"In Pursuit of Unhappiness"-Darrin McMahon, page 783786
"Does Fatherhood Make You Happy"-Daniel Gilbert 775778
Students Prepare two questions each from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"I Want a Wife"-Judy Brady-- Page 802-804
"Does Fatherhood Make You Happy"-Daniel Gilbert 775778
Group Presentation
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
"I Want a Wife"-Judy Brady-- Page 802-804
"In Pursuit of Unhappiness"-Darrin McMahon,
page 783-786
"Does Fatherhood Make You Happy"-Daniel
Gilbert 775-778
From Walden-David Thoreau Page 778-782
Pharrell Williams - Happy
(Official Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6SxvsUYtM
Ray Charles sings Williams' Happy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8gfb3hzn
c
Work Session for Capstone Project
Checklist for Analyzing An Argument 106
Revisit A Writer's Reference, Outlines for
Summery/Analysis 71-72
Outline Exercise for Essay
Revisit Checklist Toulmin Argument 337-348
Revisit Checklist for Rogerian Argument 400
Compare the two Arguments
A Writer's Reference Punctuation and
Mechanics Pages 257-273
Weekly Paper on Fracking Due
6
TUESEP
30
Group Presentation
"A College Education: What Is Its
Purpose?" -Andrew Delbanco 505-510
"Pondering the Purpose of College"- Alina
Turgend 518-520
"America's Most Overrated Product"- Marty
Nemko 523-528
Weekly Draft for Peer Review
Trifles Susan Glaspell
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions Debate 450470
Use Checklist (Rogerian) in Peer Review Page
400
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 505-537
Should College Athletes Receive
Compensation
Brief In-class Paper
Students Prepare two questions each from reading:
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 465-470
Student Loans: Should Some Indebtedness Be Forgiven
Forgive Student Loans? Worst Idea Ever
Capstone Project/Work Session
Revisit Drafting/Revision/Editing
Pre-Draft Due
No Weekly Paper Assigned for Following
Week
THROCT
2
Group Presentation
"Mending Wall"-Robert Frost, Page 426428
"To His Coy Mistress"-Andrew Marvel,
435-436
"The Story of an Hour"-Kate Chopin Page
438-440
Plato Page 443-448
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Student Questions Discussion
Current Issues and Enduring Questions 420-434, 443A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section, Pages 498-537
A Writer's Reference Pages 281-286
Work Sessions
A Writer's Reference, APA/CMS Section,
Pages 498-537
A Writer's Reference Pages 281-286
Students Answer Questions on Page 449
Thinking About Government Funding For the Arts
Answer as Essay Questions, not Yes/No
Capstone Project/Work Session
Pre-Draft Due for Peer Review
449, 435-436, 438-440,
Tentative Trip to Bosque Gallery
Trifles Susan Glaspell paper due
7
TUEOCT
7
War and (Lack Of) Peace
No Group Presentation
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Student Questions Discussion
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhes4Irgvw
(Second Reading for Peer Review Checklist) Page 260266
Students Prepare two questions from reading:
"The Man He Killed" -- Thomas Hardy 755-756
and
two questions from reading:
"Let's Draft Our Kids" Thomas E. Ricks 645-648
Final Work Session on Capstone Project
Capstone Essay
for Last Peer Review Due
THROCT
9
"To Be Or Not to Be"
Group Presentation
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
756-760
Student Questions Discussion
Capstone project Due
Review for Final Exam
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
756-760
Student Prepare Two Questions from:
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
756-760
Students Prepare One Question from each Web site
below:
Hamlet-To Be Or Not to Be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7TgTb_0wsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGSqNUrIe4&list=PL8474363E94B4CF05&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXQbIBt9C8
8
TUEOCT
14
No Weekly Paper
Best Friends Forever?
No Group Presentation
Student Questions Discussion
Reading Assignments Prior to Class
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
In-Class Paper:
How Has Social Networking Changed Your
Life
Facebook: How Has Social Networking
Changed How We Relate to Others
594-614
Film
The Social Network
Students Prepare four questions from reading:
Review for Final Exam
Current Issues and Enduring Questions
Facebook: How Has Social Networking
Changed How We Relate to Others
594-614
THROCT
16
It's Not Over Until It's Over
Yogi Berra
Final Exam Schedule Thursday
1:40-3:30
Final Exam
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