Dr. Lori E. Amy 
ENGL 1102 E
Fall 1999		 Humanities 1011/ x0625
Office hours: T/R 1:00-1:50, 4:30- 5:30; M 1-2, 4-5
And by appointment

Here's the gig: We're writing... a lot... and thinking and talking and writing about writing... a lot! That's our job in 1102, and we're approaching this job from three angles:

1-- Extensive journals that ask questions of, extend the thinking from, and critique
our classroom readings and discussions;
2-- Short Response Papers that focus our thinking/writing and provide us with
a beginning point for assessing and improving the grammar, mechanics,
and organization of our writing;
3-- Formal Papers, the end-product of our assignment sequences designed to help
you progressively develop your analytical, research, and writing skills.
The Text:
        We're using Patricia Harkin's Acts of Reading as our primary source. Have you noticed that good writers also tend to be good readers? That's in part because critical reading develops our awareness of how language works, and knowing how words will work on an audience is crucial to good writing. Harkin's text focuses on this relationship between reading and writing, so we're using it.
        The bulk of our journal questions derive from issues Harkin's text raises. Some are designed to give you an opportunity to put her points into your own words, both so that you can practice making sense of sometimes complicated issues and so that I do not have to make sure you have actually done the reading by giving quizzes that take up our class time and annoy all of us. Some of these journals will be opportunities for you to explore your emotional responses to the work we are doing. All of them are pre-writing for the formal writing you will be doing.

The Response Papers are short, formal writings that serve three purposes: 1) They further develop ideas/issues from the journals and are second stages in the assignment sequences leading to the big-daddy final project; 2) They provide you and I an opportunity to assess your writing, define your writing issues, and develop your writing strategies; 3) They provide practice with each of the elements on which your final project will be evaluated: the ability to coherently develop a topic, sustain a logical argument, substantiate claims, position your argument in a critical context, cite and document sources, and use clear language.
The Formal papers, like the journals and the responses, are sequenced so that each develop the thinking preceding it as well as the writing/thinking that will follow. The first is relatively short-- 3-5 pages; the second and third papers are 5-7 and 7-10 pages, respectively.
In addition, we have http://www2.gasou.edu:80/facstaff/stefcomp/regents.html">Regents Practic Exam and a Final Exam. This work is weighted thusly:

Journals                                             10%
Response papers                             20%
Papers 1 & 2                                     20%
Project #3                                          30%
Final Exam                                        20%

        You'll notice that this syllabus is heavily front-loaded. That is, I have slotted the bulk of our reading, journal writing, and response papers for the first half of the term, and the bulk of our nitty-gritty paper writing for the second half of the term. Here's the method to the madness: our readings articulate the ways in which language works on us, the ways in which we can work language. Our journals probe, question, fuss with and about, this language making/working thing so that we are both thinking about and practicing with manipulating language, arranging words, changing texts and contexts. At the same time, we will be using our response papers as practice for the formal papers, both in that the ideas work out the issues of the formal papers and in that we will be workshopping and revising these papers for grammar, mechanics, organization, style, logic, development, coherence, significance, and just plain sense-making.
        After 8 weeks of study-practice, study-practice, study-practice, we will turn all of our attention to the major writing projects for the class, the formal papers and the final hypertext project. (Don't freak about the hypertext thing--- I hold your hand through it all and it is, really, the least troublesome of the writing things we will do... I provide pizza for the lab days, we have several sessions at the end of the term for linking and web-putting... Trust me on this:) From the end of October on, we will be holding class a series of writing workshops targeting every aspect of the writing process, from drafting through revising and final editing issues. We move from study and practice to performance-- the last third of the term, you are writers at work and my role in class is to act as your muse. (Muses, I hear, like chocolate...)

Ok, so these are your required books, available at the University bookstore:

Ready? Here's the breakdown:

8-24             Introduction-- Assign Acts of Reading pp. 3-10
8-26             DIscuss Acts; Assign Journal #1
                     $50 late registration fee
                     lab: set up E-mail accounts, first week questions answered

8-31            Acts pp. 10-17
                   Journal #1 due
                   Assign Journal #2
9-2              Oral/Group Exercise-- from p. 17
                   Journal #2 due
            Assign Journal #3
                    lab: Using Word, getting acquainted, working on journal responses
                          Word goals: creating and saving files, file management, splitting screens,
                           using E- mail for help w/writing assignments

--------9-3-- Fee deadline ------------

9-6              Labor Day

9-7              Acts pp. 18-28
                   Journal #3 due
          Assign Response #1--
9-9             Response #1-- drafting, peer groups
                   lab: Response #1-- prewriting, freewriting, drawing on journals, getting the draft going
Hurricane Floyd-- 9-14-9-20

9-21          Acts pp. 55-69
                  Response #1 due this week, by Friday 4:00 p.m.
         Assign Journal #4
9-23         lab: Work on Response #1 and/or Journal #4
                Sign onto class mail list
                DaMoo-- orientation, request characters

9-28         Writing Workshop: Analysis of Response #1, writing issues, schedule revision conferences
                Journal #4 due
          Assign Journal #5-- through class mail list--list discussion as part of Journal exercise

9-30         Group Exercise: p. 66, interpretation
                Journal #5 due--email to me; Use class mail list to for group discussion

10-4-- Last Day to withdraw w/out penalty

10-5        Revisions of Response #1 due
                Acts. pp. 69-82
           Assign Response #2 -- Reading Against the Grain

10-7      Journal # 6-- online exercise
                lab: Internet Research

10-9 & 10-9-- Parents' Day

10-12        Draft work for Response #2-- due by noon on Wednesday
                 Acts pp. 139-141, 148-150, 156, 172-173
              Assign Journal #7-- email to class list; due before class Tuesday,  10-19

10-14        Fall Break

10-19       Writing Workshop: Response #2, schedule revision conferences; Review
                        in terms of evaluative criteria for Regents' Exam
                 Assign Response #3-- Internet site, icons, "world"
10-21       5- minute presentations: Examples and explanations, w/visuals, of Intertextuality
                 lab: Acts 559-562, Intertextuality--

10-22-- Homecoming

10-26        In-class writing of Response #3-- as Regents' Practice Exam
10-28      Film: Oleanna and Reading Journal 8 questions for film

11-2        Discuss Oleanna, set-up paper #1 and final project
11-4         Writing Workshop, Paper #1-- Response to or critique of review/s of Oleanna
 

11-9          Acts 694-711-- Oleanna reviews-- Paper #1 context
11-11       Paper # 1 work-- due 11-16
 

11-16       Paper #1 due-- library research and context, set-up for final project
11-18       Final Project work-- organizing information, creating files for the links-to-come

11-23       Final Project  work
11-25       Thanksgiving

11-30       Final Project work
12-2         Final Project work
                 lab: Getting files to the www/ linking documents

12-7         Final Project-- saving images, citing online sources, making E-mail links
12-9         Final Project

12-17       Final Project review-ready by 12-17 4:00 p.m.

19th          Graduation

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