Course Calendar, US115H, Fall 2001
This course calendar indicates the reading assignments you are to have completed before
coming to class that day, the due dates of major writing assignments, as well as the
topics we’ll cover and the activities we’ll do in class. Therefore, check this
calendar before coming to class in order to arrive prepared.
Texts:
CR = CyberReader,
Victor Vitanza, ed.
VCP = Readings Online: A
Virtual Common Place, Paul Amore, ed.
NSMH = The New St.
Martin’s Handbook, Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors.
Week 1: Cyberculture: technotopians to technoskeptics
Aug 23 Introduction to course and class policies. NSMH 1b, Reading Strategies.
Week 2: Cyberspace and Virtual Reality. Rhetoric:
Invention.
Aug 28 CR 1-19: Wooley. NSMH 3a-d, Invention Strategies.
Aug 30 CR 20-35: Heim. NSMH 2a-h, The Rhetorical Situation.
Aug 31, Friday: Personal Essay due
to my office by 4:00.
Week 3: Virtual Communities. Rhetoric: Invention.
Sep 04 CR 59-77: Rheingold. VCP 1: Barlow. NSMH 1f, Group Work.
Sep 06 CR 78-105: Turkle, Slouka. NSMH 4a-g, Revision.
Week 4: Freedom and Censorship Online. Rhetoric:
Arrangement.
Sep 11 CR 107-123: Meyer and Underwood, Lewis, Ebnet, and The Mentor. NSMH
6e, Paragraph Development.
Sep 13 CR 124-43: Harper’s Forum. NSMH 6a-d, Editing Paragraphs.
Week 5: Sexual Politics. Rhetoric: Arrangement.
Sep 18 CR 173-201: Kantrowitz, Tannen, Nicholson, and Herring. NSMH 6f.1,2
Introductory and concluding paragraphs.
Sep 20 VCP 4: Hackett, Huff, and Gerrard.
Sep 21, Friday: Extended Definition Essay due to my office by
4:00.
Week 6: Electronic Literacies. Rhetoric: Style.
Sep 25 CR 227-49: Postman and Paglia, Gup. NSMH 15, 16 Sentence Conventions.
Sep 27 CR257-69, 291-304: Birkerts, Kurzweil. Evaluating Web Sites. NSMH 11,
13 Pronouns.
Week 7: Intellectual Property. Rhetoric: Style.
Oct 02 Individual student conferences at my office. VCP 5: Greenfield, Bellagio
Declaration, Zorach.
Oct 04 Individual student conferences at my office. NSMH 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Sentences.
Week 8: Plagiarism and Copyright. Rhetoric: Logos.
Oct 09 NSMH 5a-j2 Constructing and Analyzing Arguments
Oct 10 Wednesday: Rhetorical Analysis or Evaluation-Response Essay
due to my office by 4:00.
Oct 11 CR 318-38: Barlow. Toulmin analysis of arguments.
Week 9: Plagiarism and Copyright. Rhetoric: Logos.
Oct 16 CR 339-50 (or VCP 5): Critical Art Ensemble. Toulmin analysis
of arguments, cont.
Oct 18 Fall Free Days
Week 10: The Virtual
Future. Rhetoric: Pathos.
Oct 23 VCP 8: Sussman, Walker, King, Schwartz and Leyden.
Oct 25 Lab: online search strategies. NSMH 41 Conducting Research.
Oct 26 Friday: Toulmin Analysis Essay due to my office by
4:00.
Week 11: Research. Rhetoric: Ethos.
Oct 30 NSMH 42a,b Using Sources and Taking Notes.
Nov 01NSMH 42c, 43d Quotations.
Week 12: Research.
Nov 06 NSMH 42c-e Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Plagiarism.
Nov 08 NSMH 43e,f Revising.
Week 13: Research.
Nov 13 NSMH 44 MLA Documentation and Format.
Nov 14, Wednesday: Exploratory Essay due to my office
by 4:00.
Nov 15 TBA
Week 14: Rhetoric: Memory and Delivery.
Nov 20 Individual student conferences at my office. NSMH 50 Oral Presentations.
Nov 22 No class – Thanksgiving Holidays.
Week 15:
Nov 27 Individual student conferences at my office.
Nov 29 TBA
Week 16: MUDs / MOOs.
Dec 03, Monday: Position Paper due to my office by 4:00.
Dec 04 CR 401-25 Leslie, Bruckman
Dec 06 CR 454-72 Dibbell
Week 17: Monday, December 10 through Thursday,
December 13: Final Exams Week
Final Exam: All US115 Final Exams are on Monday,
December 10 at 8:00am; location TBA.
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