ENC 1101 Syllabus
Week 1 (June 28-July 2)
M: Introductions. Write down eight questions you could ask someone in class. The first three will be "what is your name? where are you from? what is your major or what do you think you might pick as a major?" Trade lists with someone and answer these questions. We will share the results as a class. Read the course policy sheet and syllabus after class. Go visit www.oocities.org/wcnesbitt
T: We'll go over the course policy sheet and syllabus and discuss whatever needs discussing. We'll finish up introductions if we haven't already.
W: Journal 1. Discussion of
paper one.
Discussion of introduction, titles, paper introductions, formatting, grammar, workshopping, and what revision means. Plagiarism exercise.
T: Journal 2. Exercise 1 News of the Weird. Typed ahead of time. The world's tallest man is still growing. A thief finds himself trapped in a building he intended to burgle and has to call 911 to rescue him. A man in India finishes eating a car piece by piece over the course of a year. The news sections of most search pages such as Yahoo as well as some print publications contain a section of strange but true (no urban myths) happenings around the world. Find one of these, make a copy of it, and type the first page of a short story based on the news item.
F: Journal 3. Reading/Presentation #1 "Strategies for Invention" Lisa Ede 224-231 (handout). Reading/Presentation #2 Anne Lamott "Shitty First Drafts" 319-322.
Cliches to Avoid
Week 2 (July 5-9)
M: No class.
T: Journal 4. Reading Presentation #3 Richard Straub "Responding—Really Responding to Other Students' Writing" 349-358. Reading/Presentation #4 "Summary Ways of Responding" Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff 358-365.
W: Journal 5. Workshop of paper 1 Vivid/Personal Narrative (bring two copies and one for me if you want my response).
workshop questions
T: Journal 6. Reading/Presentation #5 Toby Fulwiler "A Lesson in Revision" 325-339. Reading/Presentation #6 Stuart Hirschberg "The Rhetoric of Advertising" 214-222 (handout) and three graphs from Juliet B. Schor "The Culture of Consumerism" 256, 259, 261 (handout).
F: Journal 7. Exercise 2 Hopper. One page typed ahead of time. Take a look at this link of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks as I will not have copies available. Pretend the picture captures just an instant in time. What is occurring right at that moment? Type a detailed account of that instant. Include use of the the five senses, touch, taste, hearing, smelling, or sight, and give us as much description as you can. I am looking for a creative story in which you invent character names, ages, backgrounds, and so forth.
Week 3 (July 12-16)
M: We'll meet in class and walk over together to the fine arts building. Be sure to bring your journals.
T: Journal 8. No class. Conferencing at my office.
W: Journal 9. Discuss paper two. How to write without saying "I" and constructing a thesis. Here are my notes and the first page and half of my analysis of Nighthawks
T: Journal 10. Reading/Presentation #7 . Deborah Coxwell Teague "Making Meaning—Your Own Meaning—When You Read" 176-182. Reading/Presentation #8 Edward Corbet and Robert Connors "Formulating a Thesis" 242-246.
F: Journal 11. Exercise 3 Photographs (opening lines). We'll do this in class. Bring in a picture suitable for the whole class to look at. Sources for such a picture may include your personal photo album or something your cut out from a magazine or newspaper. We'll project or pass around these pictures and write an opening line for each one. We may also experiment and put some of the opening lines you develop with other pictures and see what results.
Week 4 (July 19-23)
M: Journal 12. Workshop of paper 2 Visual/Textual Interaction (bring two copies and one for me if you want my response).
T: Journal 13. Reading/Presentation #9 Richard Marius "False Rules and What Is True About Them" 580-594. Reading/Presentation #10 (this doubles as our discussion of paper three) Radical Revision 317-318 and Thomas Harmon "'Watch,' Radical Revision,' . . . " 383-393 and Jamaica Kincaid "Girl" .
W: Journal 14. We'll go through the class and have each person share one of their journal entries.
T: No class. Conferencing at my office.
F: Journal 15. Discuss zine. Exercise 4 Interview.
Week 5 (July 26-30)
M: Journal 16. If you are doing a radical revision that is not paper based (something from the multimedia/art piece section on pg. 318), this is when you will give it. Let me know ahead of time, as in no late than week 4, so that we leave plenty of time today.
T: Journal 17. Zine workshop.
W: Journal 18. Zine workshop (bring in what you are working on for the zine).
T: No class.
F: No class.
Week 6 (August 2-6)
M: Journal 19. Zine Workshop (bring in what you are working on for the zine).
T: Journal 20. Exercise 5 Freud's Writing Parlor.
W: Journals due. Zine Workshop (bring in what you are working on for the zine).
T: Evaluations—bring a #2 pencil. Editing workshop (bring two copies of papers one and two). This workshop will focus solely on proofreading, mechanics, and other formal aspects. Workshop questions (editing)
F: Portfolio due. Zine due.
Journal topics
Which group am I in and which presentation are we doing?
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