Tues. 1/11

Agenda:

• Course Introduction
• Wiki Orientation
• Writing Samples
• Introductions
  

Readings:   

• Selections from Jennifer Toth's The Mole People

Assignments:

• Syllabus Contract  
• First Response Thursday by 9 a.m.    
  

Thurs. 1/13

Agenda:

• Introduction to Community Analysis
• Review of Project One 

Readings:

• AW - Chpt. 2

Assignments:

Due:

• Syllabus Contract
• First Response
  

Tues. 1/18

Agenda:

• Community and Cultural Analysis Continued 
  
• Thesis statements for rhetorical analysis
• Organization 
  

Readings:

• AW - Chpt. 3 
  
• David Dark, "Living in Fiction"

Assignments:

• Second Response to Dark due Tuesday by 9 a.m.  
  
• Community Analysis due Sunday, 1/23 by Midnight   
  

Due:

Thurs. 1/20

Agenda:

• Analyzing Visual Media (Film)
• Thesis statements revisited
  
• Formal Descriptions
  

Readings:

• AW - Chpt. 4 
• Review of Gran Torino from the New York Times 
  

Assignments:

Due:

• Second Response due by 9 a.m.

Tues. 1/25

Agenda

• Writing about Visual Media 
• Writing Formal Descriptions
• Writing Workshop

Readings:

Assignments:

• Audio/Visual Artifact Analysis due Sunday 1/30  

Due:

Thurs. 1/27

Agenda:

• Analyzing Visual Media
• Organization
  

Readings:

• AW - Chpt. 8  

Assignments: 

Due:

Tues. 2/1

Agenda:

• Analyzing Textual Arguments

Readings:

Assignments:

• Textual Artifact Analysis due next Sunday 2/13
  

• Third Response due by 9 a.m.

 Thurs. 2/3

Agenda:

• Textual Arguments Pt. 2

Readings:

Assignments:

Tues. 2/8

Agenda:

• Selecting a Text
• Analyzing a Text
• MLA 101

Readings:

Assignments:

Due:

Thurs. 2/10

Agenda:

•   Conferences in my office - 5057 Woodward, Office 10402

Readings:

• Instructions for Eval/Def/Prop Arguments 
• What is Capitalism?
• Description of Capitalism 
  
• AW - Chpt. 5

Assignments:

• Fourth Response due Tuesday by 9 a.m.
  

Due:

• Textual Artifact Analysis by tomorrow

Agenda:

• Intro to Definition Arguments

Readings:

•   "Calvin Klein: A Case Study"

Assignments:

• Definition Argument due next Sunday 2/27 by Midnight
• Fifth Response due by tomorrow

Due:

• Fourth Response

Thurs. 2/17

Agenda:

• Defining with Criteria
• Organizing Project Two
• Counterargument and Counterexample

Readings:

Assignments:

• Fifth Response

Tues. 2/22

Agenda:

• Researching Definitions
• Writing Definitions 
  

Readings:

Assignments:

• Definition Argument due Sunday, 2/27
  

Due:

Thurs. 2/24

Agenda:

• Conferences 
  

Readings:

•   AW - Chpt. 6
• Downsizing Detroit
• Demolishing Density in Detroit
• Feral Detroit
• Evaluation Argument Assignment Page

Assignments:

• Sixth Response due by Tuesday at 9. a.m.

Tues. 3/1

Agenda:

• Intro to Evaluation Arguments
  

Readings:

Assignments:

• Evaluation Argument due Sunday, 3/13 (or any time before Spring Break)
  

Due:

• Sixth Response by 9 a.m.
  

Thurs. 3/2

Agenda:

•  Practicing Evaluation Arguments
  

Readings:

Assignments:

Due:

Tues. 3/8

Agenda:

• Researching Evaluation Arguments 
  

Readings:

Assignments:

Thurs. 3/10

Agenda:

• Writing Workshop 
  

Readings:

• Proposal Argument Assignment page

Assignments:

• Remember - Final Draft of Evaluation due on Sunday (11/7) night.

Due:

• Rough Draft to your Blog
  

Tues. 3/22

Agenda:

• Intro to Proposal Arguments 
  

Readings:

• "Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools?"
• "Robert Bobb's Grand Bargain for the Detroit Public Schools"
• "Don't Drop Out on Detroit's Kids"
  

Assignments:

• Seventh Response due by next Tuesday, 11/16 
• Proposal Argument due next Sunday, 4/10 by Midnight
  

Thurs. 3/24

Agenda:

• Writing Proposal Arguments 

Readings:

Assignments:

Due:

Tues. 3/29

Agenda:

• Working with Evidence Pt. 3

Readings:

Assignments:

Due:

Thurs. 3/31

Agenda:

• No Class

Readings:

•  "Introduction" of Thomas Sugrue's Origin of the Urban Crisis
  

Assignments:

• Eighth Response due by Tues 4/5.    
  

Due:

• Proposal Argument due Sunday, 4/3 by midnight.
  

Tues. 4/5

Agenda:

• Intro to Cultural Synthesis
  

Readings:

Assignments:

Thurs. 4/7

Agenda:

• Conferences in my office - 5057 Woodward, Office 10402
  

Readings:

Assignments:

Tues. 4/12

Agenda:

•  Writing your Cultural Synthesis
• Editing and Revising
  

Readings:

Assignments:

Due:

Thurs. 4/14

Agenda:

• Editing and Revising
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Readings:

•  AW - Chpt. 11 
  

Assignments:

Due:

Tues. 4/19

Agenda:

• In class wordday

Readings:

Assignments:

Due:

Thurs. 4/21

• Final Class
• Course Evaluation