UNIT ONE​: Description

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• WEEK ONE: January 29, 2018​​

  • Monday - Introduction​ to syllabus; Read in class: Anne Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts"; Discuss and workshop: Portfolio Assignment #1: "What Matters to You"

  • ​​Wednesday - DUE: "What Matters to You": Portfolio Assignment #1; Bring required materials to class; Read for discussion: James Baldwin, "Letter To My Nephew"; Discuss and workshop: Descriptive Essay

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• WEEK TWO: February 5, 2018

  • Monday - ​ Discuss: "Ways to Wield Point of View" (Hoffman); Read for discussion: Gloria Anzaldua, "La Prieta"; Workshop: "Wielding Point of View": Portfolio Assignment #2

  • Wednesday - Discuss: "Melted-together Words," "Hieroglyphics," and "Superliteralism" (Hoffman, pp. 35-52); Read for discussion: Cherrie Moraga, "La Guera"; Workshop: "Wielding Point of View": Portfolio Assignment #2

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• WEEK THREE: February 12, 2018

  • Monday - ​DUE: "Wielding Point of View": Portfolio Assignment #2; Read for discussion: David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster"; Workshop: Descriptive Essay

  • Wednesday -  Discuss: "Freighting" and "Telescoping" (Hoffman, pp. 16-29); Workshop: Descriptive Essay

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• WEEK FOUR: February 19, 2018

  • Monday - NO CLASSES (Holiday)

  • Wednesday - Peer Review: Descriptive Essay (bring typed rough draft to class); In-class reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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UNIT TWO: Narration

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• WEEK FIVE: February 26, 2018

  • Monday - ​ DUE: Descriptive Essay; Introduction to Personal Narrative; Discuss: "Personal Narratives" (Seagull p. 58); Read for discussion: Coates, Between the World and Me, "Part One"; Workshop: Personal Narrative

  • Wednesday - Discuss: "Anecdoting," "Pulsing the Tense," "Splitting the Second" (Hoffman, pp. 96-108); Read for discussion: Coates, Between, "Part One," ctd.; Workshop: Personal Narrative

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• WEEK SIX: March 5, 2018

  • Monday -​ Discuss: "Very Short Sentences" (Hoffman, p. 31); Read for discussion: Alexander, "Introduction" and "Chapter One" of The New Jim Crow; Workshop: Personal Narrative

  • Wednesday - Read for discussion: Coates, Between, "Part Two"; Workshop: Personal Narrative

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• WEEK SEVEN: March 12, 2018

  • Monday - Read for discussion: ​Coates, Between, "Part Three"; Workshop: Personal Narrative

  • Wednesday - View and discuss: 13th: The Documentary; Workshop: Personal Narrative

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• WEEK EIGHT: March 19, 2018

  • Monday - ​Peer Review: Personal Narrative (bring typed rough draft to class)

  • Wednesday - DUE: Personal Narrative Essay; Introduction to Expository Writing; Discuss: "Rhetorical Analysis," "Literary Analysis," and "Annotated Bibliographies," (Seagull, p. 49, p. 62, p. 74); Workshop: Evaluating Coates' Between the World and Me: Portfolio Assignment #3

 

• SPRING BREAK: March 26, 2018

  • Monday - NO CLASSES (Holiday)​

  • Wednesday - NO CLASSES (Holiday)

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UNIT THREE: Expository Writing

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• WEEK NINE: April 2, 2018

  • Monday - ​Meet in Library Computer Lab: Presentation on Library Research Resources; Discuss: "BASTE: Ways to Research (Hoffman, pp. 248 ff)

  • Wednesday - DUE: Evaluating Between the World and Me: Portfolio Assignment #3;  Discuss: "Annotated Bibliographies" (Seagull p. 74 ff);  "Doing Research" (Seagull, p. 90); "Evaluating Sources" (Seagull, p. 102); "Jousters: Logical Fallacies" (Hoffman, p. 240); Workshop: Annotated Bibliography

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• WEEK TEN: April 9, 2018

  • Monday -​  Discuss: "Inductive Analysis," (Hoffman, p. 219); "Deductive Analysis" (Hoffman, p. 222); Read for discussion: German Lopez, “America’s Gun Problem, Explained,” Vox (2017); Workshop: Annotated Bibliography

  • Wednesday -  Discuss: Direct Quotations, Paraphrase (OWL); "Integrating Sources, Avoiding Plagiarizing" (Seagull p. 107); Read for discussion: Mayaan Simckes, "A Dangerous Mix: Bullied Youth Report Access to Loaded Guns More than Other Youth," The Conversation (2017); Workshop: Annotated Bibliography

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• WEEK ELEVEN: April 16, 2018

  • Monday - ​ Read for discussion: selections from Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2017); Workshop: Narrative Persuasion

  • Wednesday -  Discuss: "Quote Sandwiches" (Hoffman, p. 184); Read for discussion: Desmond, Evicted, ctd.; Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui, "In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America," NYTimes, April 7, 2018; Workshop: Annotated Bibliography

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• WEEK TWELVE: April 23, 2018

  • Monday - Peer Review: Annotated Bibliography (bring typed rough draft to class)

  • Wednesday - DUE: Annotated Bibliography; Introduction to Narrative Persuasion; Read for discussion: Ellis et al., "Autoethnography"; Bryant Keith Alexander, "Critical Autoethnography" (2014); Discuss and workshop: "A Practice in Autoethnography": Portfolio Assignment #4

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UNIT FOUR: (Personal / Narrative) Persuasion

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• WEEK THIRTEEN: April 30, 2018

  • Monday - ​Discuss: "Arguments" (Seagull, p. 43); "Peel: Ways to Seek Meaning" (Hoffman, pp. 218-227); Read for discussion: Robin Boylorn, “A Story and Stereotype: An Angry and Strong Auto/Ethnography of Race, Class, and Gender” (2014); Workshop: "A Practice in Autoethnography": Portfolio Assignment #4

  • Wednesday - Discuss: "Problem Making" (Hoffman, p. 109); Read for discussion: Robin Boylorn, “A Story and Stereotype: An Angry and Strong Auto/Ethnography of Race, Class, and Gender” (2014); Workshop: "A Practice in Autoethnography": Portfolio Assignment #4.

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• WEEK FOURTEEN: May 7, 2018

  • Monday - Read for discussion: Tabatha Roberts, “Negating the Inevitable: An Autoethnographic Analysis of First-Generation College Student Status” (2014); Dana Morella-Pozzi, "The (Dis)Ability Double Life" (2014); Discuss: "Synthesizing Ideas" (Seagull, p. 105); Discuss: "Vitalizing with Style" (Hoffman, p. 228), "Echoing" (Hoffman, p. 159)

  • Wednesday - CLASS CANCELED 

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• WEEK FIFTEEN: May 14, 2018

  • Monday -​ Due: "A Practice in Autoethnography": Portfolio Assignment #4; Read for discussion: Tony Adams, “Post-Coming Out Complications” (2014); Patrick Santoro, “Lather, Rinse, Reclaim: Cultural (Re)Conditioning of the Gay (Bear) Body” (2014)

  • Wednesday - Read for discussion: Richie Neil Hao, “Performing Fortune Cookie: An Autoethnographic Performance on Diasporic Hybridity” (2014); Desiree Yomtoob, “Caught in Code: Arab American Identity, Image, and Lived Reality” (2014); Workshop: Narrative Persuasion

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• WEEK SIXTEEN: May 21, 2018

  • Monday -​ Peer Review: Narrative Persuasion Essay (bring typed rough draft to class)

  • Wednesday - DUE: Narrative Persuasion Essay

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