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Week 1 – Defining Rhetoric and Genre
Reading: Free day
 * 3/31

Writing: Start blog, Introduce yourself, Explain how you define writing right now.

Reading: Dirk, “Navigating Genre”(GauchoSpace) TSIS “Introduction: Entering the Conversation”
 * 4/1

Writing: Write a proposal for WP1. This should include 1) what genres you will analyze, 2) links to the specific “good example” articles you will analyze, 3) a summary of the genre conventions that you know of right now.

Week 2 – Discourse Communities
Reading: Johns, “Discourse Communities” (GauchoSpace)
 * 4/7

Writing: For both articles, analyze the discourse communities (I will provide specific questions.)

Reading: Carroll “Back Pack to Brief Case” (GauchoSpace)
 * 4/9

Writing: For both articles, analyze the discourse communities (I will provide specific questions.)

Group feedback: Read both blogs from this week and offer feedback.

Week 3 - Media and Technology in Genre
Reading: Levy “Meditation on a Receipt,”
 * 4/14

Writing: For 3 different genres that you write in, meditate on your process of composing.

Reading: No reading. Just focus on writing a draft of WP1
 * 4/16

Writing: Bring in draft on WP1

Group feedback: Detailed review of 2 group member’s WP1 drafts.

Friday Due: WP1 Due

Week 4 - Entering the conversation
Reading: Shirky “Cognitive Surplus,” WP on “Undue Weight of Truth,” and “The Decline of Wikipedia”
 * 4/21

Writing: Reflect on WP1. What challenges did that assignment pose? What did you feel confident about? What problems did you encounter? Where did you write your project? Take a photo of the spaces in which you do your best writing and thinking.

Reading: Two Brochures “Evaluating Wikipedia,” and Editing Wikipedia. Bring in list of sources for both genres
 * 4/23

Writing: Have you ever felt writer’s block? Have you ever felt like writing flows? Writer’s block and flow are both metaphors for our experience writing. Explain a time that you felt both of these experiences. Tell us why you think you may have felt a block or a sense of flow in writing.

Week 5 - Contributing to the conversations
Reading: No reading. Bring computer for in-class library workshop.
 * 4/28

Writing: Submit a proposal for WP2. This should include a description of your projects; definition of the genre, audience, discourse community, and purpose; and a summary of what you hope this project may contribute to the discourse community or audience. Finally, this should include a list of the sources you plan to use for both genres. Summarize what content out of each source you plan to use to contribute to both discourse communities.

Reading: Complete Wikipedia Training and, if you have time, spend some time in the Wikipedia Adventure game.
 * 4/30

Writing: Compose a plan for your rhetorical strategies: What is your purpose or goal? What limitations or restrictions are you working to conform to? What expectations or conventions may you try to bend or reject? In the most detail, describe what rhetorical choices you plan to make in order to meet your purpose/goal.

Group Feedback. Read and comment on both blogs.

Week 6 – Writing for real audiences
Reading: No reading. In class editing session in Wikipedia. Bring computer in for in-class workshop on citing and summarizing sources.
 * 5/5

Writing: Describe the process of writing for both genres. What is the process? Where did you start? Where may you have gotten stuck?

Reading: Just skim the Wikipedia Manual of Style
 * 5/7

Writing: Bring in draft of WP2

Group feedback: Detailed review of 2 group member’s WP2 drafts. Due Thursday.

Friday Due WP2