Summer 2001:: ENC 1101:
Daily Schedule
Email me at ltaylor@nwe.ufl.edu if you have any questions. The day to day schedule will change to accomodate class needs and to allow for further discussion of how texts work and how to design our texts in an online environment as opposed to a paper based environment.
Each week, a different grammar area is assigned and this is noted at the beginning of the weekly schedule. Please note these as we will work on them throughout the week and we will have a grammar quiz on the Friday of each week.
Week One
Grammar work: Study pg. 1-16 and 330-336 in Quick Access (QA).
July 2: Going over syllabus and introductions. In class
diagnostic essays.
Homework: Read syllabus and read NWE introduction pages.
July 3: Beginning work with ASWE and the NWE terminals.
Quiz on ASWE commands and functions.
Homework: Read chapter one in Structure of Argument (SA).
July 4: No class.
July 5: Discussion of narrative structure and how it
aids reader interest and provides an easy form for the reader to follow.
How ethos is established. Going over ethos, pathos, logos, and Quintillian's
structure of argument. How does this operate in an online environment?
Homework: Reading chapters 2 and 3 in SA, up to page 73.
July 6: Discussion of how ancient rhetoricians and
generals believed that battle and writing were analogous. Viewing
and then discussion of how speeches in Henry V and in selected scenes
from Akira Kurosawa films (director) or Bruce Lee films (actor and
martial artist) illustrate this idea.
Homework: Using humor to disarm online examples and A Modest Proposal
in SA.
Week Two
Grammar work: pg. 17-50 and 337-344 in QA.
July 9: Discussion of how and why humor works and the
difficulties in writing and analyzing humor.
Homework: Find an ad and a television show that is humorous and that
works and write why. Be prepared to discuss how they may fail or offend
for certain viewers and read 8bit
Theater and Dumb Laws: be
thinking about how you could use these in an argument in SA.
July 10: More on using humor to argue/persuade. Viewing
selected cartoon clips to see how parody, satire, and sarcasm operate.
Then trying to apply these to online rhetoric with understanding your
argument.
Homework: complete first web project.
July 11: Peer review of websites in class.
First Web Project due.
Homework: Read chapter four of SA, up to page 119.
July 12: Discussion of how hypertext changes structures
in paper based writing. Continued discussion of how interactivity
and nonlinearity change the creative process for texts.
Homework: Read SA chapter 5, up to page 174.
July 13: Library
Day. We will meet in the library classroom and learn how to most
efficiently get sources for the second web project.
Homework: Read chapter 6 of SA, up to page 212 and find a magazine
article that you find interesting - we'll discuss these on Monday.
Week Three
Grammar work: study pg. 51-78 and 344-349 in QA.
July 16: In class identifying the structure of a magazine
article that you bring in and presenting an evaluation of the structure.
Talking about structure and storyboarding.
Homework: Read the Iguana
and the CMC websites to get
a topic and to get sources
July 17: Discussion of the canon and how it's being
changed (and isn't) with the digital revolution. Discussion of the
metaphors used with the web and digital innovations. Using Sources
and Works Cited pages.
Homework: Read the canon.
July 18: Further discussion of the canon and how what
we write and what we read fits (or doesn't fit) into the canonical
structure.
Homework: Read and Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
July 19: How marginalized/oppressed groups are slowly
being accecepted into the canon. Discussion of Letter from a Birmingham
Jail.
Homework: finish second web project.
July 20: No class. One of your journals must be on
Final Fantasy.
Second Web Project still due.
Homework: Read chapter 8 of SA, up to page 289.
Week Four
Grammar work: study pg. 79-111 and 349-355 in QA.
July 23: Watching Aphex Twin video and discussing gender
roles it presents and the gender roles around us.
Homework: Pick two articles and label the gender roles. You will present
these to the class on Tuesday.
July 24: Presentation and discussion of gender roles.
Homework: Read A
Rape in the Moo and A
Rape in Everquest.
July 25: How violation has become a problem in virtual
environments.
Homework: Reading on flappers
and Madonna as a femme
fatale.
July 26: Discussion of how sex and power are related
and questioning who has power in the Aphex Twin video.
Homework: Reading Trifles in SA.
July 27: Discussion of how gender roles are reinforced
through the media and through the metaphors we use.
Homework: Reading Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca
Falls in SA.
Week Five
Grammar work: study pg. 113-136 and 355-370 in QA.
July 30: Further work with how language helps structure
and form beliefs. Viewing Mary Poppins clip. Discussion of
violence in the media and how different art forms have been blamed,
from the novel, comics, music, movies, and video games.
Homework: Finish third web project.
July 31: In class peer review.
Third Web Project due.
Homework: Reading online.
August 1: Discussion of comics work and static and
dynamic images in comics, manga, and animation - and looking at Mccloud
in class.
Homework: Begin reading Violent Messiahs 1-6.
August 2: Discussion of Violent Messiahs in terms of
plot.
Quiz on Violent Messiahs 1-3.
Homework: Finish reading Violent Messiahs 4-6.
August 3: Discussion of how the art works with the
text in a dynamic fashion and how to apply this in an online environment.
Quiz on Violent Messiahs 4-6.
Homework: Reading Michael Joyce's 12
blue.
Week Six
Grammar work: pg. 138-182 and 370-377 in QA.
August 6: Discussion of different types of hypertext.
How is Hypertext like 12 blue like the form of Violent Messiahs
and how is it different.
Quiz on 12 Blue.
Homework: Continue reading 12
Blue.
August 7: Begin watching Requiem for a Dream.
August 8: Finish Requiem for a Dream to see linearity and use of frames/episodes.
August 9: FTP websites to plaza space: make sure you
gatorlink account works.
Final Websites due on Aug. 10 before 4pm.
August 10: No class work on your websites.