Tentative Schedule: Weeks 1-3

Week 1
9/6 Syllabus Review - Course Goals and Policies,

9/7 Icebreakers / Account Creations: Wikipedia / Blogger / Email

9/8 Project 1 Assignment ; Study Description and Consent Forms; Read “The Charms of Wikipedia”

Week 2

9/12 Read Chapter 1 Intro and "The Phenomenology of Error” (34 in WAW) ; Read “[Know it All]”; Discussion: Orthodoxy, Error and Wikipedia

9/13 Read “[First Article] , ” “Notability” ; Article Topic Selection Workshop in Class

9/14 Read “Rhetorical Situations and Their Constituents” (101 in WAW) Discussion: Constraints of Wikipedia Article ; Genre and Encyclopedic Neutrality

9/15 Read “Tutorial” ; Workshop: Compiling Sources; Watch Tutorial Video

Week 3

9/19 Read “All Writing is Autobiography” (56 in WAW) ; Discussion: Is writing a social or individual act?

9/20 Peer Review Project 1; “Citation Templates”

9/21Read “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” (86 in WAW)

9/22 Final Article Due