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) ; 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”
9/21 Read “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” (86 in WAW)
9/22 Final Article Due
Week 4
9/27 Article Due (Submit for Review); Assign Project 2; Review Course Schedule; Free-Write
9/28 Comment on Posts / Discuss Intro to Chapter 2 (170-173) and "Toward a Composing Model of Reading" (174-187)
9/29 Go Live with Wikipedia Articles! / Comment on Posts / Discuss "Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitive Analysis of Writer's Block"
Week 5
10/3 Discuss "Tuning, Tying, and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision"
10/ 4 Project 2 Drafting in Computer Lab
10/5 Discuss "Shitty First Drafts" / Documentation (Works Cited, Quoting) Review
10/6 Project 2 Peer Review
Week 6
10/10 Lab. Project 2 Due. Post to blogs before 10am. Wikipedia Assignment Sequence Survey.
10/11 Read Chapter 3 Intro and "Sponsors of Literacy" (WAW 328)
10/12 Read "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" and "Learning to Read" (WAW 353-365)
10/13 Intro to DALN / Literacy Narrative as genre: (groups generate collaborative documents on genre conventions of literacy narrative; each group hands in a common document)
Week 7
10/17 Read "The Future of Literacy" (WAW 395)
10/18 Read "From Pencils to Pixels" (WAW 422)
10/19 Lab. Drafting.
10/20 Peer Review
Week 8
10/24 Lab Day / DALN Registration, Description
10/25 Final Literacy Narrative Due / Project 4 Assignment / read Chapter 4 Intro (463-465)
10/26 Read "The Concept of Discourse Community"
10/27 Read "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction"
Week 9
10/31 "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice" Essay 2 Revisions Due
11/1 (Lab) In-class Drafting of Discourse Community Ethnography Proposals
11/2 "Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Workplaces"
11/3 Data Collection: Draft Interview Questions; Exchange and Edit
Week 10
11/7 "Learning to Serve: The Language and Literacy of Food Service Workers"
11/8 "Coaches Can Read, Too"
11/9 Drafting (Lab); Course Evaluations
11/10 Peer Review 1 (Lit Review, Niche, Methods)
Week 11
11/14 Peer Review 2 (Discuss Findings, Conclusion, Overall Essay)
Finals meeting
11/22, 10:10 am. Discourse Community Ethnography Due
