Syllabus

Date	Readings	Assignments
September
9 W	Expository Writing Diagnostic Essay Course Introduction Letter of Introduction: Personal Goals for EN 105
14 M	Paper 1--Reading the News: A Comparative Study Reading the News Critically	Letter of Introduction Due
16 W	Organization Thesis Statements Peer Critiquing: An Introduction Paper 1: Sample Student Text (pdf file)
18 F	Peer Critique Exchange and Group Meetings
21 M	Grammar and Punctuation Workshop
23 W	Paper 2: The Message of the Medium of the News	Paper 1 Due
28 M	No College Classes: Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement ["The Medium is the Message" (handout): Compose a summary of McLuhan's article for Wednesday]
30 W	"The Medium is the Message" Summaries Media and their Messages. . .and the News
October
2 F	Peer Critique Exchange and Group Meetings
5 M	Using Evidence: Quotation, Citation, and Documentation
7 W	Grammar and Punctuation Workshop: Agreement Writing Conclusions: Summary, Synthesis, Closure
9 F		Paper 2 Due, 3pm, English Office
12 M	Paper 3: Graded Revision of Paper 1 OR Paper 2 Writing And Revision/Writing As Revision Grammar and Punctuation Workshop: Agreement
14 W	Concise Writing Grammar Girl: Sentence Length Grammar Girl: Verbification of a Noun Grammar Girl: Are You Annoyingly Redundant? Grammar Girl: Excessive Redundant Redundancies
19 M	Paper 4: Shall we mourn the death of newspapers?
21 W	Final Revision: Concision	Paper 3 (Revision) Due
26 M
28 W	The Death of the news Solon.com 21 October 2009 Out of Print. The New Yorker. 21 October 2009 The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers. The Nation. 18 March, 2009
30 F	Peer Critique Exchange and Group Meetings
November
2 M	Sentence and Style: Simple, Compound, Complex Grammar Girl: Complex-Compound Sentences Grammar Girl: Sentence Length Grammar Girl: Run-On Sentences Grammar Girl: Sentence Fragments Grammar Girl: Can you start a Sentence with "which"?
4 W	Writing Workshop
6 F		Paper 4 Due
9 M	Paper 5: Citizen Journalism "U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter at Work" Crowdsourcing: "Newspapers Use Readers to Break, Analyze News" (NPR) Knight Citizen News Network: Principles of Citizen Journalism Society of Professional Journalists: Citizen Journalism Academy SourceWatch: List of Citizen Journalism Websites
11 W	Twitter and Blogs: A (re)Consideration "How Twitter Will change the Way We Live" (TIME, June 15, 2009) "Journalism Rules Are Bent in News Coverage From Iran." (New York Times, June 28, 2009)
13 F	Peer Critique Exchange and Group Meetings
16 M
18 W	Withdrawal Deadline
23 M		Paper 5 Due
25-29	Thanksgiving Vacation
30 M	Paper 6: Graded Revision of Paper 4 OR 5
December
2 W
7 M
9 W	Course Evaluations	Paper 6 (Revision) Due