Beth Bensen-Barber

Eng 210 Schedule Spring 2015

Calendar/Schedule of Assignments
(This schedule is subject to change.)

All reading assignments are due on the day they are listed on the schedule
below.
We will not be reading in class. You are responsible for completing all
assigned readings prior to arriving to class. Each reading assignment is
preceded by the word Read and appears in the Readings column.
Also note that assignment due dates appear in the Assignments column.

Linked titles = electronic

readings. Click on links to access
and read essays.

PDF in BB = portable document

format found in Readings/
Handouts button on Course Menu
in Blackboard

Important Dates
January 16, 2015
January 28, 2015
March 26, 2015

Last day to add a class

Last day to drop a class with a refund
Last day to withdraw from a class with a grade of W
This schedule is subject to change.

Week/Date Readings
Week 1
Tu 13 Jan
Th 15 Jan

Assignments

Introduction to Course; introduction to Blackboard

Read: Rhetoric
Read: Rhetorical Situations
View: Purdue OWL: Introduction to Rhetoric

15 Jan: Academic Honesty

Agreement in Blackboard
by midnight

(Click on linked titles to access readings)

Week 2
Tu 20 Jan

Read: Getting Started with WordPress (click on

linked title to read chapter three, Starting a Free
WordPress Blog; this link is to an eBook in the
Safari database; if you access the book off campus,

20 Jan: Individual blog by

the end of class

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Eng 210 Schedule Spring 2015

Week/Date Readings

Assignments

you will need your MYReynolds username and

password)
Th 22 Jan
Week 3
Tu 27 Jan

Read: Baron, From Pencils to Pixels

Read: Daley, Expanding the Concept of Literacy
Read: Jones-Kavalier & Flannigan, Connecting the
Digital Dots
Read: Brandt, Accumulating Literacy (PDF in
BB)

27 Jan: Audio recording

device (digital recorder or
use audio device on smart
phones)

Th 29 Jan

Read: Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola, Blinded by the

Letter (PDF in BB)

Week 4
Tu 3 Feb

Read: Baron, Siri, Take a Sonnet

3 Feb: draft of audio

essay; studio day for
working on audio
narrative

No reading assigned; peer review (remember to

bring headphones/earbuds to listen to audio
narratives)

5 Feb: Audio technology

narrative and written text
for in-class peer review

Presentation of audio essays

10 Feb: Final revision of

audio technology narrative
and written text in
Blackboard by midnight

Th 5 Feb

Week 5
Tu 10 Feb

Th 12 Feb

Week 6
Tu 17 Feb

Th 19 Feb
Week 7
Tu 24 Feb

Read: McLuhan, The Medium is the Message

(PDF in BB)
Read: Tharp, What It Is, Why It Matters, Why Its
the Future (PDF in BB)
Read: Vega, Magazine Will Cater to Mobile (and
Free Lancers)
Read: Carmody, Making Disposable Dynamic
Displays with Electronic Ink on Real Paper
No reading assigned; library session
Read: Slocum, What Publishers Can and Should
Learn from The Elements
Read: Johnson, Yes, People Still Read, But Now
Its Social

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Eng 210 Schedule Spring 2015

Week/Date Readings
Th 26 Feb

Week 8
Tu 3 Mar

Th 5 Mar

Assignments

Read: Horrowitz, Will the Ebook Kill the

Footnote?
Read: Baron, The Last Print Dictionary
Read: Pannapacker: Were Still in Love with
Books
Read: Gielen, Handheld E-Book Readers and
Scholarship Report and Reader Survey
Read: HighWire Press 2009 Librarian eBook
Survey
No reading assigned; presentation of eBook projects

5 Mar: eBook Group

Project in class and
Blackboard

~~ Spring Break: classes not in session 9-15 Mar ~~

Week 9
Tu 17 Mar

Th 19 Mar

Week 10
Tu 24 Mar

Read: Alves, Unintentional Knowledge: What We

Find When We are Not Looking

17 Mar: eBook reflection

essay in Blackboard by
midnight

No reading assigned; developing your research

question; research day

Begin conducting
preliminary research to
write your Research Paper
Topic Proposal

No reading assigned; developing your thesis

statement; research day

24 Mar: Research
Paper Topic Proposal
in Blackboard by
midnight

Th 26 Mar

No reading assigned; library session

Week 11
Tu 31 Mar

No reading assigned; research day

31 Mar: Research
Question/Thesis/Abstract in
Blackboard by midnight

Th 2 Apr
Week 12
Tu 7 Apr

No reading assigned; research day

No reading assigned; peer review of Annotated Bib

7 Apr: Draft of Annotated

Bibliography

Th 9 Apr

No reading assigned; use class time to work finalize

annotated bib/work on research paper

9 Apr: Ten to twelve

source annotated
bibliography in Blackboard

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Week/Date Readings

Eng 210 Schedule Spring 2015

Assignments
by midnight

Week 13
Tu 14 Apr

No reading assigned; peer review of research paper

14 Apr: Draft of research

paper at the beginning of
class

Class canceled; attend individual conference; check

Blackboard for conference schedule

16 Apr: Complete draft of

research paper

Class canceled; attend individual conference; check

Blackboard for conference schedule

21 Apr: Complete draft of

research paper

Read: Childs, Revising a Paper to Deliver (click

on link to access and read article)

23 Apr: Final revision of

research paper in
Blackboard by midnight

Week 15
Tu 28 Apr

Presentations

28 Apr: Presentation of
research paper

Th 30 Apr

Presentations

Finals Wk
Tu 5 May

Presentations during final exam time (11:00 a.m.

1:40 p.m.)

30 Apr: Presentation of
research paper
5 May: Presentation of
research paper

Th 16 Apr
Week 14
Tu 21 Apr

Th 23 Apr