Instructor: Sean McCullough

ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217

ENC 1101 Course Schedule

Fall 2016
Some guidelines about using this course calendar:
Assignments listed in the Work for Next Class column are due by the
following class day (online submissions by 10:00 AM).
Paper revisions are listed as homework when specific revisions are required
based on the days class activities. Because of the nature of the course, you
should be continuously revising your papers whether or not doing so is listed
as homework.
Key: OW = On Writing; MHH= McGraw Hill Handbook; Bb= Blackboard

Project 1: What is Writing? How Do We Write? Why Do We

Write?
Week #1
Day
Monday
8/29/16

In-Class Activity
Introduction to Course
Course Policy Sheet
Syllabus Overview

Wednesday
8/31/16

Introduce Project 1
What is Writing?

Friday
9/02/16

Plagiarism Exercise
Description Activity/
Invention

Work for Next Class

1. Read Ten Ways
to Think About
Writing (Bb)
2. Read To the
Florida State
University
Student and
Introductions
pgs. xiii xxiii
(OW)
1. Read MHH
Plagiarism,
Copyright
Infringement, and
Intellectual
Property pgs.
234 - 240
2. Read Writers and
Ways of Writing
pgs. 2 6 (OW)
3. Read Writing
with Style (Bb)
4. Read Shitty First
Drafts pgs. 279
282 (OW)
1. Read Backpacks
vs. Briefcases
(Bb)
2. Making Meaning

Instructor: Sean McCullough

ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
Your Own
MeaningWhen
You Read pgs.
186 192 (OW)
3. Read What is
Writing? pgs. 21
25 (Bb)
4. QQC
5. Compose Rough
Draft of Paper 1
Week #2
Day
Monday
9/05/16
Wednesday
9/07/16
Due: Rough Draft of
P1
Friday
9/09/16

Week #3
Day
Monday
9/12/16
Wednesday
9/14/16

Friday
9/16/16
Due: Second Draft of

In-Class Activity
Labor Day No Class
Reader-Response
Activity
The Rhetorical Situation
Theory Building What
is Writing? How Do We
Write? Why Write?
Drafting
Activity/Description

In-Class Activity
Writing as a Process
Revision and Re-Vision
Creator and Revealer
Complicating the Task
Concept Map
Voice/Audience Activity

Peer-Workshop

Work for Next Class

1. Read Trying on
the Essay pgs.
482 491 (OW)
2. Read Try This
pgs. 491 500
(OW)
1. Read Why
Write? pgs. 38
42 (Bb)
2. Read Why I
Write pgs. 31
32 (OW)
3. QQC

Work for Next Class

1. Read A Lesson in
Revision pgs.
285 299 (OW)
1. Read
Responding,
Really Responding
to Student
Writing (Bb)
2. Compose Draft 2
of Paper 1 and
Bring it to Class
1. Revise Your
Papers and
Compose 3

Instructor: Sean McCullough

ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
P1

Questions to Ask
Me at Your
Conference

Week #4
Day
Monday
9/19/16

In-Class Activity
Individual Conferences
(No Class)

Wednesday
9/21/16

Individual Conferences
(No Class)

Friday
9/23/16

Individual Conferences
(No Class)

Work for Next Class

1. Read Memory
and Imagination
pgs. 454 463
(OW)
2. Read Writing
Around Rules
pgs. 535 541
(OW)
3. Read SelfAnalysis of Style
pgs. 599 600
(OW)
4. QQC

Project 2: Writing, Rhetoric, and Culture

Week #5
Day
Monday
9/26/16
Wednesday
9/28/16
Due: Third Draft of
P1
Friday
9/30/16

In-Class Activity
Rules, Conventions,
Rubrics, and
Assessment

Work for Next Class

1. Compose and
submit draft to
Bb, 11:59 PM
Wednesday

Compose Process Memo

for Project 1
Introduce Project 2
Academic Conference
(No Class)

1. Read A Brief
Explanation of
Classical
Rhetoric pgs.
134 144 (OW)
2. Read The
Discourse of
Academics pgs.
145 147 (OW)
3. Read

Instructor: Sean McCullough

ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
Adaptations,
Limitations, and
Imitations pgs.
338 347 (OW)
4. QQC
Week #6
Day
Monday
10/03/16

Wednesday
10/05/16

Friday
10/07/16
Due: Rough Draft of
P2

In-Class Activity
Judging Character
Becoming a Critic
Crossing the Threshold
of Academic Discourse

Rhetoric in Action:
Debate Generating
Content, Lodging
Arguments and
Critiques
Burkes Parlor Tricks Entering an Academic
Conversation

Week #7
Day
Monday
10/10/16

In-Class Activity
NO CLASS; INDIVIDUAL
CONFERENCES

Wednesday
10/12/16

NO CLASS; INDIVIDUAL
CONFERENCES

Friday
10/14/16

NO CLASS; INDIVIDUAL
CONFERENCES

Work for Next Class

1. Read Chapter X
from Memoirs of
the Author of a
Vindication of the
Rights of Woman
2. Read Speech to
the Troops at
Tlibury
1. Compose Rough
Draft of Paper 2

1. QQC
2. Revise Your
Papers and
Compose 3
Questions to Ask
Me at Your
Conference

Work for Next Class

1. Revise your
paper based on
the feedback
from our
conference
1. Revise your
paper based on
the feedback
from our
conference
1. Revise your
paper based on
the feedback
from our
conference
2. Read Reading,

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ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
Stealing, and
Writing Like a
Writer pgs. 556
566 (OW)
Week #8
Day
Monday
10/17/16

In-Class Activity
MLA Workshop
How to Write an
Academic Essay

Wednesday
10/19/16

Introductions and
Conclusions
Analysis and Summary

Friday
10/21/16
Due: Second Draft of
P2

Peer Workshop

Week #9
Day
Monday
10/24/16
Wednesday
10/26/16
Friday
10/28/16

In-Class Activity
Structure Activity
Providing Your MetaLanguage
Rubric and Assessment
Part 2
Conceptualizing the
Discipline
Optional In-Class Work
Day
Come with Questions
about Your Paper

Work for Next Class

1. Read
Introductions
and Conclusions
(Bb)
1. Compose and
bring to class
second draft of
P2 for workshop
1. Read How to
Structure and
Organize Your
Paper (Bb)
2. QQC

Work for Next Class

1. Ill Bring in
Readings for Next
Class

1. Read Research
and the Fiction
Writer pgs. 405
411 (OW)
2. Read Argument
as Conversation
pgs. 411 422
(OW)
3. Read
Radioheads OK
Computer pgs.
427 429 (OW)
4. QQC

Project 3: Writing about Writing

Instructor: Sean McCullough

ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
Week #10
Day
Monday
10/31/16
Due: Third Draft of
P2 and Process
Memo

In-Class Activity
Introduce Project 3
What is Research?
Genre
Conventions/Abstract
Activity
Polyvocality

Wednesday
11/02/16

Claims and Evidence

Debate

Friday
11/04/16
Due: Rough Draft of
P3

Integrating Sources
Balancing Styles
Writing about Something
Unfamiliar

Week #11
Day
Monday
11/07/16

In-Class Activity
Reading Visual Texts
Sonic Rhetoric
Sign Systems
(Intercontextuality)

Wednesday
11/09/16

Drafting Check Activity

Writing with More Than
Just Words
Peer Workshop Project 3
MLA Check

Friday

Veterans Day No

Work for Next Class

1. Read What
Games Have
Become Today
pgs. 433 437
(OW)
2. Read The
Strokes
3. Final Draft P2 due
at 11:59 PM!
1. Compose Rough
Draft of Project 3
and get it to me
by 11:59 PM
Friday!
1. Read Snowfall
2. Read 433

Work for Next Class

1. Read
Transfiguration
and How I Wrote
the Moth Essay
and Why pgs.
300 308 (OW)
2. Bring your first
draft/what you
have to class.
1. Read Why I
Write pgs. 31
32 (OW)
2. Read The
Internet Made Me
Do It pgs. 48 51
(OW)
3. QQC
4. 2nd Draft due
11:59 PM
Thursday to
Blackboard

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ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
11/11/16

Week #12
Day
Monday
11/14/16

Wednesday
11/16/16
Due: Third Draft of
P3 and Process
Memo
Friday
11/18/16

Week #13
Day
Monday
11/21/16
Due: Rough Draft of
P4
Wednesday
11/23/16
Friday
11/25/16
Week #14
Day
Monday
11/28/16

Wednesday
11/30/16

Class

In-Class Activity
Having a Bias vs. Being
Personally Invested in
Something
Making Our Own Peace
with the World Through
Language(s)
Introduce Project 4
Discuss Remediation

Choosing Genres
Genre and Rhetoric

In-Class Activity
Elevator Pitch Activity

Work for Next Class

1. Compose and
Submit to Bb
Third Draft of P3

1. Read Navigating
Genres (Bb)
2. Read
Generalizing
about Genre (Bb)
1. QQC
2. Compose Rough
Draft of P4 and
Bring to Class

Work for Next Class

No Class Thanksgiving
Break
No Class Thanksgiving
Break

In-Class Activity
Building a Matrix
Understanding Our
Choices
Rhetoric in the Digital
Age
Reflection
Peer Workshop P4

Work for Next Class

1 Read
Composition as
a Write of
Passage (Bb)
2 Compose Draft 2
of Project 4 and
Bring to Class
1 Revise your work

Instructor: Sean McCullough

ENC 1101-0006
MWF 10:10-11:00 a.m.; WMS 217
Due: Draft 2 of P4
Friday
12/02/16
Week #15
Day
Monday
12/05/16
Due: Draft 3 of P4
Wednesday
12/07/16
Friday
12/09/16

Concept/Theory Review
Course Evaluations
In-Class Work Day

Compose Draft 3
of P4

In-Class Activity
Presentations

Work for Next Class

Work on any last minute
revisions

Presentations

Work on any last minute

revisions
HAGC! #HAGC

Presentations (if need

be)

*All projects eligible for a revised grade must be submitted Monday

by noon.