Unit 2 Schedule

Week 6 -- Introductions / Finding Your Way into a Wicked Problem

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Review concepts from Unit 1 READ “Dilemmas” (Rittel and Webber, 1973)
Introduction to Unit 2 Assignment READ “Research starts with answers” (Witte,
What is information? 2017)

In-Class Homework (Due Day of Class Meeting)

Discuss wicked problems Research wicked problems

Ways of identifying wicked problems Draft wicked problems statement
Introduce waypoint assignment READ “The ‘Research paper’ (Larson, 1982)
WATCH “Scientific studies” (Oliver, 2016)

Week 7 --​ ​ Challenges to Information Literacy in Composition and Library Science

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

DUE Wicked Problem Statement

Discuss research papers don’t exist Begin research notes in Writing Habits journal
Solve problems with fake news, fake READ “Algorithmic Bias” (Reidsma, 2016)
data WATCH “Challenging” (Noble, 2016)

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Feedback on wicked problem READ “Effective Document Design” (Smith, 2019)

Check-in on research progress READ “Inclusivity, Gestalt principles, and plain
Discuss solutions to database problems language in document design” (Turner and
Schomber, 2016)

Week 8 --​ C
​ oncerns in Document Design / The Power of the Poster

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Develop solutions to problems in

document design READ “How Posters Became Art” (Hsu, 2019)
Create design language for fact sheet Select two pieces from Information is Beautiful
document

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Analyze visual grammar in white Submit initial sketches/designs for poster and fact
nationalist posters from Kansas City sheet
Create visual grammar for posters READ “Text-to-visual remediation” (Corbett, 2012,
2019)
Week 9 -- Remediating Texts / Playing with Design and Research

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

In-class feedback on sketches/designs READ “Why I’m Not a Maker” (Chachra, 2015)
Analysis of remediated texts Bring laptops (or we’ll meet in a computer lab)

In-Class Homework (Due Day of Class Meeting)

Create Adobe Spark account BRING rough drafts of fact sheet and poster
Drafting in Adobe Spark

Week 10 -- Workshop and Peer Review

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

Workshop rough drafts BRING revised rough drafts

In-Class Homework (Due By Next Class Meeting)

NO Class Complete drafts and write process letter

One-on-one conferences instead Submit narrative and process letter (October 29)