Unit 1: Exterior

Week 1: 8/29 , 9/1

Introduction

Show / read syllabus

Introduce syntax “Key quotes from Micciche’s rhetorical grammar.”

Key concepts of Network / Complexity and Writing/Info Literacy

DUE:

Your 20 pages of S Street Annotations in the class Google Map

Activate your edspace.american.edu space

Read the syllabus

Getting ahead:

Read Intro to City of Rhetoric.

Read and use hypothes.is (h.) to annotate: SCHINDLER, SARAH. “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination And Segregation Through Physical Design Of The Built Environment.” Yale Law Journal 124.6 (2015): 1934-2024, read parts I and II only, pp. 1934-1972. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2015.

Read and annotate with h. NERSESSOVA, IRINA. “Tapestry Of Space: Domestic Architecture And Underground Communities In Margaret Morton’s Photography Of A Forgotten New York.” Disclosure 23 (2014): 26. Advanced Placement Source. Web. 20 Nov. 2015.

*Sign up for a Zotero account and submit a link to your user profile before first class meeting next week for extra points (+10)

*Review project descriptions for Annotated Bibliography and Built Environment Descriptions

Week 2

Looking Ahead

Complete Reading Summaries 1 & 2 (Due Sept 15th)

Sign up for a Zotero account and submit a link to your user profile.

Review project descriptions for Annotated Bibliography and Built Environment Descriptions

M 9/5  no classes

Class 4.     Th 9/8

What are we doing in class?

**What is a “built environment”?

Go over Intro City of Rhetoric

Grammar / Syntax (Major problems, comma patterns)

Website

Commonplace book

Map

Assignment:

Unit I Reading (For Mon 9/12):

  1. SCHINDLER, SARAH. “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination And Segregation Through Physical Design Of The Built Environment.” Yale Law Journal 124.6 (2015): 1934-2024, read parts I and II only, pp. 1934-1972. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Nov. 2015.
  2. (Only if you want to get ahead; we won’t discuss till Thursday) Jenny Rice’s conclusion in her Distant Publics, Development Rhetoric, and the Subject of Crisis.

3) Part 1, Two, City of Rhetoric, 19-36)

4) Go ahead and register for hypothes.is. Add the bookmark to your browser. You’ll need to drag it to your menu/bookmark bar. If you’re using safari, you’ll need to go to view > show menubar (or bookmarks). Maybe the same for firefox. I recommend Chrome because it’s easiest with hypothes.is.  Once you’ve registered, click the links in the google doc. As you read these essays, make at least one annotation and tag it with either wrtg100f16 or wrtg106f16. You may add other tags, if you wish.

You might want to use this “quick start” guide: https://hypothes.is/quick-start-guide-for-students/

You might also benefit from this: https://hypothes.is/annotation-tips-for-students/

As you annotate, think about what would be helpful or interesting for the rest of us. Link to a definition or to another example or ask a question (and if you can answer someone else’s, do so) or put in a .gif that explains something . . . in essence, be helpful, be additive, be strategic.  If you don’t understand something in the text, ask a question about it. Keep in mind our own writing projects as you read this. Annotate sentences and ideas that might be helpful. Heck, go ahead and annotate spots where you see a semi-colon or comma fanboys.

You will all lead the discussion next class. So come with questions and things you want to discuss.

5) Commonplace book (due for next Thursday): two examples of periods (IC. IC.) and two examples of IC; IC.  Post them to your commonplace book (a word doc for  now) and discuss what the effect would be if you replaced one with other. There is no correct answer. I just want you to think about it and play around with it.

Week 3

Class  5.     M 9/12

In Class:

Discussion: Tie the readings to our own work

*Primary and Secondary Research (BEAM)

               *Summaries

               *Digital Literacy

               *Working collaboratively (peer review)

Assignment For Thursday:

  1. Read: City of Rhetoric Chapter 2
  2. Read: Graff & Birkenstein (G&B): Intro & Chapter 1    
  3. Read: Jenny Rice’s conclusion in her Distant Publics, Development Rhetoric, and the Subject of Crisis.
  4. Read built environment project description (on syllabus). Choose an external built environment in Atlanta to study, and begin Built Environment Description 1 (you don't have to do this by class time, though you're welcome to give it a try; we will talk about how to do this in class so that you can post something before Week 4's class meeting)
  5. (Geeting ahead): 2 Reading Analyses from chosen from our reading (Due by Mon 19th)

[Helpful hints: 1) chunk up the reading. Read like 5 pages a day in each text. 2) Keep thinking about why we are reading this about this topic in a writing class. 3) Keep thinking about how these essays help us better understand our projects. 4) Try to go visit your chosen site. Go with a friend. I’d avoid going alone, personally. 4) Read over our Doc we created today with notes on our readings. I think it will be helpful. If you have anything to add to them, by all means, please do so. 5) Email or Slack me with any questions.]

Class 6.     Th 9/15

In class:

               Discuss G&B

               Discuss City of Rhetoric, and Jenny Rice:

               What are Annotated Bibs? What’s a Reading Analysis?

Assignment

Read Rhetoric, chapt 3

Read G & B, chapt 2

               

Week 4

In class:

               Writing Workshop

               Discuss Chapter 3, Rhetoric

*from summary to ABs

*Introduction to Zotero

*Types of research methods

*Observation and Note taking

*Plagiarism

7.     M 9/19 (Reading Analysis 1 & 2 due)

Assignment:

Read Chapter 4, Rhetoric

Read chapt 3, G&B

Class 8.     Th 9/22

Assignment Chapter 5, Rhetoric

Chapt 4, G&B

Week 5

Looking ahead:

Reading Summaries 3 & 4 due Oct 13th at 11:59 pm.

***“Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces” by Kathleen G. Scholl and Gowri Betrabet Gulwad http://libjournal.uncg.edu/jls/article/view/972

***“His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society” by Suzanne Tick http://www.metropolismag.com/March-2015/His-or-Hers-Designing-for-a-Post-Gender-Society/

***BAZELON, EMILY. “Making Bathrooms More Accommodating.” New York Times Magazine. 17 November 2015. Web. 2 January 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/making-bathrooms-more-accommodating.html?_r=0

***“Space and Consequences: The Impact of Different Formal Learning Spaces on Instructor and Student Behavior” by D. Christopher Brooks

9.     M 9/26

In class:

Discuss Rhetoric and Built Environment Description

Assignment:

Read City of Rhetoric (next chapter

Read G&B: Next chapter

10. Th 9/29

3 x Annotated Bib Due

Assignment:

Reading Summaries 3 & 4 due Oct 13th at 11:59 pm.

***“Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Spaces” by Kathleen G. Scholl and Gowri Betrabet Gulwad http://libjournal.uncg.edu/jls/article/view/972

***“His & Hers: Designing for a Post-Gender Society” by Suzanne Tick http://www.metropolismag.com/March-2015/His-or-Hers-Designing-for-a-Post-Gender-Society/

***BAZELON, EMILY. “Making Bathrooms More Accommodating.” New York Times Magazine. 17 November 2015. Web. 2 January 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/magazine/making-bathrooms-more-accommodating.html?_r=0

***“Space and Consequences: The Impact of Different Formal Learning Spaces on Instructor and Student Behavior” by D. Christopher Brooks

Week 6

11. M 10/3 Early warning notices due

In class:

Discuss readings

12. Th 10/6

Due: Built Environment Description 1

Assignment:

Continue reading City of Rhetoric and G&B

Week 7 UNIT 2: Interior

13. M 10/10

14. Th 10/13 Fall Break on 10/14

Reading Analyses 3&4 are due.

Week 8

15. M 10/17

16. Th 10/20

Reading Summaries 3 & 4 due Oct 20th at 11:59 pm, turn in one or more early by class time on the first day of class this week for up to 25 points if it's used in a workshop

Week 9  

17. M 10/24

               Due: Building Environment Description 2

18. Th 10/27

                                       

Week 10 (Unit 3: Digital Built Environment)

19. M 10/31 Halloween

20. Th 11/3 last day to drop on 11/4

Week 11

21. M 11/7

22. Th 11/10

Week 12 (Unit 4: Textual Built Environment)

23. M 11/14

24. Th 11/17

Week 13

25. M 11/21

Due: Annotated Bibliography 7-10

26. Th 11/24 Thanksgiving

Week 14

27. M 11/28

Due: Built Environment Description 3: Digital Space

28. Th 12/01

Due: Introductory paragraph for Built Environment Analysis due by class time on the first day of class this week

Week 15

29. M 12/05

Due: Draft 1 for Built Environment Analysis

30. Th 12/08 Last class

Final Draft for BEA

Dec 9th: classes end (Final Essay)