Assignment Schedule

Date	Week	Unit	Assignments Each chapter contains an Intro, an Overview, Guidelines, Example Readings, and Writing Checklist/Activities
8/27/09	1	1 Intro	I. A Rhetoric: College Student's Guide to Writing
9/3/09	2	Brief Overview Chapters	I. A Rhetoric: College Student's Guide to Writing Reading, Thinking, Viewing, and Writing
			1. Critical Thinking Through Reading, Viewing, and Writing
			The Writing Process
			2. Beginning the Writing Process
			3. Planning
			4. Drafting
			5. Revising
			6. Editing and Proofreading
			7. Submitting, Writing, and Creating Portfolios
			The College Essay
			8. One Writer's Process
9/10/09-9/24/09	3-5	Weeks 3-5 Unit I	Narrative, Descriptive, and Reflective Writing
9/10/09	3	Chapter	9. Forms of College Writing
9/17/09	4	Chapter	10. Narration and Description
		Selected Reading	"Mzee Owitti" by Jacqui Nyangi Owitti
		Selected Reading	"That Morning on the Prairie" by James C. Schaap
		Selected Reading	"A Hanging" by George Orwell
		Selected Reading	"Sunday in the Park" by Bel Kaufman
		Selected Reading	"Northing" by Annie Dillard
9/24/09	5	Chapter	11. Description and Reflection
		Selected Reading	"The Stream in the Ravine" by Nicole Suurdt
		Selected Reading	"Call Me Crazy But I Have to Be Myself" by Mary Seymour
		Selected Reading	"None of This Is Fair" by Richard Rodriguez
		Selected Reading	"Who Shot Johnny?" by Debra Dickerson
10/1/09	6	Unit I (Narrative, Descriptive, and Reflective Writing) Paper Due
		Unit II	Unit II -- Analytical Writing
		Weeks 6-10
10/8/09	7	Chapter	12. Cause and Effect
		Selected Reading	"Adrenaline Junkies" by Sarah Hanley
		Selected Reading	"The Legacy of Generation N" by Christy Haubegger
		Selected Reading	"Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids" by Anna Quindlen
10/15/09	8	M I D T E R M Chapter	13. Comparison and Contrast
		Selected Reading	"A Fear Born of Sorrow" by Anita Brinkman
		Selected Reading	"Two Views of the River" by Mark Twain
		Selected Reading	"Shrouded in Contradiction" by Gelareh Asayesh
		Selected Reading	"Like Mexicans" by Gary Soto
10/22/09	9	Chapter	14. Classification
		Selected Reading	"Three Family Cancers" by Kim Brouwer
		Selected Reading	"Four Ways to Talk About Literature" by John Van Rys
		Selected Reading	"No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch" by Ann Hodgman
10/29/09	10	Chapter	15. Process Writing
		Selected Reading	"Wayward Cells" by Kerri Mertz
		Selected Reading	"Downloading Photographs from the MC-150 Digital Camera" (from WFB)
		Selected Reading	"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" by Verne Meyer
		Selected Reading	"Campus Racism 101" by Nikki Giovonni
11/5/09	11	Chapter	16. Definition
		Selected Reading	"The Gullible Family" by Mary Beth Bruins
11/12/09		Selected Reading	"Understanding Dementia" by Sarah Anne Morelos
		Selected Reading	"Deft or Daft" by David Schelhaas
		Selected Reading	On Excellence by Cynthia Ozick
11/19/09	13	Unit II (Analytical Writing ) Paper Due	Presentations
		Unit III	Persuasive Writing
		Chapter	17. Strategies for Argumentation and Persuasion
11/26/09	14	Chapter	18. Taking a Position
		Selected Reading	"An Apology for Ms. Barbie D. Doll" by Rita Isakson
		Selected Reading	"In Defense of the Animals" by Meg Greenfield
		Selected Reading	"Apostles of Hatred Find It Easy to Spread Their Message" by Leonard Pitts Jr.
		Selected Reading	"Pornography" by Margaret Atwood
		Selected Reading	"Demystifying Multiculturalism" by Linda Chavez
12/3/09	15	Chapter	19. Persuading Readers to Act
		Selected Reading	"To Drill or Not to Drill" by Rebecca Pasok
		Selected Reading	"Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time" by Paul Rogat Loeb
		Selected Reading	"I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
		Selected Reading	"The Media's Image of Arabs" by Jack G. Shaheen
12/10/09	16	Chapter	20. Proposing a Solution
		Selected Reading	"Preparing for Agroterror" by Brian Ley
		Selected Reading	"Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha" by Anna Quindlen
		Selected Reading	"The Media and the Ethics of Cloning" by Leigh Turner
		Unit III (Persuasive Writing) Paper Due	Presentations
12/17/09	17	Final	Final Exam