Calendar
“Life and the Journey”
English 101
English Composition I
Autumn 2008
California University of Pennsylvania
3 credits
M. G. Aune
Office Hours TTH 10.00-11.00, W 3.00 – 6.00
and by appointment
724.938.4341
223 Azorsky Hall
aune(at)cup.edu
TTh 12.30 – 1.45 PM
TTh 2.00 – 3.15 PM
Gallagher Hall 108
Hamer Hall 147
Calendar
Subject to change.
*These texts are available for download from the
Blackboard site.
The bibliographic information is available on
the Blackboard site.
PSM –
Pocket Style Manual; CdV -
Carnet de Voyage;
TwC –
Travels with Charley
Part 1 Beginnings: Travel Narratives and Memoirs
Topics: annotation, outlines, introductions, conclusions, memoir, narrative
Week 1
26 August Introductions and interviews, “The Road Not Taken”
28 August Read: “Travels with Omar”
How to annotate
Discuss: elements and structure of the narrative
and the memoir
Week 2
2 September Read and annotate: “Letting Life Happen.”*
Discuss: Elements and structure of memoir, con’t: use of details, setting,
characters
4 September Read and annotate: “From
On the Road”*
Discuss: On the
Road as a memoir
Week 3
9 September Discuss: Paper 1, genre, detail, brainstorm (sketching),
narrative, outline,
preview rubric.
Be sure to bring the questionnaire from the
first week of class
11 September Read: Outline Handout,* Introduction and
Conclusion Handouts*
Draft: Outline of paper 1, intro, body, conclusion
Week 4
16 September Due: Final draft of Paper 1.
Bring a paper copy, a copy on disk, and the
outline.
Meet in Library 230
Part 2 Rhetorical Analysis
Topics: quotations, summarizing, rhetorical situation,
18 September Read: Ted Conover, “from
Rolling Nowhere”*
Discuss: close reading, analyzing the rhetorical situation, summarizing,
outlining
Week 5
23 September Return Paper 1, Editing Journal, Conferences
25 September Read: William Least Heat-Moon, “from
Blue Highways”*
Discuss: Heat-Moon, rhetorical situation of the
travel narrative
Week 6
30 September Discuss: Heat-Moon and Conover, Paper 2
2 October Read: Direct Quotations,
PSM 116-17
Discuss: Heat-Moon and Conover, draft outline of Paper 2 (intro, conclusion)
Week 7
7 October Due: Final version of Paper 2 Bring a paper
copy, a copy on disk, and the
outline.
Meet in Library 230
Part 3 Reviews
Real audience vs. intended audience, visual language
9 October Read and Discuss:
CdV, rhetorical analysis
Discuss: CdV,
visual language
Week 8
14 October Return Paper 2, Editing Journal, conferences
16 October Read and Discuss
CdV
Week 9
21 October Discuss
CdV and Paper 3
23 October Due: Outline of Paper 3
Week 10
28 October
Due: Final version of Paper 3 Bring a paper copy, a copy on disk, and the
outline.
Meet in Library 230
30 October Return Paper 3, Editing Journal, Conferences
Part 4 Research
Topics: on-line research, citing sources, avoiding plagiarism,
Week 11
4 November Finding and evaluating sources, Research
PSM 92-102,
Meet in Library
230
Form groups
6 November Read & discuss:
TwC, Part 1
Week 12
11 November
Read & discuss: TwC, Part 2,
Meet in Library 230
13 November Read & discuss:
TwC, Part 3 research project
Week 13
18 November Read & discuss:
TwC, Part 4
Meet in Library 230
20 November No class, Research Day
Week 14
25 November Read & discuss:
TwC Part 4,
Read & discuss:
TwC Part 4, Discuss: Final Paper, bring Paper 1 to class
27 November No Class, Thanksgiving Break
Week 15
2 December Due: Typed draft of Paper 4, Bring a paper
copy, a copy on disk
Meet in
Library 230
4 December Final class Due: Final version of Paper 4, including the outline,
the side shadowed version and the peer review sheet.
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