Date

Activities

Reading/Written/Collaborative Work

August 28

Introduce Syllabus

Discuss projects

Search

Discussion quiz

September 4

Problem:

How do these authors define what whey are trying to do? How does that differ from traditional academic discourse?

What is traditional academic discourse?

Introduce topic bibliography assignment 

Hawisher and Self, 1-14
Daly, ix-xii, 1-23
Bishop, 3-9
Schroeder, Fox, Bizzell, 1-10
Holdstein and Bleich, 1-24
Day and Eodice, 1-13

Reading response

September 11

Bring book review materials to class:

• Author guidelines
• Journal targeted for review
• Book review from that journal
• Any correspondence with book review editor
• Any reviews of the book you are reviewing (from other journals)

Kendra dinner

On-line—Search Engine Math
On-line–Power Searching for Anyone
Alt/Dis, Spooner, 155-177
Passions, Sirc, 178-204
Passions,Vielstimmig, 89-114
Alternate Style, DePeter, 26-34

Reading response (Try a fractured narrative to begin to synthesize the ideas in these essays).

September 18

Peer review
Peer review guidelines

Emily dinner

Book review draft due–bring 3 copies
(no reading assignment—you are reading your book and journals to complete this assignment)

September 25

Blogging—Sybil
Meet in 111 Morrill
Read:

• http://sybilisticism.tripod.com/2crb_sept25.html
• http://kairosnews.org (browse or join)
• http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/kbrooks/blog
• http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
• Porter, James. "Liberal Individualism and Internet Policy." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Eds. Hawisher and Selfe. 231-248.
• Moran, Charles. "Access." Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Hawisher and Selfe. 206-220.

Sybil dinner

Reading response: Bring notes, ideas, so you can blog in class. What arguments are Moran and Porter making in their essays? How are they related? What does blogging have to do with these arguments (draw connections and respond).

Draft 2 of book review due + journal analysis

October 2

Collaboration /Multivocality (Betsy)
GDC—5:30-7:30
Finish (First Person)2
Read Gesa Kirsh, Nedra Reynolds (handouts)

Holly dinner

Reading response (in blog, if possible): How might collaboration and multi-vocality be connected? How can single-authored texts be multivocal? (Offer examples.) How can collaborative texts be univocal? (Examples?) What is gained through collaboration, according to Day and Eodice? What are Kirsh’s concerns about multi-vocality? What implications do these things have for the classroom?

October 9

Interdisciplinary research and writing (Kim)
Info in Personal Effects, Alt/Dis, Authoring a Life—see me for other sources

Jenn dinner

Reading response

October 16

Mystory (Holly)
Greg Ulmer, Hueretics, Textbook, see me for some other sources, Ulmer's web resources.
http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~gulmer/
http://victorvitanza.com/
http://home.mesastate.edu/~blaga/criticalwritin/mystoryx.html
http://www.students.dsu.edu/baconb/New_Folder2/mystory.htm
AltDis - "From the Inside Out (or the Outside In, Depending)" by Christopher Schroeder
Personal Effects - "Where I'm Coming From" by Christopher Castiglia
Personal Effects - "The Personal as History" by Richard Ohmann

Conor dinner

Reading response

October 23

Alternative Grammar—Teaching (Emily)
Some info in Alt Styles (try to incorporate.)

Kim dinner

Reading response

October 30

First-person (subjectve) voice (Jenn)

Info in Personal Effects, Alt/Dis, Authoring a Life—see me for other sources

Lynne dinner

November 6

On-line publishing(Conor)

Special issues of on-line journals deal with this:http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.x/index.html

Emily/Sybil dinner

Reading response

November 13

Multi-genre writing
Kendra

Good new book on topic—Alt/Dis, Alternative Style, Daly

Jen/Holly dinner

Reading response (Great blog responses!)

November 20

Alternative canons, Lynne
Reading list and questions
Handouts
Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies: Chapter 4, "'English' at the Crossroads: Rethinking Curricula of Communication in the Context of the Turn to the Visual," by Gunther Kress.

Lynne/Kim dinner

Drafts of book review and one project are due

November 27

No Class (Thanksgiving)

Reading response

December 4

Conor/Kendra dinner

Reading response

December 11

Final Exam

Jenn, Holly, Kim, and Kendra

Conor, Emily, Sybil, and Lynne

Elizabeth Birmingham
Assistant Professor, Department of English
320J Minard Hall
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota 58105

Office: (701) 231-6587
e-mail: Elizabeth.Birmingham@ndsu.nodak.edu

Prospective students may schedule a visit by calling: 1-800-488-NDSU.