ENGL 150: Writing and Research
Course Calendar

Fall 2005

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00-12:15 in Grainger 101

Texts
Course Description and Objectives
Course Requirements and Policies
Check this calendar regularly for changes.  Check the Daily Assignments regularly so you know what we'll be doing in class.  

30 August Course introduction.  Strunk and White Rule 13:  "Make the paragraph the unit of composition." 
1 September

Read Plato's Symposium, introductory dialogue and the speech of Phaedrus (pp. 1-12).  Daily Assignment.
6 September In Great Writing, read the introduction to Description (pp. 10-17), Virginia Woolf's "The Death of the Moth," and Keats's "Ode to Autumn" (pp. 52-53). Daily Assignment.
8 September Read Plato's Symposium, the speeches of Pausanias and Eryxamachus (pp. 13-24).  Daily Assignment.
13 September Description writing assignment due.  In Great Writing, read the introduction to Exemplification (pp. 144-151) and William Zinsser's "Clutter" (pp. 190-194). Daily Assignment.
15 September Read Plato's Symposium, the speech of Aristophanes (pp. 25-31).  Daily Assignment.
20 September Exemplification writing assignment due.  In Great Writing, read the introduction to Process Anaylsis (pp. 196-204) and Jessica Mitford's "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain (pp. 216-223). Daily Assignment.
22 September Read Plato's Symposium, the speech of Agathon and Socrates's questions to Agathon (pp. 32-44). Daily Assignment.
27 September Process Analysis writing assignment due.  In Great Writing, read the introduction to Comparison and Contrast (pp. 278-286), Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 (pp. 328-329), and Bruce Catton's "Grant and Lee" (pp. 332-335). Please also read George Carlin's "Comparison of Football and Baseball."  Daily Assignment.
29 September Read Plato's Symposium, Diotima's questions to Socrates and the speech of Diotima (pp. 45-60).  Daily Assignment.
4 October Comparison and Contrast writing assignment due.  In Great Writing, read the introduction to Causal Analysis (pp. 404-410) and Jack London's "To Build a Fire" (pp. 432-444).  Daily Assignment.
6 October Class cancelled.
11 October Causal Analysis writing assignment due.  In Great Writing, read the introduction to Definition (pp. 464-472) and Stephen Carter's "The Insufficiency of Honesty" (pp. 507-512).   Daily Assignment.
13 October Read Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades's entrance, the speech of Alcibiades, and the final dialogue (pp. 61-78). Daily Assignment.
20 October Work on group honors project.
25 October Short essay #1 (Definition) due.
27 October Work on group honors project.
1 November In Great Writing, read the introduction to Argument and Persuasion (pp. 520-528) and Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (pp. 534-541).
3 November No class:  Conferences.
8 November No class:  Conferences.
10 November Peer review session for second essay.Short essay #2 (Argument and Persuasion).
15 November Short essay #2 due. Research and methodology. Introduction to bliography and research.
17 November Research and methodology. Bring to class a bibliography of five printed and five Internet sources you might use for your research paper (use the citation format relevant to your discipline). Please also bring evaluations of these sources that you might use for your final research paper. Which is the most useful source, and why? Which is the least useful source, and why? Be prepared to explain how your use of these sources has shaped your thinking about your final paper.
22 November Work on Longwood Honors Blog.
29 November Uses and abuses of quotations. Bring to class a quotation from one of your sources and be prepared to explain how you plan to use it in your paper. Thesis massage therapy. Bring to class a draft of your thesis paragraph.
1 December Bring to class an outline of your research paper.
6 December Class cancelled because of snow. Snowblogging is encouraged.
8 December Research Presentations: Everyone, in alphabetical order. We'll have to cut down on the question and answer time to fit this in.
15 December (Thursday) Final research paper due. FINAL EXAM (3-5:30 pm)