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Spring 2016
contact: David.G.Smith@lonestar.edu      • Instructor's Blog     •@davidglensmith 
 
 English 1302-Composition & Rhetoric 2
5070 || CASA 331 M W     02:40 pm - 04:10 pm
     
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CI=Current Issues, AWR=A Writer’s Reference
 

   
  Week 1
  02.01 Monday:   Basic introduction
    Guidelines to Course
    Guidelines for Reading/Academic Expectations
              • demo
    Exit Ticket: Action Plan for Spring
    Analytical Thinking Process: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Review
              • demo
    Quiz: Rhetoric
   
  02.03 Wednesday:  Deductive versus Inductive, CI: pp. 85-86; 90-91
              • demo
              • David Foster Wallace “Consider the Lobster”
              • Francis Bacon, “On Truth”
    Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence” CI: p. 678
    Diagnostic Exercise: “Social Protest”
    Basic Construction of an APA Paper
    AWR: pp. 496-500 (APA-1 & APA-2a); p. 519 (APA-4b)
              • MLA versus APA
     
     
  Week 2  
 
02.08 Monday: 
• APA Paper Overview (Paper 1) & Topic List
    Library Database Orientation
    Review of English 1301: plagiarism, signal phrases-part 1
    Signal phrases and Academic Paragraphs
              • demo
    Establishing an Abstract
              • demo-Abstract sample
   
  02.10 Wednesday:  Review of English 1301: plagiarism, signal phrases-part 2
    APA Thesis Statements
              • demo
    Traditional Argument—Aristotelian Model
              • demo
    Syllogisms
              • demo
    “The Toulmin Model” AWR: pp. 337-343
              • demo
     
     
  Week 3  
  02.15 Monday:   “Rogerian Argument” AWR: pp. 392-400
              • demo
    Exercise: Building a Rogerian Discussion
   
  02.17 Wednesday:   Before class read Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” p. 220-226
    and Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”—supplemental
   
    • APA Introduction and Thesis due
    Bring print-outs of two APA research articles to class.
    Exercise: Building Ethos
    Group discussion 1: Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” CI: pp. 220-226 and
    Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”—supplemental
     
     
  Week 4  
  02.22 Monday:   Group presentations
    cover design
    Psalmanazar—see paragraph 18
   
    Before class read W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” p. 691-692
   
    W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” pp. 691-692
    For comparison: Auden's “Funeral Blues” —supplemental
              • demo
    • Exit Ticket 1
   
  02.24 Wednesday:  Before class read Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” p. 438-440
   
    Group discussion 2: 
    Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” CI: pp. 438-440
    Group Presentations
     
     
  Week 5  
 
02.29 Monday: 
• APA Paper due
    Visual Communication Analysis
    Group Discussion 3: Visual Analysis
 

  03.02 Wednesday: Group Discussion 3: Presentations
     
     
  Week 6  
  03.07 Monday:   Before class read Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p. 695-700
   
    Basic Construction of a CMS Paper
    AWR: pp. 550-553 (CMS-1); pp. 570-575 (CMS-4c)
              MLA versus CMS versus APA
    CMS (Chicago) Guidelines Overview (Project 2)
   
    Group discussion 4:
    Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” pp. 695-700
   
  03.09 Wednesday:   Group Discussion 4: Presentations
    Class Discussion of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”—supplemental
              • Students will be divided into groups and will be provided specific essays
                 on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
     
     
  Spring Break  
  03.14 Monday:   no class
     
  03.16 Wednesday:  no class
 
 
     
  Week 7  
  03.21 Monday:   • CMS Project due
    Diverse Opinions in Literary Analysis, “Arguing about Literature” p. 420-425
    Group Discussion 5: Essays on Poe
    Group Discussion 5: Presentations
   
 
03.23 Wednesday:  
Basic Construction of a MLA Paper
    AWR, pp. 424-8 (MLA-1); pp. 454-45 (MLA-4b)
    MLA Paper Overview (Capstone Project, Paper 3)
    MLA Annotated Bib Overview • Proposal Overview
   
 
Thomas More, Utopia, pp. 655-668: Overview of full text
     
     
  Week 8  
  03.28 Monday:  Group Discussion 6: More, Utopia
   
    Group Discussion 6: Presentations
   
  03.30 Wednesday:  Critical Literary Analysis Expectations
    Literary Modes
              • demo
    Creating Literary Analysis on Poetry
   
    Modernism versus Victorian
              • demo
    Modernism, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot
     
     
  Week 9  
  04.04 Monday:   Modernism, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock” pp. 756-760
   
  04.06 Wednesday:  T. S. Eliot, “Prufrock” pp. 756-760
   
  04.08 Friday:   • MLA Paper Thesis and Annotated Bib. due
     
     
  Week 10  
 
04.11 Monday: 
• Last day to drop and receive a “W”
    Writing Workshop for MLA Paper • Status Update
    Bring articles & drafts of papers for conversations with instructor
   
 
04.13 Wednesday:  
Writing Workshop for MLA Paper • Status Update
    Bring articles & drafts of papers for conversations with instructor
     
     
  Week 11  
  04.18 Monday:   Class cancelled due to weather.
   
 
04.20 Wednesday:  
Class cancelled due to weather.
     
     
  Week 12  
  04.25 Monday:   Class Discussion: Sylvia Plath as Modernist, —as Narrow Confessionalist
              “Lady Lazarus” —supplemental
              “Daddy”—supplemental
    In-class Exit Ticket: Plath's Strategies
   
  04.27 Wednesday:   Modernism > Post-Modernism
    Postmodernism in Poetry
    Class Discussion: Seamus Heaney as Postmodernist
              “Digging” —supplemental
    In-class Exit Ticket: Heaney's Strategies
   
  04.29 Friday:  • MLA Paper due
     
     
  Week 13  
 
05.02 Monday: 
Postmodernism in Poetry
    Lynda Hull, “Ornithology” —supplemental
    In-class Exit Ticket
   
 
05.04 Wednesday:  
Postmodernism in Poetry
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”—supplemental
   
 
Modernism in Poetry to Postmodernism to Post-Postmodernism to MetaModern
              • playful GIF
    Laurie Anderson “O Superman”
    Rob Cantor “Shia LaBeouf is a Cannibal”
    In-class Exit Ticket
     
     
  Finals Week  
  05.09 Monday:  02.00 pm-03.50 pm
    Meta-Modern Poetry —part 2