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MiniMester Winter 2015
Contact: David.G.Smith@lonestar.edu      • Instructor's Blog     •@davidglensmith
 
English 1302-Composition & Rhetoric 2
5008 || CASA334 M T W Th F     09:00 am - 12:25 pm
     
 
 
Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with prior notice.
 
A fifteen minute break will occur during each class session.
 

   
  Week 1
  12.14 Monday:   Basic introduction • Guidelines for Reading
              • demo
   
    Analytical Thinking Process: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Review
              • demo      Students should be sure to review this file more in depth.
    Deductive versus Inductive, pp. 85-86; 90-91
              • demo
            • David Foster Wallace “Consider the Lobster”
              • Francis Bacon, “On Truth”
   
    Syllogisms (logic within your introduction paragraphs)
              • demo
    Thomas Jefferson, “Declaration of Independence”p. 678
  >   Quiz: Syllabus & Rhetoric
              • Diagnostic Exercise: “Social Protest”
   
 
12.15 Tuesday:  
Library Orientation
    APA Paper topic list provided
   
 
APA Paper Overview (Paper 1)
    Basic Construction of an APA Paper
    A Writer’s Reference, pp.496-500 (APA-1 and APA-2a); p. 519 (APA-4b)
              • MLA versus APA
   
    Review of English 1301: plagiarism, signal phrases
    Academic Paragraphs
              • demo-APA Paragraphs
 
Guidelines for Declaring an APA Thesis Statements
              • demo-Thesis Sample
    Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis and Abstract
              • demo-Abstract sample
    Traditional Argument—Aristotelian Model
              • demo
   
 
12.16 Wednesday:  
Exercise: Signal phrases and Academic Paragraphs
    “The Toulmin Model” pp. 337-343
              • demo
 
“Rogerian Argument” pp. 392-400
              • demo
  >   Exercise: Building a Rogerian Discussion
   
  12.17 Thursday:   APA Thesis and Abstract due
    Bring print-outs of two APA research articles to class.
              In class exercise: Building Ethos
   
    Before class read Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” pp. 220-226
    and Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”—supplemental
    Group discussion 1:
              Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” p. 220
              Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor”supplemental
    Group presentations
   
  12.18 Friday:   Before class read W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” pp. 691-692
    and Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” pp. 438-440
  Reading Comprehsion Exit Ticket
    Social Commentary • Poems of Witness / Protest
    W. H. Auden, “The Unknown Citizen” pp. 691-692
              • demo
   
    Group discussion 2:
              Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” pp. 438-440
 
Group presentations
     
     
  Week 2
 
12.21 Monday:  
APA Paper due
    Visual Communication Analysis
              • demo
    Class discussion (3):
              Frida Kahlo, Autorretrato con espinas (Self portrait with Thorns)
   
    CMS (Chicago) Guidelines Overview (Paper 2)
    Basic Construction of a CMS History Paper
 
          A Writer’s Reference, pp. 550-553 (CMS-1); pp. 570-575 (CMS-4c)
              • MLA versus CMS versus APA
   
  Reading Comprehsion Exit Ticket
    Before class read Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” pp. 695-700
    Group discussion 4:
              Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” pp. 695-700
    Group presentations
   
 
12.22 Tuesday: 
Class Discussion of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”supplemental
    Diverse Opinions in Literary Analysis, “Arguing about Literature” pp. 420-425
 
Group discussion 5: Supplied essays
    Group presentations
   
 
12.23 Wednesday:  
CMS (Chicago) Paper due
    MLA Paper Overview (Capstone Project, Paper 3)
    Basic Construction of a Literary Analysis Paper
              A Writer’s Reference, pp. 424-428 (MLA-1); pp. 454-455(MLA-4b)
    Critical Literary Analysis Expectations • Literary Modes
              • MLA Literary Critical Paper Expectations
              • Literary Modes
    MLA Annotated Bib Overview
   
 
12.24 Thursday:  
Victorian versus Modernism
    T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” pp. 756-760
              • demo
    Lecture Ticket: Modernism and Eliot
 

 
12.25 Friday:  
no class
    MLA Thesis, & Annotated Bib due
     
     
  Week 3  
  12.26 Monday:  Modernism > Post-Modernism
    Group Discussion 5: Modernism in Poetry
 
Group Presentations
   
    Sylvia Plath, “Lady Lazarus”—supplemental
    Exit Ticket: Analysis of Plath
   
  12.29 Tuesday:   MLA Paper due
    Post-Modern Poetry
    Seamus Heaney, “Digging” —supplemental
    Seamus Heaney, “Follower” —supplemental
    Lynda Hull, “Ornithology” —supplemental
    Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”—supplemental
    Billy Collins, “Aristotle” —supplemental
   
  12.30 Wednesday:   Post-Modern Poetry to Post-Post Modernism to MetaModern
    Meta-Modern Poetry • Class activity
              • playful GIF
    Laurie Anderson “O Superman”
    Rob Cantor “Shia LaBeouf is a Cannibal”
   
  12.31 Thursday:  Final Project
   
  01.01 Friday:   no class