GD160||Basic Web Design
   Fall 2014
 
        contact: SmithD@wcjc.edu           • Instructor's Blog           •@davidglensmith 
     
        office hours by appointment: 09.30 am - 10.30 am
     
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (11456) room 271 T Th 08.00 am - 09.15 am          • syllabus
     
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (11957) room 270 T Th 10.50 am - 12.05 pm          • syllabus
     
     English 1302 - Comp. 2 (11956) room 270 T Th 12.15 pm - 01.30 pm          • syllabus
     
     
     Instructor reserves the right to make changes to Course Outline with advanced notice.
 

   
Week 1          
 
08/26 Tuesday:  
Basic introduction
    Guidelines for Reading-Intertextuality
              • demo-Guidelines for Reading
              • demo-Intertextuality
   
 
08/28 Thursday:  
Conflict Types
              • demo-Conflict
    Quiz 1: Syllabus
    Library Orientation: Literary Databases 
              • General Information: SIRS
              • General Information: Academic Search Complete
              • Newspapers & Current Topics: CQ Researcher
              • Humanities & Literature: JSTOR
    Exercise 1: Diagnostic Essay
     
     
  Week 2  
 
09/02 Tuesday: 
Argumentative Papers • Literary Reviews / Social Commentary
         Rules for Writers: pp. 84-87 (sections 6a, 6b, 6c); 536-539 (section 61)
         Bedford: pp. 156-160 (sections 6d, 6e, 6f); 663-666 (section 58)
    Rhetoric: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
              • demo
    Inductive Arguments versus Deductive Arguments
              • demo
    Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, deductive
    Francis Bacon, "Of Truth," inductive
   
 
09/04 Thursday: 
Literary Terms > Protagonist/Antagonist
              • demo-Terminology
              • demo-Aesop Fable: "The Fox and the Goat"
    Academic Paragraphs • Signal Phrases • Academic Summaries
         RfW: pp. 546-549 (section 63b)
         Bedford: pp. 674-678 (section 60b)
              • demo
    Quiz 2: Conflict Types
    Quiz 3: Logos, Pathos, Ethos
     
     
  Week 3  
 
09/09 Tuesday: 
APA versus MLA, in-text notations
              • demo
         RfW: pp. 550-553 (Sections 64-64a, Ex. 1-4)
         Bedford: pp. 680-683 (sections 61, 61a, Ex. 1-4)
    Declaring a Thesis
             • demo
    Declaring an Abstract
              • demo-template
   
 
09/11 Thursday: 
Quiz 4: Academic Summary
    Group Discussions 1:
              Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” - supplemental
              Garret Hardin, “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor” – supplemental
    Assignment 1: Introduction to APA Research Paper: Overview
     
     
  Week 4  
 
09/16 Tuesday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions
    Elements of Fairy Tales Preview
   
 
09/18 Thursday:  
Elements of Fairy Tales
              • demo
    Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm “The Goose Girl”
              • demo-Freytag's Pyramid
     
     
  Week 5  
 
09/23 Tuesday:  
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” p 619
    Narration • Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol
              • demo-Types of Narration and Irony
   
 
09/25 Thursday: 
Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
    Assignment 1-part 1: APA Abstract due
     
     
  Week 6  
 
09/30 Tuesday:  
Presentations of Group Discussions
    Traits of a Modern Anti-Hero
              • demo
   
 
10/02 Thursday:  
James Joyce, “Eveline” p. 597
    Setting • Dark Epiphany
     
     
  Week 7       
  10/07 Tuesday:  Quiz 5: Reading Comprehension / Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p. 376
              • demo
   
  10/09 Thursday:  Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p. 376
     
     
     
   Week 8  
 
10/14 Tuesday: 
Quiz 6: Reading Comprehension / Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p 129
   
 
10/16 Thursday: 
Quiz 7: Reading Comprehension / William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p. 220
    Narration • Setting • Irony
    Assignment 1-part 2: full APA paper due            <updated due date>
     
     
  Week 9  
 
10/21 Tuesday:  
William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p. 220
   
  10/23 Thursday:   Review of MLA expectations
    RfW: Supporting a Thesis: pp. 460-461
    Integrating Sources: 469-471; Signal Phrases: 473-476
     
     
  Week 10  
  10/28 Tuesday:   Group Discussions 3: Gabriel García Márquez, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” p. 590
   
  10/30 Thursday:   Presentations of Group Discussions 3
    Assignment 2: MLA paper: Overview
     
     
  Week 11  
 
11/04 Tuesday:  
Proposal due for Assignment 2: MLA paper: Declaration of Topic
    How to Read Poetry • Explication of Poetry
              • demo-Approaches to Poetry
    Poetical Devices and Terminologies
              • demo-Devices and Terminologies
              • demo
    Quiz 8: Poetic Meter
   
  11/06 Thursday:   Group Discussions 4: Variations of Modernism: Graphic Novel
    Material Due 11-18
     
     
  Week 12  
 
11/11 Tuesday:  
Preview of T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.989-992
   
 
11/13 Thursday:  
Quiz 9: Reading Comprehension / T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
              • demo
   
  11/14 Friday:   Last Day to Drop Class with a Grade of ‘W’
     
     
  Week 13  
  11/18 Tuesday:   Presentations of Group Discussions
    T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p 989-992
   
  11/20 Thursday:   Group Discussions 5: Sylvia Plath, "Daddy" p. 776-778
              • demo
     
     
  Week 14  
 
11/25 Tuesday: 
Presentations of Group Discussions
    Assignment 2: MLA paper due
   
 
11/27 Thursday:  
Thanksgiving Holiday: Classes Resume December 1
     
     
  Week 15  
 
12/02 Tuesday:  
Post-Modernism versus Modernism
    Contemporary Poetry
   
 
12/04 Thursday:  
Contemporary Poetry
              Lynda Hull “Ornithology”     supplemental
              Susan Mitchell “Havana Birth”     supplemental
              • demo
    Study Guide for Final
     
     
  Week 16: Exam Week      Final Exams
  12/09 Tuesday:   11456          08:00 am to 10:00 am
   
    11957          10:15 am to 12:15 pm
   
  12/11 Thursday:   11956          12:30 pm to 02:30 pm