Schedule

All assignments must be submitted by 10 pm EST on the date listed.

Submission details are denoted in the schedule:
WP = WordPress Blog Post
email KHB = email me at khasler@udel.edu
email PG = email peer group

Links to readings, lectures, and tutorials are available here.
Go here for details about blog posts.
Visit the appropriate sections of the Writing and Collaboration page for details about specific essay assignments.

Date	Topic	Reading/Watching Assignment	Writing Assignment
Week 1: Critical Reading and Writing
M 6/9	What is Critical Reading and Writing?	Lecture 1: What is Critical Reading and Writing? “Navigating WordPress” (PDF)	Blog Post 1: About Me (WP)
T 6/10	Writing as Remix	Lessig, “Remix at Computer History Museum” OR Lessig, “Remix: How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law” (PDF)	Blog Post 2: Lessig, Remix, and College Writing (WP)
W 6/11	Rewriting	Harris, Rewriting, “Introduction” (1-12) Howard, “Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty” (JSTOR)	Blog Post 3: Harris, Howard, and Lessig (WP)
R 6/12	Defining Critical Reading and Writing		Blog Post 4: Critical Reading and Writing in Your Digital Terms (WP)
Week 2: Coming to Terms
M 6/16	What is Coming to Terms?	Harris, Rewriting, “Coming to Terms” (13-33) Lecture 2: Coming to Terms through Audience, Purpose, and Genre	Comment on your peer group members’ “Critical Reading and Writing in Your Digital Terms” blog posts. (WP)
T 6/17	Coming to Terms with Remix	Stephey, “Lawrence Lessig: Decriminalizing the Remix” Knobel and Lankshear, “Remix: The Art and Craft of Endless Hybridization” (JSTOR)	Blog Post 5: Stephey, Knobel, and Lankshear (WP)
W 6/18	Coming to Terms with Your Field	Find and read an argumentative essay focused on some question, debate, or tension that interests you.	Blog Post 6: Coming to Terms (WP)
R 6/19	Conventions of an (Academic) Argument	Lecture 3: Claims, Evidence, Citations, and Format	Comment on your peer group members’ “Coming to Terms” blog posts. (WP)
Weeks 3 and 4: Synthesis
M 6/23	What is Synthesis?	Lecture 4 w/ Meg Grotti: “Research – A Vital Journey” (or Finding, Evaluating, and Reading Academic Sources with Your First Big Essay in Mind)
T 6/24	Defining a Research Question	Locate and read at least two sources you plan to use for your Argument Synthesis Paper.	Blog Post 7: Research Question (WP)
W 6/25	Writing Workshop		Essay 1, Draft (email KHB and PG)
R 6/26	Peer Review: Argument Synthesis Essay		Essay 1, Peer Review (email KHB and PG) Essay 1, Revision Plan (email KHB)
M 6/30	Writing Workshop		Essay 1, Revised Draft (email KHB)
T 7/1	Conferences
W 7/2	Conventions of an (Academic) Argument		Reflection Paper: Coming to Terms with Essay 1 (email KHB)
R 7/3	Writing Workshop		Essay 1, Final Draft (email KHB)
Weeks 5 and 6: Your Argument
M 7/7	What is Forwarding?	Harris, Rewriting, “Forwarding” (34-53) Lecture 5: Forwarding	Blog Post 8: Forwarding (WP)
T 7/8	What is Countering?	Harris, Rewriting, “Countering” (55-72) Lecture 6: Countering	Blog Post 9: Countering (WP)
W 7/9	Writing Workshop	Lecture 7: Topic Sentences, Introductions, Conclusions, and Organization	Essay 2, Draft (email KHB and PG)
R 7/10	Peer Review: Argument Contribution Essay		Essay 2, Peer Review (email KHB and PG) Essay 2, Revision Plan (email KHB)
M 7/14	Writing Workshop		Essay 2, Revised Draft (email KHB)
T 7/15	Conferences
W 7/16	Taking an Approach	Harris, Rewriting, “Taking an Approach” (73-97)	Reflection Paper: Countering Essay 2 (email KHB)
R 7/17	Writing Workshop		Essay 2, Final Draft (email KHB)
Weeks 7 and 8: Digital Revision
M 7/21	What is a (Good) Digital Essay?	Lecture 8: The Digital Essay Locate and read what you consider an exemplary digital essay.	Blog Post 10: Exemplary Digital Essay (WP)
T 7/22	Digital Revision	Harris, Rewriting, “Revising” (98-123)	Digital Revision Proposal: Audience, Purpose, Genre, and Questions (email KHB)
W 7/23	Writing Workshop		Essay 3, Draft (email KHB and PG)
R 7/24	Peer Review		Essay 3, Peer Review (email KHB and PG) Essay 3, Revision Plan (email KHB)
M 7/28	Writing Workshop
T 7/29	Writing Workshop		Essay 3, Final Draft (email KHB)