Week One (July 2—6)

Theme: Course Introduction; Conducting Research in the Library and Online

In-Class Activity: Brainstorming activities; Working on Exploratory Search 1, Abstract 1, and Work Plan 1

In-Class Discussion: The Writing Process; the Research Process: Topic-generation; brainstorming; conducting preliminary research; Strategies for building your Exploratory Search; keeping track of sources and strategies for note-taking; why and how to cite sources. (Click here for more information about citations.)

Assignments due on Weds., 11 July: Exploratory Search 1; Work Plan 1; and Abstract 1

Assignment due on Fri., 13 July: Paper 1, Draft 1

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Week Two (July 9—13)

Theme: “Workshopping”: Giving and Receiving Feedback to Work in Progress; Incorporating Sources into Your Research Papers

In-Class Activities: Monday: Individual conferences regarding Paper 1; Wednesday & Friday: Writers’ Workshop

In-Class Discussion: How to provide meaningful feedback; how to make use of feedback; How and when to quote sources; paraphrasing, parenthetical citations.

Assignment Due on Weds, 11 July: Exploratory Search 1, Abstract 1, and Work Plan 1

Assignment Due on Friday, 13 July: Paper 1, Draft 1—bring copy to class for peer workshops

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Week Three (July 16—20)

Theme: Organizing your work: Revision; Bibliographies; Collaborating on a research project

In-Class Activities: Monday: Writer’s workshops; putting your writing on a diet and other editing strategies you can do using the Find/Replace feature of Word; assigning Collaborative Writing Groups

In-Class Discussion: Bibliographies—what they are and how to get them right; How to Create a Research Project with a Writing Team; Identifying Collaborative Roles

Assignments due on Monday, 23 July: Exploratory Search 2, Work Plan 2; Abstract 2

Assignment Due by 5:00p, Monday 16 July: email paper Paper 1, draft 2 for Leonard’s feedback.

Assignment Due by 5:00p, Monday 23 June: Paper 1, Final + Post-Paper Analysis 1

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Week Four (July 23—27)

In-Class Discussion: Making use of indexes to find useful quotes; “chaining” bibliographies; Getting Picky

In-Class Activities: Group conferences—bring your Exploratory Searches, Abstracts, and Work Plans! Workshopping; In-class work on Paper 2

Assignment Due on Weds, 25 July: Exploratory Search 2, Abstract 2, Work Plan 2

Assignment Due on Wednesday, 27 July: Paper 2, Draft 1

Assignment Due by 5:00p Monday, 30 July: email Paper 2, draft 2 for Leonard’s feedback

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Week Five (July 30—Aug. 3)

In-Class Activities: Workshopping; In-class work on Paper 2

In-Class Discussion: Revising strategies; How to give an effective oral presentation

Assignments for next week: Oral presentation, to be given 8 & 10 August; Paper 2, final draft, Post-paper analysis memos; course evaluation memo.

Assignments Due on Friday, 3 Aug.: Paper 2, Draft 3 for in-class editing and discussion

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Week Six (Aug. 6—10) 

In-Class Activities: Workshopping & Preparing your oral presentations.

Assignments Due by 5:00p on Friday, 10 Aug.: Paper 2, Final; Post-Paper Analysis 2, Course Eval Memo.