Moorpark English 1A: Tentative Schedule
The following tentative schedule includes readings from the main text:
- Composing Cyberspace AKA CC
Please check back for changes and updates. Complete all readings by due dates. Summary and response (online journal) of CC readings are due online before the day we are to discuss the reading in class. Readings from webpages and handouts are given as background for that week's work.
Last revised 8 Aug 03
- Week 1: (Course content and contracts)
- Mon 8/18: Syllabus/ phone/email list/ contract
- Wed 8/20 FAQs / interviews / In class timed writing
- Week 2: (Course requirements /Intros)
- Mon 8/25 Lab -- class mailing list/ edit intros
- Wed 8/27 Intros / Rubric / self evaluations
- Week 3: (Academic Communities)
- Mon 9/1 Labor day
- Wed 9/3 Barlow (CC)
- Week 4 (Virtual Communities)
- Mon 9/8: Lab -- setting up personal spaces / practice discussion:
Bruckman (CC)
- Wed 9/10: E-democracy selection (CC) Student choice
(9/10 last day to drop w/out a W)
- Week 5 (Global Village)
- Mon 9/15: Lab --
- Wed 9/17: Global Village selection (CC)
- Week 6 (paper topics)
- Mon 9/22: Lab -- / topic generation / heuristics
- Wed 9/24: Paper assignment / heuristics /
- Week 7 (revision)
- Mon 9/29:lab - Paper #1 Workshop topic focus and development
- Mon Shirley. "Wolves of the Plateau."
- Wed 10/1: Paper #1 Workshop organization and development
- Gibson "Johnny Mnemonic." (CC) / genre features
- Week 8 (Revision)
- Mon 10/6: Lab -- Editing Workshop / vague pronoun usage ROT: (or other handbook) review MLA format / proofreading / Le Guin handout
- Wed: 10/8: Paper #1 DUE in folder with all drafts / The Matrix
- Week 9 (Fiction Genre)
- Mon 10/13: Lab -- Forster (CC) / discuss genre features of whole
texts
- Wed 10/15: The Matrix
- Week 10 (Genre -- Utopias / Distopias)
- Mon 10/20: Lab -- Boals (CC) / Web Project: Writing for the net: making and reading notes.
small groups /novels
- Wed 10/22: In-class, Timed writing
- Week 11
Mon 10/27: Lab-- Student choice article from Indentity or Gender section
Web project: Making Group rooms
Paper Assignment / Brainstorm topic generation.
- Wed 10/29: Rough draft due: development workshop
- Week 12
- Mon 11/3: Lab: Branham "Student's Guide to the Internet." Annotated Bibliographies
Organization workshop
- Wed 11/5: Proofreading workshop
- Week 13
- Mon 11/10: Editing final draft paper
- Wed 11/12: #2 Paper Due/ Web Project Design
/ Barry (CC)
- Week 14
- Mon 11/17: Reddy (CC)
- Wed 11/19: Laurel(CC) / Research paper assignment
- Week 15
- Mon 11/24: Lab -- I Search paper research / Web Project -- research paper topics
- Wed 11/26: Section one research paper / anno bib
- Week 16
- Mon 12/3: Lab -- Web projects / Development workshop section I and II
- Wed: 12/5: Citing Online Sources /Annotated Bibs for Research paper
- Week 17
- Mon 12/8: Full drafts of research paper for editing workshop
- Wed: 12/10: Lab -- Web Projects
- Finals
- Fri: Dec 12 -- MP-1A-7: 7-9
- Mon: Dec 15 -- MP-1A-9: 8-10
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