21 Course Outline Example II: English Composition
Weekly Schedule (Provisional — Subject to change with advance notice.
MH = McGraw-Hill Guide; GFC = Guide to First-Year Composition
Week One
- Assignment: Introduction to class, review of syllabus. Introduce and Discourse Community Map and Response.
- MH: Chapter 4, Appendix C
- GFC: Chapter 1, Skim Chapters 5, 6
- Discourse Community Map and Response Activities (p. 127-136)
Week Two
- Assignment: Introduce Homepage
- Discourse Community Map and Response due
- MH: Chapters 1-3
- GFC: Chapter 2
- Discourse Community Map and Response Activities (p. 127-136)
Week Three
- Assignment: Introduce Agency Discourse Memo
- Homepage due
- MH: Chapter 5
- GFC: Chapter 3
- Homepage Activities (p. 138-145)
Week Four
- Assignment: Introduce Primary and Secondary Research. Introduce Annotated Bibliography
- Agency Discourse Memo Due
- MH: Chapter 19
- GFC: Chapter 5
- Agency Discourse Memo Activities (p. 147-152)
Week Five
- Assignment: Introduce the Community Problem Report
- MH: Chapter 20
- GFC: Chapter 4
- Annotated Bibliography Activities (p. 158-164)
Week Six
- Assignment: Continue Community Problem Report
- Annotated Bibliography due
- MH: Chapter 6
- GFC: Community Problem Report Activities (p. 166-173)
Week Seven
- Assignment: Continue Community Problem Report
- MH: Chapter 13
- GFC: Community Problem Report Activities (p. 166-173)
Week Eight
- Assignment: Introduce Rhetorical Analysis
- Community Problem Report due
- MH: Chapter 14, Chapter 9
- GFC: Rhetorical Analysis Activities (p. 176-188)
Week Nine
- Assignment: Continue Rhetorical Analysis
- MH: Chapter 7
- GFC: Rhetorical Analysis Activities (p. 176-188)
Week Ten
- Assignment: Introduce Visual Analysis
- Rhetorical Analysis due
- MH: Chapter 18
- GFC: Visual Analysis Activities (p. 190-196)
Week Eleven
- Assignment: Finish Visual Analysis
- Visual Analysis due
- MH: Chapter 17
- GFC: Visual Analysis Activities (p. 190-196)
Week Twelve
- Assignment: Introduce Opinion Piece
- MH: Chapter 8
- GFC: Opinion Piece Activities (p. 199-204)
Week Thirteen
- Assignment: Introduce Visual Argument/Presentation
- Opinion Piece due
- MH: Chapter 11, Chapter 16
- GFC: Visual Argument Activities (photostory: p. 207-214, brochure: 220-227, poster: 231-238)
Week Fourteen
- Assignment: Class Presentations
- GFC: Presentation Guidelines (photostory: p. 215, brochure: p. 228, poster: p. 239)
Week Fifteen
- Assignment: Class Presentations
- GFC: Presentation Guidelines (photostory: p. 215, brochure: p. 228, poster: p. 239)
- Visual Argument due on Final Exam day
“English 1311: Expository English Composition Syllabus” by Owen M. Williamson, MA is in the Public Domain
