Syllabus, Fall 1997




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Week 1: August 25-29
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Week 2: September 1-5
  • No class Monday: Labor Day
  • Student Profile Due 9/5/97
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Introduction to the Internet
      • Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML)
      • Telnet
      • File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
      • World Wide Web
  • Class Activities:
    • HTML Practice
    • Internet Program Practice
  • Readings:
  • Homework:
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Week 3: September 8-12
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Introduction to the Internet (cont.)
      • MOOs, MUDs, Daedalus, and the Listserv
      • TinyFugue
    • Types of Writing (Stories 1393-97)
    • What Does Writing Involve? (Handbook 1)
    • Writing About Literature (Art) (Bedford 249)
  • Class Activities:
    • Thesis Construction
    • Dave Matthews Band "Ants Marching"
    • Computer Work
  • Readings:
  • Homework:
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Week 4: September 15-19
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Alienation, Carpe diem, and Community
    • Introductions, Conclusions, and Theses
  • Components of Writing (Stories 1398-1404)
  • Class Activities:
    • Peer Editing -- 9/19 -- Bring First Draft of Essay #1 to class
    • Computer Work
  • Readings:
      Isaac Asimov "Reason" (Stories 95)
  • Homework:
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Week 5: September 22-26
  • Essay #1 Due 9/26/97 (post to homepage and email to instructor)
  • Essay #1 Rewrites Due 9/26/97
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Strategies for Generating Ideas (Bedford 15)
    • How Do You Prepare and Plan to Write? (Handbook 2)
    • Conducting Library Research (Bedford 28, Handbook 32)
  • Class Activities:
    • Peer Editing
    • Essay Critiques
    • Computer Work - LUIS exercise
  • Readings:
  • Homework:
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Week 6: September 29-October 3
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Strategies for Planning (Bedford 16)
  • Class Activities:
    • Computer Work
  • Readings:
    • Kafka The Metamorphosis (Stories 782)
      • Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 782-802) for Wednesday
      • Chapter 3 (pp. 802-13) for Friday
  • Homework:
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Week 7: October 6-10
  • Essay #2 Due 10/10/97.
  • Essay #1 Rewrites Due 10/10/97.
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • How Do You Write Critically in College? (Handbook 5)
  • Class Activities:
    • Computer Work
  • Readings:
    • Nikolai Gogol "The Overcoat" (Stories 481)
  • Homework:
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Week 8: October 13-17
  • Essay #2 Rewrites due 10/24/97
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Strategies for Developing (Bedford 18)
    • Strategies for Revising and Editing (Bedford 19)
  • Class Activities:
  • Readings:
    • Anton Chekhov "Lady with a Lapdog" (handout)
  • Homework:
  • Last day to drop with a grade of "W": 10/24/97
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Week 9: October 20-24
  • Portfolio Due 10/24/97.
    • 9 Journal Entries
    • 2 Essays
    • Attractive Page
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Love, Chance, and Aging
    • Guest lecture: Ilene Frank on Researching On-line
  • Class Activities:
    • TBA
  • Readings:
    • begin Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilytch (Stories 1174)
  • Homework:
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Week 10: October 27-31
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Week 11: November 3-7
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Society v. Individual
    • How to live?
  • Class Activities:
    • TBA
  • Readings:
    • Tolstoy (cont.)
  • Homework:
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Week 12: November 10-14
  • Essay #3 Due 11/14/97
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Discuss movie
    • Art and Artists
    • Freedom to Choose
  • Class Activities:
    • Movie: Blade Runner
  • Readings:
  • Homework:
  • Essay #3 Rewrites Due 11/28/97
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Week 13: November 17-21
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Writing in Class (Bedford 13)
    • MLA Citation Method -- Citing Web Sources
  • Class Activities:
    • TBA
  • Readings:
    • Harlan Ellison "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" (Stories 388)
  • Homework:
    • Final HTML Portfolio (due 12/5/97)
    • Choose a poem for discussion in two weeks
    • Journal Entry #13
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Week 14: November 24-28
  • Lecture/Discussion:
    • Writing from Imagination (Bedford 5)
  • Class Activities:
    • X-Files
  • No class Wednesday and Friday, 11/26 and 11/28
  • Readings:
    • TBA
  • Homework:
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Week 15: December 1-5
  • Final HTML Portfolio Due (excluding Research Projects) 12/5/97
  • Conclude Course
  • Class Activities:
    • Peer-assessment of HTML Portfolios
    • Rush �Mission"
    • USF Instructor/Course Evaluation
  • Homework:
    • Finish Research Project (due 12/8/97)
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Exam Week: December 8-12
  • Course Evaluation, Instructor Evaluation, and Final Self Assessment Due
  • Research Projects Due 12/8/97
  • Final: In-class Essay
  • Finals begin on 12/8/97; no class this week except for exam day
    • ENC 1102.006 : Friday, December 12, 8:00-10:00 am
    • ENC 1102.013: Friday, December 12, 10:30 am-12:30 pm
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G.R. Lucas reserves the right to change this syllabus at any point during the semester. Students are reminded that they are responsible for all class work and assignments missed when absent. This syllabus is tentative and subject to change. Please check assignments on this page regularly for updates and ammendments; remember, this is your responsibility.

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