Calendar/Schedule of Assignments

(This schedule is subject to change.)

All reading assignments are due on the day they are listed on the schedule
below.
We will not be reading in class. You are responsible for completing all
assigned readings prior to arriving to class. Each reading assignment is
preceded by the word Read and appears in the Readings column.
Also note that assignment due dates appear in the Assignments column.

Linked titles = electronic

readings. Click on links to access
and read essays.

PDF in BB = portable document

format linked in weekly content
folders in Blackboard

Gibson = William Gibsons

Neuromancer purchased by
student

Important Dates
August 26, 2016
September 7, 2016
October 28, 2016
December 13, 2016

Last day to add a class

Last day to drop a class with a refund
Last day to withdraw from a class with a grade of W
Final Exam Date (11:00 a.m. to 1:40 p.m.)
This schedule is subject to change.

Week/Date Readings
Week 1
Tu 23 Aug
Th 25 Aug

Assignments

Introduction to Course; introduction to Blackboard

Read: Rhetoric
Read: Rhetorical Situations
View: Purdue OWL: Introduction to Rhetoric

25 Aug: Syllabus and

Academic Honesty
Agreement in Blackboard
by midnight

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Week/Date Readings

Assignments

(Click on linked titles to access readings)

Week 2
Tu 30 Aug

Th 1 Sep
Week 3
Tu 6 Sep

Th 8 Sep
Week 4
Tu 13 Sep

Th 15 Sep
Week 5
Tu 20 Sep

Th 22 Sep
Week 6
Tu 27 Sep

Th 29 Sep

Read: Getting Started with WordPress (click on

linked title to read chapter three, Starting a Free
WordPress Blog; this link is to an eBook in the
Safari database; if you access the book off campus,
you will need your MYReynolds username and
password)

30 Aug: Individual blog by

the end of class

Read: Baron, From Pencils to Pixels

Read: Daley, Expanding the Concept of Literacy
Read: Jones-Kavalier & Flannigan, Connecting the 6 Sep: Audio recording
Digital Dots
device (digital recorder or
Read: Brandt, Accumulating Literacy (PDF in
use audio device on smart
BB)
phones)
Read: Wysocki and Johnson-Eilola, Blinded by the
Letter (PDF in BB)
Read: Baron, Siri, Take a Sonnet

13 Sep: draft of audio

essay; studio day for
working on audio
narrative

No reading assigned; peer review (remember to

bring headphones/earbuds to listen to audio
narratives)

15 Sep: Audio technology

narrative and written text
for in-class peer review

Presentation of audio essays

20 Sep: Final revision of

audio technology narrative
and written text in
Blackboard by midnight

Read: Gibson, The Sky above the Port (PDF in

BB)
Read: Womack, Some Dark Holler (PDF in BB)

23 Sep: Weekly
Neuromancer reading
response in blog site

College-wide Convocation Day (class not in

session)
Read: Gibson, Neuromancer, Part 1: Chiba City
Blues (pp. 3-39)
Read: Gibson, Neuromancer, Part 2: The Shopping

30 Sep: Weekly
Neuromancer reading
response in blog site

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Week/Date Readings

Assignments

Expedition (pp. 43-98)

Week 7
Tu 4 Oct
Th 6 Oct
Week 8
Tu 11 Oct
Th 13 Oct
Week 9
Tu 18 Oct

Th 20 Oct

Read: Gibson, Neuromancer, Part 3: Midnight in

the Rue Jule Verne (pp. 101-156)
Read: Gibson, Neuromancer, Part 4: The Straylight 7 Oct: Weekly
Run (pp. 159-211)
Neuromancer reading
response in blog site
Read: Gibson, Neuromancer, Part 4: The Straylight
Run (pp. 213-263)
Read: Gibson, Neuromancer, Coda: Departure and
Arrival (pp. 267-271)

14 Oct: Weekly
Neuromancer reading
response in blog site

No reading assigned; in-class peer review

18 Oct: Draft 1 of
Neuromancer critical
analysis for in-class peer
review

Read: Alves, Unintentional Knowledge: What We

Find When We are Not Looking

20 Oct: Final draft of

Neuromancer critical
analysis in Blackboard
Begin conducting
preliminary research to
write your Research Paper
Topic Proposal

Week 10
Tu 25 Oct
Th 27 Oct

No reading assigned; developing your research

question; research day
No reading assigned; developing your thesis
statement; research day

Week 11
Tu 1 Nov

No reading assigned; library session; research day

Th 3 Nov

No reading assigned; research day

27 Oct: Research
Paper Topic Proposal
in Blackboard by
midnight

3 Nov: Research
Question/Thesis/Abstract in

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Week/Date Readings

Assignments
Blackboard by midnight

Week 12
Tu 8 Nov
Th 10 Nov

Week 13
Tu 15 Nov

Th 17 Nov
Week 14
Tu 22 Nov

No reading assigned; peer review of Annotated Bib

8 Nov: Draft of Annotated

Bibliography

No reading assigned; use class time to finalize

annotated bib/work on research paper

10 Nov: Ten to twelve

source annotated
bibliography in Blackboard
by midnight

No reading assigned; peer review of research paper

15 Nov: Draft of research

paper at the beginning of
class

Class canceled; attend individual conference; check

Blackboard for conference schedule

17 Nov: Complete draft of

research paper

Class canceled; attend individual conference; check

Blackboard for conference schedule

22 Nov: Complete draft of

research paper

~ ~ Fall Break: classes not in session 23-27 Nov ~ ~

Week 15
Tu 29 Nov

Read: Childs, Revising a Paper to Deliver (click

on link to access and read article)
Read: How to Create Engaging Presentations

29 Nov: Final revision of

research paper in
Blackboard by midnight

Th 1 Dec

Presentations

1 Dec: Presentation of
research paper

Week 16
Tu 6 Dec

Presentations

6 Dec: Presentation of
research paper

Th 8 Dec

Presentations

8 Dec: Presentation of
research paper

Presentations during final exam time (11:00 a.m.

1:40 p.m.)

13 Dec: Presentation of
research paper

Finals Wk
Tu 13 Dec