Pacing

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Lumen’s English Composition II course contains eight core modules with five supplemental process narratives, and two optional modules. These elements can be combined to accommodate a variety of academic schedules.

16-Week Semester, research-paper focus

  • Week 1: Asking Questions
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Amicucci, “Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t”
    • Discussion:  Discourse Communities
    • Assignment: Interest Inventory
  • Week 2: Academic Argument
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Kelsey Leonard: “Why Lakes and Rivers Should Have the Same Rights as Humans” (see assignment)
    • Discussion: Academic Argument
    • Assignment: Analyzing an Argument
  • Week 3: Critical Reading
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Dirk, “Navigating Genres”
    • Discussion: Critical Reading (based on Dirk essay)
    • Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis
  • Week 4: Developing a Research Project
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Hinton, “So You’ve Got A Writing Assignment. Now What?”
    • Discussion: Developing a Research Project: Audience
  • Week 5: Topic Proposal
    • Process Narrative: Choosing a Topic
    • Assignment: Topic Proposal
    • Discussion: Topic Proposal presentation
  • Week 6: Locating and Evaluating Sources
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Discussion: Locating and Evaluating Sources
    • Process Narrative: Finding Sources
    • Assignment: Locating and Evaluating Sources
  • Week 7: Integrating Sources
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Discussion: Integrating Sources
  • Week 8: Annotated Bibliography
    • Process Narrative: Annotated Bibliography
    • Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
  • Week 9: Drafting a Research Paper
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”
    • Discussion: Lamott’s essay
  • Week 10: Rough Draft
    • Process Narrative: First Draft
    • Doctorow: “Writing in the Age of Distraction”
    • Discussion: Drafting a Research Paper (based on Doctorow essay)
    • Assignment: First Draft
  • Week 11: First Revision
    • Waymaker Study Plan and Quiz
    • Giles: “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?”
    • Discussion: Revising a Research Paper
  • Week 12: Peer revision
    • Reading: Grauman, “What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing”
    • Assignment: Peer Revision
  • Week 13: Second Revision
    • Process Narrative: Revision
    • Assignment: Revision in response to peer comments
  • Week 14: Beyond the Research Paper
    • WM Study Plan and Quiz
    • Assignment: Final Draft
  • Week 15: Presentations

10-Week term, research-paper focus

  • Week 1: Asking Questions
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Amicucci, “Four Things Social Media Can Teach You about College Writing—and One Thing It Can’t”
    • Discussion:  Discourse Communities
    • Assignment: Interest Inventory
  • Week 2: Academic Argument
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Kelsey Leonard: “Why Lakes and Rivers Should Have the Same Rights as Humans” (see assignment)
    • Discussion: Academic Argument
    • Assignment: Analyzing an Argument
  • Week 3: Critical Reading
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Dirk, “Navigating Genres”
    • Discussion: Critical Reading (based on Dirk essay)
    • Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis
  • Week 4: Developing a Research Project
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Hinton, “So You’ve Got A Writing Assignment. Now What?”
    • Discussion: Developing a Research Project: Audience
    • (optional) Process Narrative: Choosing a Topic
    • Assignment: Topic Proposal
  • Week 5: Locating and Evaluating Sources
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Discussion: Locating and Evaluating Sources
    • (optional) Process Narrative: Finding Sources
  • Week 6: Integrating Sources
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Discussion: Integrating Sources
    • Assignment: Locating and Evaluating Sources
  • Week 7: Drafting a Research Paper
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz
    • Reading: Anne Lamott, “Shitty First Drafts”
    • Discussion: Lamott’s essay
    • (optional) Process Narrative: First Draft
    • Assignment: First Draft
  • Week 8: First Revision
    • Waymaker Study Plan and Quiz
    • Giles: “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?”
    • Discussion: Revising a Research Paper
  • Week 9: Peer revision
    • Reading: Grauman, “What’s That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing”
    • Assignment: Peer Revision
  • Week 10: Second Revision and Final Draft
    • (optional) Process Narrative: Revision
    • Assignment: Final Draft

16-Week Semester, Literature focus (example)

  • Week 1: Introduction
  • Week 2: Poetry
    • Waymaker Study Plan: Working with Literature (Reading Literature: Poetry)
    • Discussion: What is a Poem?
    • Reading: Odes
      • Sappho: Ode to Aphrodite
      • John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
      • Pablo Neruda, Ode to My Socks
      • Amanda Gorman: An Ode To Girls Of Color
    • Assignment: Write an ode
  • Week 3: Drama 1
    • Waymaker Study Plan: Working with Literature (Working with Drama and Film)
    • Reading: Sophocles, Antigone (first half)
    • Discussion: Antigone
    • Assignment: Reading Response 1
  • Week 4: Drama 2
    • Reading: Sophocles, Antigone (first half)
    • Discussion: Antigone
    • Assignment: Begin essay 1
  • Week 5: Drama 3
    • Antigone in Ferguson (PBS House Seats, 02/03/19, streaming but not openly licensed)
    • Discussion: Staging Antigone
    • Assignment: Work on essay 1
  • Week 6: Reading to Write
    • Waymaker Study Plan and Quiz: Academic Argument
    • Waymaker Study Plan and Quiz: What is Critical Reading?
    • Discussion: Critical Reading
    • Assignment: Essay 1 due
  • Week 7: Fiction 1
    • Waymaker Study Plan: Working with Literature (Reading Literature: Fiction)
    • Discussion: Point of view
    • Reading: Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World, first half (Not openly licensed)
    • Assignment: Reading Response 2
  • Week 8: Fiction 2
    • Discussion: Plot
    • Reading: Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World, second half
    • Assignment: Reading Response 3
  •  Week 9: Fiction 3
    • Waymaker Study Plan: Developing a Research Project
    • Reading: Short stories
    • Discussion: Short stories
    • Assignment: Begin research project
  • Week 10: Film 1 (and topic proposal)
    • Waymaker Study Plan: Locating and Evaluating Sources
    • Reading: Film
    • Discussion: Film
    • Assignment: Research project: Source List
  • Week 11: Fiction 4
    • Waymaker Study Plan: Working with Literary Criticism
    • Reading: Short Story + Analysis
    • Assignment: Research project: Proposal
  • Week 12: [Readings TBD]
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz: Integrating Sources
    • Reading: Film, Literature, or Nonfiction
    • Assignment: Research project: Work on draft
  • Week 13: [Readings TBD]
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz: Drafting a Research Paper
    • Reading: Film, Literature, or Nonfiction
    • Assignment: Research project: Draft 1 due
  • Week 14: [Readings TBD]
    • Waymaker Study Plan & Quiz: Revising a Research Paper
    • Assignment: Peer Revision
  • Week 15:
    • Research project due