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
