Course+Calendar

CALENDAR (Revised February 12)  Schedule subject to change (probably //will// change); //WI//=//Writing Inquiry// Develop Conceptual Memo in class WI 397-9 || 1 set of Fieldnotes; Conceptual Memo ||
 * DAY/DATE || Complete before class || In class || DUE in class ||
 * W Jan 17 ||  || Icebreaker; Introduction to course ||   ||
 * F Jan 19 || Bring Writing Inquiry book to class || Discuss syllabus; Introduction to Writing Inquiry ||  ||
 * M Jan 22 || WI 298-305 Barton & Hamilton “Literacy Practices” || Discuss reading; introduce WA 1; interview classmate using Hawisher and Selfe questions WI 270-3 ||  ||
 * W Jan 24 || Bring one literacy object/artifact from a Community of Practice || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Share literacy artifacts; Discuss Burkean Parlor ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Jan 26 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 281-97 Barton “Talking about Literacy” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; class catch up ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Jan 29 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 310-11 (through first paragraph on 311) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Introduce Communities of Practice; freewriting or mapping; WA 1 questions? ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Jan 31 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Defining Literacy Practice & Literacy Event ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Feb 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft rough draft of WA 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Peer Edit WA 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rough Draft of WA 1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Feb 5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Revise WA 1 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Introduce WA 2 & proposal; go over example of Code of Ethics WI 344-5; Introduce fieldnotes—WI 391-3 “Taking Fieldnotes” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Final Draft of WA 1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Feb 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 307-14Carter “Community of Practice” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; How to choose research site; Choose 2 possible Communities of Practice (research sites) for your ethnography ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Feb 9 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Discuss Carter’s essay & share with me 2 possible sites ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Feb 12 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 315-26 Kahn “Putting Ethnographic Writing in Context” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Feb 14 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 328-32 Adkins “Ethnographic Research Ethics and Amish Values” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; Questions about site visits? ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Feb 16 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 333-43 CCCC Statement of Ethical Conduct for Research || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; Questions about WA 2? ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Feb 19 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft WA 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">NO CLASS ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Feb 21 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Craft WA 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WA 2 Workshop (work on Informed Consent and Code of Ethics and Proposal); <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Discuss 2 sites visited (pros & cons) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rough draft of WA 2 & Proposal; Fieldnotes from one possible field site ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Feb 23 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Revise WA 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Intro Chapter 3 & discuss taking Fieldnoes || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Final draft of WA 2 & rough draft of Proposal ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Feb 26 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 391-3 “Taking Fieldnotes” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Introduce WA 3 WI 383-4 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Feb 28 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 352-62 Pleasant’s “Punk Literacy” || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; ; In-class activity “Thinking about Research Tools” WI p. 376-8; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">“Analyze the Field Research Design” in-class activity (WI 360-1) || 1 set of Fieldnotes ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Mar 2 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 371-9 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In-class activity “Identifying Your Research Question and Developing Your Research Plan” WI 380-2; sign up for conferences ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Mar 5 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft WA 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Conferences in Talbot 214 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rough draft of WA 3 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Mar 7 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft WA 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Conferences in Talbot 214 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rough draft of WA 3 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Mar 9 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft WA 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Conferences in Talbot 214 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Rough draft of WA 3 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Mar 12 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">SPRING BREAK ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Mar 14 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">SPRING BREAK ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Mar 16 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">SPRING BREAK ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Mar 19 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 385-390 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss reading; introduce WA 4 WI 402-3; Questions about WA 3 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1 set of Fieldnotes; Research Question ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Mar 21 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WI 393-395 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In-class activity “Turning Fieldnotes into Verbal Portrait” (my exercise—Conceptual Memo intro) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Final Draft of WA 3 ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Mar 23 ||  || NO CLASS ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Mar 26 || WI 395-400 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Discuss Verbal Portraits (WA 4—WI 399) and
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Mar 28 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Introduce interviews and conduct interview activity ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Mar 30 ||  || President cancels classes for Good Friday ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Apr 2 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NO CLASS-site visit || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1 set of Fieldnotes or an interview ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Apr 4 || WI 409-17 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Develop Interpretative Memo in class based on 2 conceptual memos WI 409-10; <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Videos on how to create an effective Visual Presentation; In-class exercise (Zero Draft Activity) WI 413-7 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Apr 6 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">work on WA 4 in class || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WA 4 rough draft ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Apr 9 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft WA 4 || Peer Edit WA 4 || WA 4 rough draft ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Apr 11 || Revise WA 4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Discuss outside research (library databases) || WA 4 Final Draft ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Apr 13 ||  || Prepare for video presentation ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Apr 16 || Materials for video || **Meet in Library** ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Apr 18 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Materials for Ethnographic Portfolio (Binder, Dividers, Fieldnotes, Essays, etc.) || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In-class activity WI 414-6 “Putting Together Your Ethnography” ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Apr 20 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft rough draft Ethnographic Visual Presentation or Written Ethnography || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Peer Review Ethnographic Visual Presentation or Written Ethnography WI 418 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Rough draft of Ethnographic Visual Presentation or Written Ethnography ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Apr 23 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Craft Visual Presentation || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ethnographic Visual Presentations ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W Apr 25 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ethnographic Visual Presentations || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ethnographic Portfolio ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F Apr 27 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Ethnographic Visual Presentations || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Poster/Presentation; Ethnographic Portfolio ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M Apr 30 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Revise Poster/Visual Presentation & Ethnographic Portfolio || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Celebration of Student Writing in the SRC from 10-11:30 ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W May 2 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NO CLASS—writing day || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Letter to Future 1302 Students (email) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F May 4 || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Email “Letter to Future Students” to Michelle.Tvete@tamuc.edu || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Class Wrap-up; Any final presentations ||  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">M May 7 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NO CLASS ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">W May 9 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NO CLASS ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">F May 11 ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NO CLASS ||   ||