Course Schedule
The following schedule offers a provisional plan for all work throughout the semester. We may revise it as needed. PDF readings are available for download at EMU Online (see Doc Sharing).
1.Week of Sept. 7-11
We.9 Introductions
In class: Syllabus and Schedule
2.Week of Sept. 14-18
Mo.14 Style: Groundwork
Read: Lanham, "The Prose Problem and 'The Books,'" (PDF)
Read: Style writ broadly in Wikipedia (online)
DUE: SP #1
In-class: Project I: Elements of Style Remake setup
We.16 Technology: Groundwork
Read: Baron, "From Pencils to Pixels" (PDF)
In class: Twitter setup
3.Week of Sept. 21-25
Mo.21 The Elements of Style
Read: Elements of Style, Foreword, Introduction, and pp. 1-33.
Read: Selections from Derek Pell, The Marquis de Sade Elements of
Style
Project: What is a remake?
We.23 The Elements of Style, cont.
Read: Elements of Style, pp. 34-85.
DUE: SP#2
4.Week of Sept. 28-Oct. 2
Mo.28 More Tangible Examples
In class: The Sandwich Spread Elements of Style
We.30 Workshop for Project 1
Bring drafts and materials
In class: Project Development
5.Week of Oct. 5-9
Mo.5 Peer response
Bring full draft of Project 1
In class: Peer response
We.7 DUE Project 1
Watch: Twitter in Plain
English (online)
Read: Johnson, "How
Twitter Will Change the Way We Live" (online)
In class: Wiki How-to and Project 2: Twitter, Style, Wiki setup
6.Week of Oct. 12-16
Mo.12 Williams Quick
Read: Williams, Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, Preface and pp. 1-45.
DUE: SP#3
In class: Wiki writing
We.14
Read: Williams, Style, TBA
Project: Draft summary entries
7.Week of Oct. 19-23
Mo.19 Application Williams-Twitter
Read: Twitterfall.com
In class: Extending Style to Twitter
We.21 Wiki Edits - In-class (workshop)
In class: TBD
8.Week of Oct. 26-30
Mo.26 Midterm Re-Pose
In class: Midterm Evaluation
DUE: Style in Rhetoric and Composition summary (see syllabus under "Add-ons")
We.28 3.33 Ways
Read: Selection from Queneau, Exercises in Style (PDF)
In class: Project 3: 3.33 Ways setup
9.Week of Nov. 2-6
Mo.2 Sentences
Read: Tufte, "Short Sentences," from Artful Sentences: Syntax as
Style (PDF)
DUE: SP#4
In class: TBD
We.4 Paramedic Method
Read: From Lanham's The Longman Guide to Revising Prose (PDF)
In class: Applying the P-M
Due: Project 2
10.Week of Nov. 9-13
Mo.9 Oulipo Logic
Read: Selections from Matt Madden and Scott McCloud (PDF)
In class: TBD
Project One revision due (see extra credit option in syllabus)
We.11 Workshop - Comic-making
In class: Project 3 Development
Twitter intermediary deadline I (20 tweets total)
11.Week of Nov. 16-20
Mo.16 Typeface Style
Helvetica film
We.18 Imagetext
Project Two revision due (see extra credit option in syllabus)
Read: Wysocki, "Awaywithwords: On the Possibilities in
Unavailable Designs" (PDF)
DUE: SP#5
12.Week of Nov. 23-27
Mo.23 DUE: Draft of Project 3: 3.33 Ways
Read: Selection from Reynolds' Presentation Zen (PDF)
In class: Ignite Series Overview
Twitter intermediary deadline II (40 tweets total)
Addiction! Staying Afloat in the Age of the Stream (in class)
We.25 No class - Thanksgiving Recess
13.Week of Nov. 30-Dec. 4
Mo.30 Workshop
In class: Project 3 and Presentation Development
We.2 Workshop
In class: Project 3 and Presentation Development
DUE: Twitter Stream and Reflective Statement
14.Week of Dec. 7-11
Mo.7 Ignite Series
In class: Presentation comment-evaluation
We.9 Ignite Series, cont.
Last day of class
In class: Presentation comment-evaluation
DUE: Project 3: 3.33 Ways
15.Finals Week - Dec. 14-18
Mo.14 DUE: Final Exam
Contact Information
Derek N. Mueller, PhDAssistant Professor of Computers and Writing
Department of English Language and Literature
Office: 612M Pray-Harrold
Fall '09 office hours: MW, 9-11:30 a.m., and by appointment
Phone: (315) 708-3940 (cell)
derek.mueller@emich.edu
http://derekmueller.net/rc/
