English 421 Advanced Expository Writing

 

 

 

Course: English 421-1

Time: TTH 11:15 am -12:30 pm

Location: 105 Chambers

Office Hours: TTH 1:00-2:15 pm by appointment 

 

 

Instructor: Xiaoye You

Office: Burrowes 135

Phone: (814) 863-0595

Email: xuy10@psu.edu

http://www.personal.psu.edu/xuy10

 

 

Schedule

 

 

Week 1 (January 10, 12)

Tuesday

 

Course Policy

Introduction to the Sequenced Writing Project

 

Thursday

Reading: Chpt 1 Writing and History (Marius)

                Chpt 1 The Landscape of History (Gaddis)

Introducing the Literature Review Essay No. 1

Literature Review Essay Samples

 

Week 2 (January 17, 19)

Tuesday

 

Reading: Chpt 2 Thinking about History (Marius)

                Chpt 2 Time and Space (Gaddis)

 

Thursday

Workshop: Introduction to the University Archives

Meeting with Professor Lee Stout, the university archivist

Reading: Primary Source Research Guide

                Penn State History

                Penn State Special Collections

 

Week 3 (January 24, 26)

Tuesday

 

 

Reading: Chpt 3 Modes of Historical Writing (Marius)

                Chpt 3 Independent Variables (Gaddis)

Workshop: Research Topics

 

 

Thursday

 

Reading : "Conflation of Rhetorical Traditions"

Workshop: Library Research

 

Week 4 (Jan. 31, Feb. 2)

Tuesday

 

Reading: Chpt 4 Gathering Information (Marius)

                Chpt 4 Interdependency of Variables (Gaddis)

Introducing the Preliminary Research Report

 

Thursday

 

 

Friday

Due: 1st draft of Literature Review Essay No. 1

Workshop: Peer Review

 

Due: 2nd draft of Literature Review Essay No. 1

 

Week 5 (February 7, 9)

Tuesday

 

 

Conference

Thursday

Conference

 

Week 6 (February 14, 16)

Tuesday

 

 

Due: final draft of Literature Review Essay No. 1

Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 1 [Do exercise 4, p. 10], Chapter 2 [Do exercise 1, p. 28])

"Girls in Business Meetings" (p. 6-19)

 

Thursday

Reading: Chpt 5 Taking Notes and ...Drafts (Marius)

               Chpt 5 Chaos and Complexity (Gaddis)

 

Week 7 (February 21, 23)

Tuesday

 

 

Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 3)

Workshop: Archive Research

 

Thursday

 

 

 

 

Friday

Due: 1st draft Preliminary Research Report

Workshop: Peer Review

Academic Journal Review Policy (JSLW)

Guidelines for Reviewers

 

Due: 2nd draft of Preliminary Research Report

 

Week 8 (Feb. 28, March 2)

Tuesday 

 

 

Conference

Thursday

Conference

 

Week 9 (March 7, 9)

 

Spring Break. No Class.

 

Week 10 (March 14, 16)

Tuesday

 

 

Due: final draft of Preliminary Research Report

         1st set of Archive Research Notes

         Reflection Paper

Reading: Chpt 6 Causation, Contingency (Gaddis)

                Understanding Style (Chapter 4)

 

Thursday

Library and Archive Research

 

Week 11 (March 21, 23)

Tuesday

 

 

Reading: Chpt 7 Molecules with Minds (Gaddis)

                Understanding Style (Chapter 5)

 

Thursday

Library and Archive Research

 

Week 12 (March 28, 30)

Tuesday

 

 

 

Due: 1st draft Literature Review Essay No. 2

Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 6)

Workshop: Peer Review

 

Thursday

Due: 2nd draft of Literature Review Essay No. 2

Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 7)

  The Moral Subject in College Composition

 

Week 13 (April 4, 6)

Tuesday

 

 

Conference

Thursday

Conference

 

Week 14 (April 11, 13)

Tuesday

 

 

Due: final draft of Literature Review Essay No. 2

Reading: Chpt 8 Seeing Like a Historian (Gaddis)

Workshop: Archive Research

 

Thursday

Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 10)

Workshop: Archive Research

Introducing the Reflection Paper

 

Week 15 (April 18, 20)

Tuesday

 

 

Wednesday

 

Due: 1st draft of Final Research Report

Workshop: Peer Review

 

Due: 2nd draft of Final Research Report

 

Thursday

Conference

 

Week 16 (April 25, 27)

 

Tuesday

 

 

 

Conference

Thursday

Course Evaluation

Due: Final Research Report

         2nd set of Archive Research Notes

         Reflection Paper

         Consent Form