English 421 Advanced Expository Writing
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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
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Instructor: Xiaoye You Office: Burrowes 135 Phone: (814) 863-0595 Email: xuy10@psu.edu |
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Week 1 (January 10, 12) Tuesday |
Introduction to the Sequenced Writing Project
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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
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Week 2 (January 17, 19) Tuesday |
Reading: Chpt 2 Thinking about History (Marius) Chpt 2 Time and Space (Gaddis)
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Thursday |
Workshop: Introduction to the University Archives Meeting with Professor Lee Stout, the university archivist Reading: Primary Source Research Guide Penn State Special Collections
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Week 3 (January 24, 26) Tuesday
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Reading: Chpt 3 Modes of Historical Writing (Marius) Chpt 3 Independent Variables (Gaddis) Workshop: Research Topics
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Thursday |
Reading : "Conflation of Rhetorical Traditions" Workshop: Library Research
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Week 4 (Jan. 31, Feb. 2) Tuesday |
Reading: Chpt 4 Gathering Information (Marius) Chpt 4 Interdependency of Variables (Gaddis) Introducing the Preliminary Research Report
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Thursday
Friday |
Due: 1st draft of Literature Review Essay No. 1 Workshop: Peer Review
Due: 2nd draft of Literature Review Essay No. 1
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Week 5 (February 7, 9) Tuesday
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Conference |
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Thursday |
Conference
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Week 6 (February 14, 16) Tuesday
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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)
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Thursday |
Reading: Chpt 5 Taking Notes and ...Drafts (Marius) Chpt 5 Chaos and Complexity (Gaddis)
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Week 7 (February 21, 23) Tuesday
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Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 3) Workshop: Archive Research
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Thursday
Friday |
Due: 1st draft Preliminary Research Report Workshop: Peer Review Academic Journal Review Policy (JSLW)
Due: 2nd draft of Preliminary Research Report
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Week 8 (Feb. 28, March 2) Tuesday
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Conference |
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Thursday |
Conference
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Week 9 (March 7, 9)
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Spring Break. No Class.
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Week 10 (March 14, 16) Tuesday
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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)
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Thursday |
Library and Archive Research
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Week 11 (March 21, 23) Tuesday
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Reading: Chpt 7 Molecules with Minds (Gaddis) Understanding Style (Chapter 5)
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Thursday |
Library and Archive Research
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Week 12 (March 28, 30) Tuesday
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Due: 1st draft Literature Review Essay No. 2 Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 6) Workshop: Peer Review
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Thursday |
Due: 2nd draft of Literature Review Essay No. 2 Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 7) “The Moral Subject in College Composition”
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Week 13 (April 4, 6) Tuesday
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Conference |
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Thursday |
Conference
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Week 14 (April 11, 13) Tuesday
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Due: final draft of Literature Review Essay No. 2 Reading: Chpt 8 Seeing Like a Historian (Gaddis) Workshop: Archive Research
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Thursday |
Reading: Understanding Style (Chapter 10) Workshop: Archive Research Introducing the Reflection Paper
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Week 15 (April 18, 20) Tuesday
Wednesday |
Due: 1st draft of Final Research Report Workshop: Peer Review
Due: 2nd draft of Final Research Report
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Thursday |
Conference
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Week 16 (April 25, 27)
Tuesday
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Conference |
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Thursday |
Course Evaluation Due: Final Research Report 2nd set of Archive Research Notes Reflection Paper Consent Form |