Fall 2015 Reading Schedule
September 9 [Wednesday]
READ:
1)Writing With Substance (WWS), Table of contents, including
2) What's with all the cat stuff?
3) Who is this cat nut talking to me in this nutty way?
4) Introduction
5) (Stop) Arguing (For Now)
6) Reading
7) Finding Books Using Lexicat (Includes 3+ minutes of VIDEOS)
8) Reading and Writing Assignment 1 (includes “Home Is Where the Hatred Is: The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography” (linked to R&W Assignment 1)
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 1 (NOTE: This assignment requires additional reading. Please follow directions therein for what else to read and submission requirements.)
September 16 [Wednesday, but follows Monday schedule]
READ:
1) WWS, “Reading Academic Scholarship”
2) WWS, “Finding Something to Read Using Library Databases” (WATCH: All three videos, approximately 27 minutes total)COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 2 (NOTE: This assignment requires additional reading assignments. Please follow directions therein for what else to read and submission requirements)
September 21 [Monday]
READ:
1) WWS, “Finding Substance Through History”
2) Natalia Cecire, “Beyoncé's Second Skin (Part I)”
3) Tressie McMillan Cottom, “The University and the Company Man”
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 3 (follow directions therein for submission requirements)
September 28 [Monday]
READ:
1) Robinson Meyer, “Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment”
2) Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks” (PNAS 2014) [This one is difficult reading; please do the best you can with this essay. It is the study that Meyer summarizes in the preceding piece.]
3) Tracy Mitrano, “Facebook and the New World Order”
4) Sam Fiorella, “The Insidiousness of Facebook”
5) E. Alex Jung, "Wages for Facebook" (&, if you'd like, an Article that explains "Wages for Facebook”)
6) Melissa Terras, "Facebook has decided it is time I had a baby"
Take notes so that you remember important details in each assigned reading!
September 30 [Wednesday] Last day to drop a course without receiving a "W" grade on transcript.
READ:***PLEASE ATTEND Faculty Research Day – 11:00am – 2:00pm, Student Center, Multipurpose Room)**
1) Sylvan Lane, “10 Things you Didn’t Know you Agreed to”
2) “I know where your cat lives”
3) “Senators Introduce Data Privacy Changes to FERPA”
4) Christopher Piehler, “California Assembly Approves Bill Restricting Companies' Use of Student Data”
5) Kate Crawford, “The Anxieties of Big Data”
COMPLETE: Faculty Research Day Form. Click here if you were not in class to receive this form--you'll see a small version at right and then can click on the title tat appears and then the link for the "source" below it to see it in a new page, where you can then download/print via a small icon menu at the bottom)
October 5 [Monday]
READ:
1) Michele Molnar, “Millions of Student Records Sold in Bankruptcy Case” (Don't be alarmed if you are not able to access the link for the full article. And don't feel obliged to sign up for an account if you are prompted to do so)
2) Liana B. Baker, Greg Roumeliotis and Mike Stone, “Education company Blackboard seeks $3 billion sale”
3) Audrey Watters, “Student Data is the New Oil”
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 4 (follow directions therein for submission requirements)
[In Class: Watch Terms and Conditions May Apply]
October 7 [Wednesday]
READ:
Ian Bogost, “Don’t Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone: Our telephone habits have changed, but so have the infrastructure and design of the handset.”
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 5
October 12 [Monday]
READ:
1) David Evans, “Adjunct Hiring and ‘Quality’“ (no longer available! Sorry!)
2) David Evans, “Budget Realities and Adjunct Hiring”
3) David Evans, “A brief Taxonomy of Adjunct Labor”
4) Maria Maisto, “Higher Education’s Darkest Secret” (also no longer available!)
5) Tim Goral, “Unintended consequences: The rise—and fall—of adjuncts in higher education”
6) Joseph Fruscione, “When a College Contracts ‘Adjunctivitis,’ it’s the Students Who Lose”
In class: Watching Con Job documentary (2014)
October 14 [Wednesday]
FIND/READ: TWO (2) Peer-Reviewed, Academic Journal Articles on the history of contingent labor in higher education in our library research databases, using “history” and “trends” in combination with any of the following search terms: “adjunct professor,” “adjuncts and composition” “labor in academe” or “labor in academia” “university labor,” “university hiring.”
WRITE: a paragraph summary of your two chosen articles along with the citation information formatted according to MLA style (as in the example below):
Dalford, Natalie. “Youth Culture and Radical Consumerism:” Journal of Social History
7 (2008):15-35. 13 Oct 2014.
PRINT/ BRING: a hard copy of the work assigned above (the 2 articles with paragraph summaries) to class; bring your laptop to class as well.
October 19 [Monday]
REVIEW: WWS, "Finding Substance Through History” ; “Home Is Where the Hatred Is: The case for reparations: a narrative bibliography”
READ:
1) WWS, “Using Quotations Effectively”
2) (Read but DO NOT COMPLETE): Descriptions of R&W Assignment 9, R&W Assignment 10, R&W Assignment 9 3/4)
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 6
October 21 [Wednesday]
READ: “The Writing Process”
COMPLETE: Complete R&W Assignment 7, PART I (follow directions therein for submission requirements)
(In-Class: Workshop on quotations and MLA Documentation. DO NOT MISS CLASS!; Submit Assignment 6 Revisions by 4:20 PM)
October 26 [Monday]
READ: WWS, “Identifying and Formulating Claims”
REVIEW: R&W Assignment 9, 10, and 9 3/4.
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 7, PART II (You must read your comments on Part I for instructions on Part II!)
I will meet with some of you about individual paper topics
October 28 [Wednesday]
Day of Dialogue! Class meets for panel on adjunctification.
**Class meets at 246 East Library Wing, Axinn Library, South Campus**
November 2 [Monday]
BEGIN WORKING ON: R&W Assignment 8
Additional Assigned work to be filled In by teams!
I will meet with some of you about individual paper topics
November 4 [Wednesday]
COMPLETE/SUBMIT: R&W Assignment 8
READ: WWS, “Knowing Teh Rulz (Insofar as there are any”
Additional Assigned work to be filled In by teams!
Some class time devoted to individual paper topics
November 9 [Monday]
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 9 ROUGH DRAFT
(follow directions on the prompt for submission requirements)
In-Class: Peer Review Additional Assigned work to be filled In by teams!
Some class times devoted individual paper topics
November 11 [Wednesday]
READ: WWS, “Revising!”
In-Class: Additional Assigned work to be filled In by teams!
Some class times devoted individual paper topics
November 16 [Monday]
COMPLETE: Collaborative Paper (Assignment 9 ¾) Outlines, due by class start time
In-Class: Peer Review Additional Assigned work to be filled In by teams!
November 18 [Wednesday]
COMPLETE: R&W Assignment 9 FINAL Draft by end of class (you will have a very brief period in which you will tie up loose ends on your works cited pages and quotations and then submit).
(Deadline may be pushed forward 24hours IF you meet with me in extended office hours--schedule & sign-up via google docs--between Tuesday and Thursday afternoon OR visit the Writing Center--advanced appointment required--and have them send a note that you had an appointment). Papers not submitted by Wednesday at 4:20pm (or Thursday by 4:20 pm with meeting or writing center appointment will be subject to late penalties on the final grade for the paper).
November 23 [Monday]
In-Class: Peer Review Additional Assigned work to be filled In by teams!
Some class times devoted individual paper topics
November 25 [Wednesday]
COMPLETE: Draft of Collaborative Paper “R&W Assignment 9¾” on Google Docs
Some class times devoted individual paper topics
November 30 [Monday]PLEASE NOTE THAT CLASS WILL BE HELD TODAY!
In-Class: Revisions on Assignment 9 ¾; work on Assignment 10.
December 2 [Wednesday]
In-Class: Work on Assignment 10 & Final Draft of 9 ¾
December 7 [Monday]
Absolute Final Day for 9 ¾ Submission
December 9 [Wednesday]
DEC 10 is Last day to withdraw from an individual course
In-Class: Work on Assignment 10
Individual public reports on contributions to Assignment 9 ¾; group member evaluations; course evaluations.
December 10-11
Snow/Study/Reading day
December 12-19
Final exams for all classes. Your Final Draft of Assignment 10 is due on the scheduled date of the exam.
We will meet during this period for brief presentations of your research!