UNIT 1: What is the Value of Writing?
Week 1: Introductions
Wednesday 1/22: Introductions to the course and each other
Week 2: Rhetoric and Economics
Monday 1/27: Read: Syllabus; “Lanham: Stuff and Fluff” [Due: Reading Response 1]
Wednesday: 1/29: Read: Selzer, “Rhetorical Analysis: Understanding How Texts Persuade Readers”
Week 3: what is money?
Monday 2/3: Read: Zelizer, “Payments and Social Ties” [Due: Reading Response 2]
Wednesday 2/5: Read: Shipka, “Sound Engineering: Toward a Theory of Multimodal Soundness”
Week 4: economics and education
Monday 2/10: Read: Bourdieu, “The Forms of Capital” [Due: Reading Response 3]
Wednesday 2/12: Read: Bitzer, “Rhetorical Situation;” Read Law Professor Letters
Week 5: economics and education (cont’d)
Monday 2/17: Read: Mc Millan Cottom, “Introduction: The Education Gospel” [Due: Reading Response 4]
Wednesday 2/19: Workshop [due: project 1 draft – blog]
Unit 2: Writing for a Living
Week 6: Labor in the information Economy
Monday 2/24: Read: Gregg, “On Friday Night Drinks: Workplace Affects in the Age of the Cubicle” [Due: Reading Response 5]
Wednesday 2/26: Workshop [Due: Project 1 Final – Canvas DUE 2/28]
Week 7: Writing as Labor
Monday 3/2: Read: Brandt, “Writing for a Living” [Due: Reading Response 6]
Wednesday 3/4: Read: Driscoll, “Introduction to Primacy Research: Observation, Surveys, Interviews”
Week 8: Hidden Labor
Monday 3/9: Read: Read Nakamura, “The Unwanted Labor of Social Media: Women of Color Call out Culture as Venture Community Management” AND Gregg, “Working from Home: The Mobile Office and the Seduction of Convenience” [Due: Reading Response 7]
Wednesday 3/11: Primary Research Workshop [DUE: SWA]
Week 9, 3/16 & 3/18: SPRING BREAK
Week 10: Conferences
Monday 3/23: Conferences
Wednesday 3/25: No class – Eileen at Conference [Due: Project 2 Draft due – blog]
Unit 3: Write for Money
Week 11: Peer Networks and Publics
Monday 3/30: Read: Benkler, “Introduction: An Opportunity of Opportunity and Challenge” [Due: Reading Response 8]
Wednesday 4/1: Read: Edbauer, “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” [Due: Project 2 Final due-Canvas on 4/3]
Week 12: Intellectual Property
Monday 4/6: Read: Lanquintano, “Manufacturing Scarcity: Online Poker, Digital Writing, and the Flow of Intellectual Property” OR Read Hess, “Was Foucault a Plagiarist? Hip-hop Sampling and Academic Citation” [Due: Reading Response 9]
Wednesday 4/8: Workshop [DUE: SWA]
Week 13: Digital Circulation
Monday 4/13; Read: Laquintano and Vee, “How Automated Writing Systems Affect the Circulation of Political Information Online” [Due: Reading Response 10]
Wednesday 4/15: Workshop [Due: Final Project Draft due – Blog ]
Week 14: Conferences
Monday 4/20: Conferences/Peer Review
Wednesday 4/22: Workshop/Presentations
Week 15: Final Projects
Monday 4/27: Presentations
Wednesday 4/29: Presentations
Final Project DUE on Canvas – 5/1
ENGL 245: Writing and Money 