Note: This calendar is tentative and will almost certainly change. All major project deadlines are listed, but some reading assignments will be added as we go (in response to your interests and the amount of time we have available). The most accurate version of what we’re doing during the coming week will always be found on the homepage.

Week Tuesday Thursday
1 January 20

  • Introduction to the course and each other
  • What do we want to accomplish this semester?
 January 22
2 January 27

  • HTML Markup as a Framework for Studying Online Communication
  • Review of our #SOTU hashtag observation
  • Assign discussion leaders
  • Read: Keywords of Markup, pp. xi–66
 January 29
3 February 3

  • Read: Keywords of Markup, pp. 67–149 (Discussion Leader: Jessie)
 February 5
4 February 10

  • Read: Keywords of Markup, pp. 150–235 (Discussion Leader: Christina)
  • Deadline: Select the book you plan to review
 February 12

  • Hashtag Analysis peer critique workshop
  • Deadline: Hashtag Analysis rough draft
5 February 17

  • Hashtag Analysis lightning presentations
  • Deadline: Hashtag analysis final draft
  • Class cancelled due to snow.
 February 19

  • Hashtag Analysis lightning presentations
  • Deadline: Hashtag analysis final draft
  • Introduce Research Project
  • Read: Internet Inquiry, pp. vii–67
6 February 24

  • Read: Internet Inquiry, pp. 69–130 (Discussion Leader: Rachel)
 February 26

  • Read: Internet Inquiry, pp. 131–97 (Discussion Leader: Prabin)
  • Deadline: Select general topic for your Research Project
7 March 3

  • Digital Pedagogy (Discussion Leader: Kayla)
  • Read: Multiliteracies for a Digital Age (Chapter 1), by Stuart A. Selber; “Understanding Computer Programming as a Literacy,” by Annette Vee; “Computers and Composition 1983–2002: What we have hoped for,” by Charles Moran (All readings located in our shared Google Drive folder in PDF format.)
 March 5

  • Digital Pedagogy (Discussion Leader: Becky)
  • Read: “The Politics of the Interface: Power and Its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones,” by Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe, Jr.; “Made Not Only In Words: Composition in a New Key,” by Kathleen Blake Yancey; “Interactivity and the Invisible: What Counts as Writing in the Age of Web 2.0,” by William I. Wolff (All readings located in our shared Google Drive folder in PDF format.)
  • Deadline: Research Project memorandum of understanding

SPRING BREAK: No Classes
8 March 17

  • Book Review peer critique workshop
  • Deadline: Book Review rough draft
 March 19

  • No class (CCCC in Florida)
9 March 24

  • Book Review presentations (Jessie, Christina, and Rachel)
  • Deadline: Book Review final draft
 March 26

  • Book Review presentations (Prabin, Britt, and Andrew)
10 March 31

  • Book Review presentations (Becky, Kevin, and Kayla)
 April 2

  • Read: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, pp. 111–51 (Discussion Leader: Britt)
11 April 7

  • Read: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, pp. 152–98 (Discussion Leader: Andrew)
 April 9

  • Read: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, pp. 199–254 (Discussion Leader: Kevin)
12 April 14

  • Read: Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, pp. 255–306
 April 16

  • Research Project early findings workshop
  • Deadline: Complete initial data collection for the Research Project
13 April 21

  • Individual conferences
 April 23

  • Research Project peer critique workshop
  • Deadline: Research Project rough draft
14 April 28

  • Taking stock of what we’ve done this semester; course evaluations; feedback for Quinn
 April 30

  • Research Project presentations and individual feedback
15 May 5

  • Research Project presentations and individual feedback
 May 7

  • Reading Day (No Class)
16 FINALS WEEK

  • Our final: Tuesday, May 12, 10:05 a.m. (Format to be determined by class.)
  • Deadline: Research Project final draft