English 410 Senior Portfolio • Fall 2006 • 2:00-2:50pm Schedule / Assignments

ASSIGNMENTS:
10% - 12 Reading Buddy Responses (by email to Dr. Brooks)
60% - Writing Portfolio (proposal & project) (2 copies)
10% - Career Search Presentation & Interview Report (with 1 page handout)
15% - Senior Writing Project (proposal & project)
05% - Senior Writing Portfolio Showcase Reading (final exam class period)

When you complete all assignments you are excused from any additional class periods, with the exception of the final exam period which is a public showcase reading.

8/30 (in class introduction to course goals & assignments)

9/1 Reading partners day. Review collection of writing/publication samples with your reading partner and make copies or print out copies for reader’s exchange. Discuss the writing samples with your buddy to begin the conversation of whether they should go in your portfolio or not.

9/4 (labor day – no class)

9/6 Buddy reading response 1 due by email to Dr. Brooks – a response to one writing sample being considered for inclusion in your buddy’s portfolio.
Reading assignment due: Knowledge as Design, Chapter 1 (pages 1-34)

9/8 Reading partners day. Discuss writing/publication samples and whether they should go in your portfolio or not.

9/11 Buddy reading response 2 due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Reading assignment: Knowledge as Design, Chapter 2 (pages 35-63)

9/13 Reading assignment: Knowledge as Design, Chapter 3 (pages 64-92)

9/15 Reading partners day working together on design analysis of writing samples based on Perkins’ approach.

9/18 Buddy reading response 3 due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Reading assignment: Knowledge as Design, Chapter 4 (pages 93-123)

9/20 Senior Writing Project proposal due.

9/22 Reading partners day. Discuss the writing project proposal with your buddy and arrange times and ways and dates for exchange of drafts on these projects.

9/25 Buddy reading response 4 to writing project proposal including plans for collaborative exchanges due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Reading assignment: Knowledge as Design, Chapter 5 (pages 124-154)

9/27 Career Search proposal due.

9/29 Reading partners day.

10/2 Buddy reading response 5 due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Reading assignment: Knowledge as Design, Chapter 6-7 (pages 155-209)

10/4 Three sample annotations due.

10/6 Reading partners day.

10/9 Buddy reading response 6 to sample annotations due by email to Dr. Brooks.

10/11 Career search plans & progress reports.

10/13 Reading partners day.

10/16 Buddy reading response 7 due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Portfolio design concept.

10/18 Portfolio design sample pages.

10/20 Reading partners day discussion of portfolio design plans.

10/23 Buddy reading response 8 due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Career presentations day 1 (three presentations).

Bethany Tabb - research careers in the field of publishing, specifically Christian publishing

Stephanie Williams - teaching ESL

Daniel Richards - I plan to research graduate writing degree applications and programs at several universities, focusing on their “strongest” program: Ohio State (Rhetoric), Carnegie Melon (Rhetoric), Northwestern (Journalism), Purdue (Rhetoric/Professional), University of Missouri (Journalism) and Penn State (Rhetoric)

10/25 web portofolio review review

10/27 (no class – fall break)

10/30 Portfolio design plans due. Web portfolio writing theory/poetics piece is due midnight, October 29.

11/1 Career presentations day 2 (four presentations).

Katie Schmid- research grad school programs, specifically the benefits of and MFA degree in poetry versus an MA in English

Michael Cummings - reasearch a career in science writing

Justin Rosenberg - research sports journalism, especially broadcast journalism

Matt Wheeler - specialty web site design writing

11/3 Reading partners day on drafts of Senior Writing Projects.

11/6 Buddy reading response 9 on senior writing projects due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Career presentations day 3 (three presentations).

Aaron H. Bynum - looking at possibilities and probabilities of finding a satisfying job working in a federal government department (i.e. SSA, Veteran Affairs, FBI, &c.).

Alyssa Owens - research on ghost writing and book publishing

Deirdre Fields - research on lawyering

11/8 Career presentations day 4 (three presentations).
Career Search Presentation & Interview Report due.

Jesse Phillippe - search on the Peace Corps and related programs like AmeriCorps, Teach for America, and other programs that send students to teach in various countries throughout the world

Katie Arnold - research on textbook publishing

Ryan Hosler - no research proposal

11/10 Reading partners day.

11/13 Buddy reading response 10 due by email to Dr. Brooks.

11/15 Portfolio workshop day.

11/17 Reading partners day discuss prefaces, reader’s introduction to the portfolio.

11/20 Buddy reading response 11 on introductions due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Portfolio preface & reader’s introductions due.

11/22-24 (Thanksgiving break)

11/27 & 11/29 Portfolio workshop days.

12/1 Reading partners day final reviews of senior writing projects.

12/4 Buddy reading response 12 on writing projects due by email to Dr. Brooks.
Senior Writing Projects presentations (Justin, Bethany, Deirdre).

12/6 Senior Writing Projects due.
Senior Writing Projects presentations (Aaron, Ryan, Matt, Alyssa, Katie A.).

12/8 Reading partners day discuss and plan the Senior Writing Portfolio Showcase Reading with each other, including introductions of each other.

12/11 Senior Writing Projects due.
Senior Writing Projects presentations (Jessie, Stephanie, Katie S., Michael, Daniel).

12/19 2-4pm in Mac lab. Senior Writing Portfolio Showcase Reading (final exam class period). 2 copies of Portfolio due.