Here you will find links to the course syllabus, assignments, and supplemental readings
Course Syllabus
Mahoney’s ENG 230 Advanced Comp Syllabus, Spring ’12
Paper Assignments
Your grade in this class will be based on the following projects. I will provide you with detailed assignment sheets for each paper.
- Project #1: Public Engagement Journal [Due 2/15]
- Project #2: Conference Proposal [Due 2/27]
- Project #3: Conference Paper [Due 3/28]
- Project #4: Research ReMix [Due 4/30]
- Project #5: Writer’s Reflection [Due 5/2]
- Representations [4/25 & 4/27]
Readings
See day-by-day schedule on course calendar. Here is an alphabetical listing of readings:
- Alinsky, “A Word on Words” & “Tactics” from Rules for Radicals (eReserve)
- Bernays, “Manipulating Public Opinion: The Why and How” (eReserve)
- Blood, “Weblog Ethics”
- Bornstein, “Promoting Civil Discourse on Campus”
- Chopp, “The Social Value of Civil Discourse”
- Dimock, Eckstein, and Dimock, “Civil Disobedience as a Democratic Argument Form” (eReserve)
- Lakoff, “Framing 101: How to Take Back Public Discourse” (eReserve)
- Lazere, “Groundrules for Polemicists” (eReserve)
- Lippmann, “Disenchanted Man” (eReserve)
- Luntz, “Ten Rules for Effective Language” (eReserve)
- Sandel, “The Lost Art of Democratic Debate” (TED Talk)
- Weeks, “Giffords Recovering, But Civil Discourse Hasn’t” (NPR)
