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DATE
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IN CLASS
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OUT OF CLASS
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Week 6
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Tue.
2/12
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- Begin Unit 2
- Web page workshop: HTML basics, creating your first Web page; adding text;
creating links; adding images (meet in Young B-35).
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- Skim HTML Lessons 6-7 (63-78), and Lesson 13 (133-144).
- Begin working on group web page proposals.
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Thr.
2/14
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- Web page workshop: lists; creating tables; design tips (meet in Young B-35).
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- Read WWS Ch. 6, "Diction" (53-63).
- Read ABH 303-310, "Being Clear, Concise and Direct." Do exercise 1.
- Read ABH 699-704, "Writing for the Web."
- Submit your group Web page proposal in an e-mail report.
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Week 7
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Tue.
2/19
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DUE: Group Web Page Proposals.
- Discuss unit essay assignments.
- Effective Web rhetoric: creating a site map.
- Workshop: revising "be" verbs.
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- Read "The Hero's Journey" in the "Notes" section of the
course Web page.
- Read the story of Beowulf in the "Links" section of the
course web page.
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Thr.
2/21
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- Film: The Power of Myth.
- The hero's journey.
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- Read ABH 104-126, "The Paragraph and the Paper."
- Read "Neo's Journey in The Matrix in the "Notes"
section of the course Web page.
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Week 8
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Tue.
2/26
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DUE: Short Essay 2.
- Effective Web rhetoric: paragraphs.
- The hero's journey.
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Thr.
2/28
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Week 9
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Tue.
3/5
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- Group workshop. (Meet in basement of W.T. Young Library.)
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Thr.
3/7
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DUE: First draft of group Web page online. (Post your URL to the
class listserv.)
- Film: TBA (meet in CB 340).
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- Read ABH Ch. 18, "Maintaining Sentence Parallelism" (312-322). Do exercise 1.
- Read "The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure" in the "Notes"
section of the course web page.
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Week 10
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Tue.
3/12
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Spring break.
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Thr.
3/14
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Spring break.
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Week 11
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Tue.
3/19
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DUE: Short Essay 3.
- Parallelism.
- Closing thoughts on the hero's journey.
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Thr.
3/21
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- Group workshop. (Meet in basement of W.T. Young Library.)
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- Read "New Legends for Old" (CP).
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Week 12
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Tue.
3/26
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DUE: Final Draft of Group Web Page Posted Online.
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