[ spring 2015 ]

Section 1 (crn 20929; WA01301)

Mondays and Wednesdays: 2:00-3:15, Bozorth 131

Instructor:

Office: 

Office Hours: 

Email: 

Dr. Drew Kopp

Hawthorn 213

M/W 10-11 & T/Th 3-4:30 and by appointment

kopp [at] rowan [dot] edu

Online Portfolio:
You will submit a final portfolio through a Web site dedicated to this course, which will include the following assignments:

1. Cover memo (to be completed at end of semester)
2. Weekly Blog
   
3. Tweeting Maxims
4. Twitterive
5. You Tube Conversation
6. Annotated Bibliography
7. Proposal
8. Storyboard
9. Video Mashup

See the Schedule

Required Activities:

• Membership to online social media platforms such as Twitter, Prezi, Dropbox, Google Documents, You Tube, Wikipedia, Weebly, etc.;
• Print, read, and notate required readings for the course;
  
• Some form of workshopping during every class.

Class Participation:
I have designed this course as a complex structure of interlocking units that will at times compliment each other, and at other times provide dissonance. This structure will call for you to develop two important writerly practices: 

1) being receptive to the novel and strange while bringing into view what is often marginalized and overlooked

2) working to articulate new (or forgotten) relationships between things that ordinarily do not occur together

integral fragments

You will practice managing multiple conversations across time and dispersed across multiple fora (plural of "forum"), and along the way you will test the limits of maintaining integrity (wholeness) even while you pursue fragmentary possibilities.

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Success in this course depends entirely on EACH student showing up, on time, having done the work, both inside and outside class, especially regarding your group responsibilities. 

Furthermore, I will assume that you will be prepared for class, on time, and offer productive, frequent, and meaningful discussion and feedback on any texts covered, including your peers’ texts.

Required Materials:

• Access to Rowan University library databases.
• Access to online writer’s resources, such as the Purdue Online Writing Lab or the Colorado State University Online Writing Lab.
• Regular access to your Rowan University email account.
• Additional reading material will be provided.
• Photocopies of your research materials throughout the semester.

The syllabus for this course is adapted from Sabatino Mangini's syllabus for Writing, Research, and Technology. The video mashup and blogging assignments are adapted from Dr. Bill Wolff's fall 2012 Writing, Research, and Technology course.

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