Schedule

Week One: Jan 18 & Jan 20
Monday
No Classes: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday
Wednesday Topic: Introductions & Class Overview
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Readings Katz, I.R., Haras, C., & Blaszczynski, C (2010). Does Business Writing Require Information Literacy? (pp.135-49).

Guide to Writing a Bio (With Examples)
Week Two: Jan 25 & Jan 27
Monday
Deliverables Blog Post: Professional Bio: submit the post URL to Canvas by 11:59, EST

Sign Teacher-Student Agreement form by 11:59, EST
Readings Caradonna, J. (2014). Introduction. Sustainability: a history (pp. 1-20).

Grabill, J. T. & W. & Simmons, M. (1998). Toward a critical rhetoric of risk communications. (pp.415-441).

Wednesday Topic: Sustainability & Risk Communication
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions What is Sustainability? What is Risk Communication? Where do the discourses overlap? Do Grabill & Simmons have suggestions for how to communicate sustainability more effectively?
Week Three: Feb 1 & Feb 3
Monday
Deliverables Blog Post: Key Term Definition: submit the post URL to Canvas by 11:59
Readings Houser, H. (2016). Human/Planetary. (pp. 144-160).

Moller, M., et. al. (2019). Participation through place-based e-tools. (pp.245-
Wednesday Topic: Green IT & Big Data
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions According to the authors we read this week, do e-based tools enable the sort of participatory communication that Grabill & Simmons outline, why or why not?
Week Four: Feb 8 & Feb 10
Monday
Deliverables Blog Post: Annotated Bibliography: submit the post URL to Canvas by 11:59

Working Group Preference Form 
Readings Nixon, R. (2011). Scenes from the seabed. (pp. 264-280).

Levanda, A.M., Behrsin, I., and Disano, F. (2021). Renewable energy for whom? Energy Research & Social Science 71 (1-13).
Wednesday Topic: Environmental Justice & Renewable Energy
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions What is slow violence? Why/how are the effects of anthropocentric climate change unequally distributed? How can we redress (uneven) effects? What are the advantages to renewable energy? What are some drawbacks? How do we redress the drawbacks?
Week Five: Feb 15 & 17
Monday
Deliverables Blog Post: Essay Draft: submit the post URL to assigned Canvas Group by 11:59
Readings Read and Respond to the two paper drafts uploaded to your Canvas group folder by your group members

Complete: Group Preference Forms for Proposal and Website
Wednesday Topic: Audience & Process
Sessions NO REMOTE CLASS SESSION
Workshop What are most effective techniques for peer review and incorporating feedback during revision?
Week Six: Feb 22 & Feb 24
Monday
Deliverables Essay Due: upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EST

Respond to Group Preference for by 11:59
Readings Coppola, N.W. (1997). Rhetorical analysis of stakeholders in environmental communication. (pp.9-24).

Burnett, R. (2004). Chp. 19: Preparing Proposals. (pp. 677-717).

Sample Proposal 1: EPA, Brownfield Clean-up, Sample Proposal 2: EPA Sample Proposal,and Sample Proposal 3: Recycling and Reuse Project
Wednesday Topic: Audience & Process
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions What features are key to a proposal? Who’s your audience & how does your audience determine choices you make in the proposal?
Week Seven: March 1 & March 3
Monday
Deliverables
Readings Blog Post: Proposal Abstract: submit the post URL to assigned Canvas Group by 11:59

Hewitt, J. (Winter 2004). First impressions: writing a good abstract. (pp.2). Rice University 

How to Make a Gantt Chart in Excel

How to Make a Gantt Chart in Google Sheets
Wednesday Topic: Project Description & Guide to Academic Sources
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions How to access and integrate academic source material? How to compost a Gantt chart?  Project Descriptions Parts I & II.
Week Eight: March 8 & March 10
Monday
Deliverables Proposal Draft Peer Response

Group: Attach a draft of your Group proposal (as a .docx or .pdf file) to the Canvas Discussions Reply window (just one file draft per group) by Wednesday, March 10 at noon.

Individual: Each student needs to respond to one draft posted by another other group in their section by Friday, March 12 at 11:59 using the Canvas Discussions Reply function
Wednesday Topic: Peer Review
Sessions No Class Sessions–meet with your peer response group
Questions
Week Nine: March 15 & March 17
Monday
Deliverables Proposal Due, Friday, March 19: upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EST
Readings Walsh, Linda (2015). “The Visual Rhetoric of Climate Change.” (pp. 361–368)
Dragga, S. & Voss, D. (2001). Cruel pies: The inhumanity of technical illustrations. (pp.265-74).
Tips for Accessible Web Writing, Tips for Accessible Web Designing, Tips for Accessible Web Audio and Video
Wednesday Topic:Design Ethics
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions Is accessible design, good design? Official story & the other gesture? How can we anticipate and redress potential ethical failings in visual rhetoric?

Week Ten: March 22 & March 24
Monday
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Resources WordPress How-To (TBA), Omeka How-To (TBA), Weebly How-To (TBA)
Wednesday
Break from Instruction Day

Week Eleven: March 29 & March 31

Monday
Deliverables Blog Post: Podcast Script upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EST
Listen Amar, Robin. The City, Season One. USA Today. Sticher, 2018.

Mars, Roman. “National Sword.” 99% Invisible. Ep. 341, 2019.

Phlato, Ira. “Cold Climate Organisms Offer Clues to Crackless Concrete.” Science Friday. WNYZ. Soundcloud, 2020. 
Wednesday Topic:Podcast Analysis & Production
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions What are your favorite podcasts? What genres do podcasts fall out into? What are key formal elements? What do audiences need to hear & understand your podcast?

Week Twelve: April 5 & April 7

Monday
Deliverables Progress Report 1 upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EDT
Listen Sentell, E. (2016). Making memories: Writing and designing more memorable documents. (pp. 136-153).

Graphic Model 1: Sierra Club

Graphic Model 2: EPA Hazardous Waste

Graphic Model 3: JPL Solar Power Explorers

Blog Post: Infographic Draft Due Friday, April 9 by 11:59 PM
Wednesday Topic:Infographic Basics
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions How/why are the samples successful (or not)? What design elements can you adopt from the models? What can graphics (2D visual design) do that written and oral rhetoric cannot?
Week Thirteen: April 12 & April 14

Monday
Deliverables Blog Post: Feature Story Drafts: upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EDT by Friday, April 16
Listen Sample Story 1: “For the Birds”;

Sample Story 2: “Dangerous Hot Zones”; Sample Story 3: “On Thin Ice”;

Sample Story 4: “Road Map to Refuge”;

Sample Story 5: “Trashed Beaches”

Sample Story 6: “End of Human Civilization”

Wednesday Topic:Feature Story Elements
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions In Class Discussion Questions: What rhetorical gestures are key to the Feature Story? How do your writing choices depend on your audience? What does a Feature Story do that other genres cannot? How do the Features fit into your larger project?
Week Fourteen: April 19 & April 21

Monday
Deliverables Progress Report 2, upload a .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EDT
Reading Sun, h. & Getto, G. (2017). Localizing user experience. (pp. 89-94)

Moller, S.M. & Olafasson, A. S. (2018). The use of e-tools to engage citizens in urban green infrastructure governance. (pp. 1-10).
Wednesday Topic:UX & Participatory E-Tools
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Questions How can you localize user experience? How do participatory tools engage users?
Week 15: April 26
Monday Topic:UX Reports
Deliverables Website Due, upload the URL to Canvas by 11:59, EDT
Sessions LMC 3403. CS6, 9:30-10:45
LMC 3403.CS1, 12:30-1:45
Week 16: April 30
Friday
Deliverable UX Report Due, upload the .pdf to Canvas by 11:59, EDT