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ZineSyllabus

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Course Description

 

This expository writing course will focus on the tools, practices and assumptions of DIY ethics and zine culture as it seeks to find, create, and develop space for creative and collective ideation with words, images, and sound. Students will investigate and creatively alter discourses of peer-to-peer culture and open source communities, service and solidarity learning strategies, analog and digital rhetorics, and Temporary Autonomous Zones. Although a course primarily geared towards the invention, arrangement, and sharing of prose, "Zine Culture" will provide space for learning and rehearsing both analog and digital techniques for inhabiting and altering contemporary rhetorical ecologies rich in sound and images. By means of social technologies such as internet telephony, folksonomies, and wiki, as well as print media, students will form clusters, and each group will learn how to create temporary and long-lasting expository zones around common interests, and publish a zine along the way.

 

ENC 3310, an Expository Writing course at USF St. Pete

tags: diy collective multimedia composition

 

Where: Coquina 231

Thursday, from 2-4:50 PM

 

Professor Trey Conner

conner@stpt.usf.edu

IM handle: rhythmizomenoid

skype: dial ShareRiff

 

Research Assistant Emery Skolfield

eskolfield@yahoo.com

IM handle: wutwutalma

Yahoo! ID: eskolfield

MSN Messenger: eskolfield@yahoo.com

 

0ffice Hours:

Where: DAV 119A

When: TBA

 

get started, write away

 

Responsibilities

 

Acquire and read the books for the course in time for our discussion of them.

Attend and Contribute to classroom discussions and exercises. More than three unexcused absences will result in a failing grade.

Post at least four significant blog posts per week to this wiki. This means you will need regular and reliable internet access.

Complete a proposal and a semester project Due Dates in a timely fashion.

Collaborate openly and effectively with your peers towards a Final Project.

Open a tab for this wiki in your browser whenever you are online.

 

Prosody Workshops, Peer-Review, and Response-able Participation

 

We will dedicate a portion of each ENC 3310 class meeting to workshopping our writing as it happens. Because our course is premised on the idea that rhythms emerge by means of frequent and dynamic exchanges students will be expected to visit our recent changes page and revise pages in common, daily. In-class participation will depend on staying in tune with our wiki's activity during the week, by reading and responding to each others' writing. Although daily blogs, responses to peer blogging, and early versions of working drafts need not be “polished,” our early-and-often uploads should address the issues of the day, as well as address and solicit feedback from your peers. Under no circumstances will I accept a “final” version of a major assignment, proposal, or final project unless I have seen a regular rhetorical process. Students show up to class on the day an important draft is due without having posted draft work the night before will be counted absent.

 

 

Attendance, Participation, and Grades

 

Attendance in this course is required. While it is understood that emergencies / University-sanctioned activities may arise which result in your missing one or more classes, frequent absences will negatively affect your final grade. As a rule, one or two absences will have little impact on your final grade, assuming you participate enthusiastically when you are in class and realize you are responsible for all material covered during the missed class(es). In the event that your prepared attendance, or lack thereof, becomes a problem, I will ask you to meet with me to discuss our options. These options may include a failing grade or a lower grade than you might have earned had you attended classes regularly. In short: show up prepared to talk and write about the wiki's recent changes.

 

Participation--timely wiki posts, prepared attendance, and peer-grading performance--will account for 33 and 1/3% of your final grade, unit assignments another 33 and 1/3%, and final projects will fill out the scale.

 

ENC 3310 will rigorously pursues an evaluation process known as peer-grading. Response-able and consistent interaction in wiki will help us create rubrics for each unit assignment, and each student will perform and benefit from multiple evaluations for each unit assignment. The instructor will in turn grade these performances, and will also, where necessary and at his discretion, override any "off-the-mark" peer-assigned grades.

 

 

Information Management

 

Please back up everything you write for this course. You should either write your wiki posts in a word processor and save before posting. Or, if you like the feel of writing directly in wiki, cut and paste your work to an open word processing window, saving a back-up version in this way as you proceed. Information technologies carry a trace of instability, so it is always good to have redundancy in your writing process: make copies and put them in different places!

 

Freedom of Speech and Cognitive Liberty

 

As you will see, classrooms and wikis are both spaces devoted to free inquiry. This is a rhetorical space, one where composers are response-able to each other: they think and write in response to each other, and not to a preconceived notion of each other. Assume the best in those you study with and be generous with your respect, and you will teach them to respond in kind.

 

 

The First Amendment of The United States Constitution

 

 

Religious observance absence policy

 

Students who find a ENC 3310 meeting time in conflict with a major religious observance must provide notice of the date(s) to the instructor, in writing, by the second class meeting.

 

Disability access policy

 

In my capacity as instructor in ENC 3310, I will do everything I can to make fully available the educational resources we use and create in section 602. Any student with a disability should be encouraged to meet with the instructor privately during the first week of class to discuss accommodations. Each student must bring a current Memorandum of Accommodations from the Office of Student Disability.

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