Composition I Course Calendar Spring 2021
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Reading responses and other assignments must be completed before 11:59 p.m. on the Sunday following the week under which they are listed. For instance, Reading Response #7 is listed under the week of March 14–20; therefore, it is due on or before 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 21. The same is true of your four essays and your portfolio. The readings that require you to write reading responses are typed in bold and red. Major assignments are typed in ultra bold and blue. The page number for each reading response is in parentheses, and all readings for reading responses can be found in UA-PTC Composition Mix with two exceptions. “A Writer in the World” and “Living Like Weasels,” both by Annie Dillard, will be posted in the “Course Content” section of the online class. A lot of times you will see the initials ALW following an en dash—a punctuation mark that is longer than a hyphen and shorter than an em dash, which is traditionally referred to simply as a “dash.” This is a weird habit I developed years ago when social media was first starting out. The organization I was running at the time had a group of assistants, secretaries, PR people, and other individuals who would make posts under my name. To indicate that I personally wrote the post, I would add “–ALW,” and it’s a habit I’ve kept for years. Oddly, I found out years later that Hillary Clinton does the same thing.
Allen Loibner-Waitkus • UA-PTC