Calendar

The passcode for all course Zoom meetings is 996863. This course calendar is subject to change throughout the semester.

	Due	Meeting Agenda (with Zoom link)
Week 1	Jan. 20	Jan. 21 • Introduce course • Introduce Reading Responses • Introduce Narrative Piece
Week 2	Jan. 27 • Submit Narrative Piece ideas and models • Submit Reading Response 1 • Read McKibben, "Introduction" • Read Herrick, "An Overview of Rhetoric" • Read Wysocki and Lynch, excerpts from Compose, Design, Advocate	Jan. 28 • Discuss Narrative Piece ideas • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss rhetoric
Week 3	Feb. 3 • Submit Narrative Piece draft • Submit Reading Response 2 • Read Ray, "What Is Style, and Why Does it Matter?" • Look through Silva Rhetoricae, figures of speech • Read Coppola, "Rhetorical Analysis of Stakeholders in Environmental Communication" • Read Root and Steinberg, "Introduction"	Feb. 4 • Workshop Narrative Piece drafts • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss style and creative nonfiction
Week 4	Feb. 10 • Submit Narrative Piece final version • Submit Materials Analysis • Submit Postmortem	Feb. 11 • Introduce Technical Report
Week 5	Feb. 17 • Submit Technical Report ideas and models • Submit Reading Response 3 • Read Tebeaux and Dragga, "Technical Reports" • Look through some environmentalism technical reports • Look through A Failure of Initiative • Read Fleetwood, "Failing Narratives, Initiating Technologies"	Feb. 18 • Discuss Technical Report ideas • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss technical reports
Week 6	Feb. 24 • Submit Technical Report preliminary sources • Submit Reading Response 4 • Read Purdue OWL, white papers (all sections) • Watch Purdue Owl: White Papers • Look through some environmentalism white papers • Read Raats, "Writing Policy Reports" • Read Willerton, "Writing White Papers in High-tech Industries"	Feb. 25 • Discuss Technical Report preliminary sources • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss white papers & policy reports
Week 7	Mar. 3 • Submit Technical Report draft • Submit Reading Response 5 • Read Tillery, "Introduction"	Mar. 4 • Workshop Technical Report drafts • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss evidence commonplaces
Week 8	Mar. 10 • Submit Technical Report final version • Submit Materials Analysis • Submit Postmortem	Mar. 11 • Introduce Academic Paper
Week 9	Mar. 17 • Submit Academic Paper ideas and venues • Submit Reading Response 6 • Read Smith, "The Ideology of Nature"	Mar. 18 • Discuss Academic Paper ideas • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss ideology
Week 10	Mar. 24 • Submit Academic Paper preliminary sources • Submit Reading Response 7 • Read Plevin, "Green Guilt" • Read Lakoff, "Why it Matters How We Frame the Environment" • Read Nisbet, "Communicating Climate Change"	Mar. 25 • Discuss Academic Paper preliminary sources • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss framing
Week 11	Mar. 31 • Submit Academic Paper research question and method discussion • Submit Reading Response 8 • Read Mazel, "American Literary Environmentalism as Domestic Orientalism" • Read Gibson-Wood and Wakefield, "'Participation,' White Privilege and Environmental Justice"	Apr. 1 No Meeting
Week 12	Apr. 7 • Submit Academic Paper draft • Submit Reading Response 9 • Read Mohai, "Black Environmentalism" • Read Purifoy, "On the Stubborn Whiteness of Environmentalism" • Read Lanham, "Birding While Black" • Read Bullard, "Dumping in Dixie"	Apr. 8 • Workshop Academic Paper drafts • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss representation
Week 13	Apr. 14 • Submit Academic Paper final version • Submit Materials Analysis • Submit Postmortem	Apr. 15 • Introduce Public Text
Week 14	Apr. 21 • Submit Public Text ideas and models • Submit Reading Response 10 • Read Walker and Walsh, "'No One Yet Knows What the Ultimate Consequences May Be'" • Read Eden, "Individual Environmental Responsibility and Its Role in Public Environmentalism"	Apr. 22 • Discuss Public Text ideas • Discuss Reading Responses • Discuss public environmental writing
Week 15	Apr. 28 • Submit Public Text draft • Submit Reading Response 11 • Look through U. of Queensland, "Designing and Creating Science Infographics" • Read Bassil, "Lessons I’ve Learnt from Creating a Science Podcast" • Look through NPR, "Starting Your Podcast" • Read Meredith, "Produce Informative Research Videos"	Apr. 29 No Meeting
Week 16	May 5 • Submit Public Text final version • Submit Materials Analysis • Submit Postmortem	May 6 • Share Public Texts