15.289 Week by Week Syllabus

(Subject to change) 

• Listening, giving feedback
• Read
• Teaching note "Active Listening and Reflective Responses"
• Barnes, "Managing Interpersonal Feedback"

• Delivering conference papers
• Answering questions
• Workshop: Introducing your research interests
• Read
• Lynch, "How To Survive A Seminar Presentation"
• Hill, "The Inauspicious Debut of a Scholarly Presenter"
• Due
• Prepare a 2-3 minute oral summary of your research interests

Writing: Genres of academic writing Read

• Zanna and Darley, chapter 1
• Bazerman, "What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse"

• Writing (and reading) journal articles and conference papers
• Writing: Style and tone
• Read
• Zanna and Darley, chapter 8
• Lanham, "Who’s Kicking Who"
• Berkenkotter, Huckin, and Ackerman, "Social Context and Socially Constructed Texts"
• Bazerman, "Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies of Disciplinary Language" (optional)
• Due
• Topic and target audience (conference, journal, etc.) of written assignment

• Reviewing papers for journals and conferences
• Read
• Gans and Shepherd, "How Are the Mighty Fallen:..."
• Teaching note: "Writing Peer Reviews of Manuscripts"
• Due
• Analysis of target audience/journal for written assignment (one page)

• Doing research electronically
• Due
• Draft of manuscript review for workshop

• Managing discussions, using cases
• Read
• Zanna and Darley, Chapter 4
• Christensen, "The Discussion Teacher in Action: Questioning, Listening, and Response"
• Breslow, "Contracts in the Classroom"
• Rhem, "Deep/Surface Approaches to Learning: An Introduction"
• Due
• Manuscript review

• Presentations

• Presentations

• Presentations

• Writing workshop
• Due
• Draft of written assignment for workshop (two copies)

• Presentations (optional re-do)

• Presentations (optional re-do)
• Due
• Written assignment