SUNY Geneseo Department of Mathematics

Lecture List

INTD 105 09
Fall 2016
Prof. Doug Baldwin

Last modified December 8, 2016

Caveat

These are electronic records of class discussion from INTD 105 09 (Writing Seminar: Secrets and Secret Codes). They are generally captured as a class unfolds, and slightly cleaned up afterwards. They are not clean, carefully-planned lecture notes in the usual sense. They are more an electronic equivalent of notes on the blackboard: they record some of what the instructor said, some of what students said, the things that really happened in the class—including the misunderstandings, false starts, and similar things that happen in real classes. The goal of these notes is as much to help students remember how they learned as it is to help them remember what they learned (because the “how” of learning is at least as important as the “what”).

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  1. Aug. 30—Introduction
  2. Sep. 1—Writing as Conversation
  3. Sep. 6—Jupiter and Race in “The Gold Bug”
  4. Sep. 8—Minstrelsy and Racial Caricatures
  5. Sep. 13—Brainstorming “Gold Bug” Essay
  6. Sep. 15—Summary and Quotation
  7. Sep. 20—Stating Your View
  8. Sep. 22—Peer Editing “Gold Bug” Essays
  9. Sep. 27—Revision
  10. Sep. 29—Substitution Ciphers
  11. Oct. 4—Cracking Substitution Ciphers
  12. Oct. 6—Midterm, no lecture notes
  13. Oct. 13—Enigma
  14. Oct. 18—Library Research, no lecture notes
  15. Oct. 20—Topics for Enigma Essay
  16. Oct. 25—Plagiarism and Citations
  17. Oct. 27—Logic in Writing
  18. Nov. 1—Peer Review Enigma Essays
  19. Nov. 3—Naysayers and Counterarguments
  20. Nov. 8—The Enigma Machine
  21. Nov. 10—Breaking the Code Act 1
  22. Nov. 15—Breaking the Code Act 2
  23. Nov. 17—Evaluating Online Sources, no lecture notes
  24. Nov. 22—Alan Turing
  25. Nov. 29—Peer Review “Breaking the Code” Drafts
  26. Dec. 1—“The Beale Papers”
  27. Dec. 6—Book Ciphers
  28. Dec. 8—Public Key Cryptography and RSA