ENG 201 - Writing in the Disciplines 👋🏾
⭕ CRN: 20110-20865 ⭕ Spring 2026 ⭕ ASYNC
🪪 Instructor: Dr. Vyshali Manivannan (Dr. Mani)
⚧️ Pronouns: she/her
📧 Email: vmanivannan@pace.edu
📲 Discord server: Invitation link posted to Classes\Content\Syllabus
🥸 Server name: Legendary Boon
🕛 Office hrs: Tue 2-5, Wed 12-2 (DM for other) in 🔊Cafe
🌋 My hill to die on: Writing is thinking, not something that happens afterwards
Hello! I’m Dr. Mani, and I’ll be your professor for ENG 201: Writing in the Disciplines this semester. I’m an Eelam Tamil American chronically ill writer, scholar, artist, and designer. I’ve taught writing and rhetoric, media studies, disability studies, and cultural studies for ~20 years. I have a PhD in Communication, Information, and Media from Rutgers and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia. I’m interested in digital multimodal composition, disability justice movements (mask up 😷 for your community!), and body mods. I also have a Siberian cat named Athena (obligatory cat tax).
Attention!
I reserve 5 hrs/wk for by-appointment coffee chats on Discord. You can book a 🕐10, 🕐15, or 🕧20 min chat with me over voice-and-video or voice-only (ideal for commutes and work breaks) chat to talk about any aspect of your classwork, college, life, etc. If you’re in an async section, please be aware that I can’t require sync one-on-one meetings and therefore have limited availability outside of these hours. You can DM me to arrange an alternate time, but you must contact me at least 1 week in advance. I’m almost never able to accommodate last-minute requests.
Important!
I respond to async messages in Discord’s text channels and DMs and Pace emails within 48 hrs during the week. Anything I get over the weekend, I’ll respond to on Mon (I might reply sooner, but don’t count on it). For a quicker response to questions or project help, ask in #classroom or #team on Discord. I deprioritize questions about course material/logistics that are explained in the course syllabus and/or this website, or have already been asked and answered on Discord and added to the FAQs.
Weekly Workflow and Deadlines
Unless otherwise noted, every week, you’ll post at least one discussion question to #classroom by Tue 11:59PM and reply to at least one classmate’s question with an attempted answer by Fri 11:59PM to qualify as present and actively participating for the week. (For specific instructions, check out Assignments.) You don’t need to have completed the module by the time you post.
Course Calendar
The calendar of readings and learning modules to be completed asynchronously each week is posted below. If I change the schedule to benefit the class, I’ll post an announcement to Discord #classroom and to the Announcements page at the top of the sidebar.
Suggested Sat-Fri Workflow
Because this is an asynchronous section, the calendar below includes weekends and runs from Sat-Fri — but this is just a suggestion. You can complete the work whenever you’re able during the week as your schedule permits. Regardless of when you find the time, you’re expected to pace yourself, manage your time, and stay on top of deadlines, and you must complete all the work each week to remain in good standing in the course.
| Week Of |
Course Expectations |
Due by 11:59PM On |
|---|---|---|
| 1/26 - 1/31 | Settling In ⚙️ Join Discord (link on Classes\Content\Syllabus) and get setup with the Discord Tutorial 🔖 Complete Module 1 🔍 Get used to where things are on Discord, this website, Classes |
Fri: Intro in #roll-call |
| 2/1 - 2/7 | Writing in the Disciplines 🔖 Complete Module 2 ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom |
| 2/8 - 2/14 | Grounded Theory for (All) Research 🔖 Complete Module 3 |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom |
| 2/15 - 2/21 | The Discipline Narrative 🔖 Complete Module 4 🖊️ Work on Draft 1 |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom Sat: 3 RQs in #team |
| 2/22 - 2/28 | Exigence and Hypotheses 🔖 Complete Module 5 ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom Sat: Draft 1 on Classes |
| 3/1 - 3/7 | Habituating Feedback 🔖 Complete Module 6 💪 Conduct workshop in #team 🖊️ Work on revision ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: Process Reflection in #team Fri: General Feedback Survey for each teammate in #team |
| 3/8 - 3/14 | Thinking About Primary Research 🔖 Complete Module 7 🖊️ Work on Draft 2 |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom Sat: Draft 2 on Classes |
| 3/15 - 3/21 | Understanding the Lit Review 🔖 Complete Module 8 Complete most if not all of the Literature Review Tutorial before Tue ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: 1 Ques in #ask-a-librarian-lit-rvw Fri: 1 Answer in #ask-a-librarian-lit-rvw |
| 3/22 - 3/28 | Conceptual Saturation 🔖 Complete Module 9 🖊️ Work on Draft 3 ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom Sat: Annotated Bibliography in #team |
| 3/29 - 4/5 | Spring Break - Catch-Up & Organizing Literature 🔖 Complete Module 10 🖊️ Work on Draft 3 ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Sun: Draft 3 on Classes |
| 4/6 - 4/11 | Feedback and Recursive Revision 🔖 Complete Module 11 💻 Choose 3 primary sources (interviewees, vlogs by prominent members of your discipline) where at least 1 source is someone you interview yourself 📧 Email your selected interviewee(s) 🖊️ Work on revision ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: Process Reflection in #team Fri: General Feedback Survey for each teammate in #team Sat: 5 Interview Qs in #team |
| 4/12 - 4/18 | Interviews and Vlogs as Primary Research 🔖 Complete Module 12 🎙️ Begin conducting interviews 🖊️ Work on Draft 4 |
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| 4/19 - 4/25 | Qualitative Coding 🔖 Complete Module 13 🖊️ Work on Drafts 4 and 5 ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Fri: Coded Interviews to #team Sat: Draft 4 on Classes |
| 4/26 - 5/2 | Presenting Primary Research 🔖 Complete Module 14 🖊️ Work on Draft 5 ⏰ Submit late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: 1 Ques in #classroom Fri: 1 Answer in #classroom Sat: Draft 5 on Classes |
| 5/3 - 5/9 | Argumentative Synthesis 🔖 Complete Module 15 🖊️ Work on revision ⏰ Late work still eligible for grace period |
Tue: Process Reflection in #team Fri: General Feedback Survey for each teammate in #team |
| 5/10 - 5/15 | The Final Cut 🔖 Complete Module 16 🖊️ Work on final draft |
Fri: Final Draft on Classes |