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Week 1 08/29 |
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Monday: |
Basic Introduction: Syllabus |
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Wednesday: |
General Essay Guidelines
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Pre-writing techniques and Journal styles |
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• demo |
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• Sylvia Plath's Journals |
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Listing Pre-Write Technique |
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• Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations |
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Friday: |
Mapping/Grouping/Clustering |
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Discuss Peter Elbow, “Freewriting” p 67 |
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• demo |
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• demo-Student Example of Freewriting Exercise |
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• demo: My Own Freewrite Session |
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Assignment 1: FreeWrite session, in-class: Las Dos Fridas |
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• addendum |
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Week 2 09/05 |
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Monday: |
Labor Day
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Wednesday: |
Discuss Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” p 54 |
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• demo-Joan Didion |
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Formal vs. Informal Voice |
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• demo |
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Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly |
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Wikipedia.org "Smoking Ban" |
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Friday: |
Discuss Virginia Woolf, “Professions for Women” p 235 |
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• demo |
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Week 3 09/12 |
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Monday: |
Rhetorical Elements |
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Appeals in Writing: logos, pathos, ethos |
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• demo |
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Autobiographical Writing
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Video example of Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia |
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• demo |
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FW 2: What is your writing style? |
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Wednesday: |
Quick Review of Autobigraphical Writing: C. S. Lewis |
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Narrative Essay Pattern |
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• demo-Narration Essay Pattern |
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• demo-'I' Voice, Style, Audience |
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Discuss John Updike, "On the Beer Can" |
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• Image of a Schmoo. |
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Friday: |
Narrative Essay Pattern |
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Discuss E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 163 |
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FW 3: Freewrite, Guernica, session due 09/19 |
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Week 4 09/19 |
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Monday: |
Description Essay Pattern • Organizing information |
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• demo |
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Discuss Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” supplemental |
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Discuss N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” p 118 |
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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Wednesday: |
Exemplification Essay Pattern introduced |
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• demo |
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Discuss Leslie Marmon Silko, “Language and Literature —” p 39 |
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• demo- from English 2327: American Literature I |
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Friday: |
Creating a Thesis Statement |
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• demo |
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Exemplification Essay Pattern |
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Discuss Dave Leonhardt, “The College Dropout Boom” p 265 |
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Week 5 09/26 |
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Monday: |
Introduction to Signal Phrases |
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• demo: signal phrases |
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Introduction to In-Text Citations |
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• demo: in-text citations |
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Wednesday: |
Combining Patterns |
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Discuss Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” supplemental |
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FW 4: Freewrite, Description of Music |
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.: video-Dave Brubeck "Take Five" |
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Assignment 2: Description/Exemplification, due 10/03 |
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F. S. Ponick, “Dave Brubeck on Music Education and Composing” supplemental
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Friday: |
Process Essay Pattern introduced |
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Discuss Arthur Miller, "Get it Right: Privatize Executions" supplemental |
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Biography of Timothy McVeigh supplemental |
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• demo |
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Week 6 10/03 |
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Monday: |
Process Essay Pattern |
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Recent Process Essay Examples: |
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How to Spot Counterfeit Money |
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10 things you can do to stop extinctions |
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Overview of School Database: Current Issues |
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Assignment 3: Process Essay Pattern, topic list, final version due 10/14 |
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Wednesday: |
Introductions |
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• demo |
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Conclusions |
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• demo |
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Friday: |
Summary-Paraphrase-Quote-Analysis |
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• demo |
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Statistical Information Example: |
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Many Americans Fear Growing Health Costs |
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Assignment 3: Process Essay Pattern requirements, final version due 10/14 |
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Final Project Expectations |
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• Topics for Final Project |
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Week 7 10/10 |
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Monday: |
Library Orientation/Library Tour |
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation/Databases |
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Friday: |
Cause and Effect Pattern |
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• demo |
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Quick Review for Midterm |
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Week 8 10/17 |
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Monday: |
Midterm • Bring Blue Book to class |
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Wednesday: |
• Discuss Daniel Solove, “The End of Privacy” p 384 |
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Plagiarism/Citations |
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• demo |
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Friday: |
MLA Standard Guidelines |
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• Creating a Thesis Statement (review) |
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• Formal declaration of Thesis, due 10/24 |
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Assignment 3: Process Essay Pattern, due |
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Article Selection for Synopsis |
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Week 9 10/24 |
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Monday: |
Definition Pattern introduced
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• demo |
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• Discuss Michael J. Bugeja “Facing the Facebook” p 399 |
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Assignment 4: Definition Pattern, due 10/31 |
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Wednesday: |
Discuss Chris Buice “'Evertone Welcome'— Even Now” supplemental |
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Assignment 4: Definition Pattern, in-class writing, due 10/31 |
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Friday: |
Discuss Harry Frankfurt, On B.S. supplemental
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Assignment 4: Definition Pattern, in-class writing, due 10/31 |
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Week 10 10/31 |
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Monday: |
Comparison/Contrast Essay Pattern introduced |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
Comparison/Contrast Essay Pattern |
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• Discuss John Berger, “Francis Bacon and Walt Disney” supplemental |
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Friday: |
Comparison/Contrast Essay Pattern |
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FW 5: Freewrite |
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Assignment 5: Comparison/Contrast or Cause/Effect Pattern, due 11/14 |
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Week 11 11/07 |
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Monday:
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Classification/Division Essay Pattern introduced |
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• demo |
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• Discuss Richard Hoggart, “The Uses of Literacy” p 288 |
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Wednesday: |
Classification/Division Essay Pattern |
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FW 6: Freewrite |
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Friday: |
Works Cited page |
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Proper presentation of article titles / In-Class Exercise |
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Last day for withdrawal from class |
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Week 12 11/14 |
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Monday: |
Analysis of Evidence |
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• demo |
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Why Not to Use Wikipedia for Academic Research 1 |
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Why Not to Use Wikipedia for Academic Research 2 |
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Wednesday: |
Analysis of Evidence |
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Friday: |
Simple Sentence vs Complex Sentence > Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner |
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• demo • —and then again... |
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• demo-How to Use a Semicolon |
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FW 7: In-class exercise |
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Week 13 11/21 |
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Monday: |
Combined Patterns |
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• Discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism” supplemental |
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• demo |
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• Discuss Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Combined Patterns |
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• Discuss Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” supplemental |
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Tenative Works Cited Page due |
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Friday: |
Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week 14 11/28 |
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Monday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Wednesday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Friday: |
Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Week 15 12/05 |
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Monday: |
Student Presentation of Papers |
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Final Project Due beginning of class |
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Wednesday: |
Student Presentation of Papers |
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Friday: |
Student Presentation of Papers |
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Week 16 12/12 |
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Monday: |
Final Exam 8:00 am- 9:50 am |
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