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Week 1 01/12 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
General Essay Guidelines
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Wednesday: |
Discuss “Prose Forms: Journals” p 99
Various Journals online supplemental
Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations
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Friday: |
Essay Writing Modes
Discuss Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” p 100
Student example of free-writing exercise
Assignment 1: Freewrite, due Wednesday 01.21.09
Las Dos Fridas
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Week 2 01/19 |
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Monday: |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day / no class |
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Wednesday: |
General Essay Guidelines Handout
Informal vs. Formal Voice
Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly
"Smoking Ban" / Wikipedia.org |
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Friday: |
Discuss Virginia Woolf, “My Father: Leslie Stephen” p 137 |
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Week 3 01/26 |
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Monday: |
Various Autobiographical Writing online supplemental
Discuss autobiographies |
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Wednesday: |
Narrative Essay Pattern introduced
>Author John Updike passes away at 76 |
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Friday: |
Discuss E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” 93
Review Questions
Assignment 2: Narrative, due Monday, 02.02
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Week 4 02/02 |
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Monday: |
Description Essay Pattern introduced
Discuss Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” online supplemental |
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Wednesday: |
Description Essay Pattern |
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Friday: |
Discuss N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” p 182
Review Questions
Assignment 3: Description Essay Pattern, due Friday 02.13
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Week 5 02/09 |
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Monday: |
In Class Writing Assignment |
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Wednesday: |
Exemplification Pattern introduced
Review Questions |
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Friday: |
Description Essay due
Discuss Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space” p 396
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Week 6 02/16 |
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Monday: |
Introduction to Process Pattern
Assignment 4—part 1 |
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Wednesday: |
Discuss Arthur Miller, Peter Elbow supplemental handout
Review Questions |
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Friday: |
Common Grammar Issues
Assignment 4: Exemplification or Process Pattern, due Monday 03.02 |
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Week 7 02/23 |
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Monday: |
Parenthetical citations / web citations
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Wednesday: |
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Direct Quotes |
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Friday: |
Discuss Isabel Allende, “Amazon Queen” supplemental handout |
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Week 8 03/02 |
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Monday: |
Review for Midterm |
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Wednesday: |
Review for Midterm |
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Friday: |
Midterm |
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Week 9 03/09- 09/13 Spring Break / no classes this week |
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Week 10 03/16 |
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Monday:
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Basic Introduction to Research / Searching for Topic
Final Project |
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How to Write a Research Paper |
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation: Meet inside the Learning Center at the Service Desk |
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Friday: |
How to declare a thesis
Formal Declaration of Thesis due Monday, 03.23 |
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Smithsonian Institute |
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Week 11 03/23 |
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Monday: |
Thesis Declaration due • Definition Pattern introduced
“ ‘Everyone Welcome’ — Even Now” Chris Bruce supplemental handout |
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Wednesday: |
Discuss Lauren Slater, “Love” p 243 |
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Friday: |
Discuss Paul Theroux, “Being A Man” p 223
Assignment 5: Definition Pattern, due Monday 04.06 |
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Week 12 03/30 |
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Monday: |
Thesis statesments Reviewed
Writing Tutorial Services from Indiana University |
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Wednesday: |
Library Visit |
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Friday: |
Comparison / Contrast Demo |
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Week 13 04/06 |
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Monday: |
Discuss E. S. Maduro, “Excuse Me While I Explode” p 255
Assignment 6: Comparison/Contrast Pattern |
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Wednesday: |
Paraphrase / Summary / Quotation exercise
Introduction paragraph / page 1 of research paper due |
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Friday: |
School Break / no classes Friday |
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Week 14 04/13 |
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Monday: |
Paraphrase / Summary / Quotation exercise |
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Wednesday: |
Library Visit |
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Friday: |
Cause / Effect Pattern introduced
Tentative Work Cited page due Monday 04.20 |
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Week 15 04/20 |
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Monday: |
Discuss Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, “On the Fear of Death” p 276
Division / Classification pattern introduced
Tentative Work Cited Page due. |
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Wednesday: |
Library Visit |
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Friday: |
First three pages of research paper due. |
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Week 16 04/27 |
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Monday: |
Division / Classification |
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Wednesday: |
Library Visit |
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Friday: |
Class Summary |
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Finals Week 05/06 |
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Monday: |
NO CLASS |
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Wednesday: |
Class meets at regular scheduled time for final exam. Paper due. |
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Friday: |
NO CLASS |
