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Week 1 06/01 |
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Monday: |
Basic Introduction: Syllabus
General Essay Guidelines supplemental handout
Pre-writing techniques and Journal styles supplemental handout
Video example of Martha Graham's Lamentations
Discuss “Prose Forms: Journals” p 99
Student example of free-writing exercise
FW 1: What is your writing style?
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Tuesday: |
Essay Writing Modes
Discuss Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook” p 100
FW 2: Freewrite, Las Dos Fridas |
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Wednesday: |
Formal vs. Informal Voice supplemental handouts
Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly
Wikipedia.org "Smoking Ban"
Discuss Virginia Woolf, “My Father: Leslie Stephen” p 137
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Thursday: |
Autobiographical Writing supplemental handout
Video example of Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia
Narrative Pattern introduced
Discuss John Updike, "On the Beer Can" p 607
Image of a Schmoo.
Assignment 1: Narrative, due Monday 06-08 |
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Week 2 06/08 |
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Monday: |
Narrative Essay Pattern
In-class writing assignment.
Discuss E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 93
Review Questions |
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Description Essay Pattern introduced
Discuss Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors” supplemental handout |
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Tuesday: |
Description Essay Pattern
Discuss N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain” p 182
Review Questions |
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Exemplification Essay Pattern introduced
Assignment 2: Description/Exemplification, due Monday 06-15
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Thursday: |
Exemplification Essay Pattern
Discuss Brent Staples, “Black Men and Public Space” p 396
Review Questions
Rhetorical Elements
Appeals in Writing: logos, pathos, ethos
Assignment 2: Description/Exemplification, due Monday |
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Week 3 06/15 |
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Monday: |
Combining Patterns
Discuss Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” supplemental handout
Process Essay Pattern introduced
Discuss Arthur Miller, "Get it Right: Privatize Executions" supplemental handout
Review Questions |
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Tuesday: |
Process Essay Pattern
Discuss Peter Elbow, "Desperation Writing" supplemental handout
Review Questions
Assignment 3: Process Essay Pattern, topic list |
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Wednesday: |
Gathering Evidence, Preliminary Research
Statistical Information Example:
Many Americans Fear Growing Health Costs
Review for Midterm
Recent Process Essay Examples:
How to Spot Counterfeit Money
10 things you can do to stop extinctions
Assignment 3: Process Essay Pattern requirements, final version due Monday |
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Thursday: |
Midterm
Introductions and Conclusions
Gathering Evidence, part 2
Summaries, Paraphrases, Quotations, Analysis, Interpretation
Declare topic for paper, due Monday
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Week 4 06/22 |
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Monday: |
Plagiarism /Citations
MLA Standard Guidelines
Final Project Outlined
How to Write a Research Paper
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Tuesday: |
Creating a Thesis Statement, part 1
Definition Essay Pattern introduced
Assignment 4: Definition Essay Pattern, due Monday
Discuss Lauren Slater, “Love” p 243
Discuss Chris Bruce, " ‘Everyone Welcome’ — Even Now” supplemental handout |
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Wednesday: |
Library Orientation: Meet inside the Learning Center at the Service Desk
Based on evidence, begin preliminary draft of Final Project.
Begin collecting evidence on chosen topic. |
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Thursday: |
school holiday / no classes
Assignment 5: Declare thesis statement for paper
Email declaration of Formal Thesis Statement by Saturday 06-27
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Week 5 06/29 |
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Monday: |
Creating a Thesis Statement, part 2
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Comparison/Contrast Essay Pattern introduced
Discuss E. S. Maduro, “Excuse Me While I Explode” p 255
Assignment 6: Intro to Final Project, due end of class |
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Cause/Effect Essay Pattern introduced
Discuss Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, “On the Fear of Death” p 276 |
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Classification/Division Essay Pattern introduced
Combining Patterns, part 2
Assignment 7: Tentative Work Cited Page due beginning of class |
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Week 6 07/06 |
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Monday: |
Combining Patterns, part 3
Review for Final Exam
Final Project due |
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Tuesday: |
Class will meet at scheduled time for Final Exam. |
