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Week One |
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Tuesday || 08.31.10 |
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Go over syllabus
General Essay Guidelines & Pre-writing Techniques |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.02.10 |
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Patterns, "Freewriting" pp 25-30 |
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Courtney Crowder, "If You Can Raed Tihs, You Msut Be Raelly Smrat"
FoxNews.com (FNC) Tuesday , March 31, 2009 |
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Journal Writing & Listing Introduced |
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.: demo: Journals & Listing |
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.: demo: Freewrite session
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.: demo: Student Freewrite example |
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Brainstorming, Mapping |
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.: demo: Mapping—Student Examples |
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.: Free-write Exercise: First Impressions & Observations:
Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns) |
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Week Two |
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Tuesday || 09.07.10 |
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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" handout |
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.: Reading Journals-or Reading Responses (An Ongoing Assignment) |
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.: Student Example: Daniar Listyasari |
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Essay Writing Modes |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.09.10 |
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Formal / Informal Audience and tone |
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Wikipedia.org / "Smoking Ban" |
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Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly |
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.: demo || Image of a Schmoo.
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Exercise 1: Informal / Formal Letters, due 09.14.10 |
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Week Three |
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Tuesday || 09.14.10 |
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Introduction paragraphs |
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.: demo |
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Autobiographical Paragraphs |
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.: demo |
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Video example of Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia |
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Narration Essay Pattern • Conflict Types |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.16.10 |
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Guidelines for Reading |
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.: demo |
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Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97 |
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The ‘I’ Voice, Style, and Audience |
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.: demo |
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Week Four |
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Tuesday || 09.21.10 |
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E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183 |
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Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative, due 09.30.10 |
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Guidelines for Assignments |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.23.10 |
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Description Essay Pattern • Literary Devices • Organizing information |
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.: demo-Opinion Types & Literary Devices |
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Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” handout |
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Banned Book Week: September 25-October 2, 2010 |
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Week Five |
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Tuesday || 09.28.10 |
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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Kate Chopin, “The Storm” p 190 |
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Suzanne Berne, “Ground Zero” p 167 |
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Thursday || 09.30.10 |
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Passive voice versus Active voice |
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.: demo |
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Characteristics of Description Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountain" handout |
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Exercise 3: Descriptive Pattern, due 10.07.10 |
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Week Six |
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Tuesday || 10.05.10 |
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Exemplification (Illustration) Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Brent Staples, “Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space” p 236 |
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Thursday || 10.07.10 |
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Process Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Bread Making |
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Process Pattern Example |
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Arthur Miller, “Get it Right: Privatize Executions” p 299 |
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Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, due 10.21.10 |
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Week Seven || Be sure to bring Bedford to class this week. |
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Tuesday || 10.12.10 |
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Introduction to Library Databases: SIRS |
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Citations |
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.: demo |
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Works Cited Page Overview |
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.: demo |
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Plagiarism Defined |
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.: demo |
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Summary - Paraphrase - Analysis |
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.: demo |
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Signal Phrases |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 10.14.10 |
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In-Text Citations |
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Bedford: Variations, p 518-527, sections: 1-4, 6, 23 |
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Creating a Thesis Statement Based on Supportive Evidence |
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.: demo |
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MLA Changes • Guidelines for Works Cited Page |
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.: demo |
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Week Eight |
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Tuesday || 10.19.10 |
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Midterm |
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Thursday || 10.21.10 |
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Library Orientation || Begin Preliminary Research |
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Final Project Outlined |
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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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How to Start Liking Libraries |
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Week Nine |
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Tuesday || 10.26.10 |
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Essential Rhetorical Elements |
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.: demo |
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Cause/Effect Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 10.28.10 |
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Robin Lakoff, “The Power of Words in Wartime” p 363 |
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Simple Sentence vs Complex Sentence || Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
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.: demo .: —yet, on the other hand |
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.: demo-How to Use a Semicolon |
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Essay 2: Cause / Effect Essay due 11.04.10 |
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Final Research Project Expectations |
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Week Ten |
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Tuesday || 11.02.10 |
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Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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John Berger, "Francis Bacon and Walt Disney"
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Formal Thesis for Final Project due || Continue Research |
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Review in-text citation and intro phrases. |
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Thursday || 11.04.10 |
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Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436 |
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E. S. Maduro, “Excuse Me While I Explode” supplemental |
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Essay 3: Comparison/Contrast Essay due 11.18.10 |
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Week Eleven |
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Tuesday || 11.09.10 |
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Division / Classification Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Stephanie Ericsson, “The Ways We Lie” p 485 |
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Thursday || 11.11.10 |
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Ann McClintock, "Propaganda Techniques in Today's Advertising" supplemental |
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Conclusions |
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Research and Biased Sources |
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Statistics |
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Mapping Out Introduction Paragraph Based on Evidence |
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Week Twelve |
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Tuesday || 11.16.10 |
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Definition Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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José Antonio Burciaga, “Tortillas” p 524 |
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Essay 4: In-Class Exercise |
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Thursday || 11.18.10 |
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Lauren Slater, “On Love” supplemental |
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Harry Frankfurt, “On B.S.” supplemental |
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Review MLA Work Cited page expectations |
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.: demo .: Updated 11.18.10 |
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Friday || 11.19.10 |
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Last Day to Drop Class with a 'W'. |
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Week Thirteen |
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Tuesday || 11.23.10 |
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Preliminary Work Cited Page due. |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism" supplemental |
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Thursday || 11.25.10 |
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Thanksgiving Holidays |
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Week Fourteen |
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Tuesday || 11.30.10 |
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Combining patterns |
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Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” supplemental |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 12.02.10 |
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Combining patterns |
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Week Fifteen |
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Tuesday || 12.07.10 |
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Combining patterns |
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Thursday || 12.09.10 |
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Final Project Due |
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Final Exams Week |
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Thursday || 12.16.10
Exam Schedule for Fall 2010
Final Departmental Exam || 8.00 am - 10.00 am |
