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Week One |
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Tuesday || 08.30 |
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Basic Introduction |
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General Essay Guidelines & Pre-writing Techniques |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.01 |
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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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Further commentary regarding typoglycemia. |
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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, Clustering/Grouping/Mapping |
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.: demo: Clustering/Mapping—Student Examples |
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.: Free-write Exercise: First Impressions & Observations |
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Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns) |
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Week Two |
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Tuesday || 09.06 |
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Essay Writing Modes |
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.: demo |
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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook"—supplemental |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.08 |
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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: John Updike, "Beercan" || Image of a Schmoo.
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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Suzanne Berne, “Ground Zero” p 167 |
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Exercise 1:Formal/informal letters, due 09.13 |
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Week Three |
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Tuesday || 09.13 |
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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 || 09.15 |
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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 || 09.20 |
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E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183 |
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Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative, due 09.27 |
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Guidelines for Assignments |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.22 |
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Description Essay Pattern • Literary Devices • Organizing information |
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.: demo-Opinion Types & Literary Devices |
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Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern-Jazz, due 10.06 |
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.: video-Dave Brubeck "Take Five" |
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Week Five |
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Tuesday || 09.27 |
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Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen”—supplemental |
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student example: Katherine Hummel |
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More Characteristics of Description Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 09.29 |
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N. Scott Momaday, “The Way to Rainy Mountain”—supplemental |
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Week Six |
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Tuesday || 10.04 |
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Exemplification (Illustration) Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Passive voice versus Active voice |
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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 || 10.06 |
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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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Biography of Timothy McVeigh |
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Essay 1: Process or Exemplification Essay Pattern, due 10.13 |
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Week Seven || Be sure to bring Bedford to class this week. |
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Tuesday || 10.11 |
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Choose Possible Topic of Interest for Process/Exemplification Essay from Supplied List |
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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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Thursday || 10.13 |
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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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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 || 10.18 |
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Final Research Project Expectations |
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Choose Topic of Interest for Final Essay, due 11/01 |
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Thursday || 10.20 |
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Midterm |
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Week Nine |
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Tuesday || 10.25 |
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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 || 10.27 |
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Library Orientation |
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Article Synopsis Assignment / due11.08 |
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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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Review Final Research Project Expectations |
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Week Ten |
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Tuesday || 11.01 |
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Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436 |
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Formal Thesis for Final Project due || Continue Research |
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Thursday || 11.03 |
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John Berger, "Francis Bacon and Walt Disney"—supplemental |
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Essay 2: Comparison/Contrast due 11.17 |
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Week Eleven |
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Tuesday || 11.08 |
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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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Article Synopsis Assignment / Printed off material from school database due |
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Thursday || 11.10 |
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Conclusions |
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Research and Biased Sources / Statistics |
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Mapping Out Introduction Paragraph Based on Evidence |
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Proper presentation of article titles / In-class exercise |
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In-Class research || Turn in with Final Project |
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Week Twelve |
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Tuesday || 11.15 |
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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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In-class exercise |
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Thursday || 11.17 |
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Harry Frankfurt, “On B.S.”—supplemental |
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Essay 2: Comparison/Contrast due 11.17 |
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Essay 3: Definition or Division/Classification Essay due 11.22 |
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Friday || 11.18 |
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Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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Week Thirteen |
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Tuesday || 11.22 |
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Combining patterns |
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Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth”—supplemental |
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Review MLA Work Cited page expectations |
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.: demo |
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Thursday || 11.24 |
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Thanksgiving Holiday |
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Week Fourteen |
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Tuesday || 11.29 |
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Comprehensive and Rhetorical Exam |
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Thursday || 12.01 |
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Final Project Due |
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Student/Teacher Conferences |
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Week Fifteen |
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Tuesday || 12.06 |
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Student/Teacher Conferences |
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Thursday || 12.08 |
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Student/Teacher Conferences |
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Final Exams Week |
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Thursday || 12.15 |
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Final Departmental Exam || 08.00 am - 10.00 am |
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