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Week One || 06.06.10 |
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Monday: |
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Go over syllabus |
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All students must join Turnitin.com by established deadline. |
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General Essay Guidelines & Pre-writing Techniques |
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.: demo |
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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 || Additional Pre-Writing Techniques |
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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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Tuesday: |
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Essay Writing Modes |
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.: demo |
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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook" handout |
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.: demo |
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Formal / Informal Audience and tone |
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.: demo |
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.: Image of a Schmoo |
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Kinky Friedman, "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" / Texas Monthly |
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Exercise 1: Drafting Formal / Informal Paragraphs |
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Wednesday: |
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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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Sandra Cisneros, “Only Daughter” p 97 |
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Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative |
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Thursday: |
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E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake” p 183 |
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Guidelines for Assignments |
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.: demo || download MS Word document example |
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Description Essay Pattern • Literary Devices • Organizing information |
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.: demo-Opinion Types & Literary Devices |
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student example: Katherine Hummel |
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The ‘I’ Voice, Style, and Audience |
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.: demo |
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Exercise 2: Autobiographical Narrative-part 2 |
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Who is Dave Brubeck? What was "Take Five"? |
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Friday: |
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More Characteristics of Description Essay Pattern |
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.: demo |
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.: demo- On Sentimentality |
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Suzanne Berne, “Ground Zero” p 167 |
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N. Scott Momaday, "The Way to Rainy Mountain" handout |
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Exercise 3: Description Essay Pattern-Jazz |
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.: video-Dave Brubeck "Take Five" |
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Week Two || 06.13.10 |
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Monday: |
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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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Exercise 4: Exemplification Essay Pattern—Crowd Scene |
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Tuesday: |
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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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Exercise 4: Exemplification Essay Pattern with Active Voice |
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Wednesday: |
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Final Research Project Expectations |
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Choose Topic of Interest for Final Essay from Supplied List |
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Library Database Orientation: SIRS— part 1 |
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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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Exercise 5: Database Exercise-part 1: Find material for next class; print off. |
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Thursday: |
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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 Preliminary Supportive Evidence |
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.: demo |
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Declare Topic of Choice and Create Plausible Thesis |
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Cause / Effect Essay Pattern |
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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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Exercise 5: Database Exercise-part 2: Create concise summary. |
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Friday: |
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Midterm |
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Essential Rhetorical Elements |
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.: demo |
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Week Three || 06.20.10 |
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Monday: |
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Formal Thesis for Final Project due |
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Essay 1: Cause / Effect Essay— first two pages of Final Project due Monday 06.27.11 |
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Library Database Orientation— part 2 |
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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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Tuesday: |
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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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Exercise 6: Comparison / Contrast |
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Wednesday: |
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Deborah Tannen, “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” p 436 |
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In-Class research 1 || Turn in with Final Project |
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Thursday: |
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Research and Biased Sources / Statistics |
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In-Class research 2 || Turn in with Final Project |
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Friday: |
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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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Harry Frankfurt, “On B.S.” —supplemental |
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.: demo-Guidelines for Works Cited Page Review |
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Exercise 7: Definition of Selected topic |
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Week Four || 06.27.10 |
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Monday: |
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Creation of Outlines |
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.: demo |
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Outline Turned in with Final Project |
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In-Class Research 3 || Turn in with Final Project |
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Tuesday: |
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Last day for dropping class with grade of 'W' |
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Combining patterns |
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Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth” —supplemental |
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Proper presentation of article titles / In-Class Exercise |
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In-Class Research 4 || Turn in with Final Project |
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Wednesday: |
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Preliminary Work Cited Page due |
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Combining patterns |
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Jean-Paul Sartre, “Existentialism is a Humanism” —supplemental |
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Thursday: |
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Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Simple Sentence vs Complex Sentence > Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner |
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.: demo |
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.: demo-How to Use a Semicolon |
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Friday: |
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Student / Teacher Conferences |
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Week Five || 07.04.10 |
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Monday: |
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School Holiday |
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Tuesday: |
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Lauren Slater, “On Love” —supplemental |
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Final Project due |
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Student Presentation of Papers |
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Review |
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Wednesday: |
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Comprehensive and Rhetorical Exam |
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Thursday: |
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Final Departmental Exam |
