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Week 1 |
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01.20 Tuesday: |
Basic Introduction to Course |
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General Essay Guidelines |
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Pre-writing Techniques (Overview) |
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.: demo |
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01.22 Thursday: |
Writing Modes Introduced |
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.: demo |
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Prewriting Techniques: |
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.: demo: Prewrite Examples |
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Journal (p. 395) and Listing |
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.: Sample Journals and Listing |
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Mapping (p.373) |
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.: demo: Clustering/Mapping—Student Examples |
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Brainstorming (p. 386) |
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Free-Writing (p. 387-391) |
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.: demo: Student Freewrite Example |
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First Impressions & Observations |
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.: demo: Instructor's Freewrite Session |
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Autorretrato con espinas (Self-Portrait with Thorns) |
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Quiz 1: Syllabus and Essay Guidelines |
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Week 2 |
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01.27 Tuesday: |
Essay Writing Modes |
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.: demo |
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Using Microsoft Word: page headers, paragraph settings, margins |
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Exercise 1 |
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01.29 Thursday: |
Essay Writing Modes (continued) 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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Narration Mode • Conflict Types |
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.: demo |
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Mortimer Adler, “How to Mark a Book”—supplemental |
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Also see Rules for Writers p. 14 “Reading and Annotating Texts” |
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E. B. White “Once More to the Lake”—supplemental (overview) |
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Week 3 |
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02.03 Tuesday: |
Reading Comprehensive Quiz: White, "Once More to the Lake" |
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E. B. White: Discussion |
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In-Class Exercise 2: Philip Glass |
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Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1983) |
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02.05 Thursday: |
Paragraph Construction |
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.: demo-Introduction paragraphs |
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Guidelines for Reading |
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.: demo |
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The ‘I’ Voice, Style, and Audience |
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.: demo |
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Thesis Statements (p. 398-403); (Rules for Writers pp. 18, 26-30) |
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.: demo-Thesis Expectations |
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Assignment 1: Narration/Description Mode |
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Week 4 |
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02.10 Tuesday: |
Description Mode |
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.: demo |
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In-class Reading: Isabel Allende, “The Amazon Queen” –supplemental |
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In-Class Exercise 3: Descriptions and Opinions |
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.: demo-Opinion Types & Literary Devices |
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02.12 Thursday: |
Description Essay Pattern • Literary Devices • Organizing information |
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Assignment 1: Narration/Description Mode due |
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Week 5 |
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02.17 Tuesday: |
Comparison/Contrast Mode (pp. 116-117, 125-130) |
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• In-Class Exercise 4 |
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Assignment 2: Comparison/Contrast Mode |
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02.19 Thursday: |
Comparison/Contrast Mode |
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Deborah Tannen “Sex, Lies, and Conversation” –supplemental |
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(in addition see p. 543) • In-Class Exercise 4 continued |
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Week 6 |
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02.24 Tuesday: |
Comparison/Contrast Mode |
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.: demo |
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John Berger, "Francis Bacon and Walt Disney"—supplemental |
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02.26 Thursday: |
Grammar Pre-Test |
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Assignment 2: Comparison/Contrast Mode due |
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Week 7 |
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03.03 Tuesday: |
Cause/Effect Mode (pp. 136-7, 145-8, 455) |
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Evidence (pp. 40-44) • Presentation of Evidence with MLA Guidelines |
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Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook"—supplemental |
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.: demo |
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Plagiarism Defined |
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.: demo |
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• In-Class Exercise 5 |
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03.05 Thursday: |
Library Database Orientation |
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Week 8 |
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03.10 Tuesday: |
Spring Break–no classes |
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03.12 Thursday: |
Spring Break–no classes |
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Week 9 |
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03.17 Tuesday: |
Cause/Effect Mode |
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Assignment 3: Collaborative Cause/Effect Paper |
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Group Project Overview |
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Gathering Evidence |
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Signal Phrases and In-text Notations |
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03.19 Thursday: |
Comparison / Contrast Essay Pattern |
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Cause/Effect Mode • Group Project |
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Week 10 |
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03.24 Tuesday: |
Cause/Effect Mode • Group Project |
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03.26 Thursday: |
Cause/Effect Mode • Group Project |
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Week 11 |
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03.31 Tuesday: |
Group Ten Minute Presentations |
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04.02 Thursday: |
School Holiday—no classes |
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Week 12 |
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04.07 Tuesday: |
Assignment 3: Collaborative Cause/Effect Paper Due |
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Final Assignment Expectations |
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Argumentative Papers Overview • “Taking a Stand” (pp. 156-7, 166-173) |
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Suzan Shown Harjo, “Last Rites for Indian Dead” (pp. 158-161) |
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In-Class Exercise 6 |
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04.09 Thursday: |
Introductions and Thesis Statement—Logos, Ethos, Pathos overview |
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Definition Mode (pp. 441) |
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.: demo |
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Final Assignment Topic Selection |
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Week 13 |
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04.14 Tuesday: |
In-class Reading: Lauren Slater, “On Love”—supplemental |
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• In-Class Exercise 7 |
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Final Assignment Thesis/Introduction due: 200-300 words |
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04.16 Thursday: |
Exemplification (Illustration) Mode (pp. 436-8) |
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Brent Staples “Black Men and Public Space” (pp. 520-2) |
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• In-Class Exercise 8 |
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week 14 |
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04.21 Tuesday: |
Sandra Cisneros “Only Daughter” (pp. 496-500) |
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• In-Class Exercise 9 |
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04.23 Thursday: |
Combining patterns |
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Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth”—supplemental |
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04.24 Friday: |
Last Day for Dropping Courses with Grade of “W” |
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week 15 |
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04.28 Tuesday: |
Final Assignment due |
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“Writing in the Workplace” (pp. 352-355) |
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Resumes (356-359) |
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.: resume cover-letter |
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04.30 Thursday: |
Application Letters (pp. 356-364) |
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• In-Class Exercise 10 continued |
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week 16 |
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05.05 Tuesday: |
In-Class Exercise 10 continued |
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Final Exams |
Final Exams: 05.07 - 05.14 < Click for full exam schedule |
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May 12: Exit-Post Exam: 10:15 am - 12:15 am |
