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Week 1 |
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07.13 Monday: |
Basic Introduction to Course |
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Using Microsoft Word: page headers, paragraph settings, margins |
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• Presentation Guidelines for MLA Papers |
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General Essay Guidelines: Eight Items of Importance |
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• demo |
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Quiz 1: Syllabus and Essay Guidelines |
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Types of Narrative Voice: Personal, Academic, Stream of Consciousness |
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• demo: Types of Narration |
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In-Class Exercise 1: Stream of Consciousness |
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Prewriting Techniques: |
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• demo: Prewriting Types |
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1. Journal (p. 395) and Listing |
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2. Mapping (p.373) / Clustering—Student Examples |
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3. Brainstorming (p. 386) |
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4. Free-Writing (p. 387-391)—Student Example |
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Before next class, purchase a Blue book from bookstore for in class writing exercises. |
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07.14 Tuesday: |
Essay Writing Modes • Tone • Audience • Formality |
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• demo |
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Crafting the Perfect Paragraph-part 1—supplemental |
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• Image of a Shmoo. |
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In-Class Exercise 2: John Updike |
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In-Class Reading: Mortimer Adler, “How to Mark A Book,”—supplemental |
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• class discussion |
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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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In-Class Exercise 3: Frida Kahlo |
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• class discussion |
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E. B. White “Once More to the Lake”—supplemental (overview) |
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Before next class read: E. B. White “Once More to the Lake” —supplemental |
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07.15 Wednesday: |
Narration Mode • Conflict Types |
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•demo-Narration Mode |
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Description Mode • Literary Device |
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• demo–Description Mode |
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E. B. White “Once More to the Lake”—supplemental |
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Reading Comprehensive Quiz: White, “Once More to the Lake” |
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• demo-White's strategy |
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Guidelines for Reading |
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• demo–The Reading Process |
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Phillip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1983)—supplemental |
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In-Class Exercise 4: Creating Metaphors and Similes |
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Before next class read “Strategies for Stating a Thesis and Planningt” pp. 398-403 |
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07.16 Thursday: |
Paragraph Construction–part 2 |
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• demo-Introduction paragraphs |
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Thesis Statements |
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• demo-Thesis Expectations |
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Elements of Rhetoric (see pp. 44-45) |
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• demo-Rhetoric-Logos, Pathos, Ethos |
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In-Class Exercise 5: Identifying Rhetoric |
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Assignment 1: Narration/Description Mode |
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Before next class read: Sandra Cisneros “Only Daughter” pp.496-499 |
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Week 2 |
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07.20 Monday: |
Weekly Test 1: Rhetoric and Essay Writing Modes |
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Group Work 1: Sandra Cisneros “Only Daughter” |
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• Group Presentations |
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Comparison/Contrast Mode - part 1 |
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• demo-Comparison/Contrast Mode |
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In-Class Exercise 6: Reality Television |
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Before next class read: “Comparing and Contrasting” pp. 116-117, 125-130 |
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07.21 Tuesday: |
Comparison/Contrast Mode - part 2 |
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John Berger, “Francis Bacon and Walt Disney”—supplemental |
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Library Database Orientation: |
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Newspaper & Current Topics > CQ Researcher |
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Before next class read: “Taking a Stand” pp. 156-7, 166-173 |
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07.22 Wednesday: |
Library Research Publications |
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Plagiarism Defined |
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• demo-Plagiarism |
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Unintended Plagiarism —supplemental |
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MLA In Text Notations • Long Quotations p. 714 |
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MLA Works Cited Entries: pp.644-645 |
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• demo-W/C Page entries |
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Signal Phrases and Synthesizing Resources (Ethos) |
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• demo-Synthesizing Resources |
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In-Class Exercise 7: Intergrating Resources |
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07.23 Thursday: |
Argumentative Papers • “Taking a Stand” |
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Aristotelian Argument—supplemental |
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In-Class Exercise 8: Outlining an Aristotelian Argument |
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Assignment 2: Comparison/Contrast Mode |
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Before next class read: “Explaining Causes and Effects” pp. 136-7, 145-8, 455 |
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Week 3 |
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07.27 Monday: |
Grammar Pre-Test should be completed at this time. |
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Cause/Effect Mode |
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• demo-Cause/Effect Mode |
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Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”—supplemental |
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• demo |
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Assignment 3: Collaborative Cause/Effect Paper: |
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• Group Project Overview |
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• demo-Presentation template |
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07.28 Tuesday: |
Cause/Effect Mode Group Project |
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07.29 Wednesday: |
Cause/Effect Mode Group Project |
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07.30 Thursday: |
Cause/Effect Mode Group Project |
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Before next class read: “Defining” pp. 441-442 |
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Week 4 |
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08.03 Monday: |
Group Ten Minute Presentations |
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Before next class read: “Reasoning Inductively and Deductively” & “Analyzing a Subject” pp. 443- 447 |
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08.04 Tuesday: |
Assignment 3: Collaborative Cause/Effect Paper Due |
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Final Assignment Expectations |
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Definition Mode |
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• demo-Definition Mode-part 1 |
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In-class Exercise 9—Building a Definition (freewrite session) |
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• demo-Definition Mode-part 2 |
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Analyzing |
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Before next class read: “Strategies for Developing” pp. 436-438 |
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& Brent Staples “Black Men and Public Space” pp. 520-522 |
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08.05 Wednesday: |
Overview of Deductive versus Inductive Reasoning |
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• demo-Deductive/Inductive |
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In-class Reading: David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster”—supplemental |
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In-class Reading: Lauren Slater, “On Love”—supplemental |
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• class discussion |
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Exemplification (Illustration) Mode |
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• demo-Exemplification Mode |
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Group Work 2: Brent Staples “Black Men and Public Space” |
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• Group Presentations |
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08.06 Thursday: |
Final Assignment Thesis/Introduction due at midnight: one full page |
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Combining patterns |
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Virginia Woolf, “The Death of the Moth”—supplemental |
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Group Work 3: Virginia Woolf |
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• Group Presentations |
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Peer review of Thesis/Introduction |
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Peer review of first draft of final paper |
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Week 5 |
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08.10 Monday: |
Before class read selected passages below for class discussions. |
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“Writing in the Workplace” (pp. 352-355) |
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Resumes (356-359) |
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• resumes |
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Application Letters (pp. 356-364) |
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• sample resume cover-letter |
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Before next class: find two or three articles on chosen topic. |
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Print out and bring to class. |
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08.11 Tuesday: |
Preliminary work towards final exam. |
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Final Essay (Assignment 4)due at midnight. |
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08.12 Wednesday: |
Exit-Post Grammar Exam should be finalized |
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Preliminary work towards final exam. |
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08.13 Thursday: |
Final Writing Exam |
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