Syllabus, Spring 1998

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Session 1: Tuesday, January 13
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Session 2: Tuesday, January 20
  • Student Profile and Grammar Diagnostic Due
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal #1; Dennis Holt Essay: Subject, Purpose, and Audience; Essays: Topic Analysis, Planning and Prewriting; Thesis Development
  • Class Activities:
      Journal First Check; Grammar Presentation Sign-up; Subject/Assertion Activity; Thesis Development
  • Readings:
      Guidelines for Critical Reading (Readings xxv); "What is a thesis?" (Readings 141); "Planning and Organizing" (Readings 187)
  • Homework:
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Session 3: Tuesday, January 27
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #2; Essay Development: Introduction, Body, Conclusion, Thesis, Topic Sentences, and Transitions; Organization; Use of Detail
  • Class Activities:
      Essay Dissection; Topic Sentences Work; Support and Detail
  • Readings:
      "What is Rhetoric?" (Readings 1); King "I Have A Dream" (Readings 18)
  • Homework:
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Session 4: Tuesday, February 3
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #3; Unity and Coherence; Rhetoric / Diction; Conclusions
  • Class Activities:
      Transitions; Indentifying Weak Writing; Group Construction
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 5: Tuesday, February 10
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #4; Review Weeks 1-4
  • Class Activities:
      Begin Grammar Presentations: The Basic Parts of Speech; Sentence Fragments; Essay #1
  • Readings:
      "What Is a Writer's Voice?" (Readings 59); Lucas "What Is Style?" (Readings 72)
  • Homework:
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Session 6: Tuesday, February 17
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #5; Revising and Proofreading
  • Class Activities:
      Editing Practice; Grammar Presentations: Run-on Sentences; Comma; Parallelism; Semicolons, Colons, Dashes, and Hyphens
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 7: Tuesday, February 24
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #6; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Essay #2 (Rewrite #1 Due); Grammar Presentations: Voice; Subject/Verb Agreement; Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement; Pronoun Reference
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 8: Tuesday, March 3
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #7; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Mid-Term Exam; Conference Sign-up Sheet
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 9: Tuesday, March 17
  • Conferences
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Session 10: Tuesday, March 24
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #8; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Essay #3; Grammar Presentations: Basic Sentence; Compound and Complex Sentences
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 11: Tuesday, March 31
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #9; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Grammar Presentations: Plurals and Possessives; Case; Transitive and Intransitive Verbs; Verb Tense
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 12: Tuesday, April 7
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #10; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Grammar Presentations: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases; Apostrophes, etc.; Transitions and Conjunctive Adverbs
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 13: Tuesday, April 14
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #11; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Essay #4 (Rewrite #2 Due); Grammar Presentations (any extra or remaining)
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 14: Tuesday, April 21
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #12; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Grammar Presentations (any extra or remaining)
  • Readings:
      TBA
  • Homework:
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Session 15: Tuesday, April 28
  • Conclude Course
  • Lecture/Discussion:
      Journal Entry #13; TBA
  • Class Activities:
      Grammar Presentations (if necessary)
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Session 16: Tuesday, May 5
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