HCC Syllabus, Spring 1998
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Session 1: Tuesday, January 13 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Diagnostic Essay: "College is important for success." - Readings:
- Homework:
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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:
- 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:
- Homework:
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Session 7: Tuesday, February 24 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Essay #2 (Rewrite #1 Due); Grammar Presentations: Voice; Subject/Verb Agreement; Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement; Pronoun Reference - Readings:
- Homework:
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Session 8: Tuesday, March 3 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Mid-Term Exam; Conference Sign-up Sheet - Readings:
- Homework:
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| Session 9: Tuesday, March 17 |
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Session 10: Tuesday, March 24 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Essay #3; Grammar Presentations: Basic Sentence; Compound and Complex Sentences - Readings:
- Homework:
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Session 11: Tuesday, March 31 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Grammar Presentations: Plurals and Possessives; Case; Transitive and Intransitive Verbs; Verb Tense - Readings:
- Homework:
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Session 12: Tuesday, April 7 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Grammar Presentations: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases; Apostrophes, etc.; Transitions and Conjunctive Adverbs - Readings:
- Homework:
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Session 13: Tuesday, April 14 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Essay #4 (Rewrite #2 Due); Grammar Presentations (any extra or remaining) - Readings:
- Homework:
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Session 14: Tuesday, April 21 - Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
Grammar Presentations (any extra or remaining) - Readings:
- Homework:
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Session 15: Tuesday, April 28 - Conclude Course
- Lecture/Discussion:
- Class Activities:
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| Session 16: Tuesday, May 5 |
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| G.R. Lucas reserves the right to change this syllabus at any point during the semester. Students are reminded that they are responsible for all class work and assignments missed when absent. This syllabus is tentative and subject to change. Please check assignments on this page regularly for updates and ammendments; remember, this is your responsibility. |
