Course Calendar, Fall 2007

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Writing Support: If you would like assistance with any writing assignments, I encourage you to visit The Writing Center in room 251 of the Arts & Sciences Building. Peer Writing Assistants are available to help you work on your writing at any stage of the writing process. You may schedule appointments by calling The Writing Center at 483-1907, or you may drop in during the open hours, posted on the door. Click on the link above for more information.

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Notes on due dates

Text Reading: have assigned reading done before class starts, Mondays 2:10 p.m.
  • However, the reading for Week 1 should be as soon after class as possible. (Fortunately, not much since we're just starting.)
Online Activities: We will be doing activities in the Angel discussion forum that help you prepare for essays, discuss your writing, explore the reading and so on.

I will post instructions for these activities before class Monday afternoons. Some of these activities we'll do during class time. All of these activities must be completed before the week is over, usually Saturday midnight (see below).
Assignments due: As with online activities, I will post all assignments for essays, online activities and writing exercises before class Monday afternoon when we meet.

Consequently, assignments that you send to me will be due by Saturday midnight.

  • And you can find all assignments by clicking on the assignment's label for the week, including essay assignment pages. For example, under week 1, you will find assignments linked to Writing Sample.

Abbreviations: ID refers to Ideas & Details, LPH refers to the Little Penguin Handbook  and CC refers to Common Culture.

Week 1 -- 8/27-9/1 Introductions; Angel and e-mail

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Assignments due:

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Week 2 -- 9/4-9/8 Becoming a better writer

Class time: Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021 (note: no class Monday because of Labor Day)

  • Text reading:
  • ID Ch. 1 The Honest Writer 1-9
    • Ch. 2 The Two-Part Secret of Good Writing: Ideas and Details 19-32
    • Ch. 3 Getting Ideas 43-67
    • Appendix I The Real Rules 461-62
  • Watch video in class (also, after class, available at Angel>Resources>Writing resources)
  • Assignments due:

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Week 3 -- 9/10-9/15  Gathering and forming ideas; prewriting and drafting essay 1: Toys: Are They Only Fun and Games?

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • ID Ch. 5 Order from Chaos 93-106
    • Ch. 6 The Draft 109-118
    • Ch. 9 Description 161-171
    • Ch. 10 Narration 183-198
  • CC Ch. 1 "Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture" 1-6
  • "Reading Images," 22-27
  • Essay 1: Toys: Are They Only Fun and Games?
  • Assignments due:

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Week 4 -- 9/17-9/22  Revising and editing essay 1

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • ID Ch. 7 Revising Drafts 123-134
  • Virtual lecture, academic essays, Part 1 and Part 2
  • Assignments due:

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Week 5 -- 9/24-9/29  Exposition and description; prewriting and drafting Essay 2--Popular Music: Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll--or More?

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Assignments due:

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Week 6 --  10/1-10/6  Paragraphing; revising and editing essay 2

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Virtual lecture, academic essays, Part 3
  • ID Ch. 4 Paragraphs 83-88
  • Assignments due:

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Week 7 -- 10/8-10/13  Research and MLA; prewriting essay 3: Television and Movies: Friends or Foes?

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Assignments due:

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Week 8 -- 10/15-10/20  Using sources; drafting essay 3

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Virtual lecture--Using MLA Parenthetic Citation
  • LPH, Ch. 13, "Using Sources Ethically and Effectively," 115-118
    • Ch. 30, "Integrating Nonfiction Sources," 56-62
    • Ch. 32, "MLA Documentation Style," 67-71
  • ID Ch. 14 "Writing Research Papers" 325-31
  • Assignments due:

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Week 9 -- 10/22-10/27  Style and logic; revising and editing Essay 3

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • ID Ch. 8 Writing with Style 141-156
    • Ch. 12 "Logic" 248-251
  • Assignments due:

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Week 10 -- 10/29-11/3  Prewriting essay 4: Advertising, Sports, or Cyberculture? Or Reconsidering , TV, Movies or Music? You Choose; evaluating sources;

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading
  • Assignments due:

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Week 11 -- 11/5-11/10  drafting essay 4

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Assignments due:

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Week 12 -- 11/12-11/17  Revising and editing essay 4

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Review ID Ch. 7, Revising Drafts 123-134
  • Assignments due:
  • Online activities/writing exercises--none this week
  • Audience Response Session (Wednesday--bring four paper copies to class)
  • ESSAY 4--save all prewriting and drafts for portfolio--turn in at Angel in RTF format with
    • Reflection (available by 5 p.m. Friday)

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Week 13 -- 11/19-11/24  Portfolio preparation

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

  • Text reading:
  • Assignments due:

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Week 14 -- 11/26-12/1  Portfolio preparation and submission

Class time: Monday and Wednesday 2:10-4:00 p.m., AS 021

Reflective essay and portfolio submission: during class Wednesday

  • Text reading:
  • Assignments due:

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Week 15 -- 12/3-12/8   No Class, portfolios being read by other WRIT 121 instructors

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Week 16 -- 12/10-12/15  Portfolios graded and returned

Class time: Wednesday 2:10 p.m.-2:40 p.m., AS 021

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