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Schedule
for English 101 – Expository Writing
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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
(Note:
We reserve the right to schedule additional assignments or quizzes or to
make modifications to the schedule. Also, the item listed constitutes the
agenda for that day. You read the assignment in preparation for the day it
is listed.) * = suggested. All the rest is required. |
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Aug 20 |
Introduction
to each other, to course and course policies.
Questionnaire
(Log #1). Homework: Write a description of your writing process.
Start with the sentence: "Writing is like . . ." (Exercise
1.4, p14). |
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22 |
Fact or
Fiction. Discussion of individual writing processes. Read 1 - 14. In-class
reading of "Crow and Weasel" (handout).
Due:
Log#2: Your writing process and writing is like |
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24 |
Dillard, "An
American Childhood" (21). Active reading and what are we looking for? (See also
reading strategies Chapter 12*); Wolff, "On being a Real Westerner" (28);
In-class writing: draw a map of the neighborhood you grew up in (See also Narrating, Chapter 14*).
Begin an idea list (Log #5): a time you made a discovery, or when
you realized your were independent. |
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27 |
"100 Miles
per Hour; Upside Down and Sideways" (33). "Calling Home" (19; see
also 61 to 66, "A Writer at Work"). Log topics: a
time you were ashamed, a time you committed a transgression, a turning
point, a time you did something uncharacteristic.
Due:
Log #3: your map story. Write a (very short) narrative from your
in-class map. Tell of something that happened. |
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29 |
Scene
making. Dialogue. In-class reading of "Hills Like White Elephants"
(handout) |
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31 |
Chapter 15,
Describing*.
Slide show on description. “Looking Out” (handout). Dialogue:
577-78.*
Due:
Log #4: Cracking open a scene. Go back to your map story and
look for a sentence of voice-over or other exposition that condenses
or skims past a possible scene. Create that scene -- leaving out the
exposition. Pure narrative. |
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Sep 3 |
Labor Day, but we have class.
Paper #1 – Personal Narrative;
Invention
strategies and freewriting (Chapter 11*).
Log #5: Your idea list, with the above and three more. Title
one "On . . . " (you fill that in.) For another, answer the
question, "What Do I Know?" For a third, spend some time doing
nothing. What comes to you? |
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5 |
Meet in
Walker 225 for in-class writing, drafting, conferencing. Sign up for
skills checklist (for the 22th). Due:
Log #6: Your people, talking. Write a page of you and another
person talking. |
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7 |
Responding to writing
during peer review.
Due: Bring 4 copies of #1
to class to exchange with your peers. |
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10 - 14 |
Peer Review of Paper #1. Schedule for groups:
Van Noy,
Long, Devoto. |
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17 |
Work on
revision exercises from sections of your papers, so bring the draft with
your instructor's comments. Teach the class (in pairs?) an item from our
skills checklist.
Due: Log #7: As an exercise in developing your voice, write a
letter to someone you haven't seen in some time. |
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19 |
Profiles.
Edge, "I'm Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing" (79); McPhee, "The New
York Pickpocket Academy" (85). Definition (Chapter
16*). Due:
Log #8: Metaphor watch. Pay attention to the ways we use
metaphors in daily life. Is so and so a bitch? Are you
pushing the envelope (OK, cliche' too)? Are you at war
with someone? Is there a race in progress? Come up with
10. |
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21 |
Punctuation. Proofreading exercise.
Due: Final version of Paper #1 with
Writer's Memo. |
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24 |
Organization
(part/whole relationships). Chapter 13, Cueing the Reader*. Coyne,
"The Long Good-Bye: Mother's Day in Federal Prison" (90).
Paragraphs. |
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26 |
Cable,"The Last
Stop" (75); Take your pick of one of the readings in Chapter 4.
Log #9: For the
Cable essay, write O (for observation), I
(for interview), and R (for research) in the margins of each
paragraph for "The Last Stop." For the essay you
pick, write a log about how it was organized. |
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28 |
Begin Paper #2—Profile. Read Chapter 20 on Field Research.
Log #10 (you may email this one): Write down the questions you want
answers to in I, and those you want answers to in R. |
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Oct 1 |
Writing and
research day (no class). |
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3 |
Style
exercises: Clarity and concision. |
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5 |
Walker
Technology Center to
work on #2 (Van Noy 221; Long 225; Devoto 216). Email it to peers (and your instructor) by 4:00 on Sunday. |
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8-12 |
Peer Review of #2. Be sure
to fill out peer review sheets for each paper. Schedule for
Van Noy groups, Long, Devoto. |
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15 |
Revision
exercises on #2. Bring your draft with comments to class. |
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17 |
Scott, "News
in Black and White" (402); Jackson, "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind"
((407). Collaborative activity on 396.
Due:
Final version of #2 with Writer’s Memo |
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19 |
Kim, "Grading
Professors" (397); “'Children Need to Play, Not Compete,'” by Jessica Statsky:
An Evaluation” (414), and the original, (276). |
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22 |
Bring in an
evaluation or review to class.
Due:
Log #11: Evaluate . . . |
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24 |
Begin Paper #3.
Paper #3 prompt. |
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26 |
Meet in
Walker 225 to work on Paper #3. Discussion of MLA policies on citing
sources (including online sources). |
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29 |
Conferences |
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31 |
Conferences |
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Nov 2 |
Bring copies of Paper #3 to class to exchange with
your peers. Begin peer review in class. Checklist for Your Draft. |
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5 - 9 |
Peer
Review of #3 (peer review sheets).
Van Noy Groups. |
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12 |
Cut up each paragraph of your draft of Paper #3 and place the
paragraphs in an envelope or baggie. Bring to class along with a
complete version of your paper. We'll swap piles and have some else
put the pieces back together to test the organization, order of
paragraphs, and transitions. |
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14 |
Arguing
Positions (Chapter 6; see also Chapter 19*). "Sticks and Stones and Sports
Team Names" (279); "Working at McDonalds" (283).
Due: Final version of #3 with Writer’s Memo |
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16 |
Proposing
Solutions (Chapter 7). "Making Communities Safe for Bicycles" (349); "More Testing, More Learning" (329).
Log 12:
In-class writing on the “More Testing." |
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19 - 23 |
Thanksgiving
– no class |
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26 |
Library and
Internet Research (Chapter 21). Using and
Acknowledging Sources (Chapter 22). |
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28 |
Bring
in an article that argues a position and assess its style and method,
such as this article on "Take
Bake the Prom" (but find your own).
Due:
Log #13. Assess the argument of the article you bring. Also,
"Against . . . " |
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30 |
Walker 225 ) to work on Paper #4 and or
self-evaluation (replaces writer’s memo for #4).
Due:
Log #14: A topic for paper #4 and the sources you may use to
help you. |
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3 |
Conferences |
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5 |
Conferences |
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Last
day. Hand in the final paper and
self-evaluation
(Log 15). Voting for the best thing we’ve read. Discussion of
the best thing we’ve written. If you are handing in a revision to an
earlier paper, do so now. |
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Exam- time |
Instructor
available to hand back final papers. f you give us your paper in a
self-addressed envelope, we will mail it to you. |
