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Weekly
Schedule
1
September, 2005
English 1510 (Roberts)
Week
1 (Sept. 1 or Sept. 1 and 6)
Introduction
to the course
In-class
writing #1 (pass/fail)
Brief
Explanation of final multi-genre project
Assignments
DUE for next class:
Composition
of Everyday Life (CEL): Read pages: 2-5; 11-13 (“A Beat
Education”); 18-21 (“Thee Thrill of Victory”); 26-31; 34-39; 42-43
As
you read, take handwritten notes you want to use on next week’s quiz.
Hint: my questions will not be multiple choice or true false.
They will have to do with the ideas on pages 4-5, 26-27, 30, 34-43
in particular. There will also be a more global question about the
sample essays (“Beat” and “Thrill”).
Also,
do the following exercises to turn in next week.
Pg.
10, Ideas for writing, #2 (make a list of possible topics)
Pg.
13, Ideas for Writing, #2 (make a list of possible topics)
Pg.
21, Ideas for Writing, #2 (make a list of possible topics)
Pg.
28-29: Choose ONE bullet and answer the questions listed about a place,
activity, or recollection. See the note at the bottom of pg. 29
about answering “no” to questions
These
notes and exercises can be handwritten on notebook paper if you have
legible handwriting, or word-processed. Do not use a bound notebook
as you will be turning them in.
Week
2 Sept 8 or Sept 8 and 13.
Essay
#1: Experiential Writing: Analyzing the significance of
personal experience.
Discussion of project goals: analysis, academic writing conventions,
the techniques of narration and description and multiple stages of writing
process.
Assignments
DUE for next class
Composition
of Everyday Life (CEL): Read pages 60-61; 62-64 (“The Ring of
Truth”); 76-78 (“Friend or Foe”); 80-82; 84-86; 88-89; 90-92; 95.
Take any handwritten notes you want to use on next week’s quiz. Do
the following exercises to turn in: pg. 64 and 78, Ideas for
writing #1 and 2 (lists of possible topics).
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CHOOSE
A TOPIC FOR YOUR EXPERIENTIAL ESSAY from the two below (based on chapters
1 and 2). You are to analyze a significant event or
relationship. Your paper
should exceed two pages –
3 to 5
is ideal, and you must devote as much
space to the analysis as you do to any background
information or description.
Weekly
Schedule
1
September, 2005
English 1510 (Roberts)
Option
1 (based on chapter 1).
Analyze the significance of a situation or event from you past in depth.
You must go beyond description, being sure to develop a point about it –
a valuable insight or significance for both you and your readers.
Option
2 (based on chapter 2). Explain
the nature of a relationship. It could be a relationship between
people, people and nature, people and their surroundings, people and some
object or activity. You must go beyond description to analyze
the complexities or connections for both yourself and people in general.
After
you’ve chosen option 1 or 2
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Write out the answers to the bulleted questions for any one of the options
listed below; choose the one that fits the topic you are working with.
Page
31 and 35 -- finding the significance of your topic (all bullets)
OR
Page 84 (all eight bullets)
OR
Page 85 (all bullets)
OR
Page 88 to top of 89 (all
bullets)
Do
a
2 to 3
page rough draft of first essay for peer review.
You must have a tentative thesis two pages of body paragraphs to get
credit for completing the peer draft on time. It’s ok to not be
completely finished with the introduction or conclusion at this point, or
to have questions, doubts, need feedback, but you won’t get credit for
three paragraphs or just a page of writing.
Week
3 September 15 or Sept. 15 and 20.
In
class activity: peer review of essay 1.
In
class acctivty: Discussion of editing and proofreading (and the difference
between revision and proofreading)
Assignments
DUE for next class, week four, September 22.
Compile
Essay 1 folder. Include
pre-writing exercises from your book and in-class, peer review sheet, peer
reviewed draft, and final edited and proofread draft, which should include
the changes to the content and organization that your peers recommended or
a lengthy explanation of why you chose not to make those changes.
Turn your essay one folder in no later than the start of next week’s
class.
Composition
of Everyday Life (CEL): Read pages 46; 94-99 and take notes for quiz
next class
Weeks
4-5-6
Essay
#2: Evaluation Essay
Week
4: Essay 2
Assignments
DUE for next class, __Feburary 8:
Composition
of Everyday Life (CEL): Read Chapter 7, pages 324-327
(“Star Wars”); 328-333 (“Whales R Us”); 337-338 (“Pulp
Fiction”); 344-351.
Week
5: Quiz on reading due; finding a topic and writing essay two
Assignments
DUE for next class, __February 15:
Composition
of Everyday Life (CEL): Read pages 352-361
Do
a 2-3 page rough draft of your evaluation essay
Week
6: Peer review of evaluation essay 2
Weeks
7-10
Midterm
in-class writing
Essay
#3: Analyzing a concept and responding to arguments
using synthesis and giving credit to sources.
CEL Chapter 4 (pages 180-198)
CEL Chapter 5 (pages 238-250; 256-260)
CEL Chapter 6 (pages 294-296; 300-310)
580-582; 608-610;604-606
Deadline
for any revisions for weeks 1-7
Week
11-13:
Multi-genre project
Week
14: Presentations on
multi-genre project
Deadline
for revisions for weeks 8-13
Week
15: Final in-class writing
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