| Date |
Topics and activities
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Readings
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Assignments Due
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| Sep |
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| 11 |
Introduction to the course
Discuss blog & wiki
Diagnostic essay
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Email instructor
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| 13 |
More on the course, Bloglines (RSS), and Citation
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Post to blog your class goals for writing
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| 18 |
Paper I:
Writing about and
analyzing literature
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Post to blog summaries of "Mending Wall" and of "Marinating Ideas"
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| 20 |
Focus, clarity, and critical thinking
Critical reading & thinking
Planning and reading strategies
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Respond to classmate's post on "Mending Wall"
Post to blog a summary on "Critical thinking & Questions ..."
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| 25 |
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Comment and Controversy (pp. 583-590): "The Jewbird" by Bernard Malamud
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Post to blog a response on "Jewbird"
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| 27 |
Claims, reasons, evidence
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Longman, Ch. 57 (pp. 761-774)
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Respond to classmate's post on "Jewbird"
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| Oct |
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| 2 |
Argument = conversation = They say / I say
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Comment and Controversy, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King (pp. 593-607)
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Topic proposal 1 due
Post to blog a response to "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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| 4 |
Argument = conversation = They say / I say
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Comment and Controversy, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King (pp. 593-607)
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Respond to classmate's post on "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
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| 9 |
Columbus Day
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NO CLASSES
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| 11 |
Paper 2:
Finding and refining an argument
What's the nature of this issue?
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| 16 |
They say = summarizing & quoting
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Topic Propsal 2 due
Post to blog a summary on and response to "The Eternal Quest for Uniqueness"
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| 18 |
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, Quoting, and Plagiarism
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| 23 |
Paper 3
How should we evaluate this issue (Reverse position)
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| 25 |
Midterm Departmental essay
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Paper 2 due
Post to blog a summary (1 paragraph) of Paper 2
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| 30 |
I say =
Responding to others
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| Nov |
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| 1 |
I" say" continued
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Strategies 3 due
Post to blog any changes in your goals for writing and how you are meeting those goals
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| 6 |
They say + I say =
Tying it all together
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Post to blog a comparison of "Conviction" with Longman, pp. 768-774.
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| 8 |
Paper 4
What should we do about this issue?
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Paper 3 due
Post to blog a summary (1 paragraph) of Paper 3
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| 13 |
"Tying it all together" continued
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Post to blog a comparison of "Desire and Persuasive Blogging" with Longman, pp. 783-784
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| 15 |
Introductions and conclusions
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Longman, Chapter 9f, pages 114-117
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Topic proposal 4 due
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| 20 |
Coherence
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Post to blog two comparisons:
- "Attention grabbing blogging" with Longman, page 115, on introductions and
- "Closing the Deal" and Longman, page 117, on conclusions.
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| 22 |
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Longman, Chapters 50 & 57
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Strategies due
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| 23-26 |
Thanksgiving recess
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NO CLASSES
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| 27 |
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| 29 |
Source evaluation
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| Dec |
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| 4 |
Critical thinking and illogical reasoning
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| 6 |
Expression:
Writing concisely
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Paper 4 due
Post to blog a summary (1-2 paragraphs) of Paper 4
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| 11 |
Oral presentations
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Last day to turn in late work
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| 13 |
Departmental final essay exams
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| 18 |
Oral presentations
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| 20 |
Oral presentations
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