| This is a general overview of the class. Before class begins:
Week 1: Introduction and Set-up.
Readings: Read pages 165-173 in your text, From Community to College (FCC). What's due: Introduction of class member, feedback exercise, and thesis exercise.
Week 2: Methods of Development
Readings: pages 271-302 in FCC Due dates: 1st draft Wed. 6:00, peer edit on Thurs. and Fri.
-- revise -- 2nd draft due on Monday, the 16th
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 | Read levels of abstraction | |
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| Find two separate paragraphs in your previous papers and expand the details using the levels of abstraction -- when you post to Norton, be sure to include both the old and new |
What’s due: Methods Paper
Week Four: Research #1 -- Audience Paper
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| Audience analysis paper | |
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| Use the handout on Research to help with this assignment |
Readings: 377-412 in FCC
Process: 1st draft Wed. 6:00, offer comments to each other on Thurs. and Fri. --
revise -- 2nd draft due on Monday, the 30th
What’s due: Abstraction exercises
Week Five: Making sense of transitions
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| Read transition handout | |
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| Choose two paragraphs from previous papers and rewrite them using the Transition textbook and the handout to help you with this. Remember to include both old and new when posting in Norton. | |
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| Process: 1st draft Wed. 6:00, offer comments to each other on Thurs. and Fri. -- revise -- 2nd draft due on Monday, 7th. |
What’s due: Audience Paper due.
Week Six: Problem-Solving -- Reveal a problem -- then solve it
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| Read the problem solving handout | |
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| Write about a problem in the classroom about either language or writing and solve it in an essay. |
Process: 1st draft Wed. midnight, offer comments to each other on
Thurs. and Fri. -- revise -- 2nd draft due on Monday, the 14th
Readings: 474-509
What’s due: Transition exercises
Week Seven: From the Beginning to the End
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Read introduction and conclusion handouts |
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Rewrite two introduction and conclusions from your previous writings -- when you post to Norton, be sure include both |
Process: 1st draft Wed. midnight, offer comments to each other on Thurs. and Fri. -- revise -- 2nd draft due on Monday, 21th.
What’s due: Problem-solving paper
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| You might want to start preparing for your final research paper,
the topic is an issue in community or education -- try something different
from your previous topics -- violence in schools? religious freedom? changing the
curriculum to include sex education or multicultural studies or woman's study? Start
researching now to avoid the rush! |
Week Eight: Second Research project -- persuasive
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| Choose a issue in education or community that addresses one of these and write a persuasive paper addressing it -- |
Process: 1st draft Monday, May 28th, midnight, offer comments to each other on Tuesday and Wednesday -- revise -- 2nd draft due on Tuesday, 5th.
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| Using MLA, MLA Quiz -- due May 23rd |
What’s due: Rewritten intros and conclusions
Week Nine: Documentation Exercises
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| Model research papers -- read through efforts of former 201 to get the sense of what others have done with assignments similar to yours |
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| Post first draft of research paper on Tuesday (5-29) -- Peer Edit drafts of your groups using this guide -- this should occur in Research #2 discussion on Wednesday and Thursday |
What’s due: First draft research paper
Week Ten: Sentence Combining Exercises and Reflection
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Read and do the the Sentence combining exercises |
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Process: 1st draft Wed. 6:00, offer comments to each other on Thurs. and Fri. -- revise -- 2nd draft due on Monday, the 11th |
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Reflection essay -- you do not need to offer feedback on this essay -- due the 11th |
Week Eleven: Wrap Up
What’s due: Everything is due on Monday June 11th
In addition to the above, students will work with model essays, online discussion, and peer-group editing, among others.
This outline is subject to change.
Week 10: Sentence Combining
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| Read and do the the Sentence combining exercises |
What’s due: 2nd draft research paper for teacher comment
Week 11: Presentation
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| Class meeting | |
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| Presentation of research process | |
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| Begin reflection paper | |
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| Evaluations |
What’s due: Final draft of research paper and sentence combining exercises.
Week 12: Reflection
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| Wrap up | |
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| Reflection paper due |