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SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS

 Week One:

Read Web Lesson 1, "Writing as a Process"

Read Web Lesson 2, "Writing in Context"

Read Web Lesson 3, "Vivid Writing"

Read Sundance Reader on Narration (pp. 35-39) and Description (pp.97-104)

 

Take Quiz # 1 ("Process, Context, Style")

 

Read Welty (Handout) and Rowan (p. 122) and Post to Discussion Forum #1

 

Write Essay #1 (Expressive) and Send to Peer Group

 

Week Two:

Read Web Lesson 4, "Essay Structure"

Read Web Lesson 5, "Methods of Organization"

Read Sundance Reader on Comparison Contrast (pp. 237-242) and Cause and Effect (pp.542-550)

 

Take Quiz # 2 ("Structure and Modes")

 

Respond to Peer Group

 

Read Scudder (p.41) and McCall (p.47) and Post to Discussion Forum #2

 

Submit Essay #1

 

Week Three:

Read Web Lesson 6, "Grammar Essentials"

Read Harris (p.495) and Raudsepp (p.513)

 

Write Essay #2 (Referential: Informative)

 

Week Four:

Read Web Lesson 7, "Introductions and Conclusions"

 

Submit Essay #2

 

Read hooks (p. 401) and Steinem (p.557) and Post to Discussion Forum #3

 

Week Five:

Read Web Lesson 8, "Coherence"

Read Sundance on Analysis (pp. 313-318)

 

Take Quiz # 3 ("Coherence and Analysis")

 

Read Ciardi (p.194)

 

Write Essay #3 (Referential: Analysis) and Send to Peer Group

 

Week Six:

Read Sundance on Persuasion (pp. 621-626)

Take Quiz #4 ("Persuasion")

 

Read Schor (p. 377) and Hentoff (p. 660) and Post to Discussion Forum #4

Respond to Peer Group Essays

Submit Essay #3

 

Week Seven:

Read Web Lesson 9, "The Research Paper"

 

Take Quiz #5 ("Research Paper")

Email Topics to me

Bibliography of 3-5 sources in MLA Format due

 

Week Eight:

Read Sample Research Papers

 

Thesis and Outline Due

 

Week Nine:

Submit Essay #4 (Research Paper)

 

Week Ten:

Read Gaiter (p. 636) and Raspberry (p. 320) and Post to Discussion Forum #5

 

Write and Submit Essay #5 (Referential: Analysis)

Note: Essay #5 is the same as the C Test

 

Week Eleven:

Take C Test

 

Weeks Twelve and Thirteen:

Write and Submit "B" Paper

 

Weeks Fourteen and Fifteen:

Write and Submit "A" Paper

 

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