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- Introduction to Course
- Writing as Process
- Rhetorical Differences Across Cultures
- Academic Language
- In-class writing: Favorite piece of music/song
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- Read "Impulse to Travel"
- Buy portfolios, texts
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- Discuss "Impulse to Travel"
- Descriptive language p. 24
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- Write one page on "Comfort Food"
- Read "My Inner Shrimp"
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- Comfort Food due in class
- Discuss "My Inner Shrimp"
- Sentence variety: Coordination and Subordination
- Punctuation: Commas
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- Read "Wait, You're Not Chinese?" and "In Bed"
- Buy non-fiction book
- WW 1-2 sentences
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- WW 1-2 sentences due in class
- Declare book choices
- Return "Comfort Food"
- Grammar/Mechanical Issues from your papers
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| 5 |
- Return "Comfort Food"
- Pre-writing: Personal Essay
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- Personal Essay due in class
- Begin Critical Review: purpose, goals
- Brainstorm in class
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- Read student review in course packet, "Lives on the Fringes"
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- Discuss "Lives on the Fringes"
- Writing summaries: Verb tenses
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- Read 30 pp. of your book
- Write one-paragraph summary and one-paragraph reaction: What are the books strengths, weakness, so far?
- WW 3-4 sentences
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- Summary and reaction paper due in class
- WW 3-4 Sentences due in class
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- Read "Physical Presence" in course packet and do task on p. 34
- Read in RFW on quoting, pp. 302-309; 402-408
- Bring non-fiction book to class
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- Quoting from sources
- In-class exercise on quoting
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- Read 70 pp. of your book
- Mark sections with post-its
- Write one critique paragraph: Focus on an aspect of the book, write a topic sentence, and develop the paragraph using a quote or other specific evidence.
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- Critique paragraphs due in class
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- WW 1-4 Quiz
- Outlining critical review
- Writing Introductions and Conclusions
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- Finish your book
- WW 5-6 sentences
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- WW 5-6 sentences due in class
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- Critical Review due in class
- Begin Position Paper/Argument
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