Texts:
Wyrick,
Jean. Steps to Writing Well. 10th ed. (Rhetoric) Required.
Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers. 5th ed. (Handbook) Required.
Website: <http://users.mhc.edu/facultystaff/nkinnamon/kinnmain.htm>. (Gen Ed)
All formal assignments, both in class and out, are to be prepared on a computer and printed (double spaced) with one-inch margins and a 12-pt. font. Use a floppy disk or your J-drive.
27 Aug.
Introduction. Additional writing sample. Always
wait to be dismissed from class.
29 Prewriting: Wyrick, chap. 1 (3-19, 29). Thesis, essay map, outlining: Wyrick, chap. 2 (31-46); Practicing A, B (do any 2 in B) (39-40); Practicing A (42-43). Course website (outlining). Always bring the textbook to class, as well as a PC- formatted computer disk—unless you plan to use your J drive—and your responses to the exercises (written on separate sheets of paper, not in the textbook).
1 Sept. Body paragraphs: Wyrick, chap. 3 (50-78); Practicing A (55-56); Practicing A (62-63, one par. only; 66-68, first three pars. only).
3 Paragraph writing in class. Bring disk/memory device, or use college server.
5
8 Sept. Parts of speech, sentence structure: Raimes 37c-d.
10 Parts of speech, continued.
12 Paragraph writing in class. Peer review.
15 Development by illustration and examples: Wyrick, chap. 9 (181-96). Questions
2, 3, 4, 7, 10 (195-96). Prepare to hand in your written responses.
Introduction and conclusion: Wyrick, chap. 4 (79-90). Course website.
Writing in class: Wyrick, chap. 15 (423-32).
Preparation for in-class writing assignment. Prewriting to be
submitted
along with the completed paper.
17 Paper 1: Development by illustration and examples. In-class writing.
19
Paper 1 in class, continued: Due at end of period. Include
prewriting and at least one preliminary draft. Print two additional copies of
final draft for peer reviewers (to be assigned).
22
Sentence
structure, faults: Raimes 31c, 38-39; Wyrick, chap. 6 (136-40).
24 Revising and editing: Wyrick, chap. 5 (91-115); Practicing A (111; cite and briefly explain at least one strength and two weaknesses in the essay).
26 Peer review and revision of Paper 1 in class. Revision due at end of period.
29 Development by contrast (and comparison): Wyrick, chap. 9 (215-24, 227-30).
Questions 1, 2, 3 (230). Prepare to hand in responses (as also below).
Prewriting: contrast (or comparison).
Collaborative exercise in contrast.
1 Oct.
Paper 2 in class: Contrast (or comparison). Include some form of
prewriting,
outline and thesis page, and preliminary draft. Print two extra final drafts.
3
Paper 2 in class, continued: Due at end of period. See directions
above.
6 Oct. Sentence faults, subject-verb and pronoun agreement: Raimes 41g, 43, 44d.
8 Diction: Wyrick, chap. 7 (145-48, 159-61); Practicing A (151).
10 Peer review and revision of Paper 2 in class. Revision due at end of period.
13 Examination 1 (midterm).
15 Individual conferences.
17
Individual conferences.
Fall
break: 20-21 Oct.
22 Apostrophes and spelling: Raimes 48, 58.
24 Apostrophes and spelling, continued.
27 Commas, semicolons, colons: Raimes 47a-c, 47j, 50.
29 Punctuation, continued.
31
Introduction to preparation for oral presentations.
3
Development by cause-effect analysis: Wyrick, chap. 9 (263-71,
274-75); also 492-95 (what 3 reasons for recommending The Maltese Falcon
are offered, and what are at least 3 supporting examples?)
5 Canceled.
7 Paper 3 (causal analysis) due. Self-review and revision in class.
3 Nov.
Individual conferences.
5 Individual conferences.
7
Individual conferences.
17 Planning for timed writing of paper 4: Illustration, contrast, or cause-effect.
19 Timed writing of paper 4 in class.
21
Timed writing of paper 4 in class, continued: Due at end of period. Include
prewriting, outline and thesis page, and at least one preliminary draft.
24
Examination 2.
Thanksgiving:
26-28 Nov.
1 Dec. Oral presentations. Course website.
3
Oral presentations. Course website.
5 Oral presentations, continued.
8 Dec. Timed writing of paper 5 in class. Due at end of period. 50 minutes: Be on time!
12, 15 Final examination periods, Friday, 12 December, 8:00 (9 MWF); Monday, 15 December, 8:00 (8 MWF). Supplemental course evaluation. No exceptions; everyone must be present: Do not plan to leave campus early.
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