Schedule

Course Schedule DS 014 Writing Fall 2010

Week 1 (8/22-8/28)—Syllabus, Class Schedule, Texts, Grading, Intro to Grammar.

Week 2 (8/29-9/4)—Coordination, Subordination, Major Sentence Errors, and Parallelism. (Overview of Part III of Paragraphs .)

Week 3 (9/5-9/11)—Labor Day Holiday. Generative Sentence Rhetoric (A method of writing nice sentences). Polishing your sentences (Avoiding common errors). Grammar Test.

Week 4 (9/12-9/18)—Generative Sentence Rhetoric (cont.). Syntactic Reduction. Sentence Imitation. GSR Test.

Week 5 (9/19-9/25)—The Paragraph—Coherence and Description (Chapters 1&6 in Paragraphs ).

Week 6 (9/26-10/2)—Types of Prose, Prewriting and Drafting, Revising and Editing (Chapters 3-4 in Paragraphs ). Descriptive paragraph assigned.

Week 7 (10/3-10/9)—Fall Break (Mon/Tues) Process Analysis (Chapter 8 in Paragraphs ). Descriptive paragraph due. Process Analysis paragraph assigned.

Week 8 (10/10-10/16)—Cause and Effect (Chapter 11 in Paragraphs ). Process Analysis paragraph due. Cause and Effect paragraph assigned.

Week 9 (10/17-10/23)—Classification (Chapter 12 in Paragraphs ). Cause and Effect paragraph due. Classification paragraph assigned.

Week 10 (10/24-10/30)—Comparison and Contrast (Chapter 10 in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paragraphs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). Classification paragraph due. Comparison and Contrast paragraph assigned.

Week 11 (10/31-11/6)—Definition (Chapter 9 in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paragraphs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). Comparison and Contrast paragraph due. Definition paragraph assigned.

Week 12 (11/7-11/13)—Argument (Chapter 13 in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Paragraphs <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">). Definition paragraph due. Essay 1 assigned.

Week 13 ( 11/14-11/20)—About the Essay (cont.)--Thesis Statements (Hooks), Opening Paragraphs, Form in Writing. Chapter 14 in Paragraphs.

Week 14 (11/21-11/27)—Thanksgiving Holidays (Wed-Fri). About the Essay (cont.). Start on Essay 2.

Week 15 (11/28-12/4)—All rewrites due. Essay 2 due. Review and get ready for final.

Week 16 (12/5-12/11)—Final day of courses, Dec. 9. Course wrap-up and catchup.

Final Exam--The final exam will be from 8 am to 10 am on Monday, December 13 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 8.4pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super;">th <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.