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Course
Calendar |
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Dates |
In
Class |
Homework |
| 1 |
4 Jan
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Substitute instructor: Raymonde Burke |
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| 2 |
11 Jan |
Substitute instructor: Raymonde Burke |
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| 3 |
18 Jan |
Substitute instructor: Raymonde Burke |
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| 4 |
25 Jan |
- Technical Report - pp. 60-68
- Mission Report - pp. 69-74
- Generalizations & Organizing Sentences - pp 105
- Develop. in the paragraph - p106-107
- Organization over several paragraphs: pp. 108-109
- How to divide overly long paragraphs - pp. 110-111
- Using Headings to Guide the Reader - p. 112
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- Complete ONE assignment from p70
- Complete ONE assignment from p120
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| 5 |
1 Feb |
- Using Headings to Guide the Reader - pp 113-114
- How specific heardings should be - pp 115-118
- How well headings 'fit' with each other - p 119
- Parallelism - pp 127-128
- Online Parallelism exercises
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- Complete exercise on p119 - Look at a report from your Department & analyse the headings. Submit a copy and your analysis to your instructor.
- Complete exercises on handouts: Parallelism at the Sentence Level & Adjectives and Adverbs
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| 6 |
8 Feb |
- Editing and Revising for Unity & Coherence - pp. 123-126
- Handout on 'Connectors'
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- Complete exercises on handout: Acheiving Coherence in the Paragraph
- Analyze your writing for connectors. Choose 2-3 paragraphs from something you have written. Underline all the connectors. Submit to your instructor by Email or next class.
- Optional homework: Complete exercises on 'connectors'.
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| 7 |
15 Feb |
- Parallelism: pp 127-128
- Pronoun Reference pp129
- Achieving Coherence pp130
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- Exercises on p132
- Begin to think about what you would like to focus on during the individual sessions beginning in two weeks.
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| 8 |
22 Feb |
Class Cancelled: Instructor was ill
As a make-up, we will schedule 4 individual appointments during the final three weeks of the course.
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- Decide what you would like to focus on during the individual sessions at the end of the course.
- Send a description of the topic and any relavant materials to your instructor by Email (or bring to the next class).
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| 9 |
1 March |
Class Cancelled: Instructor was ill |
Same homework as listed above. |
| 10 |
8 March |
- Developing an Argument: Inductive and Deductive reasoning: pp80-99
- Handout: Fallacies to avoid
- Editing & Revising: Sentence-Level Concision pp134-165
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- p. 150 - Type your answers and send them to your instructor by Email
- p. 99 Exercise regarding argumentation (Bring this to your first appointment with your instructor).
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| 11 |
15 March |
Individual appointments |
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| 12 |
22 March |
Individual appointments |
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