Mary Stevenson
EGL 100
Fall 2003
Assignments:
EGL 100, MW
Readings will come from your textbooks: WW for Writer’s Workbook and RW for Rules for Writers, fifth edition. Note: “read” means to look over and study pages; “do” means to write out the exercises/activities in the textbook. We will also be reading the Book Bridge Project title, Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (WIW). I will give you a timetable and questions for this book later, but buy and begin to read. Take notes too. Some homework assignments will be checked at the beginning of class and assigned points. Throughout the semester, I’ll also have unannounced checks for points on homework done in the textbook.
Week One: Diagnostic Work, Writing Process: Prewriting
8/25 Introduction, writing sample, handouts
Homework: Read WW 1-19
8/27 Writing Process
Homework: Read WW 33-59
Week Two: Writing Paragraphs
9/1 Labor
Day
9/3 Book Check. Diagnostic grammar test
Homework: Do WW 37, 39, 45-46, 50-51
Week Three: Writing Process: Prewriting, Revising, Editing, Proofing;
Sentence Parts
9/8 Finish
diagnostic work. Using WW and Brushup. Handout: plan for paragraph
#1, begin prewriting
Homework: Write, revise plan for paragraph # 1 Read WW 60-63, 65-73; 484-497
Study example 2, page 70 and 143
Do WW 492-3, 496-7, 497
9/10 Support/coherence.
Sentence parts. Due plan paragraph #1; Second
hour: write rough draft and final draft
of paragraph #1 in class. Handout paragraph #2.
. Homework: Write plan paragraph #2
Read WW 134-159; 498-506.
Do WW 137-8, 138-9, 500-01, 501-02, 503-4
Week Four: Using the Handbook,
Fragments, Example papers
9/15 Due plan paragraph #2. Catch up on grammar. Using a handbook. Bring RW to class.
Homework: Write rough draft paragraph #2.
Read WW 524-529
Do WW 140-1, 142-143, 526-7
9/17 Due rough draft of paragraph #2. Revisions. Fragments
Homework: Write, revise, edit, and proofread final draft paragraph #2
Read WW 260-268
Do WW 528-9
9/22 Due
final draft paragraph #2. Handout on
essay #1, thesis statement
Homework: Write plan essay #1
Read WW 269-292, RW 156-163
Do WW 268, RW exercise 1, pages 162-3
9/24 Due plan essay #1. Bring RW to class. Fragment Test.
Homework: Write introductory paragraph essay #1
Read WW 306-311, 517-524
Do WW 289-290, 521, 521-524
Week Six: Example essays,
Run ons
9/29 Due introductory paragraph
essay #1.
Homework: Write complete rough draft of essay #1
Read WW 294-304, RW 164-170
Do RW 171
10/1 Due
complete rough draft essay #1. Bring RW to
class.Test on run ons.
Homework: Write, revise, edit, proof final copy of essay #1
Read WW 182-194, 530-36
Do WW 189-190, 190-191, 533, 534
Week Seven: Cause and Effect
papers; Standard Verbs
10/6 Due essay #1. Handout essay #2;
Homework: Write prewriting/plan for essay #2
Read WIW 3-18, WW 20-30, 198-209, 316-320
Do WW 535, 536
Note: Begin reading WIW; your goal is to complete your readings in the book by 10/27
10/8 Due plan essay #2. verbs. Taking notes: quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing. Bring WIW to class.
Homework: Write, revise plan essay #2
Read Brushup 32-33, RW 172-175, 214, 220-226
Do RW 226
Week Eight: Midterm,
Verbs
10/13 Discuss revisions. Midterm—begin in class essay #2 second
hour.
Homework: Read WW 234-243, 248-256, 536-538
Do WW 235-6, 236-38
10/15 Finish final draft essay #2. Handout essay #3
Homework: Write plan essay #3
Read 324-332, RW 215-219
Do RW 219-20
Week Nine: Similarities and
Differences, Irregular Verbs
10/20 Due plan essay #3, bring RW to class
Homework: Write introduction with hook essay #3
Review standard and irregular verbs
10/22 Due introduction essay #3. Test standard/irregular verbs. Bring RW to class.
Homework: Write rest of rough draft essay #3
Read WW 422-433, RW 172-183
Do WW 426-7, 428-9, 431-3, RW 183, 184
Week Ten: Polishing Style,
Subject/Verb Agreement
10/27 Handout on essay #4. Due rough draft essay #3. Bring RW to class
Homework: Write, revise, edit, proof final draft essay #3
Read WW 433-445, 538-541, RW 398-400
De WW 437-6, 444, 540, 541
10/29 Professional
Development Day—no classes
Use this free day to
catch up on your notes for WIW
Week Eleven: Notetaking; Subject/Verb Continued
11/3 Due final draft essay #3. Handout essay #4. Review verbs.
Homework: Write, complete your notes on WIW
Read WW 445-448, 541-544
Do WW 543, 544
11/5 Due
notetaking exercise. Test on subject/verb agreement..Bring RW to class
Homework: Write thesis essay #4
Read WW 450-453, 546-549, RW 402-406
Do WW 547-9
Week Twelve: Writing from Sources, Documentation, Pronouns
11/10 Due thesis for essay #4, documentation, bring RW and
WIW to class
Homework: Write plan essay #4, include page numbers from WIW that you might use in your essay
Read WW 454-464, 549-551, RW 406-413
Do WW 551
11/12 Due plan essay #4
Homework: Write introduction for essay #4
Read WW 464-473, 551-555
Do WW 554, 555
Week Thirteen: Documentation
continued, Parallelism, Modifiers
11/17 Due introductory paragraph
for essay #4, pronouns
Homework: Write rough draft of body for essay #4
Read WW 473-481, 560-2 RW 88-91, 413-423
Do WW 561-62, RW 91-2
11/19 In text citations. Bring RW to class
Homework: Write rough draft conclusion, essay #4
Read WW 564-576, RW 424-444 (note 432-438)
Do WW 567, 569-570, 571
11/21 Last Day
to Withdraw from classes
Week Fourteen: Punctuation
11/24 Due
rough draft essay #4. Checking
documentation, commas, bring RW to
class
Homework: Write, revise, edit draft and correct documentation
Read WW 576-580
Do WW 573, 575-6, 580
11/26 Questions on documentation. Parallelism, misplaced, dangling modifiers
Homework: Write, edit and proof final revisions of essay #4
11/27—11/30 Thanksgiving Holiday
Week Fifteen: Grammar Review
12/1 Due final draft essay #4.
Homework: Organize records, prepare questions for grammar review
12/3 Check records, bring RW to class
Homework: Review grammar, prepare for make up assignment
Final: 9 – 10:50, Monday 12/8
11 – 12:50, Wednesday
12/10
Comprehensive
grammar test and make up session