January 22
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_Reviewed syllabus
_Purchased book
_Purchased flash drive (or set up Cloud storage)
_Read Chapter 1
_Decided on blog topic
WEEK 2
January 27 and 29
Timed Essay; Basic of Essay Structure (Ch.1); Thesis (Ch. 2); Subject and Verbs (Ch. 20)
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WEEK 3
February 3 and 5
Developing an Essay (Ch. 3 & 4); Summarizing (Ch. 16) and In-class summation exercise;
Illustration (Ch. 6); Manuscript Form (283-86, end of Ch. 17), Plagiarism discussion;
Capitalization
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WEEK 4
February 10 and 12
Revising & Editing (Ch. 5); Parallel Structure (Ch. 25); Fragments (Ch. 23); Semicolons &
Colons (Ch. 38); ESSAY 1 DUE
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WEEK 5
Definition (Ch. 8); Essay 2 Outline & Draft; Run-ons (Ch. 24); Commas (Ch. 35); MWL 2.3, 3.1
WEEK 6
February 24 and 26
Verbs (Ch. 28 & 29); Subject-Verb Agreement Review(Ch. 27); ESSAY 2 DUE; Classification
(Ch. 11); ESSAY 3;
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