Course Schedule

Week 1:              Introduction and Syllabus Review

Week 2:              Sentence Structure and Paragraph Structure

Discussion of Reading Skills: 1. Skimming 2. Scanning 3. Analyzing structure?4. Distinguishing main ideas from details 5. Telling facts from hypotheses?6. Making inferences

Week 3:              Pyramids of Caral and “The War Instinct”

Week 4:              Sentence structure and pre-writing (brainstorming and editing)                             

Description and Narration

Week 5:                      Conference Abroad, Makeup to be announced

Week 6:              Plato’s Cave Assignment

Introduction to research skills:

a. Choosing a topic, library/on-line research (for general topics), MLA/APA documentation style, works cited, notes, quoting

b. Summarizing, paraphrasing, and outlining

Week 7:              Plato’s Cave Continued; Journals Due

Week 8:              MIDTERM WEEK

Week 9:              Journals Returned, Grammar Assignment

Paragraph Structure Redux

Week 10:                    Research at the academic level, Meeting 2

Week 11:            Journal Assignment

Week 12:            Example Essay and Related Discussion

Week 13:            Example Essay Continued

Week 14:            Peer Editing

Week 15:            Essay Due

Week 16:            FINAL JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT DUE

Plus 2: Watch Oppenheimer and The Prestige

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