Week 1 Winter Reading Discussion (The Sympathizer)
Moodle Writing Assignment 1 (Book Review)
Week 2 Chapter 12: “Argument” – Debating Democracy
“I Have a Dream” and “Buy That Little Girl an Ice Cream Cone”
“Cause and Effect” Essay Peer Review
Week 3 Chapter 12: “Argument”-- Debating Intellectual Property
“Cause and Effect” Essay Revision Due
Week 4 Chapter 12: “Argument” -- Debating the Drinking Age
Moodle Assignment 2
Week 5 Chapter 12: “Argument” – Debating the Effects of Digital Culture
Essay I Due
Week 6 Chapter 13: “Combining the Methods” -- “Liar’s Poker” and “Fishing on the Sesquehanna in July”
Essay I Revision
Week 7 Chapter 13: “Combining the Methods” -- “The Tipping Point” and
“Her Kind”
Essay I Peer Review
Week 8 Research Break (Abstact Exercise)
Chapter 13: “Combining the Methods” -- “The Checklist Manifesto” and “What We Eat”
Essay II Due (700-1000 Words/Synthesis of rhetorical forms)
Week 9 Individual Conference I (Essay II Revision)
Week 10 “Sample Student Research Paper” – “Against the Odds”
Choosing a Topic & Writing a Thesis Statement
Peer Review (Essay II)
Week 11 “Sample Student Example” – “The Evil Empire?”
Establishing a Methodology
Supporting an Argument
Week 12 MLA Chapter 3: The Mechanics of Writing
MLA Chapter 4: The Format of the Research Paper
Workshop I: find an academic paper of your choice
Week 13 Workshop II: find an academic paper of your choice
MLA Chapter 1: Research and Writing
Summarizing and Outlining
Creating a Working Bibliography
Week 14 Figurative Language: “Once More to the Lake” and “Stranger”
Moodle Assignment 3
Week 15 Research Break (Bibliography List)
Race & Gender “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” and “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”
Making a List of your Working Bibliography (BTTL 709-724)
MLA Chapter 5: Works Cited
MLA Chapter 6: In-text Documentation
Week 16 Presenting Your Chosen Research Topic (Thesis Statement/ Outline/Abstract/Bibliography)
Final paper due (Mini-Research Paper/ 1250-1500 Words)
Week 17 Individual Conference II (Mini-Research Paper Revision)
Week 18 Final Paper Final Revision Due
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