Students are expected to spend one hour in reading and three hours in writing every week.
9/15 Introduction: Reading and Writing
Chapter 1 “Reading for Writing” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 1-5; 10-20)
Chapter 2 “Ways of Writing” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 21-39)
Finding and developing an appropriate topic
9/22 Classification I: Human Behavior
“Analyzing a Subject by Classification” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 89-94)
“What, Me? Showing Off?” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 97-102 )
9/29 Classification II: Human Behavior
“Personal Beast” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 104-111)
*Topics and arguments for exercise 1
10/6 Making an outline: (Research: PP 138-55)
*Revision of topics and arguments for exercise 1
10/13 Classification III: Human Behavior
“The Ways We Lie” (50 Essays: PP 120-29)
*Exercise 1-draft
10/20 Comparison and Contrast I: Gender Issues
“Introduction” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 143-149)
“Battle of Sexes Whirls Above Science Gap” (New York Times)
*Outline 1 due
*Peer review
10/27 Comparison and Contrast II: Gender Issues
“The Men We Carry in Our Minds” (Contemporary Reader, 8th edition: PP 379-82)
*Exercise 1-revised
11/3 Diction (Strategies: PP: 235-57)
*Topics and arguments for exercise 2
11/10 Comparison and Contrast III: Gender Issues
“Cohabiting is Not the Same as Commitment” (Contemporary Reader, 8th edition: PP 262-64)
*Revision of topics and arguments for exercise 2
11/17 Comparison and Contrast IV: Gender Difference
“Gender in the Classroom” (Norton Sampler: PP 224-31)
*Outline 2
11/24 Analogy
“Using Analogy as an Expository Device” (Patterns, 17th edition: PP 207-10)
“Turning School into Profit Centers” (Contemporary Reader, 8th edition: PP 321-23)
* Exercise 2-draft
12/1 Cause and Effect I: Generations Y and Z
“Analyzing Cause and Effect Relationships” (Patterns, 17th Edition: PP 321-26)
“What’s Wrong with ‘Me, Me, Me’?” (Patterns 10: PP 206-11)
* Peer Review
12/8 Cause and Effect II: Generations Y and Z
“A’s for Everyone!” (Contemporary Reader, 9th edition: PP 417-23)
Exercise 2-revised
*Topics and arguments for exercise 3
12/10 Cause and Effect III: Generations Y and Z
“Kids in the Mall: Growing up Controlled” (Patterns, 17th, PP345-79)
*Revision of topics and arguments for exercise 3
12/15 Writing a Research Paper
“Writing a Paper Using Research” (Steps to Writing Well: PP 355-76)
* Exercise 3-draft
12/22 Writing effective sentences (Strategies: PP 218-34)
*Peer Review
*Preliminary topics and research questions
12/29 Introduction to plagiarism and documentation
“Principles of MLA Style” (MLA Handbook: PP 3-13)
*Exercise 3-revised
1/5 Final Examination
*Revision of topics and research questions
Readings for the winter
“Using Definition to Help Explain”(Patterns, 17th edition: PP 363-68)
William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, IV, i, 174-205 (PP 207-08)
Assignment for the winter
Working Bibliography
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