Dr. Dean Taciuch
George Mason University

Fall 2008


 

English 101: MT3
Course Schedule

Week 1 (Aug 26-28): Class Intro
Handbook: Sections C1-3 (Composing, Drafting, Revising)
Online Exercise C2-1

Week 2 (Sept 2-4): Handbook: Sections C4-5 (Paragraphs, Designing Documents).
Summary, Paraphrase, Quote.
Online Exercise C4-1

Week 3 (Sept 9-11): Handbook: Sections A2-3 (Arguments)
Summary Assignment due Sept 9

Week 4 (Sept 16-18): Handbook: Sections S1 (Parallelism)
Online Exercises S1-1, S1-3 (Parallelism)
Response paper 1 due Sept 16

Week 5 (Sept 23-25): Handbook: Section S-3 (Modifiers)
Online Exercises S3-1, S3-3 (Modifiers).
Presidential Debate: Friday Sept 26, Eisenhower Multimedia Room. 9:00pm

Week 6 (Sept 30-Oct 2): Handbook: Section S6-7 (Sentences Variety and Emphasis)
Online Exercise S6-3 (Subordination)
Writing for essay and short answer exams.

Week 7 (Oct 7-9): Lessig, chapter 9
Presidential Debate: Tuesday Oct 7, Eisenhower Multimedia Room. 9:00 pm

Week 8 (Oct 14-16): (Monday classes meet Oct 14; Tuesday classes do not meet)
DC Trip Thursday Oct 16

Week 9 (Oct 21-23): Handbook: Sections G5-6 (Fragments and Run-ons)
Online Exercises G5-1 (Fragments), G6-1 (Run-ons)
Response paper 2 due Oct 21

Week 10 (Oct 28-30): Handbook: Sections W1-3
Online Exercises W2-1 (Wordy Sentences), W3-1, W3-2 (Active and be verbs)

Week 11 (Nov 4-5): Handbook: Sections P1-4 (Punctuation)
Online exercises P1-1, P1-2, P2-1

Week 12 (Nov 11-13): Handbook: Sections R1-3 (Researching)
Response paper 3 due Nov 11

Week 13 (Nov 18-20):Evaluating Sources
All revisions due by Nov 20

Week 14 (Nov 25): Handbook: MLA-4, APA-4
sample annotation
Writing Center guides

Week 15 (Dec 2-4): Bibliography Peer review
Annotated Bibliography due Dec 4



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