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Week
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Assignments
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Rhetorical Skills
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Language Skill
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Reading Skills
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1
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Diagnostic Essay
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Coherence:
Topic/Comment Organization (handout forthcoming, pending permission)
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Analysis of topic/comment organization of a
paragraph from class reading
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2
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Due: Response
Paper #1 (original by Kurt Koenigsberger)
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Three
Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, Logos (by George H. Williams, UMKC)
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Summarizing
and Analyzing a Text (handout forthcoming, pending permission)
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Analyze a class reading using the three
rhetorical appeals
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3
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Due: Response
Paper #2 (original by Kurt Koenigsberger)
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Issue
Analysis and the Stases (based on an original handout developed for the University of Maryland's Academic Writing Curriculum)
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Working with transitions (exercise developed by Patricia Corrigan) |
How to
do a close reading
See Also "Analysis" under Building Blocks for Academic Writing
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4
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Introduction to Assignment #1 :
Perspectives
on an Issue
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Writing
Openings and Closings
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Integrating and Attributing Sources in MLA format(exercise developed by Patricia Corrigan) |
Analysis of an author's use of sources
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5
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Conference
Worksheet for Linked Assignments
(student conferences)
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Invention Workshop (developed by Todd Oakley)
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Sentence Expansion (exercise from Indiana State University OWL) |
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6
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Audience
description for Assignment #1
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Reporting versus Advocating: projecting a
neutral stance
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Sentence Combining (exercise from Indiana State University OWL) |
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7
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Version 1.0 of Assignment #1
Introduction to Assignment #2: Pro/Pro
Arguments
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Common
Topics in Argumentation (based on an original handout developed for the University of Maryland's academic writing curriculum) |
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Analysis of common topics in a class reading
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8
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Due : Version 2.0 of
Assignment #1
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Paragraphs (workshop developed by Patricia Corrigan)
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9
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Audience Descriptions of Assignment #2
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Setting Up Paired Arguments
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Compare and contrast the argument and
support of two class readings
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10
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Version 1.0 of Assignment #2
Introduction to Assignment #3 :
Final
Position Paper
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Arrangement Strategies: Parts of a Full Argument(workshop developed by Todd Oakley) |
Rhetorical
Figures (workshop developed by Todd Oakley; website maintained by the University of Kentucky Classics Division)
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Compare and contrast the organizing
strategies of two class readings
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11
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Due : Version 2.0 of
Assignment #2
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Conceding,
Refuting and Bridging Strategies (handout forthcoming, pending permission).
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Analyze strategies the counter argument
strategies and tactics of a class reading
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12
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Student Conferences
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13
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Audience Description of Assignment #3
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Editing
and Proofreading strategies
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14
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Version 1.0 of Assignment #3
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15
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Due : Version 2.0 of
Assignment #3
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