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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) |
Analysis of topic/comment organization of a
paragraph from class reading
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2
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Due: Response
Paper #1
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Writing Openings and Closings
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Summarizing and Analyzing a Text (handout forthcoming, pending permission) |
Analysis of cohesive links in a class reading
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3
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Due: Response
Paper #2
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Three Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, Logos (by George H.Williams, UMKC) |
Working with transitions (exercise developed by Patricia Corrigan) |
Analyze a class reading using the three rhetorical appeals
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4
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Conference Worksheet for Linked Assignments |
Invention Workshop (developed by Todd Oakley) |
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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Introduction to Assignment #1: Arguing about the Real |
Issue Analysis and the Stases (based on an original handout developed for the University of Maryland's Academic Writing Curriculum) |
Sentence Expansion (exercise from Indiana State University OWL) |
How to do a close reading
See Also "Analysis" under Building Blocks for Academic Writing |
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6
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Sentence Combining (exercise from Indiana State University OWL) |
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7
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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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Version 1.0 of Assignment #1
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Paragraphs (workshop developed by Patricia Corrigan)
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9
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Due: Version 2.0 of Assignment #1
Introduction to Assignment #2: Arguing the Preferable |
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Compare and contrast the argument and
support of two class readings
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10
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Compare and contrast the organizing
strategies of two class readings
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11
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Version 1.0 of Assignment #2
Introduction to Assignment#3: Arguing from the Real to the Preferable |
Arrangement Strategies: Parts of a Full Argument (workshop developed by Todd Oakley) |
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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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Due: Version 2.0 of Assignmetn #2
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Conceding, Refuting and Bridging Strategies |
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13
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14
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Version 1.0 of Assignment #3
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Editing and Proofreading Strategies
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15
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Due : Version 2.0 of
Assignment #3
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