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Instructor Syllabus for English 030
Week One:
- Intro to writing as process of brainstorming, prewriting, revision, rough drafts, editing drafts, definition of the basic sentence and paragraph.
- Chapter 1(Sentence Skills with Readings by Langan): Learning Sentence Skills
- Assign a high-interest reading in Sentence Skills, Part 4 to summarize and discuss
Week Two:
- Mechanics: Chapter 4: Subjects and Verbs and Chapter 5: Fragments,
- Writing: Chapter 3: The Writing Process
- Explain the required weekly journaling assignment which will be due in week three and all weeks until the end of the course. Writing assignment: First journal due next week.
Weeks Three and Four:
- Mechanics: Chapter 6: Run-ons; Chapter 7: Sentence Variety
- Writing: Writing assignment: second journal due next week.
Week Five:
- Mechanics: Chapters 8-9 Verbs
- Writing: Test-students will write a basic paragraph in response to a visual prompt provided by the instructor. Paragraph will be evaluated based on grammar elements taught in class during weeks 1-4.
- Reading: Continue assignments in Part 4
Week Six:
- Mechanics: Chapter 10: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Writing: Writing assignment-Third journal due next week.
- Reading: Reading-to-write assignment: select any current event item from either a newspaper or magazine. Write a basic paragraph expressing your feelings/reactions to the article selected. Attach the article to your paragraph.
Week Seven:
- Mechanics: Chapter 13: Pronoun Reference, Agreement, and Point of View
- Writing: Interviewing-During class time the students will pair up and perform an interview with a classmate based on an assigned format. They will organize that data into the structure of the formal paragraph discussed in class and will present their final paragraph to the entire group the following class day.
- Fourth journal due next week.
- Reading: Assignments from Part 4
Week Eight:
- Mechanics: Chapter 14 Pronoun Types
- Writing: students will respond to a visual prompt provided by the instructor and will write a formal paragraph of at least eight sentences based on the given prompt. The papers will be evaluated based on all grammar elements covered in class from weeks 1-8.
- Reading: Assignments from Part 4.
Week Nine:
- Mechanics: Chapter 15: Adjectives and adverbs.
- Writing: Strong descriptive writing-using adjectives and adverbs. Writing assignment-Fifth journal due next week.
- Reading: Part 4 selection.
Week Ten:
- Mechanics: Chapter 19: Sentence Variety II
- Writing: Writing assignment: Sixth journal due next week.
Week Eleven:
- Mechanics: Chapter 26: Comma
- Writing: Writing assignment: Seventh journal due next week.
Week Twelve:
- Mechanics: Chapter 18: Faulty Parallelism
- Writing: Writing assignment—During class the students will be asked to write four to five strongly descriptive sentences based on sensory stimuli that will involve visual, taste, auditory, and tactile components. They will describe the sensory experience and any reaction they might have had to that experience. The prompts will be provided by the instructor.
- Writing assignment: Eighth journal due next week.
- Reading: Selection from Part 4
Weeks Thirteen and Fourteen:
- Mechanics: Review basic grammar taught during the semester
- Writing: Writing assignment: Final journal due
- Writing assignment: Write a paragraph describing your development as a writer during this course. How has your confidence level changed? Are you more comfortable putting your thoughts in writing now than you were at the beginning of the semester? Have you noticed any change in your word choice/usage both in speaking and in writing? What has become clearer to you in terms of the writing process? What is still somewhat unclear?
- Reading: Selection from Part 4
Week Fifteen/Finals
- Grammar test-Editing exercise based on materials covered during course.
- Writing test: Departmental final
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