ENGLISH 101/22 -- Expository Writing
Schedule of Reading and Writing Assignments
Fall 2000
Note: Reading assignments are to be completed before class meets for the day. Writing assignments are due at the beginning of class time unless you have made prior arrangements with the instructor.
August 21Introduction to the course; Review syllabus
23Seeing and Writing pp. xxix-lvi (Introduction)
25Review sample response log
Establish peer response groups
August 28S&W pp. 2-17
Focus on Writing: Details
30PP. 18-26
Focus on Writing: Evoking a response
Sept. 1Response Log #1 due
Reading assignment: ÒShoelacesÓ and ÒSeeingÓ
Focus on Writing: Beginnings
Sept. 4NO CLASS -- LABOR DAY VACATION
6S&W pp. 55-65
Focus on Writing: Claiming and borrowing authority
8Response Log #2 due
PP. 68-85
Focus on Writing: Word choice
Sept. 11 S&W pp. 88-105
Review Guidelines for Paper #1
13 PP. 107-119
Focus on Writing: The intentional sentence fragment
15Work in peer response groups--Paper #1
Sept. 18Paper #1 due
Whole-group discussion of visual images in Chapter 3
20S&W pp. 145-161
Focus on Writing: The role of dialogue
22PP. 173-193
Focus on Writing: Cohesion and fluency
Sept. 25S&W pp. 196-215
Focus on Writing: Classification and analysis
27PP. 222-233
Focus on Writing: The influence of typeface
29Response log #3 due
PP. 236-243
Focus on Writing: Voice in academic writing
Oct. 2Peer response groups -- Paper #2
4Paper #2 due
Library orientation -- Calvin T. Ryan Library
6S&W pp. 264; 280-288
Focus on Writing: Explaining a process; Using statistics
Oct. 9S&W pp. 296-312
Focus on writing: Defining a concept
11PP. 313-323
Focus on Writing: Cause and effect
13Response Log #4 due
Show and Tell: Media Constructions of Gender
Oct. 16NO CLASS -- Fall Break
18S&W pp. 326-337
Focus on Writing: The power of personal evidence
20PP. 338-354
Focus on Writing: Metaphor and analogy
Oct. 23S&W pp. 366-380
Focus on writing: Giving examples
25PP. 382-395
Focus on writing: Organizing the personal essay
27Peer response groups, Paper #3
Oct. 30Paper #3 due
S&W pp. 412-425
Focus on writing: To list or not to list?
Nov. 1PP. 427-436
Focus on Writing: Writing to persuade
3PP. 437-449
Focus on Writing: Persuvasion by image
Nov. 6S&W pp. 452-465
Focus on Writing: Evaluating argument
8PP. 466-477
Focus on Writing: Evaluating argument, continued
10Response Log #5 due
PP. 478-497
Focus on Writing: Writing to inform
Nov. 13S&W pp. 500-509
Focus on Writing: Endings
15PP. 511-525 (Appendix)
Focus on Writing: Vocabulary
17Peer response groups, Paper #4
Nov. 20Paper #4 due before 5:00 PM
Please read all of Grass Roots before 11/27
22, 24 No Class -- Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 27Grass Roots, Part 1
29GR Part 1, continued
Dec. 1GR Part 2
Dec. 4GR Part 2, continued
6GR Part 3
8Final Paper Due
GR Part 4
Wednesday, December 13 -- Class meets from 10:30-12:30 for student presentations and read-around