Welcome to
English 99-101
Fall, 2012
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General information:Syllabus / Error Correction Symbols / Parts of Speech
Grammatical Terms
Announcements:
Sept. 24Welcome to class! Remember that I need a placement form of some kind from you asap. Here is instruction about how to print Compass scores to bring me .
Sept. 25MEET IN THE COMPUTER LAB IB 3406 AT 9:00WEDNESDAY!
October 1Slight change from published Unit 1 schedule: Tuesday (Oct 2) will start with Peer Review, and then we will discuss Sentence Boundaries (not do the Revision Activity). Wednesday we will go to the lab as usual and then we will come back and do the Revision Activity. You need one clean draft of your paper for Tuesday and one clean draft of your paper for Wednesday. They can be the same or you can revise Tuesday night and bring a new one Wednesday (this will save you time revising Wednesday night.)
October 16Tomorrow in the lab will be a writing day. Have an electronic copy of your paragraph 2 (or your rhetorical analysis essay, whichever you are working on) available. I will be circulating and answering specific questions. No Exercise Central activities this week. You are welcome .
December 12I am finished grading your finals and figuring your grades. You can pick up your graded final exam and your final gradesheet after 2:00 today from the Humanities staff (IB 2nd floor). You can also wait and see your grade online – I think those will be live on the 18th. I can not give you your grade by email because of privacy issues, so please don’t ask. I will be on vacation until January 8. You’re welcome to stop by any time after that point if you want to say hi! Have a good break!
Helpful Websites:
- The Loft
- Exercise Central website
- Exercise Central Tutorials
- Getting a Net ID
- NSCC Bookstore
- NSCC Library
- Purdue OWL (This is a super helpful website you’ll probably use throughout college)
- Check out all these exercises from Townson University! (… in case you want more practice)
- The Academic Word List (AWL) (What is it?)
- AWLExercises 1
- AWL (IELTS Blog)
- AWL Practice
Unit 1
Description / Unit 2 / Unit 3
Midterm / Unit 4
Unit 1 Schedule / Unit 2 Schedule / Unit 3 Schedule / Unit 4 Schedule
Assignment Sheet & Evaluation Sheet / Assignment Sheet & Evaluation Sheet / Assignment Sheet & Evaluation Sheet / Assignment Sheet & Evaluation Sheet
Comments from Essay 1 / Comments from Analytical Paragraph 1 / Comments from Essay 4
Comments from Analytical Paragraph 2
From Class Unit 1 / From Class Unit 2 / From Class Unit 3 / From Class Unit 4
Student Information Sheet / Rhetoric Intro PPT / Theme PPT / Social Identity Worksheet
Class Participation & Group Work / Argument / Theme / Appositives
Reading Strategies Discussion / Exercise Central #2 / More about Theme / Practice with Appositives
The Writing Process PPT / Analytical Writing and PIE / Frederick Douglass’s Firsts video / Exercise Central #5
Plagiarism PPT / Analytical Paragraph Assignments / Animated Allegory of the Cave on YouTube / Parallel Structure
Clauses, Sentences, Paragraphs / Taylor Mali on YouTube – no text / Introductions PPT
Class Participation & Group Work / Mali with Text / Participles & Participial Phrases
Titles / Adjective Clause Intro / Exercise Central 4
Description Video / Adjective Clause Rules
Exercise Central #1 / Exercise Central #3
Dominant Impression PPT / MLK Discussion & Analytical Par. 1
Dominant Impression / MLK Quotation Work
Cafeteria Sentences / MLA Format PPT
Python Description from class / Rhetorical Analysis Thesis & Intros
Sentence Grammar 3: Common Errors / Rhetorical Strategies
Thesis Checklist
Extras Unit 1 / Extras Unit 2 / Extras Unit 3 / Extras Unit 4
Sentence Variety PPT
Sentence Grammar 1: Subjects , Verbs, and Objects
Sentence Grammar 2: Sentence Types
Writing with Confidence: Descriptive Writing / Frederick Douglass Bio
More Frederick Douglass – good for the images (video was a student project, may contain some errors, but is useful for visual context)
Unit 5 / Unit 6
(In-Class Final)
Unit 5 Schedule / Unit 6 Schedule
Assignment Sheet & Evaluation Sheet / Assignment Sheet & Evaluation Sheet
Notes from Synthesis Paragraphs
From Class Unit 5 / From Class Unit 6
Exercise Central 6 / Our Vanishing Night You Tube
Synthesis Paragraph
Synthesis Outline and Thesis
Synthesis Thesis Statements
Suggestions for Text-Based Writing
More MLA (Introducing Quotes)
Conferences!
Conclusions PPT
Common Commas
Writing Effective Transitions