Course maps
Example 2
Week:
Dates:
Readings and Assignments:
1
Wednesday,
7 Sept.
Readings: “Generating Ideas...” and “Roughing Out an Initial Draft” (Rules 1-27);
BW 7: “Getting Started...Now!” (329-350);
Discussion: Brainstorming
Assignments: Topic Selection and Preliminary Thesis Due
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2
Wednesday,
14 Sept.
Readings:
BW 7: “Drafting an Essay” (352-380)
Discussion: Organizing an Essay (351)
Assignments: Essay 1 Due
3
Wednesday,
21 Sept.
Readings: BW 9: Revising an Essay (381-403)
“Making global revisions; then revising sentences” (Rules 27-39); “Repair Sentence Fragments” and “Repair Run-On Sentence” (Rules 148-156,156-164);
Discussion: Revising sentences
Assignments: Online exercises: Sentence Fragments; Comma Splices and Fused Sentences (HW)
4
Wednesday,
28 Sept.
5
Wednesday,
5 Oct.
Readings: “Repair Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers” (Rules 96-104);
“Make Pronouns and Antecedents Agree,” “Make Pronoun References Clear,”
“Distinguish between Pronouns,” and “Distinguish between who and whom” (Rules 175-97)
Discussion: Make Pronouns and Antecedents Agree
Assignments: Online exercises: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers,
Pronoun Agreement, Reference, and Point of View (HW)
6
Wednesday,
12 Oct.
Readings: “Tighten Wordy Sentences,” “Choose Appropriate Language,” and “Find the Exact Words” (Rules 123-145)
Discussion: Diction
Assignments: Online exercises: Word Choice, Words Commonly Confused, and Sexist Language (HW)
Wednesday,
19 Oct.
Readings: “Documenting Sources” (Rules 426-463); “Documenting the Research Paper: MLA Style” in BW 13: Writing the Research Paper (540-554)
Discussion: An opposing viewpoint, Kurt Schick Citation Obsession? Get Over It!
Assignments: Online exercises: *More on avoiding plagiarism;
Practice incorporating sources into your work;
MLA Documentation Style for “Works Cited";