Course Calendar

This calendar works with the course units listed below. Remember that Bold faced links are primary, required reading for the unit. Links with a regular font face are secondary reading of related materials that expand the topic.

Due Dates: You must complete work by the end of the week (Saturday) in which it is posted. I will not accept late work. You will receive no credit for late work.

Current work:

1. Welcome
2. Web Browsers and our Course
3. Email Information for our Course
4. Your Syllabus for English 1102 Online
5. The Course Information Page
6. Take the Tour
7. Your Grade Sheet

8. The Connection between Reading and Writing
9. Levels of Reading
10. Kinds of Writing
11. The Writing Process (review from English 1101)
12. On the Relationship between Readng and Writing

1. Manipulating Text and Image
2. Using the Web to Search for Information

13. The Structure of Argument
14. Writing an Argument
15. The Nature of Claims
16. Factual Claims
17. Value Claims
18. Policy Claims

3. Understanding Claims
4. Analyzing Example Essays

19. Assumptions
20. Evidence and Appeals
21. Rational Appeals (from English 1101)
22. Emotional Appeals (from English 1101)
23. Ethical Appeals (from English 1101)

5. Reading and Evaluating Hidden Arguments

24. Writing An Abstract
25. Example Abstract
26. Writing a Review
27. An Example of a Review

6. Using the MLA Format

1. An Abstract
1. Review of a Source

28. Hidden Argument
29. Inherent Contradictions
30. Logic in Composition (from English 1101)

1. Practice Exam 1
1. Exam 1

31. Logical Fallacies
32. Planning the Research Paper
33. Note Taking (from English 1101)
34. Developing an Outline (from English 1101)

7. Defining Fallacious Reasoning
8. Detecting Fallacious Reasoning

35. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
36. Quoting and Acknowledging Sources
37. Introducing Quotations
38. Punctuating Quotations

9. More Practice in the MLA Format

39. Suasive Diction
40. Using Grammar to Manipulate the Audience

10. Suasive Diction

41. The MLA Format
42. In Text Citation
43. Works Cited Pages

2. Research Paper 1

44. Notes for the First Quarter of 1984
45. The first quarter (first 25%) of 1984

46. Notes for the Second Quarter of 1984
47. The second quarter of 1984

1. Covering the first third of the novel

48. Notes for the Third Quarter of 1984
49. The third quarter of 1984

2. Covering the middle third of the novel

50. Notes for the Last Quarter of 1984
51. The last quarter (last 25%) of 1984
52. Orwell Websites

3. Covering the last third of the novel

3. Research Paper 2

2. The Practice Exam 2
2. Exam 2

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