Course Calendar

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

Due Dates: Work for each week is due by the end of the week (Friday, 5 pm). This does not mean that you must send the work to me on Friday.

Current work:

1. Welcome
2. Web Browsers and our Course
3. Email Information for our Course
4. Your Syllabus for English 1101
5. The Course Information Page
6. Take the Tour
7. Your Grade Sheet

8. Getting Started
9. Prewriting Strategies
10. On Taking Notes While Reading
11. Developing an Outline
12. Writing With Computers
13. Revising
14. General Advice on Essay Writing

1. Manipulating Text and Image
2. Searching the Web

• Impromptu writing sample

  Describe your writing experiences. What kinds of writing did you do in high school? other schools? at COD? Do you write for yourself? poetry, fiction, drama, lyrics, journals?
  
  Do you write at all where you work? and if so, what kinds of writing are those?
  
  Do you write in any electronic media? your own web site, a blog, an online journal, tweets, social media? if so, do you feel you write differently in those media than on paper?
  
  What was your hardest writing task? your easiest?
  
  Describe your reading experiences. What do you like to read? Do you read outside of school or work? is there much reading required of you at your work? Do you prefer to read on paper (magazines, books) or do you prefer to read on the screen (e-readers, computers, tablets, phone)?
  
  What is the most memorable book, essay, poem that you have ever read? why?

15. The Functions of the Thesis
16. Thesis: Traits and Myths
17. Making Meaning
18. Planning: Choosing a topic
19. Understanding Essay Topics

1. Summary and Review

20. MLA Format
21. Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Acknowledging Sources: What Must Be Documented
22. Introducing Quotations

3. Documenting sources

23. Modes of Discourse
24. The Narrative Essay
25. Writing Description
26. Writing the Comparison and Contrast Essay
27. Definitions

2. "Interview a Professor": Reading and writing in the professions

28. Aristotle in the 21st Century
29. Rational Appeal: Logos
30. Emotional Appeal: Pathos
31. Ethical Appeal: Ethos

4. Rhetorical Analysis

1. Self-test for Exam 1

1. Exam 1 (exam done in class, )

32. Logic

    Logic & Logical Fallacy: Glossary & Definition

3. Description

33. Functions of the Introduction

5. Concrete, specific language

34. Elements of the Body
35. Methods Of Organizing Your Essay
36. Paragraph Organization: Chronology
37. Paragraph Organization: Narrative
38. Specific and Concrete Detail

4. Analysis

39. Functions of the Conclusion

2. Self-test for Exam 2

2. Exam 2 (exam done in class, )

40. Patterns of Unity and Coherence
41. Coherence

6. Paragraph unity

42. Functions of Audience on Subject and Tone

7. Coherence in writing

43. Passive Voice and Nominalization

5. Definition

44. Sentence Variety
45. The Grammatical Foundations of Style

8. Sentence structure, sentence style

46. Rhythm and Euphony
47. Metaphor, Indeterminacy, and Gradience

6. Argumentation

3. Self-test for Exam 3

3. Exam 3 (exam done in our regular computer lab, 2 - 3:50 PM ) Check the exam schedule additional information.

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