| Week |
Day |
Date |
MCL Subject/Activity due |
Readings due |
In class: |
| 1 |
W |
22-Aug |
Intros/ Syllabus |
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F |
24-Aug |
Academic Ethics/ Diagnostic Writing. |
"Salvation" due. |
quiz |
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| 2 |
M |
27-Aug |
MCL/ turnitin.com registration due |
"Antidisestablishmentarianism" due. |
quiz |
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W |
29-Aug |
MCL Diagnostics, AudioLesson due |
"Initiated into an Iban Tribe" due. |
quiz |
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F |
31-Aug |
MCL exercises: parts of speech due. |
"West with the Night" due. |
quiz |
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| 3 |
M |
3-Sep |
LABOR DAY |
NO CLASS |
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W |
5-Sep |
MCL exercises: subject/ verb due. |
"Report from Ground Zero" and "Reflections in Westminster Abbey" due. |
quiz |
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F |
7-Sep |
MCL exercises: phrases and clauses due. |
"Niagara Falls" due. |
quiz |
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| 4 |
M |
10-Sep |
MCL exercises: phrases and clauses due. |
"Nickel-and-Dimed"due. |
quiz |
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W |
12-Sep |
MCL exercises: compound sentences due. |
NYT exercise due. |
quiz |
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F |
14-Sep |
MCL exercises: compound sentences due. |
"Moonlit Nights of Laughter" due. |
quiz |
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| 5 |
M |
17-Sep |
MCL exercises: fragments due. |
"The Lowest Animal" due. |
quiz |
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W |
19-Sep |
MCL exercises: fragments due. |
"You Dirty Vole" due. |
quiz |
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F |
21-Sep |
MCL exercises: fragments due. |
"The Haves and the Have-Nots" due. |
quiz |
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| 6 |
M |
24-Sep |
MCL exercises: run-ons due. |
No class |
quiz |
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W |
26-Sep |
MCL exercises: run-ons due. |
No class |
Essay 1 assigned via email. |
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F |
28-Sep |
MCL exercises: commas due |
"Learning What Was Never Taught" and "Oversimulated Suburbia" due. |
quiz |
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| 7 |
M |
1-Oct |
MCL exercises: commas due |
"Thinking in Pictures" due. |
quiz |
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W |
3-Oct |
MCL exercises: commas due. |
"'Speech Codes'" due. |
quiz |
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F |
5-Oct |
MCL exercises: conjunctions due. |
"The Language of Clothes" due. |
Essay 1 peer reviews |
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| 8 |
M |
8-Oct |
MCL exercises: pronouns due. |
"The Pencil" due. |
Essay 1 due to turnitin.com |
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W |
10-Oct |
MCL exercises: pronouns due. |
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Essay 2 assigned |
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F |
12-Oct |
MCL exercises: pronouns due. |
Midterm exam |
quiz |
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| 9 |
M |
15-Oct |
MCL exercises: pronouns due. |
"Role of Religion" due |
quiz |
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W |
17-Oct |
MCL exercises: Colons and semicolons due. |
"Lifeboat Ethics" due |
Essay 2 peer reviews |
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F |
19-Oct |
MCL exercises: Colons and semicolons due. |
"Defining and Countering Terrorism" due. |
Essay 2 due to turnitin.com |
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| 10 |
M |
22-Oct |
MCL exercises: active and passive voice due. |
"It's Easy Being Green" and "How to Write with Style" due. |
quiz |
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W |
24-Oct |
MCL exercises: active and passive voice due. |
"To Make Them Stand in Fear" due. |
Essay 3 assigned |
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F |
26-Oct |
MCL exercises: appropriate language due. |
"How Not to Use the Fax and the Cellular Phone" due. |
quiz |
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| 11 |
M |
29-Oct |
MCL exercises: consistent point of view |
"Learning to Read and Write" and complete draft due. Bring AWG. |
quiz |
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W |
31-Oct |
MCL exercises: consistent point of view |
"The Perils of Obedience" due. |
Essay 3 peer reviews |
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F |
2-Nov |
MCL exercises: parallelism |
online essay |
Essay 3 due to turnitin.com |
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| 12 |
M |
5-Nov |
MCL exercises: wordiness and redundancy |
"How to Kill an Ocean" and "On Writing" due. |
quiz |
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W |
7-Nov |
MCL exercises: wordiness and redundancy |
"How the Web Destroys" due. |
Essay 4 assigned. |
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F |
9-Nov |
MCL exercises: wordiness and redundancy |
"On Writing" due."The Case for Torture" due. |
quiz |
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| 13 |
M |
12-Nov |
MCL exercises: idiomatic expressions |
NO CLASS |
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W |
14-Nov |
MCL exercisees: concrete words |
"The Unwilled" due. |
Essay 4 peer reviews. |
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F |
16-Nov |
NO CLASS |
NO CLASS |
Essay 4 due to turnitin.com. |
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| 14 |
M |
19-Nov |
Thanksgiving Break |
NO CLASS |
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W |
21-Nov |
Thanksgiving Break |
NO CLASS |
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F |
23-Nov |
Thanksgiving Break |
NO CLASS |
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| 15 |
M |
26-Nov |
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"What I Saw at the Abortion"due. |
Essay 5 assigned. |
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W |
28-Nov |
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"A Modest Proposal" due. |
quiz |
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F |
30-Nov |
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"I Have a Dream" due. |
quiz |
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| 16 |
M |
12/3 |
Last day of class |
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Essay 5 peer reviews. |
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W |
5-Dec |
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Essay 5 due to turnitin.com |
