Assignments

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Where Do You Stand?
Introductory Essay & MindMap
Unit I: Humanities Essay & MindMap
Unit II: Social Sciences Essay & MindMap
Unit III: Physical Sciences Essay & MindMap
Chapter summaries & maps

Reflections
Presentations
Exercises

Blog with assignments, including graphic versions of the maps, and additional materials

Wiki (Optional)

Assignments

Check syllabus for due dates

Where Do You Stand?
Introductory Essay & MindMap
Unit I: Humanities Essay & MindMap
Unit II: Social Sciences Essay & MindMap
Unit III: Physical Sciences Essay & MindMap
Chapter summaries & maps

Reflections
Presentations
Exercises

Blog with assignments, including graphic versions of the maps, and additional materials

Wiki (Optional)

Assignments

Each chapter contains an introduction, an overview, guidelines, and writing checklist/activities. For each chapter, write a summary, draw a map of main ideas, subtopics, and significant details, and complete an exercise. You also need to create your own course blog with the following among items to be included on the blog:
1. Summaries for each chapter
2. Maps for each chapter
3. A minimum of one sentence for your thoughts of each day during the semester.

Note: Although you will place these items on your blog, you also need to email all your work to me at-- drsylvia2007@blogspot.com

Unit topics should be selected and outlined for possible development into the unit paper for each of the three units (I: Narrative, Descriptive, and Reflective Writing; II: Analytical; and III: Persuasive).

1 Intro 8-28-9-3	I. A Rhetoric: College Student's Guide to Writing
Brief Overview Chapters	Reading, Thinking, Viewing, and Writing 1. Critical Thinking Through Reading, Viewing, and Writing The Writing Process 2. Beginning the Writing Process 3. Planning 4. Drafting 5. Revising 6. Editing and Proofreading 7. Submitting, Writing, and Creating Portfolios The College Essay 8. One Writer's Process
-------------- Unit I Weeks 3-5	Narrative, Descriptive, and Reflective Writing
9-10-9-24	9. Forms of College Writing Narrative, Descriptive, and Reflective
	10. Narration and Description
	"Mzee Owitti" by Jacqui Nyangi Owitti
	"That Morning on the Prairie" by James C. Schaap
	"A Hanging" by George Orwell
	"Sunday in the Park" by Bel Kaufman
	"Northing" by Annie Dillard
	11. Description and Reflection
	"The Stream in the Ravine" by Nicole Suurdt
	"Call Me Crazy But I Have to Be Myself" by Mary Seymour
	"None of This Is Fair" by Richard Rodriguez
	"Who Shot Johnny?" by Debra Dickerson
Week 5 9-24	Unit I (Narrative, Descriptive, and Reflective Writing) Paper Due
-------------- Unit II Weeks 6-10 10-2-10-30	Unit II -- Analytical Writing
	12. Cause and Effect
	"Adrenaline Junkies" by Sarah Hanley
	"The Legacy of Generation N" by Christy Haubegger
	"Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Kids" by Anna Quindlen
	13. Comparison and Contrast
	"A Fear Born of Sorrow" by Anita Brinkman
	"Two Views of the River" by Mark Twain
	"Shrouded in Contradiction" by Gelareh Asayesh
	"Like Mexicans" by Gary Soto
	14. Classification
	"Three Family Cancers" by Kim Brouwer
	"Four Ways to Talk About Literature" by John Van Rys
	"No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch" by Ann Hodgman
	15. Process Writing
	"Wayward Cells" by Kerri Mertz
	"Downloading Photographs from the MC-150 Digital Camera" (from WFB)
	"Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow" by Verne Meyer
	"Campus Racism 101" by Nikki Giovonni
	16. Definition
	"The Gullible Family" by Mary Beth Bruins
	"Understanding Dementia" by Sarah Anne Morelos
	"Deft or Daft" by David Schelhaas
	On Excellence by Cynthia Ozick
Week 10 10-30	Unit II (Analytical Writing) Paper Due
-------------- Unit III Weeks 11-15	Persuasive Writing
11-6- 12-4	17. Strategies for Argumentation and Persuasion
	18. Taking a Position
	"An Apology for Ms. Barbie D. Doll" by Rita Isakson
	"In Defense of the Animals" by Meg Greenfield
	"Apostles of Hatred Find It Easy to Spread Their Message" by Leonard Pitts Jr.
	"Pornography" by Margaret Atwood
	"Demystifying Multiculturalism" by Linda Chavez
	19. Persuading Readers to Act
	"To Drill or Not to Drill" by Rebecca Pasok
	"Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time" by Paul Rogat Loeb
	"I Have a Dream" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
	"The Media's Image of Arabs" by Jack G. Shaheen
	20. Proposing a Solution
	"Preparing for Agroterror" by Brian Ley
	"Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha" by Anna Quindlen
	"The Media and the Ethics of Cloning" by Leigh Turner
Week 15 12-4	Unit III (Persuasive Writing) Paper Due

Review Assignment

OAQS

For each presentation/report in each of the areas (humanities, social sciences, physical sciences), your own as well as those of your fellow students, write a brief review following the OAQS format:

1. Observation
2. Appreciation
3. Question(s)
4. Suggestions

Topic
Presentation
Review

(Start with your own)

Assignment Schedule

Unit	Week	Date	Topics/Assignment	Notes
Unit 1	Wk 1	1/16/2007	Introduction	Recommended reference texts: Handbook, Dictionaries
Introduction	Wk 2	1/23/2007	Introductory Essay: Personal (family), Social (culture, home country), Professional (economic now/future), Universal (philosophical, goals, definition of success)	QnA-- Interviews Essay: Where do you stand? (feet, stomach, heart, ears, eyes, hands, brain)
	Wk3	1/30/2007	Peer Evaluation	Unit 1 Paper Due
Unit 2:	Wk 4	2/6/2007	Introductory essay due	Language, Literature, Art, Music Story of English; Do You Speak American?
Humanities Focus	Wk 5	2/13/2007	C24, Writing about Literature and the Arts	MLA Format
	Wk 6	2/20/2007	Literary Analysis (357), oral presentations (319), web writing (399)
	Wk 7	2/27/2007	C25, Academic Essays	Unit 2 Paper Due
	Wk 8	3/6/2007	Review; Presentations
	Wk 9	3/13/2007	Midterm
		3/20/2007	Spring Recess
Unit 3	Wk 10	3/27/2007	C26, Writing for the Workplace	APA Format
Social Sciences Focus	Wk 11	4/3/2007	Abstracts/summaries(538,540,550)	Business, Economics America at Work
	Wk 12	4/10/2007	experiment report (341), observation report (319), research paper(423)	Unit 3 Paper Due
Unit 4	Wk 13	4/17/2007	C27,, Writing and Designing in the Web	Cosmos
Physical Sciences	Wk 14	4/24/2007	Field Report (341), research paper (423)	Nature/ Ecology Micrososmos
	Wk 15	5/1/2007	Review; Presentations	Unit 4 Paper Due
Conclusion	Wk 16	5/8/2007	Final

Where do you stand? In-class assignment

Briefly answer each of the following:

Where do you stand?

FEET: What do I stand for as a foundation of learning?
STOMACH: What upsets me about learning?
HEART: What do I love about learning?
HANDS: What do I feel about learning?
EARS: What do I hear about learning?
EYES: What do I see about learning?
BRAIN: What do I think about learning?

Assignments

Assignments:

• Chapter summaries and maps (see syllabus and schedule)
  
• Objectives for taking class
  
• Letter formats
• Letters:
• Introduction
• Recommendation
• Cover letter
• Persuasive/Sales letter
• Resume
• Logo -- ViaSyl
• Letterhead -- ViaSyl
• Data presentation (chart)
• Memo report
  
• Midterm Portfolio
• Final Portfolio
  

Assignment for Text Chapters

According to the weekly schedule, for each text chapter do the following:

1. Create a graphic organizer ("mind map") of 3-5 main ideas and supporting elements in each chapter. You may use MS Word's drawing tools, the Freemind software, or another tool of your choice
2. Write a summary paragraph using your mind map as guide.
3. E-mail your assignments as attachments to me at drsylviasf@gmail.com