WR 122  10-12:50 Mondays               Winter 2006                Michael Dembrow, Instructor

 

 

Website:  http://spot.pcc.edu/~mdembrow/wr122.htm

 

 SCHEDULE I

 

Week I

Monday, Jan. 9            Entry Questionnaire

                                    Presentation of the Course

                                    Argument in its many forms

                                    Presentation of Essay #1: Narrative Argument

                                    Example of Personal-Narrative Arguments

                                    How to Do "Text Analysis"

                                    Schedule Individual Conferences

 

                                    Homework for Next Week:

                                                READ “I Have a Dream” (on website, click on “Links to

                                                             Arguments and Speeches”)

                                                PREPARE “I Have a Dream” for In-Class Writing on Jan. 23.                           

                                                FILL OUT Analysis of a text of your choice

                                                WRITE draft, essay #1 (Due Jan. 18)

 

 

Week II

Monday, Jan. 16          NO CLASS – Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday

 

                                    Homework due Jan. 23:

                                                READCh. 10 of LB Brief, pp. 109-17

                                                READ Leonard Pitts, “For One Student, a Lesson in the Power

of Images” (website)

                                                DO Analysis of a text of your choice

 

 

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