Home: Where You From?

1

M 21 Sept

Introduction to the course

Dodge et al., Where You At? (online)

W 23 Sept

Momaday, An American Land Ethic 234-242

Lopez, The American Geographies (online)

Explanation of Essay #1 Assignment

CW Expectations

28 Supporting a Thesis 104-07

 2

M 28 Sept

Journal entry #1

Lopez, The American Geographies (cont.)

Stegner, The Sense of Place (online)

Thoreau, Where I Lived (online)

29 Avoiding Plagiarism 107-09

W 30 Sept

Essay #1— typed peer draft

Peer Review Workshop on Essay #1

White, Once More to the Lake 369-76

33 Manuscript Format, Sample pages 148-54

3

M 5 Oct

Essay #1— final draft

Sign up for conferences on Essay #2

Seattle, Letter to President Pierce 283-85

Staples, Black Men and Public Space 294-97

Explanation of Essay #2 Assignment

32 MLA Documentation Style 119-48 (read the explanations, skim the lists)

Education: What Makes Someone "Educated"?

W 7 Oct

Journal #2 entry

CONFERENCES begin on Essay #1 (CT 209)

Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers (online)

Malcolm X, A Homemade Education 224-34

30 Integrating Nonfiction Sources 110-15

 4

M 12 Oct

Cronon, The Goals of a Liberal Education (online)

From Voeks, The Nature of an Educated Person (online)

Thoreau, from Walden (online)

Greitens, The Importance of Practical Wisdom (online)

30 Integrating Literary Quotations 116-19

W 14 Oct

Essay #2— typed peer draft

Lapham, Time Lines 196-205

Bacon, Of Studies (online)

Ehrenreich, In Defense of Talk Shows 103-05

Peer Review Workshop on Essay #2

1 Tighten Wordy Sentences 2-3

5

M 19 Oct

Essay #2— final draft

Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day 285-90

Tannen, Conversational Styles 314-20

Zinsser, College Pressures 397-404

Oregonian articles

2 Prefer Active Verbs 3-5

Midterm Review: How Do You Write a Good College Essay?

W 21 Oct

Grammar, Usage, & Composition Review

Didion, On Keeping a Notebook 75-82

3 Balance Parallel Ideas 5-6

 6

M 26 Oct

Midterm Quiz

Grammar, Usage, & Composition Review

Hayakawa, How Dictionaries Are Made 129-31

4 Add Needed Words 7-8

Food: What Is Food?

W 28 Oct 

Revision of Essay #1 or #2

Explanation of Essay #3 Assignment

Pollan, In Defense of Food  1-80

Food Pyramids (online)

25 Research Question 92-93

26 Finding Sources 93-98

7

M 2 Nov

Journal #3 entry

Pollan, In Defense of Food 85-136

27 Evaluating Sources 98-102

W 4 Nov

Essay #3— typed peer draft

Oregonian articles

Peer Review Workshop on Essay #3

Sign up for conferences on Essay #3

5 Eliminate Confusing Shifts 8-9

 8

M 9 Nov

Essay #3— final draft

Oregonian articles

Explanation of Essay #4 Assignment

CONFERENCES begin on Essay #3 (CT 209)

6 Untangle Mixed Constructions 10-11

W 11 Nov

Veterans Day Holiday—No class

Food: What Shall We Eat?

9

M 16 Nov

Journal #4 entry

Pollan, In Defense of Food 139-201

7 Repair Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers 11-13

W 18 Nov

Pollan, In Defense of Food 139-201, cont.

8  Provide Some Variety 1-15

10

M 23 Nov

Essay #4— typed peer draft

·Oregonian articles

Peer Review Workshop on Essay #4

9 Find an Appropriate Voice 16-19

W 25 Nov

Essay #4—final draft

Oregonian articles

Explanation of Revision Assignment

12 Pronouns 32-35

Pulling It All Together: What Makes Good College-Level Writing?

11

M 30 Nov

Grammar, Usage, & Composition Review

Ivins, What I Did to Morris Udall 143-45

Welty, Listening 361-68

12 Pronouns 36-39

W 2 Dec

Grammar, Usage, & Composition Review

Preview of WR 122 & Review of WR 121

12 Pronouns 39

12

M 7 Dec

Revision of Essay #3 or #4; Final Quiz

Final class meeting