Schedule

NFG # = chapter # in Norton Field Guide

G # = chapter # in A Practical English Grammar

Section 1: Journalistic Writing

Week 1: Introduction

Sept 12

· Introduction

Sept 14

· Read for prompt and discussion: Choose an article!

What must I bring? A copy of your article

Week 2: Choosing a Topic

Sept 19

· Study: G 1 [Articles]

· Read for prompt and discussion: NFG 12

Sept 21

· Read to write: NFG 5-7; 12; 27; 39-40

What must I bring? Nothing! (Yet.)

Week 3: Organizing Research; Drafting an Outline

Sept 26

· Study: G 3 & 4 [Adjectives & Adverbs]

· Library visit

Sept 28

· Read to write: NFG 12; 45-47; Your research [at least 3 reputable resources]

What must I bring? Your brainstorming notes; your independent research

Sept 28: Drop deadline – no penalty

Week 4: Drafting and Editing

Oct 3

· Study: G 7 [Pronouns]

Oct 5

· Read to write: NFG 33-35; 49-50; 30-31

What must I bring? The complete rough draft of your article for peer editing

Section 2: Literary Analysis

Week 5: Study Week

Week 6: Narrative

Oct 17

· Study: Photocopy [Punctuation]

· Read for prompt and discussion: Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” [photocopy]

Oct 19

· Read to write: NFG 17

What must I bring? The complete first draft of your article for submission

Week 7: Comparing and Contrasting

Oct 24

· Study: G 6 [Interrogatives]

· Read for prompt and discussion: O’Connor, “Everything that Rises Must Converge” [photocopy]; Obama, “Election Night Remarks” [photocopy]

Oct 26

· Read to write: NFG 38

What must I bring? Nothing!

Week 8: Poetry and Form

Oct 31

· Study: G 8 [Relative pronouns]

· Read for prompt and discussion: Shakespeare, sonnet #129 “Th’expense of spirit...”; #116 “Let me not to the marriage...” [photocopy]; Keats, “If by dull rhymes...” [photocopy]; Cope, “from Strugnell’s Sonnets” (i-vii) [photocopy]

Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” Copernicus’s Universe

Nov 2

What must I bring? The texts you want to work on.

Section 3: Writing a Research Paper

Week 9: Beginning a Research Paper

Nov 7

· Study: G 9 [Prepositions]

Nov 9

· Read to write: NFG 13; 36

· Podcast for prompt and discussion: One of: Infinite Monkey Cage [Climate Change – Series 13, 22 Feb 2016], [What is Race – Series 13, 26 Jan 2016] or [Artificial Intelligence – Series 13, 19 Jan 2016]

What must I bring? Your thesis statement

Week 10: Drafting a Research Paper

Nov 14

· Study: G 32 [Conjunctions]

· Read for prompt and discussion: Your research [at least 3 reputable resources]

What must I bring? The complete first draft of your literature essay for submission

Nov 16

· Read to write: NFG 15

What must I bring? Your preliminary bibliography

Nov 18 – Drop deadline – penalty 1 period ends – WD grade assigned

Week 11: Drafting a Research Paper

Nov 21

· Study: G 24 [Gerunds]

· Read for prompt and discussion: Your research [at least 3 different reputable resources]

Nov 23

What must I bring? Your outline and introduction; your complete annotated bibliography

Week 12: Revise, Revise, Revise

Nov 28

· Study: G 26 [Participles]

Nov 30

· Study: G 30 [Passive voice]

What must I bring? Your first draft of essay #2 for submission if you wish to receive feedback for revision

Week 13

Dec 5

· No class: If you submitted a draft of your last essay at the beginning of class on Nov 30^th, please pick it up from Jenny Conroy in HH 251.

Dec 7

· No class: Please submit your complete portfolio to the English Department dropbox (HH 2016E, beside HH 228)