ENG 64/SDCC1: WRITING ESSAYS

Course Schedule
Instructor Information
Instructor: Amanda Fuller
Email:
afuller@sdccd.edu
Office Hours:
By Appointment
Only
Website:

Wee
k

Dat
e

3/30

**SUBJECT TO CHANGE**
Course Information
Course:
Day(s):
Time:
Location:

Homework Due

#833338 - Section ID #1
M/W
8am to 10:20am
Mandeville B-146

In Class
- Introductions
- Review Course Syllabus, Course
Schedule & Course Website
- Purdue OWL Resource

4/1

Purdue OWL: Essay Writing, Paragraphs, Spelling

Other Reading: Sentence Structure

- College Writing: Building Better

Sentences, Paragraphs, and Essays
- Writing Rubric

4/6

Purdue OWL: Essays for Exams, Writing Process,

Prewriting, Outlines, Numbers

- The Writing Process

- Pre-writing and Outlining Techniques
- Scoring Guidelines for Writing Exam
- Prompt Practice

4/8

Purdue OWL: Adjectives and Adverbs, Parts of Speech

Overview

ICE #1 (50 points)

4/13

Have course text by TODAY

Purdue OWL: Thesis, Argument Papers, Nouns
TSIS: Introduction (1-18); Part 1: They Say (19-29)

- Qualities of a Strong Argument Essay

- Entering the Conversation
- Essay Development: Description

4/15

Purdue OWL: The Rhetorical Situation, Articles

TSIS: finish Part 1 (30-54)

- What is Rhetoric?
- The Dangers of Oversimplification
- Essay Development: Narration

4/20

Purdue OWL: Establishing Arguments, Prepositions

TSIS: Part 2 (55-77)

- Warrants and Backing

- Counterargument and Rebuttal
- Logical Fallacies
- Framing
- Essay Development: Exemplification

4/22

Purdue OWL: Pronouns

ICE #2 (75 pts)

4/27

Purdue OWL: Basic Punctuation, Apostrophes,

Independent/Dependent Clauses
TSIS: finish Part 2 (78-103)

- Opposing Viewpoints
- The importance of answering "Who
Cares?" and "So What?"
- Essay Development: Process Analysis

4/29

Purdue OWL: Commas, Semicolons

ICE #3 (100 pts)

5/4

Purdue OWL: Transitions, Parallel Structure

ENG 64/SDCC1: WRITING ESSAYS

Course Schedule

**SUBJECT TO CHANGE**

TSIS: Part 3 (105-128)

5/6

Purdue OWL: Subject-Verb Agreement; Verb Tenses

TSIS: Part 4 (141-155)

Wee
k

Dat
e

5/11

Purdue OWL: Sentence Work

TSIS: Part 4 (156-174)

5/13

Purdue OWL: Quotation Marks

5/18

Purdue OWL: Conciseness

TSIS: "Don't Blame the Eater" by David Zinczeko (195197) AND "Nuclear Waste" by Richard Muller (206213) + Outline the argument from both pieces

- Prompt Practice
- Essay Development: Division and
Classification and Argument

5/20

Purdue OWL: More on Sentences and Language

ICE #5 (125 pts)

5/25
5/27

10

FINA
L

Homework Due

- Essay Development: Comparison and

Contrast AND Cause and Effect

6/1

In Class
- Framing and Transitions
- ICE Review
- Prompt Practice
ICE #4 (100 pts)

NO CLASS, MEMORIAL DAY

Purdue OWL: Active and Passive Voice

ICE #6 (150 pts)

TSIS: "Hidden Intellectualism" by Gerald Graff (198205) AND "Agonism in the Academy: Surviving the
Argument Culture" by Deborah Tannen (214-220)
+ Outline argument from both texts

- Prep for Basic Writing Exam on

Saturday

6/3

- Questions, Celebration

6/6

BASIC WRITING EXAM