UC120 SUMMER SCHEDULE 2005—SCHEDULE
Week 1A-Intro to the course
-Your Writing and Reading Situation (purpose, audience, tone, organizational strategies)
-Critical Reading “Animals at Play” / Out of Class
-Write an initial reflection, include the areas which you need to strengthen to attain your objectives for the course. (N.B In their portfolio, students will l need to complete at least 1 assignment to strengthen weak areas identified in their reflection.)
- Choose one developmental strategy (indicate tone and purpose) write a paragraph
-write a thesis statement for your essay / Reading material/Notes
______B
-Critical Reading –Clever Hans
-Organizational Strategies in depth eg Comparison/contrast, illustration etc.
-Write a paragraph choosing yet another strategy (if possible utilize material from research), again state purpose, and intended tone / Outline for essay / -Brief Holt Handbook chpt 2
Week 2A
-critical reading –exposition
(previous handout)-stylistic details: tone, imagery, appeals which work along with one another to achieve purpose.
-work on and discuss thesis brought to class
-work on and discuss writing an introductory paragraph / -Write introductory paragraph
-write another thesis statement / -chpt 1 Brief Holt Handbook (thesis)
-chpt 2 Brief Holt Handbook (intro/con)
______B
-critical reading practice exercise
“Great White Shark”
-test-Analysis
Week 3A
-submit intro/body/conclusion (if instructor wants to )
-Deductive argument and how to test
-write a deductive paragraph
-class discussion
-(if time permits) choose a passage focusing on deductive args / -write 2 major claims for essay (e.g one of policy, one of fact)
-write a deductive paragraph
______B
-Structuring the Argumentative essay
-discuss and critically analyse a passage from text
Week 4A
-Inductive argument-generalization, and how to test
-counterargs
-reading from text, focusing on inductive reasoning and counterargs. / -1 pargraph for inductive reasoning (based on research done for the essay)
______B
discuss paragraphs brought to class
-inductive arg-causal and analogies and how to test
-practice reading from text / write a paragraph-inductive reading (different type) based on research done for the essay
Week 5 A
-argument fallacies (Writing Centre websites)
-transitions / -bring fallacies noted in newspapers to next class.
______B
-critical reading –argument practice
-fallacies-identify in newspaper articles
-Submit Final Draft
Week 6A
-presentation
-any challenges faced by students/questions they may have
______B
-final reflection
-submit portfolio