Old Assignments Archive
ENC 1101.1661/1665
Fall 1997
[Assignments before Monday, 8 September 1997]
Assignments given before this date were written on the board, announced to
students vocally, or given in hard-copy handout form..
Assignment for Monday, 8 September 1997
READ Appendix C: The Reading Process in Windows on Writing,
pp.498-507.
Do practices C-1 and C-2; read practices C-3 through C-7, but do not do them
for "No Comprendo."
READ the essay "Our Barbies, Ourselves" by Emily Praeger (handout).
Preview, annotate, and outline the essay as shown in Appendix C,
practices C-3 through C-7.
WRITE a response paragraph to "Our Barbies, Ourselves" as explained in Appendix C.
Have your reaction paragraph on Monday.
Assignment for Wednesday, 10 September 1997
READ the essay "Falling into Place" by Jaime O'Neill
(in Windows on Writing, pp.523-525).
Preview, annotate, and outline the essay as you did for "Our Barbies, Ourselves."
WRITE a response paragraph to "Falling into Place." Have your reaction paragraph
on Wednesday.
Assignment for Friday, 12 September 1997
READ AND DO EXERCISES for Chapter 25, Section E, "Learning Commonly Confused Words," pp.459-470 in
Windows on Writing. Do NOT do the "Flashback" assignment at the end of the section.
Assignment for Monday, 15 September 1997
READ AND DO EXERCISES for pp.337-339, "Trite Phrases and Cliches"
READ AND DO EXERCISES for pp.365-367 on pronoun-antecendent agreement
REVISE/REWRITE PAPER 1, bearing in mind BOTH my comments on your paper AND
the exercises in the textbook. Have the revision to hand in on Monday -- TYPED.
Assignment for Wednesday, 17 September 1997
READ AND DO EXERCISES for Ch. 7, pp.134-147, "Fragments"
Assignment for Friday, 19 September 1997
REVIEW web handouts for Phrases to Avoid,
Developing Examples and Details,
and Cliches.
FIND AND BROWSE the Glossary in the NWE on-line handbook, to familiarize yourself with e-mail and web terminology.
Assignment for Monday, 22 September 1997
READ Appendix D, Section G, "Classification and Division," pp.569-571 in textbook. Read blue boxes as well.
READ student essay "Sports Fans Are in a Class by Themselves" by Deborah Ulrich, pp.571-572 in textbook. Annotate.
READ essay "How Your Body Works" by Dave Barry, pp. 573-577 in textbook. Annotate.
WRITE a reaction paragraph to both essays to turn in on Monday; you can put
them on the same page, if you like, or on two separate pages -- it matters
naught. Yes, typed.
Assignment for Wednesday, 24 September 1997
READ essay "Shades of Black" by Mary Mebane, pp. 578-582 in textbook.
Assignment for Friday, 26 September 1997
REVISE/REWRITE paper #1 ("My English") for a GRADE.
Assignment for Monday, 29 September 1997
Pick a topic for a Classification and Division essay, and compose an outline
. Yes, typed.
READ Appendix D, Section E, "Cause and Effect", pp.549-553. Annotate essay for discussion
in class. Skip the reaction paragraph this time (you'll be busy enough with the outline).
READ AND DO EXERCISES FOR "Understanding Adjectives and Adverbs" (Section A,
practices 20-1 and 20-2) pp.382 - 386, in the textbook.
Assignment for Wednesday, 1 October 1997
READ essay "Just Say 'No,' Just Hear 'No' " by Carol Sanger, pp. 556-558 in textbook.
Annotate; write a reaction paragraph.
READ AND DO EXERCISES FOR "Understanding Comparatives and Superlatives" (Section B,
practices 20-3, 20-4 and 20-5) pp.387 - 392, in the textbook.
Assignment for Friday, 3 October 1997
READ essay "The Old Block" by Anna Quindlen, pp.553-555 in textbook.
Annotate; write a reaction paragraph to turn in to me when you arrive at the
library.
READ AND DO EXERCISES FOR "Using Demonstrative Adjectives" (Section C,
practices 20-6, and Review of Student Writing pp.394-395) pp.382 - 395, in the textbook.
PHOTOCOPY pp.394-395, make corrections on the photocopy, put your name on it,
and turn in to me when you arrive at the library.
Today we'll meet in Smathers
Library West, room 148 (as you come in the front doors, it's the room on the left
past the stairs), for an introduction to the LUIS system. You'll need to know this for later
assignments, so SHOW UP and be ON TIME.
**** FOR 6 & 8 October
1) PAY ATTENTION to the assignment for your section.
2) WHEN YOU COME FOR YOUR CONFERENCE
bring with you graded Paper #1
have one or two specific questions ready for me (concerning your paper, the class, etc.)
Assignment for Monay, 6 October 1997
Section 1661: Conference day.
Section 1665: use this time to look up material in the library for Friday.
BOTH sections:
REREAD the introduction paragraph(s) for essays by DiMarco, Quindlen,
and Sanger in textbook.
READ Chapter 5, Section A, "Introductions and Conclusions", pp. 106-111.
To bring the material of these readings together, 1) CHOOSE a topic for a
proposed cause-effect essay, and 2) CREATE an outline for it; include with the
outline a complete example introduction with an extended thesis.
E-mail this to me by Monday night; in the subject line put your name and
"C&E". DON'T send it to the listserve -- only to me. (See the assignment for next Monday to see why we're doing all this)
Assignment for Wednesday, 8 October 1997
Section 1661: use this time to look up material in the library for Friday.
Section 1665: Conference day.
Assignment for Friday, 10 October 1997
Using what you learned during the LUIS orientation, FIND THREE (3) SOURCES
for information to use in your proposed cause-and-effect essay.
TYPE UP A NOTE-SHEET (all three on one sheet) containing 1) the title, author(s), and the call #s for
each source, and 2) some brief notes on what information you would use from each
source. GIVE ONE COPY TO ME and keep one for yourself to work from.
Assignment for Monday, 13 October 1997
WRITE a draft of a cause-and-effect essay, on the topic of your choice. You
can use any of the approaches we discussed in class, i.e. search for causes OF an
effect, or predict an effect FROM a string of causes. The project can be as
"serious" as you want to make it. Use material you looked up in the library during
the previous week to illustrate or support your essay -- don't give only your say so, but
use factual material wherever possible. We will discuss documentation style later
-- for right now, concentrate on drawing clear lines of progression (toward an
effect) or descent (from a cause). Yes, typed.
Assignment for Wednesday, 15 October 1997
READ AND DO EXERCISES FOR Chapter 15, section e, "Avoiding Illogical Shifts in Voice", pp. 283-286 in textbook.
READ on-line handout "Active Voice / Passive Voice" to discuss with the textbook exercises
Assignment for Friday, 17 October 1997
Complete the Mid-term Self Assessment/Questionnaire. Yes, that's all.
Assignment for Monday, 20 October 1997
WEBSURF on a topic of your choice (try using a search engine). Keep surfing
until you find three websites you particularly like -- BOTH VISUALLY AS WELL AS
FOR CONTENT.
CONSIDER what things in particular you like about those three sites
(including but not limited to arrangement of material; ease of reading; graphics;
number/kind of links; download time, etc.), and WRITE an (informal) critique of those three
sites. E-mail me this critique by Monday night.
Assignment for Wednesday, 22 October 1997
READ AND DO EXERCISES FOR Chapter 12, sections B and C, on the semicolon.
READ AND DO EXERCISES FOR Chapter 14, sections A and B, on run-ons and comma splices.
Assignment for Friday, 24 October 1997
REVISE/REWRITE paper #2
Assignment for Monday, 27 October 1997
READ AND ANNOTATE paper handout, "New Legends for Old" (Chapter 1 of Jan Brunvand's The Vanishing Hitchhiker. We will discuss this on Monday.
Assignment for Wednesday, 29 October 1997
READ pp.111-114, "Conclusions" in textbok
Assignment for Friday, 31 October 1997 -- HALLOWE'EN
enjoy the holiday -- dress up as something awful and haunt someplace
be sure to check the assignments for Monday, since what would've been
Friday's assignments bled (ha ha!) over to Monday.
Assignment for Monday, 3 November 1997
READ/ANNOTATE/RESPOND TO paper handout, "The Banking Method of Education" by Paolo Freire for discussion.
after Thursday 30 October, check the Handouts site, Documentation: Works Cited page, and produce a Works Cited page for the final draft of essay #2.
Assignment for Wednesday, 5 October 1997
FINAL DRAFT OF ESSAY #2 DUE.
Assignment for Friday, 7 November 1997
no classes -- some football thing.