Week
1
Introduction
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Course Overview
• Syllabus
(.doc)
• Statement
of Understanding/Com (.doc)
• Course
Overview (.ppt)
In-class activities
• Fumble Rules (.doc)
• Grammar
Diagnostic
•
Dear Abby exercise (Stage
1-paragraph)
• Baseline (Diagnostic)
Essay (complete in class)
Homework:
Read pages 3-38 in The Practical Writer. [Note: no matter what the book says, never use invented support]
- Book
companion site (you'll find chapter overviews, quizzes,
and grammar help.)
- Find at least three topic ideas.
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Week 2
Academic Writing |
Review
Class activities
- Stage II paragraph: respond to "Nurses as Technical Writers"
article
- Stage
II paragraph
- group paragraph:
- before reading, discuss
- How much time do nurses spend writing?
- How good is nurses' writing?
- How does nurses' writing impact patient care?
- How can good writing help the profession?
- skim article for relevant information
- discuss questions again, sharing new information
- summarize in group paragraph
- help with parenthetical citations
- reference list entry:
Spears, L. A. (1995). Nurses as technical writers: What they
need to know. Journal of
Technical Writing and Communication,
25(4): 401-414.
Note: you can create a hanging
indent in Word by using the Control + T shortcut, choosing
Hanging Indent in
the Paragraph dialog
box, or adusting
margins on the ruler.
- Overview of research process
- How good is this model? (citations on Scholar Google)
- Find sources for research paper
(librarian Andy Gress)
Homework
- Find articles to use for 5-paragraph draft
- To get topic ideas
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Week 3
Stage II paragraph |
Peer
edit
Stage
II
paragraph
Working
with Sources
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Week 4
APA style |
APA
documentation
Working
with Sources
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Week 5
Midterm |
Midterm exam (group activity)
5-paragraph essay structure
Introductions and Conclusions
Homework: submit 5-paragraph draft to InSite
InSite class
ID: 2453854
enrollment password: student
PIN: back inside cover of red brochure
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Week 6
Organizing a Longer Paper |
APA
Review
Organizing Your Argument Paper
- mind mapping
- outlining
- bottom-up outlining
Internet Resources
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Week 7
Plagiarism and Integrating Quotations |
APA Review: Critique
model paper (pp. 224–235 in Kaplan
Handbook for Writers)
- Online quizzes on using quotations
in your paper
- Peer edit papers (although you're at different
stages, use the rubric for
the final paper for guidance). Also
consider these questions:
- What is something the writer has done right (or well)?
- Is there anything I don't understand?
- Are things in the right order, or would it make more
sense to move something?
- How might this paper be better?
- Final hour: Revise your paper. If you need APA help,
see UW's
handbook or Diana
Hacker's site.
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Week 8
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Thanksgiving;
no class meeting
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Week 9
Revising
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APA quiz (25
points)
Chapter
23: Using Borrowed Material in Your Paper
- APA-style parenthetical
citation review
- How many of the four
methods of introducing quotations did you
use in your paper?
- complete sentence
and colon
- signal phrase and
comma (According
to ....,)
- combining your
words and a quotation
(Thoreau states his
purpose directly
when he says that "I
went to the woods
because I wished
to live deliberately.")
- working a short
phrase into your
sentence (no punctuation
other than quotation
marks
Logical Fallacies (25 points)
Chapter
25: Works Cited
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Week
10
Final revision due
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Informally
present results of research (50 points presentation; 25 points
handout)
(see executive
summary or fact
sheet)
Review course content
Tools for continued progress
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Week 11
June 17,
12:30
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Final
Exam (letter about what
you learned in this course; 50 points)
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