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Lecture/Lab Schedule
MWF
Textbook(s)
The St. Martin's Guide to Writing
9
th
ed by Axelrod/Cooper
Rhetorical Grammar
by Martha Kolln and Loretta S. Gray
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien
Course Requirements
Students will read assignments in the textbook and answer questions about the readings, will
write weekly in class, and will write paragraphs and an essay.
Tentative Course Outline
Week 1 Introduction to the course
Week 2 Review of sentence structure
Week 3 Review of sentence structure
Week 4 SMG Reading and Quiz and sentence combining
Week 5 SMG Reading and Quiz and paragraph
Week 6 SMG Reading and Quiz and sentence combining
Week 7 SMG Reading and Quiz and paragraph
Week 8 Midterm
Week 9 SMG Reading and Quiz and sentence combining
Week 10 SMG Reading and Quiz and paragraph