Expository Writing 

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Texts	Chat Rooms	UWW home page
Written Work for Course	Bulletin Board (Ad lib)	English Department
Weekly Course Schedule	E-Mail to François	Skidmore Library
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Course Description

    The course will comprise reading from the text, discussing that reading in chat sessions, and composing essays which bear upon that reading. Students will also comment significantly on each other's work.

Texts:
Ideas and Details by M. Garrett Bauman

Student Written Work:

 Over the course of the semester, students will be expected to write a series of 5 essays, each  to be posted on the bulletin board.  (Essay length for most submissions will be minimum 750 words.  The last essay will be at least 1,300 words.) After posting, each student will then compose a one-page, informal response to each other student's essay.  Instructor will respond as well.

Week #1
    Purchase Ideas and Details.  For next week, read chapters 1 through 6. (Omit practices & sundry other small stuff.)

Week #2
    Attend chat session (to be scheduled) to discuss chapters 1 through 6.

    For next week, read Chapters 9 and 10 (Description and Narration)

Week #3
    Attend chat discussion of descriptive and narrative modes of writing.

    For next week: Compose decent rough draft of descriptive/narrative essay.

Week #4
    By Monday morning: Post draft of your essay on Bulletin Board
    By Wednesday morning: Comment on others' drafts.
    By Sunday morning: Read Chapter 7. Revise narrative/descriptive essay and post on Bulletin Board.

    For next week: Read Chapter 8

  Week #5
      Attend chat discussion of Chapters 7 and 8.  Review comparison/contrast on page 53.

    For next week, write a comparison/contrast essay.

Week #6
    By Wednesday morning: Post your comparison/contrast essay.
    By Saturday morning: Post responses to other students' essays.

    For next week: Read Chapter 11 on informative writing.

Week #7
    Attend chat discussion of Chapter 11.

    For next week: Write an informative essay.

Week #8
    By Wednesday morning: Post your informative essay.
    By Saturday morning: Post your responses.

    For next week: Read Chapter 13 (The Literary Essay) and short story "The Hitchhiking Game"
    Click here for a copy of "The Hitchhiking Game"

Week #9
    Attend chat discussion of Chapter 13 and of short story.

    For next week: Compose a literary essay.

Week #10
     By Wednesday morning: Post literary essay
     By Saturday morning: Post your responses

    For next week: Read Chapters 12 and 14, Persuasion and Research

Week #11
    Attend chat discussion of Persuasion and Research

    For next week: Compose a researched persuasive essay (minimum 1,300 words), with "works cited" page.

Week #12
    By Wednesday morning: Post researched persuasive essay.
    By Saturday morning: Post responses.

That's all, folks...
 

Last Update: Jenuary, 2000
URL: http://www.skidmore.edu/~fbonnevi/exposition-homepage.htm