Course Structure:
1. Introduction to course/distribution of syllabus
2. Critical Reading, defining arguments and its features from Writing Arguments(chapter 1and 2)
3. Difference between restatement, description (analysis), interpretation (evaluation)—in-class writing and many exercises and sample answers.(from Scribner- external worksheets)
4. Paraphrasing and summary: exercises and examples on these issues.
5. In class essay (1) : Virginia Woolf: “Old Mrs. Grey”
6. In-class essays (2) and (3). “Youthful Cynicism” and “Useless knowledge”.
7. Out-class paper due end of second week: “In Praise of Idleness”
8. Clarity of expression, grammar, and conventions of writing from Scribner
Transition signals
Parallelism
Sentence fragments
Comma splice and run-on sentences
Agreement
Pronoun reference
Misplaced and Dangling modifiers
Directness
If clauses
Review of Punctuation
You will have a lot of assignments on flaws. Once we are done with the flaws, you will have your mid-term.
9. The core of an argument/the logical structure of arguments from Arguments: chapter 4 and 5: in-class essay 4
10. Visit to Library: Introduction to Library resources. Scribner Handbook pp.567-662