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Start Here: Orientation and Resources
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Week 1: Suggested Schedule Mon ...
Below, you'll find a list of assignments for this ...
0.0 Course Syllabus
0.0 Course Schedule
0.1 Videos: Navigating Our Course
0.2 Quiz & Lesson: Getting Started
0.3 Optional: Sign up for Text Message reminders for this class
0.4 Self-Quiz and Reading: Forum Post Expectations
Class Resources
Class Grading Rubrics
Student Support at LBCC
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Week 1: Argument and Us
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1.1 Readings: Online Privacy Readings
1.2 Research Question Overview (Chapter 1 in Choosing and Using Sources)
1.3 Reading: Essay 1 Assignment Sheet
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Week 2
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2.0 Week 2 Details and To-Do
By/before Wednesday Night:
2.1. Reading: Nesbitt, L. (2012). The Toulmin Method (23 pages). [PDF]
2.1.1 Optional Reading: Reading to Write
2.1.1 Recommended Optional Reading: Argument Overview from UNC
2.2. Glossary of Argument Terms
2.3 Reading/Viewing: Additional Facebook Privacy Pieces
2.4. Quiz: Reading from Week 2
By/before Sunday night:
2.5. Reading: Strategies for Gathering Reliable Information
2.7 Submit a First Essay Outline
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Week 3
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Week 3 Overview
Week 3: Sources and Drafting
Due by Wednesday:
3.1. Citation Review
3.3. Workshop: Peer Review of Essay 1
Resource: Essay 1 Rubric
Due by Sunday night:
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Week 4
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4.0 Week 4 Overview
Complete on/before Wednesday night at 11:55 p.m.
4.1 Peer Review Response Survey
4.1.1 Instructor Feedback on Essay 1
4.2. Unit 2 Reading #1: "Mind Games" from Scientific American
4.4. Revision Exercise
Complete on/before Sunday night at 11:55 p.m.
4.5. Reading: "Writing Like a Detective"
4.6 Submit Essay 1 Final Draft Here
4.7 Reading: Essay 2 Expectations
4.7.1 Resource: Possible Topics for Essay 2
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Unit 2: Video Games in Education
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5.0 Overview of Week 5
Complete before Wednesday night at 11:55 p.m.
5.1. Reading: "Video Games in Education: Why They Should Be Used and How They Are Being Used"
5.2. Rogerian Long Read
5.3. Rogerian Quiz
Complete before Sunday night at 11:55 p.m.
5.4. Feedback Review and Response (Read instructions/due date carefully here!)
5.5 Outline (written or visual) for Essay 2
Optional: Revision Requirements
Optional: Example Rogerian Argument from Excelsior College
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Week 6
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6.0 Overview
By Wednesday:
6.1 Video: How to Read a Scholarly Journal Article
6.2 Quiz: How to Read a Scholarly Journal Article
6.3 Peer Review Workshop for Essay 2
By Sunday:
6.4 Claims/Warrants Exercise
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Week 7
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7.0 Overview and Checklist
Due by Wednesday night:
7.1. Reading: "On the Other Hand" by Stephen Krause from Writing Spaces [PDF]
Due by Sunday night:
7.2 Revision Plan or Conference with Jenn
7.3 Final Presentation Directions
7.4 Essay 3 Instructions
7.5 Quiz over Final Essay Instructions
7.7 Upload Essay 2
Essay 2 Feedback and Grade
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Week 8
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Due by Wednesday:
8.0 Overview
8.1 Unit 3 Reading 1: "Why Honor Codes Reduce Student Cheating"
8.2 Unit 3 Reading 2: "Why Colleges Should Ditch Honor Codes"
8.3 Quiz Over Readings
8.4 Essay 2 Post-Script (complete within a week of reading E2 feedback, please)
Due by Sunday night:
8.5 Reading: "A Finder's Guide to Facts" by Steve Inskeep
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Week 9
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9.0 Overview of Week 9
9.1 Sample MLA 1st Year Research Paper
9.2 Reading: Sample Belief Arguments
9.3 Jerman, "When to Quote and When to Paraphrase."
9.4 Research "Quiz"
9.5: Presentation Check-In
9.7 Peer Review Workshop for Essay #3
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Week 10 and Finals Week
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10.0 Weekly Overview
10.1 Return to Week 9 and complete your peer revie...
Optional: Essay 1 or 2 Revision Dropbox
10.3 Turn In Essay 3 Here (Final Draft)
Finals Week
Final Presentation Grade
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WR121_OER
Essay 3 Assignment Sheet
Essay 3 Assignment Sheet
The directions for the third essay are available here.
Click on
Essay 3 Assignment Sheet
to open the resource.