Revised Assignment Schedule

Week		Topic	Assignments due	Rhetoric	Reader	Handbook
1		Introduction		1, Critical Thinking and Reading	9, Personal Narrative	35, Marking Punctuation
		Unit I Assignment:
	9/1/2005	Narrative and Descriptive Writing
2	9/6/2005	Reading and Thinking		2, Getting Started	10, Personal Reflection	36, Checking Mechanics
3	9/13/2005	Writing Process	Unit I Paper	3, Planning	11, Personal Description	Multilingual and ESL Guidelines
4	9/20/2005	Writing and Rewriting		4, Drafting
5		Narrative and Descriptive Writing		5, Revising	6, Editing and Proofreading	Parts of Speech
	9/27/2005
6		Analytical Writing	Unit II Paper	7, Submitting	12, Cause and Effect	Parts of Speech
	10/4/2005
7		Comparison and contrast		8, One Writer’s Process.	13, Comparison and Contrast	Sentence Basics
	10/11/2005
8	10/18/2005	Classification			14, Classification	Sentence Problems
9	10/25/2005	Process	Portofolio I Due		15, Process Writing
10		Definition			16, Definition	Numbers, Word Parts, and Idioms
	11/1/2005	Vocabulary and writing				Using the Right Word
11		Persuasive Writing	Unit III Paper Due		17, Strategies for Arggumentation and Persuasion	Understanding Grammar
		Rhetoric of Persuasion
	11/8/2005
12	11/15/2005	Defining a point of view			19, Persuading Readers to Act	39, Constructing sentences
13	11/22/2005	Responding to an argument			20, Arguing Against a Claim	40, Avoiding Sentence Eerrors
14	11/29/2005	Problem-solution format	Portfolio II		21, Proposing a Solution
15	12/6/2005	Review
16	12/13/2005	Final Exam Week