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2. ENG 121 Entire Course • ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay • ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing • ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies • ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Generating Ideas for Writing • ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration • ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative Essay Draft • ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of an Editor • ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 The Importance of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style • ENG 121 Week 3 Final Narrative Essay • ENG 121 Week 4 Descriptive Essay Draft

3. ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay • Diagnostic Essay. The diagnostic writing exercise will help your instructor discover who you are as a writer. The essay will be used to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses as a writer, and it will allow the instructor the opportunity to identify grammatical, mechanical, and stylistic problems specific to each student. You will earn full credit for completing this assignment, as long as you follow instructions. • Word Range: 400-500 Estimated Time on Task: 1hour • Please select one of the topics below as the subject of a short essay. • Topic 1: Favorite Location

4. ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing • Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing. In Chapter 1 of Essentials of College Writing, you reviewed a comprehensive list of typical college writing tasks, and you had the opportunity to identify three tasks as strengths and three tasks as weaknesses. Identify and share these strengths and weaknesses, citing examples from past experiences. Then, tell specifically how you plan to resolve the three weaknesses you identified.

5. ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies • Reading Strategies. After studying the active reading strategies in Chapter 2 of Essentials of College Writing, read Chapters 1 and 2 and the “Instructor Guidance” for Week One again, applying the Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review (SQ3R) strategy as you reread the materials. Discuss how this reading strategy is similar to and/or different from the way you read course material previously. Relate how this strategy improved your comprehension of the course materials in just the first two chapters. Do you think this strategy will be helpful to you in other college courses? Explain with support from your reading.

6. ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz • ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz

7. ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Generating Ideas for Writing • Generating Ideas for Writing. Review the material in Chapter 3 of the Essentials of College Writing text regarding development of thesis statements. Then, review the techniques for generating ideas discussed in Chapter 4 of Essentials of College Writing. In preparation for your narrative essay, use both chapters to experiment with generating ideas for your narrative essay and to produce a working thesis statement for your draft this week. Share your experiences in this discussion indicating the topic you have chosen, your working thesis statement, and the technique(s) you have employed to properly organize your essay.

8. ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration • Elements of Narration. After reading the essay “The Death of My Father” by Steve Martin in Chapter 5 of Essentials of College Writing, identify at least three elements of narration in Martin’s essay and analyze the effectiveness of those elements by describing what made those elements effective. You should also be able to state the author’s purpose for writing the narrative, determine the intended audience, and identify the thesis statement

9. ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative Essay Draft • Narrative Essay Draft. The body of the essay draft must be 500 to 600 words in length (approximately two body pages), and it must have a title page. The essay must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course. • Choose one of the following topics: • a. Draft a narrative about returning to school. You may explore the issues regarding why you decided to return to school, the benefits of obtaining a college degree, changes in your lifestyle required for you to pursue your degree, obstacles to successful completion of your degree program, strategies you will use to overcome these obstacles, or any other subject related to your educational pursuits.

10. ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz • ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz

11. ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of an Editor • The Qualities of an Editor. A good editor often pays close attention to detail, practices patience and self-discipline, demonstrates good organization, and seeks to correct issues in content without losing the original intent of the work. Select two qualities of an editor that are likely to prove important to your editorial work in this course and explain why they will be instrumental in improving the quality of your written work as you go forward.

12. ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 The Importance of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style • The Importance of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style. You have received feedback on the Diagnostic Essay and Diagnostic Quiz from Week One as well as your Narrative Essay Draft from Week Two. You have also read about and explored common writing problems after visiting the Writing Center. Review the feedback you have received; then, identify and discuss three errors noted in grammar, mechanics, or style. Explain why you think the errors occur, how you plan to correct the errors (specifically), and how you might avoid the errors in future work.

13. ENG 121 Week 3 Final Narrative Essay • Final Narrative Essay. After reviewing instructor feedback from your Narrative Essay Draft, revise, edit, and proofread your draft to produce a polished narrative essay. The body of the Final Narrative Essay must be 500 to 600 words in length (approximately two body pages), and it must have a title page. The essay must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course. • Your revised, Final Narrative Essay must: • a. Demonstrate effective techniques of narration as outlined in your textbook. • b. Support your thesis statement by utilizing effective evidence and details. • c. Demonstrate logical order. • d. Be proofread for grammatical, mechanical, and stylistic errors.

14. ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz • ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz

15. ENG 121 Week 4 Descriptive Essay Draft • Descriptive Essay (Draft). The body of the essay draft must be 500 to 600 words in length (approximately two body pages), and it must have a title page. The essay must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course. • Choose one of the following topics: • a. Have you ever felt drawn to a work of visual art, such as a photograph, painting, mural, or sculpture? If so, consider taking the art work as the subject of your descriptive essay. In your essay, you will need to help your reader visualize the art work while explaining what features of the art work compel your attention and/or provoke an emotional response. You will also need to explain why your response to the art work is meaningful to you and is likely to be meaningful to others.

16. ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Elements of Description • Elements of Description. After reading, “Good boy, Beau. Stay,” what did you notice about the way Anna Quindlen uses description and the way she organizes her essay? What point is she trying to make? What sensory details stood out for you and why? Be specific in your explanations.

17. ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz • ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz

18. ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 1 Appeals to Logic and Reasoning • Appeals to Logic and Reasoning. In Chapter 7of Essentials of College Writing, appeals to logic and reasoning are important components of persuasive writing. Take a moment to review one of your own problems of grammar, mechanics, or style that you have been able to remedy as a result of working through this course. Your job is to convince others to avoid this error before revising, editing, and proofreading their final descriptive essays. Use examples from your own experiences, evidence from your own essays, and good old-fashioned logic and reason to persuade people to avoid the pitfalls of the grammatical, mechanical, or stylistic error you have chosen

19. ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Looking Back and Looking Forward • Looking Back and Looking Forward. As you near the end of this course, reflect on what you have learned about English composition over the past five weeks. What are the most important concepts you learned from this course? Which chapters in your reading were the most valuable for you and why? What guidance provided by your instructor or TA was most useful? What areas of your writing do you think have improved the most? Going forward, what areas will you focus on to continue to improve your writing skills?

20. ENG 121 Week 5 Final Descriptive Essay • Final Descriptive Essay. After reviewing instructor feedback from your Descriptive Essay Draft, revise, edit, and proofread your draft to produce a polished descriptive essay. The body of the Final Descriptive Essay must be 500 to 600 words in length (approximately two body pages), and it must have a title page. The essay must be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center, located within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in your online course. • Your revised, Final Descriptive Essay must: • a. Demonstrate effective techniques of description as outlined in your textbook. • b. Support your thesis statement by utilizing effective evidence and details.

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