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ENG 121 (Ash) Academic Achievement Uophelp

ENG 121 (Ash) Academic Achievement Uophelp

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ENG 121 (Ash) Academic Achievement Uophelp

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  1. ENG 121 Course Tutorial For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

  2. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Entire Course 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. • 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

  3. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing (Ash) ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies (Ash) 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. • 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.

  4. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz (Ash) ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Generating Ideas for Writing (Ash) 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. • ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz (Ash)

  5. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration (Ash) ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative Essay Draft (Ash) 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. • 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.

  6. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz (Ash) ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of an Editor (Ash) 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. • ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz (Ash)

  7. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 The Importance of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style (Ash) ENG 121 Week 3 Final Narrative Essay (Ash) 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. • 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;

  8. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz (Ash) 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. • ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz (Ash)

  9. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Elements of Description ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz (Ash) ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz (Ash) • 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.

  10. ENG 121 Course Tutorial ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 1 Appeals to Logic and Reasoning (Ash) ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Looking Back and Looking Forwa 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? • 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.

  11. ENG 121 Course Tutorial For more course tutorials visit www.uophelp.com

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