Jeni DiSalvo

350 Carver Hall

Iowa State University

 

disalvo@iastate.edu

 

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English 250

 

    Schedule  MWF  TTh             Syllabus                   Grades

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Taking notes

 

Tuesday   (Ross 20)

 

Thursday  (Ross 20)

Week 1

January 10

Writing Sample:  Write essay exam

Introduction to Course

Email Etiquette

 

January 12

Read:  p. 3-36

Read: p. 536-548

Introductions

Drawing Teams

Week 2

January 17

Write:    New Introductions

Email etiquette

Conclusions

Forms of Arguments

 

January 19

Read: 38-67

Work on Arguments in groups (bring notes)

Week 3

January 24

Read: p. 549-565

Write: Notes for Debate

Creating an Effective Argument

Writing Definitions

Connotation/Denotation

 

January 26

Read:  p. 69-93

Debate (bring work  notes)

 

Week 4

January 31

Read:  566-598

Discussion of Definition Paper Assignment

Write:  Definition of Term

 

February 2

Read:  p. 249-280

Creating notes for Definition Paper

Week 5

February 7

Using Audience Analysis

Write:  Definition Paper

 

 

February 9

Read: p. 95-130

In Class Exercise for Audience Analysis

Group Meetings for Handbook Exercise 1

Due:  Definition Paper at 10:00 P.M.

Week 6

February 14

Discussion over Causal Paper Assignment

Write:  Presentations for Handbook Exercise 1

 

February 16

Read: p. 133-164

Exercise for Academic Arguments

Research on Campus

Week 7

February 21

Discussion of Logic

Write:  Notes for Causal Project

 

 

February 23

Present Argument Projects  NO EXTENSIONS

Read: p. 170-206

Fallacies of Logic

Logic Exercise

Week 8

February 28

Read: p. 441-463

Create: Visual Representation of Causal Argument

Finish Presenting Argument Projects

 

March 1

Read:  p. 208-243

 

Counter Argument Exercise

Week 9

March 6

Discuss Evaluation Paper Assignment

Due:  Causal Project draft due in class for working

 

March 8

 

Discuss Evaluation Exercise

Week 10 Spring Break

Week 11

March 20

Presentations

 

 

March 22

Presentations

 

Week 12

March 27

Presentations?

Read: p. 284-326!

Discuss Application of Criteria for Evaluation

Write: Draft for Evaluation

Discuss Notes from Observation

 

March 29

 

Presentations for Handbook Exercise 2Q & A for Evaluation Paper

 

Week 13

April 3

Finish Presentations

Discuss Evaluation Paper

 

 

April 5

Online Lecture--No formal class

Click Here for Reading

 

Week 14

April 10

Read: 284-304

Quiz

Field Trip for Evaluation

 

April 12

Create: Electronic Poster

Read: p. 491-513

Week 15

April 17

Discuss Parts of Proposals

Discuss Proposal Presentations

 

 

April 19

Discuss End of the Year Notes

Week 16

April 24

Meet with instructor over papers

 

 

 

 

April 26

Meet with instructor over papers

 Due:  Proposal Paper FRIDAY at 10:00 P.M.

 

Week 17

May 1

Meet with instructor over papers

 

 

 

May 4

Due on Friday (5/4):  Re-write of Evaluation Letter

and

Re-write of Definition Paper

No papers will be accepted after 10 P.M.

 

Final Exam for Engl 250 Section PC is Friday, May 4th, 9:45-11:45

 

 

 

 

To sell your ideas to your peers, to your management, to your customers, you must, and I stress MUST, be able to communicate.  One of the reasons Sir Isaac Newton was famous in physics was because he could communicate.

~Danny S.

     

 

 

Definition Essay

Causal Essay

Evaluation Essay

Proposal

 

 

Extra Credit Options