WR 30 Course Overview The Course "At-a-Glance" Update Questions? E-mail: volsen@roguecc.edu For details on assignments, use your "Weekly Checklists" - found in "Your WebCT Classroom" Due Dates: Portfolio entries are due on Fridays and Tests are due on Mondays.
Week	Topics	Textbook: John Langan: College Writing with Readings 6th Ed. PPT Slides, and Other Readings	Online Writing Lab Table of Contents	Public Bulletin Board and Private Journal Entries	Electronic Portfolio Drafts and Submissions: Due on Fridays	Timed WPE and/ or WebCT Quiz Due on Mondays
Week 1 Monday to Monday	(a) WebCT Orientation and Registration (b) WR30 Orientation (c) Study and Time Management (d) Introduction to the textbook and other materials (e) Introduction to "The Writing Process" (f) Keeping a Spelling Log (g) Entering "The Classroom"	Chapter 1: Introduction to Writing Creating a Spelling Log, PPT: Chapter 1	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 1 or go to: http://mhhe.com/langan and choose College Writig Skills with Readings., 6th Ed. BOOKMARK THE SITE.	Public Topic #1 - Discussion: Who are you? Why are you here? Private Journal Entry #1: Past Writing Experiences	(a) Understanding the Portfolio in Private Journals. (b) Sample paper #1	(1) Survey (2) Getting to Know You (Practicing the Quiz Tool) (3) Diagnostic Sentence Skills Test on WebCT (3) Quiz on Chapter 1
Week 2 Monday to Monday	Continue: "The Writing Process" Subjects/Verbs	Chapter 2: The Writing Process PPT: Chaper 2 Introduction to Part Four" " Handbook of Sentence Skills" p.411, Ch. 23 PPT: Ch. 23: Subjects and Verbs	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 2 and 23	Public topic #2: Private Journal Entry #2 : Ten-minute freewrite:	Wk 2: Paper #2	(1) Quiz on Ch. 2 (2) Quiz on Ch. 23
Week 3 Monday to Monday	First and Second Steps in Writing Avoiding Fragments	Chapter 3: First and Second Steps PPT: Chapter 3 Ch. 24: Fragments PPT: Ch. 24	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 3 and 24	Public topic #3: Private Journal Entry #3 : Fifteen-minute freewrite	Wk 3: Revision of Previous Paper.	(1) Quiz on Ch. 3 (2) Quiz on Ch. 24
Week 4 Monday to Monday	(a)The Third Step: Organization (b) Avoiding Run-Ons	Chapter 4: Third Step PPT: Ch. 4 Chapter 25: Run-Ons PPT: Ch. 25	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 4 and 25	Public Topic #4: Private Journal Entry #4: Fifteen-minute freewrite.	Wk 4: Paper #4.	(1) WebCT Quiz on Chapter 4 and 25
Week 5 Mondayto Monday	(a) The Fourth Step: Revisons (b) Verbs	(a) Chapter 5 PPT: Ch. 5 (b) Chapters 26, 27, 28	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 5 and 26, 27, 28	Public topic #5: Private Journal Entry #5: 15-minute freewrite	Wk 5: Revision of previous paper.	First WPE Timed Practice Exam: Prompt provided in the exam. WebCT Quiz on Chapters 5, 26, 27, 28
Week 6 Monday to Monday	(a) Four Bases for Revision (b) Intro to Essay Development	Chapters 6 and 7	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch.6 and 7	Public topic #6: Private Journal Entry #6: 20 minute freewrite	Wk 6: Paper #6	Quizzes Ch. 6 and 7,
Week 7 Monday to Monday 11/6 to 11/13	(a) Writing a Narrative Essay (b) Pronouns	(a) Ch. 9 (b) Ch. 29, 30 Reading by Hamill.	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 9, 29, 30	Public topic #7: Private Journal Entry #7- Twenty-minute freewrite:	Wk 7: Narrative Essay	WebCT Quiz on Chapters 9, 29, 30
Week 8 Monday to Monday	(a) Intro to Examples Essays (b) Modifiers	(a) Chapter 10 PPT. Ch. 10 Second Reading: "Dad" by Andrew H. Malcolm (b) Chapters 31, 32, 33 PPT. 31, 32, 33	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 10, Ch. 31, 32, 33	Public topic #8: Private Journal Entry #8: Twenty-five minute Freewrite:	Wk 8 Revised Draft of Narrative Essay (2) First draft of Examples Essay	WebCT Quiz on Chapters 10, 31, 32, 33.
Week 9 Monday to Monday	(a) Punctuation (b) Argumentation Essay (c) Second WPE practice	(a) Chapters 37, 38, 39, 40: Punctuation, especially commas (b) Chapter 16: Argumentation Essay PPT: Ch. 16 Reading: "Ban the Things, Ban them All. "	Click below: Online Writing Center: Ch. 16, 37, 38, 39, 40.	Public topic #9: Private Journal Entry #9: 30 minute-freewrite	Wk 9: Revised draft of Examples Essay	(1) Quizzes on Ch. 16, 37, 38, 39, 40. (3) Second WPE Practice:
Week 10 Monday to Monday	(a) Word Use (b) Final WPE due Thursday evening.	Ch. 41, 42, 43		Public BB: Argumentation Essay: Peer Reading and Critique. Private Journal #10	Wk 10: Argumentation Essay: First draft, revised and edited	Final WPE: (1) Available only on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. All essays are graded on Friday morning. (2) WebCT Quizzes on Chapters 41, 42, 43.
Week 11 Monday to Friday. The term ends Friday. All work must be in by midnight Friday.	(a) Grammar Review (b) Final Grammar Exam (c) Final Electronic Portfolio	Sentence Skills Practice Tests.		Focus: Reflection paper for Final Portfolio	Wk 11: Final Portfolio "Masterpieces" and Reflection Paper	Final Grammar Exam: Available only on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week. Portfolio must be submitted by midnight Friday in order to get credit.
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