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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz

• ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz

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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.

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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
  Martins essay and analyze the effectiveness of
  those elements by describing what made those
  elements effective. You should also be able to
  state the authors purpose for writing the
  narrative, determine the intended audience, and
  identify the thesis statement

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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.

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ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz

• ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz

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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.

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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.

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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.

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ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz

• ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz

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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.

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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.

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ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz

• ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz

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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

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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?

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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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