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• COM 120 Capstone Discussion Question (UOP)

• COM 120 Entire Course (UOP)

• Capstone Discussion Question
• Due Date Day 3 Main forum
• Post your response to these questions How did
  using a formal writing process (planning,
  drafting, developing, revising, editing, and
  proofreading) help you create a more effective
  academic paper? Which part of the writing process
  caused you the most difficulty? Explain your
  answer.

• COM 120 Week 1 CheckPoint Persuasive Essay Topic
• COM 120 Week 1 DQs
• COM 120 Week 2 CheckPoint Brainstorming
  Techniques
• COM 120 Week 2 Assignment Persuasive Essay
  Characteristics
• COM 120 Week 3 CheckPoint Thesis Statements
• COM 120 Week 3 DQs

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• COM 120 Week 1 CheckPoint Persuasive Essay Topic
  (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 1 DQs (UOP)

• CheckPoint Persuasive Essay Topic
• Appendix A will familiarize you with the phases
  of the writing process as well as the
  deliverables that will be due throughout the
  course regarding your persuasive essay.
• A Persuasive (or an Advocacy) Essay is a type of
  research paper that asks that you take a stand on
  an issue

• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 post to the Main forum
• Post your response to these questions What
  writing process have you used in the past? What
  worked well for you? What is your biggest
  obstacle to becoming an effective writer?
• 5. Discussion Question 2

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• COM 120 Week 1 Grammar Exercise 1 (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 2 Assignment Persuasive Essay
  Characteristics (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 1 Grammar Exercise 1

• Assignment Persuasive Essay Characteristics
• In a persuasive essay, the writer assumes a
  position on a subjectwhich your text refers to
  as taking a standand then tries to persuade
  his/her readers to agree with that position by
  supplying evidence that is accurate and
  trustworthy. In this assignment, you will have an
  opportunity to evaluate the strategies other
  writers use to write persuasive essays.

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• COM 120 Week 2 CheckPoint Brainstorming
  Techniques (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 3 CheckPoint Thesis Statements (UOP)

• CheckPoint Brainstorming Techniques
• In traditional brainstorming, individuals or
  groups of people compile ideas on a topic but do
  not evaluate or organize the ideas presented. In
  contrast, mind-mapping (also called concept
  mapping) visually places the thoughts into
  categories.

• CheckPoint Thesis Statements
• Course Syllabus Page 12 COM 120
• COM 120 Effective Persuasive Writing
• A thesis statement should be created for every
  academic paper you write. Often appearing at the
  end of a papers introduction, the thesis informs
  readers in a concise manner regarding your
  intention in writing the paper.

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• COM 120 Week 3 DQs (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 4 Assignment Full Sentence Outline,
  Thesis Statement, and Working (UOP)

• Discussion Question 1
• Writing a topic sentence is similar to writing a
  thesis sentence but on a smaller scale. Whereas,
  the thesis statement conveys the main idea of the
  entire paper, a topic sentence conveys the main
  idea of a single paragraph. Having a topic
  sentence in each paragraph helps to ensure
  unification of the ideas in the paragraph.

• Assignment Full Sentence Outline, Thesis
  Statement, and Working Reference List
• Before you write a first draft of your Persuasive
  Essay, you will need to organize the structure of
  your paper. One way to organize your ideas is by
  creating a formal outline. Normally, an outline
  organizes only the body of your paper.

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• COM 120 Week 4 CheckPoint Paragraphs (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 4 Grammar Exercise 2 (UOP)

• CheckPoint Paragraphs
• Often, writers use more than one type of
  supporting paragraph to develop an essay. The
  type of supporting paragraph depends on the type
  of thesis statement the writer has chosen. For
  example, an argument might be supported by an
  example or cause/effect, and a personal
  experience might be supported by details.

• COM 120 Week 4 Grammar Exercise 2

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• COM 120 Week 5 CheckPoint Formatting PART 1 of 2
  (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 5 CheckPoint Formatting PART 2 of 2
  (UOP)

• CheckPoint Formatting
• Resources Appendix F, Appendix G, and Sample
  APA paper http//www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c
  09_s4.html
• Due Date Day 5 Individual forum
• Identify specific APA formatting errors in the
  text contained in Appendix G.
• Look for errors in the following areas

• CheckPoint Formatting
• Resources Appendix F, Appendix G, and Sample
  APA paper http//www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c
  09_s4.html
• Due Date Day 5 Individual forum
• Identify specific APA formatting errors in the
  text contained in Appendix G.
• Look for errors in the following areas

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• COM 120 Week 5 DQs (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 6 Assignment Rough Draft of
  Persuasive Essay (UOP)

• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 Main forum
• Post your response to these questions What are
  the advantages of using APA formatting for
  academic papers? What aspect of APA formatting do
  you find most troublesome?
• 3. Discussion Question 2
• Due Date Day 4 Main forum

• Assignment Rough Draft of Persuasive Essay
• Be sure to submit a Rough Draft of your
  Persuasive Essay that is complete enough for the
  instructor to provide constructive feedback.
• Resource Appendix A
• Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
• Submit a Rough Draft of your Persuasive Essay,

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• COM 120 Week 6 CheckPoint Introductions and
  Conclusions (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 7 CheckPoint Peer Review- Appendix
  H (UOP)

• CheckPoint Introductions and Conclusions
• An effective introduction serves to arouse a
  readers interest. Starting a paper with In this
  paper, I will is the surest route to boredom.
  Just as a first impression when meeting someone
  is important, a first impression when reading an
  essay is also important.

• CheckPoint Peer Review
• As writers, we can become personally attached to
  our work. That attachment can make it difficult
  for us to see how our work might be received by
  an audience. Peer reviews provide a valuable
  opportunity to both give and to receive feedback
  as writers strive to create a successful final
  product.

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• COM 120 Week 7 DQs (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 8 Assignment Commonly Misused Words
  (UOP)

• Discussion Question 1
• Due Date Day 2 Main forum
• Post your response to this question What is
  the purpose of revising and editing an academic
  paper?
• 3. Discussion Question 2
• Due Date Day 4 Main forum

• Assignment Commonly Misused Words
• One aspect of becoming an effective writer is
  learning how to use words effectively. For this
  CheckPoint exercise, refer to the list of
  commonly misused words at http//www.wsu.edu/bria
  ns/errors/
• Course Syllabus Page 20 COM 120
• COM 120 Effective Persuasive Writing

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• COM 120 Week 8 CheckPoint Revised Rough Draft
  (UOP)

• COM 120 Week 9 Assignment Final Persuasive Essay
  (UOP)

• CheckPoint Revised Rough Draft
• Due Date Day 4 Individual forum
• Revise the Rough Draft of your Persuasive
  Essay. Identify the portions of the paper you
  revised by using bold or colored font or
  asterisks (), and explain how you incorporated
  the feedback from your instructor and peer
  reviewer.

• Assignment Final Persuasive Essay
• Resource Appendix A and Appendix I
• Due Date Day 7 Individual forum
• Proofread your Final Persuasive Essay using the
  Final Persuasive Essay Checklist. If you cannot
  answer yes to an item on the list, make the
  correction before submitting the paper to your
  instructor.

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