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• COM 155 Entire Course
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• COM 155 Week 1 DQS
• COM 155 Week 1 Assignment Sentence Structure
  Review- Appendix B
• COM 155 Week 2 Assignment Verb Practice
• COM 155 Week 2 DQs
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• COM 155 Week 1 Assignment Sentence Structure
  Review- Appendix B
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• 1. Assignment Sentence Structure Revie
• Resource Appendix B
• Read Appendix B.
• Review the eight sentences.
• Identify which of the four errors, if any, is
  present in each sentence.
• Rewrite the sentence so that it is a
  grammatically correct sentence.
• Post your assignment as a Microsoft Word
  attachment in the Assignments link by Week One
  Day 6

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• COM 155 Week 1 DQS
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• Discussion Questions
• List at least one of the serious writing errors
  identified on p. 385 and identify how such an
  error could negatively affect your writing.
• Identify which of the four most serious writing
  errors listed on p. 385 you find challenging to
  overcome in your own writing. State a method to
  avoid this error.
• Exercise Centrals activities this week provide
  practice with the key grammar points covered in
  this weeks objectives. What are the key lessons
  you learned from these activities? How might the
  exercises help you as you work on improving your
  writing?

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• COM 155 Week 2 Assignment Verb Practice
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• DUE DATE Day 4 (Thursday)
• Resource Weekly Readings
• Write five sentences about the role of education
  in successful financial planning, in which you
  correctly use a different verb tense in each
  sentence.
• Mark each verb used in bold and, in parentheses,
  identify the specific tense used.
• Post your submission as an attachment

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• COM 155 Week 2 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• How might a potential employer evaluate your
  writing if you did not use proper verb tenses?
  Why?
• Identify the five trouble spots located on pp.
  436446 to help avoid making mistakes in
  subject-verb agreement. Which mistake do you
  think is the worst? Why?
• This week, we discussed verb usage by focusing on
  subjectverb agreement and verb tenses. Based on
  the grammar apply section of MyWritingLab, what
  lessons have you learned that will change the way
  you write in the future?

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• COM 155 Week 3 Assignment Identifying Errors in
  Writing- Appendix D
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• 5. Assignment Identifying Errors in Writin
• Resource Appendix D
• Review the passage in Appendix D
• o The passage has 20 errors related to the
  concepts covered in Ch. 3741.
• o Mark each of the errors in bold and make the
  correction in parentheses after the error.
• o Example My cars interior is black.
• This must be marked as follows My cars (cars)
  interior is black.

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• COM 155 Week 3 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• Often, students rely on improper punctuation and
  capitalization because of the popularity and
  convenience of sending text messages. In academic
  writing, however, you must strive to use
  appropriate punctuation and capitalization. Why
  do you need to use appropriate punctuation,
  including plurals and possessives, in your
  writing?
• Page 673 provides examples of how comma
  placements may completely change the meaning of a
  sentence. Knowing this, what can you do as a
  writer to ensure your comma usage helps you to
  communicate clearly?

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• COM 155 Week 4 Assignment Sentence Correction
  and Changes in Writing
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• Assignment Sentence Correction and Changes in
  Writing
• DUE DATE Day 4 (Thursday)
• Resources Weekly Readings and Appendix E
• This assignment has three distinct parts.
• o First, determine whether the sample sentences
  in Appendix E are correct. If it is not correct,
  make the correction needed.
• o Second, write five sentences in which you
  address changes in your writing.

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• COM 155 Week 4 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• Writing errors, such as those identified in the
  readings for this week, may influence the way a
  reader interprets your writing. A résumé that is
  marred by grammatical errors, for example, may
  prevent a job candidate from progressing to the
  interview stage. Do you think it is appropriate
  for people to be judged based on their writing?
  Explain your answer.
• List five commonly confused word mistakes. Then,
  demonstrate their correct usage in well-written
  sentences.
• This week, the discussions have focused on the
  importance of word choice and avoiding commonly
  confused words. Identify three key strategies to
  ensure you will choose words correctly in the
  future to improve your writing.

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• COM 155 Week 5 Assignment Pronoun Practice
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• Assignment Pronoun Practice
• DUE DATE Day 7 (Sunday)
• Resource Weekly Readings
• Write several sentences describing a recent
  interaction with a friend or family member about
  personal finance or credit cards. This
  interaction may be imagined or real.
• Use at least five different pronouns in your
  sentences.
• Identify all pronouns used by bolding them.

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• COM 155 Week 5 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• Write six original sentences in which pronouns
  are used in a consistent manner. What strategies
  might a writer use to ensure pronouns are used
  effectively?
• Rewrite the first sentence of Ch. 27 in your own
  words. Identify the three basic types of pronouns
  mentioned on pp. 495 496. Explain why using
  pronouns may help make your writing more
  effective.
• This week, we discussed how to properly use
  pronouns. You have been asked to complete several
  exercises to help practice using pronouns
  effectively. Explain which of these exercises you
  found most useful and elaborate on how it will
  help your writing in the future.

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• COM 155 Week 6 Assignment Review Adjectives,
  Adverbs, and Comparisons
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• Assignment Review Adjectives, Adverbs, and
  Comparisons
• DUE DATE Day 4 (Thursday)
• Resource Weekly Readings
• Use at least five adverbs and five adjectives to
  write a brief review of a movie, sporting event,
  musical performance, or television show.
• Bold each adverb.

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• COM 155 Week 6 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• Review pp. 517520. Describe your experience with
  credit and credit cards in a brief paragraph
  using at least five adverbs and five adjectives
  in your description. Bold the adverbs and
  underline the adjectives. What is the most
  effective way to determine whether a word is an
  adjective or an adverb?
• Students are often confused about the use of the
  words good and well in their writing. Write a
  100-word passage to Susan Anker, the author of
  the courses textbook, in which you describe five
  details from her book that are good and five
  details about the
• book that are written well.

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• COM 155 Week 7 Assignment Paragraphs and Topic
  Sentences
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• Assignment Paragraphs and Topic Sentences
• DUE DATE Day 7 (Sunday)
• Write two paragraphs about how interest rates
  affect our purchasing decisions.
• Identify the topic sentence in each by
  underlining it.
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• COM 155 Week 7 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• Based on the readings in Ch. 3, identify key
  points to keep in mind when writing a topic
  sentence. How might these key points help you
  write effectively?
• This week, you were asked to review the Topic
  Sentence section in the Center for Writing
  Excellence. Using the topic of home ownership
  versus leasing, identify a topic and provide a
  topic sentence you would use in a paragraph about
  the topic.

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• COM 155 Week 8 Assignment Summary, Analysis,
  Synthesis, and Evaluation
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• Assignment Summary, Analysis, Synthesis, and
  Evaluation
• DUE DATE Day 4 (Thursday)
• Resource Appendix F
• Read the four sample paragraphs in Appendix F.
• Identify whether the paragraph was a summary,
  analysis, synthesis, or evaluation.
• Write a paragraph explaining the key differences
  between the four types of writing.
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• COM 155 Week 8 DQs
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• Discussion Questions
• Read the summary paragraph on the bottom of p.
  37. Identify the authors goal in writing the
  paragraph. How effectively do you think the
  author met that goal?
• Read the two-paragraph analysis passage on p. 38.
  Identify the purpose of the writing.
• Pages 6 7 of the Guidelines for Writing
  Academic Papers show many different types of
  writing. Explain the key differences between the
  following types of paragraphs summary, analysis,
  synthesis, and evaluation.
• Read the second paragraph of the synthesis
  passage. It may be found on pp. 38 39. Using
  your reading for the week and this paragraph in
  particular, answer the following questions.

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