TENTATIVE SYLLABUS

1. 10/4 COURSE ORIENTATION / A DEAR TEACHER LETTER
2. 10/11 WHAT IS GRAMMAR? & THE PARTS OF SPEECH (CW 1)
             *THE WRITING PROCESS & YOUR WRITING HABITS (FSW PP 1-6)
3. 10/18 GRAMMAR & WRITING RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET / WEB CLASS
4. 10/25 WHAT IS A SENTENCE? (FSW PP 8-15) & SENTENCE FRAGMENTS (CW 7)
5. 11/1 PARTS OF SENTENCE (CW 2 & 9; FSW PP 206-208)
           SENTENCE STRUCTURE & CLAUSES (CW 6; ME 11; FSW PP 18-23)
6. 11/8 *WHAT IS A GOOD TOPIC SENTENCE? / MECHANICS (FSW PP 11-15; CW 20)
7. 11/15 COMMA SPLICES & RUN-ON SENTENCES (FSW PP 51-54 & 121-125; CW 5)
             PUNCTUATION (FSW PP 55-62) / TURN IN THE TYPED ASSIGNMENT FROM NOW ON
8. 11/22 VERBS: TENSE, VOICE, MOOD (CW 8; ME 4)
             UNNECESSARY SHIFTS
9. 11/29 VERBALS & PHRASES (CW 3-4; ME16-21) / MIDTERM REPORT
10. 12/6 *WHAT IS A PARAGRAPH? & PARAGRAPH UNITY (FSW PP 102-115)
             *TIME-ORDER PARAGRAPHS (FSW PP 32-38)
11. 12/13 PREPOSITIONS (FSW PP 81-87; ME 9)
              *SPACE-ORDER PARAGRAPHS (FSE PP 70-78)
12. 12/20 OUTLINE MAKING (FSW PP 39-43& PP 116-117)
13. 12/27 TRANSITIONAL SIGNALS (FSW PP 44-50; 204 & ME 10)
              *PARAGRAPH COHERENCE
14. 1/3 FAULTY AGREEMENT (CW 9-10)
15. 1/10 REFERENCE & CASE OF PRONOUNS (CW 11-12; ME 3)
16. 1/17 FINAL EXAM