Eng 1101 Syllabus & Class Policies

Table of Contents

Contact Information

Course Description

Textbook

Homework

Privacy of Work

Plagiarism

In-class Work

Absences

Student Performance

Grades

Hurricane Information

Weekly Assignments

Contact Information
Mr. David Shaw dshaw@broward.edu

Office: None

OFFICE HOURS: BEFORE OR AFTER CLASS BY APPOINTMENT.

SECURITY 954-201-6626 EMERGENCY 954-474-8786

Course Description
ENC1101 COMPOSITION I (3)

A UNIVERSITY PARALLEL COURSE IN WHICH THE STUDENT WRITES EXPOSITORY THEMES IN VARIOUS MODES. RESOURCE METHODS AND LIBRARY SKILLS ARE INTRODUCED AND A DOCUMENTED PAPER IS REQUIRED. PLACEMENT IN ENC1101 IS DETERMINED BY BOTH STANDARD AND DEPARTMENTAL ASSESSMENT TESTS. A STUDENT MUST EARN A GRADE OF “C” OR HIGHER TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE GORDON RULE. SPECIAL FEE CHARGED. MEETS AREA 1A GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE A.A.DEGREE. MEETS AREA 1 GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR THE A.S. DEGREE. THIS COURSE HAS A 6,000 WORD WRITING REQUIREMENT.

LEC HRS = 48 LAB HRS = 0 OTH HRS = 0 FEES = 20.00

Textbook
RULES FOR WRITERS DIANA HACKER

SPIRAL BOUND, 626 PAGES.

ISBN: 0-312-45276-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-312-45276-6

ESTIMATED U.S. PRICE: $50

USE THE INSIDE COVERS AND THE INDEX TO FIND THE INFORMATION YOU NEED. THE COMPANION WEBSITE URL IS

HTTP://BCS.BEDFORDSTMARTINS.COM/RULES6E/PLAYER/PAGES/MAIN.ASPX

YOU WILL NEED THIS HANDBOOK FOR OTHER COMPOSITION COURSES AT BCC.

Homework
THE WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS IN THE SYLLABUS ARE THE MINIMUM WORK TO PREPARE FOR CLASS. I WILL OFTEN ASSIGN SHORT WRITING PROJECTS OR HOMEWORK FOR THE NEXT MEETING. AT TIMES, I SEND ASSIGNMENTS AND CLASS MATERIALS BY BCC EMAIL, SO CHECK YOUR EMAIL FREQUENTLY. IF YOU MISS CLASS, ARRANGE TO GET THE WORK FROM A CLASSMATE. YOU CAN COPY SOME MATERIALS USED IN CLASS FROM MY WEBSITE: HTTP://WEBHOME.BROWARD.EDU/~DSHAW

Privacy of Work
ALTHOUGH YOUR GRADES ARE PRIVATE, ALL OF YOUR WRITING IN THIS COURSE IS PUBLIC. I MAY SUBMIT IT TO THE CLASS FOR EVALUATION AND FEEDBACK. WITH THE AUTHOR’S PERMISSION THE CLASS WILL KNOW WHOSE WORK IT IS, BUT OTHERWISE THE CLASS WILL NOT KNOW. YOU GET TO CHOOSE YOUR TOPICS WITHIN THE GUIDELINES, SO DO NOT CHOOSE TO WRITE A PAPER ABOUT YOUR DRUGGIE COUSIN IN PRISON UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING FOR THE CLASS TO SEE IT.

Plagiarism
YOU HAVE THE ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO USE SOURCES, BUT WITH THIS RIGHT COMES YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO REPORT THE SOURCES AND SPECIFICALLY WHAT INFORMATION YOU BORROWED FROM EACH ONE. WHETHER IN A RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT OR A SIMPLE ESSAY, YOU MUST ACKNOWLEDGE EACH INSTANCE OF BORROWING AT THE PLACE IN THE PAPER WHERE THE BORROWING OCCURS. ALSO YOU MUST ADD A WORKS CITED LIST. IF YOU CHOOSE TO CHEAT INSTEAD OF DOING YOUR OWN WORK, YOU WILL CERTAINLY GET A ZERO ON THAT ASSIGNMENT, AND MOST LIKELY I WILL IMMEDIATELY FLUNK YOU IN THE COURSE. MLA CONVENTIONS ARE IN YOUR TEXT AND ALSO ONLINE AT THIS MLA FORMATTING AND STYLE GUIDE: HTTP://OWL.ENGLISH.PURDUE.EDU/OWL/RESOURCE/557/01/

IN ADDITION TO MLA REPORTING, ANY TIME YOU RELY ON A SOURCE, YOU MUST SUBMIT A CLEARLY LABELED PRINTOUT OR PHOTOCOPY OF ANY PAGES CONTAINING PASSAGES THAT YOU BORROWED FROM SO THAT I CAN CHECK YOUR WORK AGAINST THE ORIGINAL SOURCE.

 HIGHLIGHT THE BORROWED ORIGINAL PASSAGES WITH A BRACKET IN THE MARGIN SO THAT I CAN FIND THEM WITHOUT READING THE ENTIRE PAGE.

In-class Work
Be prepared for each class and behave in class as if you were working a professional job that you need to feed your family.

 Come to each class on time prepared to work on the assignments:

O ALWAYS BRING THE TEXTBOOK

O ALWAYS BRING A HARD COPY OF THE DRAFT OF THE CURRENT ASSIGNMENT

O ALWAYS BRING A DISK WITH ELECTRONIC COPIES OF YOUR CURRENT AND PAST WRITING ASSIGNMENTS TO ANY MEETING IN A COMPUTER CLASSROOM.

 DO NOT USE THE CLASSROOM PRINTER EXCEPT FOR FINAL COPIES OF HOMEWORK OR PAPERS THAT YOU WILL SUBMIT TO ME. FOR EXAMPLE, DO NOT PRINT OUT THIS SYLLABUS ON THE CLASSROOM PRINTER.

 If you show up without your text or your flash drive or your hard copy of the draft of the current assignment, your daily grade for that class will suffer.

 DO NOT WORK ON THE COMPUTER WHILE SOMEONE IS SPEAKING TO THE CLASS.

 Pay attention whenever the teacher addresses the class. Other times use class time productively:

O WORK ON THE IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENT

O PROOFREAD YOUR ASSIGNMENT

O FIND INFORMATION FOR YOUR RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT

O STUDY TEXTBOOK’S INFORMATION ABOUT PUNCTUATION, GRAMMAR, OR STYLE.

O STUDY TEXTBOOK’S DOCUMENTING SOURCES

OR IF IN A COMPUTER CLASSROOM:

O LEARN A NEW FEATURE IN WORD

O TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SUPERIOR WRITING INSTRUCTION AT PURDUE’S ONLINE WRITING LAB: HTTP://OWL.ENGLISH.PURDUE.EDU/

O SEARCH THE WEB FOR INFORMATION AND GRAPHICS FOR YOUR WRITING PROJECTS

Absences
BC POLICY ALLOWS 6 HOURS (NOT CLASSES) OF EXCUSED ABSENCES (NOT CUTS) (HTTP://WWW.BROWARD.EDU /POLPROCMAN/POL418.PDF), (THREE EXCUSED ABSENCES FOR A CLASS MEETING FOR 2 HOURS; ONE AND ONE-HALF EXCUSED ABSENCES FOR A 4 HOUR NIGHT CLASS). I ALLOW ONE OF BC’S EXCUSED ABSENCES TO BE UNEXCUSED.

Student Performance
IF YOU WANT TO STAY IN THIS COURSE, YOU MUST COME TO CLASS AND COMPLETE THE WORK ON TIME. I RESERVE THE RIGHT TO DROP STUDENTS WHO DO NOT KEEP UP WITH THE WORK.

EACH PAPER IS A MAJOR ASSIGNMENT, COUNTING 10-20% OF YOUR GRADE. I EXPECT YOU TO WORK 4-6 HOURS PLANNING, ORGANIZING, FINDING INFORMATION, WRITING, EDITING, AND PROOFREADING EACH PAPER WRITTEN OUTSIDE OF CLASS. DOUBLE THAT FOR THE ARGUMENT AND THE RESOURCE PAPER. THAT’S 4-6 HOURS AFTER YOU HAVE PICKED A TOPIC AND FORMED A THESIS.

I WILL REDUCE A PAPER GRADE ONE LETTER FOR EACH CLASS MEETING THAT IT IS LATE. IF A PAPER IS MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATE, I WILL NOT ACCEPT IT. YOUR GRADE WILL BE THE AVERAGE OF THE OTHER GRADES, REDUCED BY ONE LETTER FOR EACH MISSING PAPER. THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU AVERAGE A C, ONE MISSING PAPER WILL REDUCE IT TO A D, TWO MISSING PAPERS WILL REDUCE IT TO AN F.

IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENTS, QUIZZES, AND EXERCISES WILL USUALLY BE GRADED; IF YOU MISS IN-CLASS WORK, FOR ANY REASON, EXCUSED OR UNEXCUSED, YOU CAN’T MAKE IT UP IF I HAVE ALREADY GONE OVER THE ANSWERS IN CLASS OR POSTED THEM ON MY WEB SITE.

LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW WITH NO GRADE PENALTY: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4.

Grades
EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR CLASS WILL AFFECT YOUR CLASS WORK GRADE. FOR EXAMPLE, I WILL GRADE EVERY EMAIL THAT YOU CHOOSE TO WRITE TO ME FOR CLARITY, GRAMMAR, AND CONTENT (INCLUDING USEFUL INFORMATION IN THE SUBJECT LINE). A CAREFUL EMAIL WILL COUNT FOR YOU. A CARELESS EMAIL WILL COUNT AGAINST YOU.

NEVER SEND A CARELESS EMAIL TO A TEACHER, ESPECIALLY AN ENGLISH TEACHER, ESPECIALLY IN A COMPOSITION COURSE.

HERE IS HOW YOUR GRADE WILL BE DETERMINED:

10%—INFORMATIVE PAPER

10%—CONTRAST PAPER

10%—PRO/CON PAPER

10%—ARGUMENT PAPER

10%—RESOURCE PAPER

10%—AVERAGE OF HOMEWORK AND CLASS WORK GRADES

10%—AVERAGE OF TESTS

10%—MIDTERM EXAM

10%—IN-CLASS FINAL OBJECTIVE EXAM

10%—IN-CLASS FINAL ESSAY EXAM

YOUR GRADE WILL BE THE AVERAGE OF THE GRADES, REDUCED BY ONE LETTER FOR EACH MISSING PAPER. THIS MEANS THAT IF YOU AVERAGE AN A, ONE MISSING PAPER WILL REDUCE IT TO A B, TWO MISSING PAPERS WILL REDUCE IT TO AN C, AND SO ON.

Hurricane Information
BCC INFORMATION WILL BE REPORTED TO THE MEDIA IN THE EVENT OF A HURRICANE WARNING OR OTHER THREAT. YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND ACCURATE AND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON THE STATUS OF THE COLLEGE ON OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.BROWARD.EDU OR AT OUR STUDENT HOTLINE NUMBER: 954-201-4900.

Weekly Assignments
PREPARE THE ASSIGNMENTS BEFORE CLASS MEETS. YOU MUST READ THE MATERIAL, UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPTS, AND WORK THE EXERCISES LISTED AFTER “EX” BY FOLLOWING THIS PROCEDURE.

Study the rules and examples in the pages before each exercise.
WORK SAMPLE ITEMS A-E AND CHECK YOUR ANSWERS IN THE BACK OF THE TEXT.
COPY PASTE THE NUMBERED ITEMS FROM THE HOMEWORK EXERCISES DOCUMENT.
SUBMIT YOUR ANSWERS IN A HARD COPY, OR IF YOU MISS CLASS, AN EMAIL.
ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE ONLINE COMMON ERRORS WORKBOOK.

Tuesday-Thursday 3:30-5:20 Class

Sept 14 Class Organization; Writing Sample

     26-43                  Topic Sentences  Ex 4-1

16 16-25 Thesis Sentence and Organization Ex 2-1

     361-362; 44-45   Openings and Closings; Information Paper directions

21 175-192 Pronoun agreement, reference, case
Ex 22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 24-2

     405-410              Avoiding Plagiarism

23 148-163 Comma Splices, and Run-ons Ex 20-1, 20-2
Fragments Ex 19-1; Contrast directions:
Information Paper due

28 418-475 MLA Documentation: all online MLA exercises http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rules6e/Player/pages/Main.aspx

30 SEARCHING THE WEB FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION

OCT5 270-290 COMMAS EX 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, 32-5, 33-1

7* 47, 55, 104-109 Shifts Ex 13-3; Contrast Paper due

Pro-Con paper directions

12 123-127 Wordiness Ex 16-1

14 298-302 APOSTROPHES; EX 36-1

19 203-22; 80-83 VERBS; ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
EX 27-1, 27-2, 27-3, 8-1

21* 96-103 Modifiers Ex 12-1, 12-2;

     358-380              ARGUMENT PAPER DIRECTIONS

PRO-CON PAPER DUE

26 164-175 Subject Verb Agreement Ex 21-1, 21-2
84-87 Parallel Structure Ex 9-1

28 Midterm exam

Nov2 193-203 Who whom distinction Adjectives & adverbs Ex 25-1, 26-1

4 381-414 Writing a Resource Paper; Argument Paper due

9 397-404 Evaluating Sources for a Resource Paper;

                       Resource Paper Directions

11 Holiday

16* In-class work and conferences on Resource Paper.

18 128-146 exactness, appropriate language
Ex 17-2, 18-1, 18-2,

23 291-298 Semicolons and Colons Ex 34-1, 34-2, 35-1

25 Holiday

30 Conferences on Resource Paper

Dec2 Review and turn in assignments. Resource Paper due

7 Objective Final Test

9 Final essay exam on an unannounced topic

Thursday 6:30-10:20 Class

Sept 16 Class Organization; Writing Sample

     26-43                  Topic Sentences  Ex 4-1

     16-25                  Thesis Sentence and Organization Ex 2-1

     361-362; 44-45   Openings and Closings; Information Paper directions

23 175-192 Pronoun agreement, reference, case
Ex 22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 24-2

     405-410              Avoiding Plagiarism

     148-163              Comma Splices, and Run-ons Ex 20-1, 20-2
                               Fragments Ex 19-1; Contrast directions:
                               Information Paper due

30 418-475 MLA Documentation: all online MLA exercises http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/rules6e/Player/pages/Main.aspx

                               SEARCHING THE WEB FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION       

OCT7 270-290 COMMAS EX 32-1, 32-2, 32-3, 32-4, 32-5, 33-1

     47, 55, 104-109   Shifts Ex 13-3; Contrast Paper due

Pro-Con paper directions

14 123-127 Wordiness Ex 16-1

     298-302     APOSTROPHES; EX 36-1

21 203-22; 80-83 VERBS; ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

EX 27-1, 27-2, 27-3, 8-1

     96-103                Modifiers Ex 12-1, 12-2;

     358-380              ARGUMENT PAPER DIRECTIONS

PRO-CON PAPER DUE

28 164-175 Subject Verb Agreement Ex 21-1, 21-2
84-87 Parallel Structure Ex 9-1

                               Midterm exam

Nov4 193-203 Who whom distinction Adjectives & adverbs Ex 25-1, 26-1

     381-414     Writing a Resource Paper; Argument Paper due

     397-404     Evaluating Sources for a Resource Paper;

                       Resource Paper Directions

11 Holiday

18 In-class work and conferences on Resource Paper.

     128-146              exactness, appropriate language
                     Ex 17-2, 18-1, 18-2,

     291-298       Semicolons and Colons Ex 34-1, 34-2, 35-1

25 Holiday

Dec2 Review and turn in assignments. Resource Paper due

9 Objective Final Test

     Final essay exam on an unannounced topic       

The Writing Process 1-58

1: Generating ideas; sketching a plan

1a: Assessing the writing situation

1b: Exploring your subject

1c: Formulating a tentative thesis

1d: Sketching a plan

2: Drafting

2a: Drafting an introduction that includes a thesis

2b: Drafting the body

2c: Attempting a conclusion

3: Revising

3a: Making global revisions

3b: Revising and editing sentences; proofreading

4: Writing paragraphs

4a: Focusing on a main point

4b: Developing the main point

4c: Choosing a suitable pattern of organization

4d: Making paragraphs coherent

4e: Adjusting paragraph length

The Writing Process Resources

Clarity 79-146

8: Active verbs

8a: Active versus passive verbs

8B: ACTIVE VERSUS BE VERBS

9: PARALLEL IDEAS

9A: PARALLEL IDEAS IN A SERIES

9B: PARALLEL IDEAS PRESENTED AS PAIRS

9C: REPETITION OF FUNCTION WORDS

10: NEEDED WORDS

10A: IN COMPOUND STRUCTURES

10B: THAT

10C: IN COMPARISONS

10D: A, AN, AND THE

11: MIXED CONSTRUCTIONS

11A: MIXED GRAMMAR

11B: ILLOGICAL CONNECTIONS

11C: IS WHEN, IS WHERE, AND REASON . . . IS BECAUSE

12: MISPLACED AND DANGLING MODIFIERS

12A: LIMITING MODIFIERS

12B: B MISPLACED PHRASES AND CLAUSES

12C: AWKWARDLY PLACED MODIFIERS

12D: SPLIT INFINITIVES

12E: DANGLING MODIFIERS

13: SHIFTS

13A: POINT OF VIEW (PERSON, NUMBER)

13B: VERB TENSE

13C: VERB MOOD, VOICE

13D: INDIRECT TO DIRECT QUESTIONS OR QUOTATIONS

14: EMPHASIS

14A: COORDINATION AND SUBORDINATION

14B: CHOPPY SENTENCES

14C: INEFFECTIVE OR EXCESSIVE COORDINATION

14D: SUBORDINATION FOR EMPHASIS

14E: EXCESSIVE SUBORDINATION

14F: OTHER TECHNIQUES

15: VARIETY

15A: SENTENCE OPENINGS

15B: SENTENCE STRUCTURES

15C: INVERTED ORDER

16: WORDY SENTENCES

16A: REDUNDANCIES

16B: UNNECESSARY REPETITION

16C: EMPTY OR INFLATED PHRASES

16D: SIMPLIFYING THE STRUCTURE

16E: REDUCING CLAUSES TO PHRASES, PHRASES TO SINGLE WORDS

17: APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE

17A: JARGON

17B: PRETENTIOUS LANGUAGE, EUPHEMISMS, “DOUBLESPEAK”

17C: OBSOLETE AND INVENTED WORDS

17D: SLANG, REGIONAL EXPRESSIONS, NONSTANDARD ENGLISH

17E: LEVELS OF FORMALITY

17F: SEXIST LANGUAGE

17G: OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE

18: EXACT WORDS

18A: CONNOTATIONS

18B: SPECIFIC, CONCRETE NOUNS

18C: MISUSED WORDS

18D: STANDARD IDIOMS

18E: CLICHÉS

18F: FIGURES OF SPEECH

CLARITY RESOURCES

GRAMMAR 147-222

19: SENTENCE FRAGMENTS

19A: SUBORDINATE CLAUSES

19B: PHRASES

19C: OTHER FRAGMENTED WORD GROUPS

19D: ACCEPTABLE FRAGMENTS

20: RUN-ON SENTENCES

20A: CORRECTION WITH COORDINATING CONJUNCTION

20B: CORRECTION WITH SEMICOLON, COLON, OR DASH

20C: CORRECTION BY SEPARATING SENTENCES

20D: CORRECTION BY RESTRUCTURING

21: SUBJECT-VERB AGREEMENT

21A: STANDARD SUBJECT-VERB COMBINATIONS

21B: WORDS BETWEEN SUBJECT AND VERB

21C: SUBJECTS JOINED WITH AND

21D: SUBJECTS JOINED WITH OR, NOR, EITHER . . . OR, OR NEITHER . . . NOR

21E: INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

21F: COLLECTIVE NOUNS

21G: SUBJECT FOLLOWING VERB

21H: SUBJECT, NOT SUBJECT COMPLEMENT

21I: WHO, WHICH, AND THAT

21J: WORDS WITH PLURAL FORM, SINGULAR MEANING

21K: TITLES OF WORKS, COMPANY NAMES, WORDS MENTIONED AS WORDS, GERUND PHRASES

22: PRONOUN-ANTECEDENT AGREEMENT

22A: SINGULAR WITH SINGULAR, PLURAL WITH PLURAL (INDEFINITE PRONOUNS, GENERIC NOUNS)

22B: COLLECTIVE NOUNS

22C: ANTECEDENTS JOINED WITH AND

22D: ANTECEDENTS JOINED WITH OR, NOR, EITHER . . . OR, OR NEITHER . . . NOR

23: PRONOUN REFERENCE

23A: AMBIGUOUS OR REMOTE REFERENCE

23B: BROAD REFERENCE OF THIS, THAT, WHICH, AND IT

23C: IMPLIED ANTECEDENTS

23D: INDEFINITE USE OF THEY, IT, AND YOU

23E: WHO FOR PERSONS, WHICH OR THAT FOR THINGS

24: PRONOUN CASE (I VS. ME, ETC.)

24A: SUBJECTIVE CASE FOR SUBJECTS AND SUBJECT COMPLEMENTS

24B: OBJECTIVE CASE FOR OBJECTS

24C: APPOSITIVES

24D: PRONOUN FOLLOWING THAN OR AS

24E: WE OR US BEFORE A NOUN

24F: SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS OF INFINITIVES

24G: PRONOUN MODIFYING A GERUND

25: WHO AND WHOM

25A: IN SUBORDINATE CLAUSES

25B: IN QUESTIONS

25C: AS SUBJECTS OR OBJECTS OF INFINITIVES

26: ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS

26A: ADVERBS AS MODIFIERS

26B: ADJECTIVES AS COMPLEMENTS

26C: COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

26D: DOUBLE NEGATIVES

27: VERB FORMS, TENSES, MOODS

27A: IRREGULAR VERBS

27B: LIE AND LAY

27C: -S (OR -ES) ENDINGS

27D: -ED ENDINGS

27E: OMITTED VERBS

27F: VERB TENSE

27G: SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD

GRAMMAR RESOURCES

ESL CHALLENGES 223-268

28: VERBS

28A: APPROPRIATE FORM AND TENSE

28B: BASE FORM AFTER A MODAL

28C: PASSIVE VOICE

28D: NEGATIVE VERB FORMS

28E: VERBS IN CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

28F: VERBS FOLLOWED BY GERUNDS OR INFINITIVES

29: ARTICLES AND TYPES OF NOUNS

29A: ARTICLES AND OTHER NOUN MARKERS

29B: TYPES OF NOUNS

29C: WHEN TO USE THE

29D: WHEN TO USE A OR AN

29E: WHEN NOT TO USE A OR AN

29F: NO ARTICLES WITH GENERAL NOUNS

29G: ARTICLES WITH PROPER NOUNS

30: SENTENCE STRUCTURE

30A: LINKING VERB BETWEEN A SUBJECT AND ITS COMPLEMENT

30B: A SUBJECT IN EVERY SENTENCE

30C: REPEATED NOUNS OR PRONOUNS WITH THE SAME GRAMMATICAL FUNCTION

30D: REPEATED OBJECTS, ADVERBS IN ADJECTIVE CLAUSES

30E: MIXED CONSTRUCTIONS WITH ALTHOUGH OR BECAUSE

30F: PLACEMENT OF ADVERBS

30G: PRESENT PARTICIPLES AND PAST PARTICIPLES

30H: ORDER OF CUMULATIVE ADJECTIVES

31: PREPOSITIONS AND IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

31A: PREPOSITIONS SHOWING TIME AND PLACE

31B: NOUN (INCLUDING -ING FORM) AFTER A PREPOSITION

31C: COMMON ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITION COMBINATIONS

31D: COMMON VERB + PREPOSITION COMBINATIONS

ESL CHALLENGES RESOURCES

PUNCTUATION 269-316

32: THE COMMA

32A: INDEPENDENT CLAUSES JOINED WITH AND, BUT, ETC.

32B: INTRODUCTORY CLAUSES OR PHRASES

32C: ITEMS IN A SERIES

32D: COORDINATE ADJECTIVES

32E: NONRESTRICTIVE ELEMENTS

32F: TRANSITIONS, PARENTHETICAL EXPRESSIONS, ABSOLUTE PHRASES, CONTRASTS

32G: DIRECT ADDRESS, YES AND NO, INTERROGATIVE TAGS, INTERJECTIONS

32H: HE SAID, ETC.

32I: DATES, ADDRESSES, TITLES, NUMBERS

32J: TO PREVENT CONFUSION

33: UNNECESSARY COMMAS

33A: BETWEEN COMPOUND ELEMENTS THAT ARE NOT INDEPENDENT CLAUSES

33B: AFTER A PHRASE BEGINNING AN INVERTED SENTENCE

33C: BEFORE THE FIRST OR AFTER THE LAST ITEM IN A SERIES

33D: BETWEEN CUMULATIVE ADJECTIVES, AN ADJECTIVE AND A NOUN, OR AN ADVERB AND AN ADJECTIVE

33E: BEFORE AND AFTER RESTRICTIVE OR MILDLY PARENTHETICAL ELEMENTS

33F: BEFORE ESSENTIAL CONCLUDING ADVERBIAL ELEMENTS

33G: BETWEEN A VERB AND ITS SUBJECT OR OBJECT

33H: OTHER MISUSES

34: THE SEMICOLON

34A: INDEPENDENT CLAUSES NOT JOINED WITH A COORDINATING CONJUNCTION

34B: INDEPENDENT CLAUSES LINKED WITH A TRANSITIONAL EXPRESSION

34C: SERIES CONTAINING INTERNAL PUNCTUATION

34D: MISUSES

35: THE COLON

35A: BEFORE A LIST, AN APPOSITIVE, OR A QUOTATION

35B: BETWEEN INDEPENDENT CLAUSES

35C: SALUTATIONS, HOURS AND MINUTES, PROPORTIONS, TITLES AND SUBTITLES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRIES

35D: MISUSES

36: THE APOSTROPHE

36A: POSSESSIVE NOUNS

36B: POSSESSIVE INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

36C: CONTRACTIONS

36D: NOT FOR PLURAL NUMBERS, LETTERS, ABBREVIATIONS, WORDS MENTIONED AS WORDS

36E: MISUSES

37: QUOTATION MARKS

37A: DIRECT QUOTATIONS

37B: LONG QUOTATIONS

37C: QUOTATION WITHIN A QUOTATION

37D: TITLES OF WORKS

37E: WORDS AS WORDS

37F: WITH OTHER PUNCTUATION MARKS

37G: MISUSES

38: END PUNCTUATION

38A: THE PERIOD

38B: THE QUESTION MARK

38C: THE EXCLAMATION POINT

39: OTHER PUNCTUATION MARKS: THE DASH, PARENTHESES, BRACKETS, THE ELLIPSIS MARK, THE SLASH

39A: DASH

39B: PARENTHESES

39C: BRACKETS

39D: ELLIPSIS MARK

39E: SLASH

PUNCTUATION RESOURCES

MECHANICS 317-344

40: ABBREVIATIONS

40A: TITLES WITH PROPER NAMES

40B: FAMILIAR ABBREVIATIONS

40C: CONVENTIONAL ABBREVIATIONS

40D: LATIN ABBREVIATIONS

40E: MISUSES

41: NUMBERS

41A: SPELLING OUT

41B: USING FIGURES

42: ITALICS (UNDERLINING)

42A: TITLES OF WORKS

42B: NAMES OF SPACECRAFT, AIRCRAFT, AND SHIPS

42C: FOREIGN WORDS

42D: WORDS MENTIONED AS WORDS, LETTERS MENTIONED AS LETTERS, AND NUMBERS MENTIONED AS NUMBERS

42E: MISUSES

43: SPELLING

43A: THE DICTIONARY

43B: WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE

43C: SPELLING RULES

43D: COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS

44: THE HYPHEN

44A: COMPOUND WORDS

44B: HYPHENATED ADJECTIVES

44C: FRACTIONS AND COMPOUND NUMBERS

44D: WITH CERTAIN PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES

44E: TO AVOID AMBIGUITY OR TO SEPARATE AWKWARD DOUBLE OR TRIPLE LETTERS

44F: WORD DIVISION

45: CAPITAL LETTERS

45A: PROPER VERSUS COMMON NOUNS

45B: TITLES WITH PROPER NAMES

45C: TITLES AND SUBTITLES OF WORKS

45D: FIRST WORD OF A SENTENCE

45E: FIRST WORD OF A QUOTED SENTENCE

45F: FIRST WORD AFTER A COLON

45G: ABBREVIATIONS

MECHANICS RESOURCES

ACADEMIC WRITING 345-410

46: WRITING ABOUT TEXTS

46A: READING ACTIVELY: ANNOTATING THE TEXT

46B: SKETCHING AN OUTLINE

46C: SUMMARIZING

46D: ANALYZING

46E: UNDERSTANDING THE TYPES OF TEXTS ANALYZED IN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES

47: CONSTRUCTING REASONABLE ARGUMENTS

47A: EXAMINING YOUR ISSUE'S SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS

47B: VIEWING YOUR AUDIENCE AS A PANEL OF JURORS

47C: ESTABLISHING CREDIBILITY AND STATING YOUR POSITION

47D: BACKING UP YOUR THESIS WITH PERSUASIVE LINES OF ARGUMENT

47E: SUPPORTING YOUR CLAIMS WITH SPECIFIC EVIDENCE

47F: ANTICIPATING OBJECTIONS; COUNTERING OPPOSING ARGUMENTS

47G: BUILDING COMMON GROUND

47H: SAMPLE ARGUMENT PAPER

48: EVALUATING ARGUMENTS

48A: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN REASONABLE AND FALLACIOUS ARGUMENTATIVE TACTICS

48B: DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN LEGITIMATE AND UNFAIR EMOTIONAL APPEALS

48C: JUDGING HOW FAIRLY A WRITER HANDLES OPPOSING VIEWS

ACADEMIC WRITING RESOURCES

RESOURCE 381-410

49: CONDUCTING RESOURCE

49A: POSING QUESTIONS WORTH EXPLORING

49B: MAPPING OUT A SEARCH STRATEGY

49C: SEARCHING A DATABASE OR CONSULTING A PRINT INDEX TO LOCATE ARTICLES

49D: CONSULTING THE LIBRARY'S CATALOG TO LOCATE BOOKS

49E: USING THE WEB TO FIND A VARIETY OF SOURCES

49F: USING OTHER SEARCH TOOLS

49G: CONDUCTING FIELD RESOURCE

50: EVALUATING SOURCES

50A: DETERMINING HOW A SOURCE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR WRITING

50B: SELECTING SOURCES WORTH YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION

50C: READING WITH AN OPEN MIND AND A CRITICAL EYE

50D: ASSESSING WEB SOURCES WITH SPECIAL CARE

51: MANAGING INFORMATION; AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

51A: MAINTAINING A WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY

51B: KEEPING TRACK OF SOURCE MATERIALS

51C: AVOIDING UNINTENTIONAL PLAGIARISM

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52: SUPPORTING A THESIS

52A: FORMING A TENTATIVE THESIS

52B: ORGANIZING YOUR EVIDENCE

52C: USING SOURCES TO INFORM AND SUPPORT YOUR ARGUMENT

53: CITING SOURCES; AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

53A: CITING QUOTATIONS AND BORROWED IDEAS

53B: ENCLOSING BORROWED LANGUAGE IN QUOTATION MARKS

53C: PUTTING SUMMARIES AND PARAPHRASES IN YOUR OWN WORDS

54: INTEGRATING SOURCES

54A: LIMITING YOUR USE OF QUOTATIONS

54B: USING SIGNAL PHRASES TO INTEGRATE SOURCES

55: DOCUMENTING SOURCES

55A: MLA IN-TEXT CITATIONS

DIRECTORY TO MLA IN-TEXT CITATION MODELS

55B: MLA LIST OF WORKS CITED

DIRECTORY TO MLA WORKS CITED MODELS

55C: MLA INFORMATION NOTES (OPTIONAL)

CITATION AT A GLANCE: BOOK (MLA)

CITATION AT A GLANCE: ARTICLE IN A PERIODICAL (MLA)

CITATION AT A GLANCE: SHORT WORK FROM A WEB SITE (MLA)

CITATION AT A GLANCE: ARTICLE FROM A DATABASE (MLA)

56: MLA MANUSCRIPT FORMAT; SAMPLE PAPER

56A: MLA MANUSCRIPT FORMAT

56B: SAMPLE MLA RESOURCE PAPER

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62: PARTS OF SPEECH

62A: NOUNS

62B: PROUNOUNS

62C: VERBS

62D: ADJECTIVES

62E: ADVERBS

62F: PREPOSITIONS

62G: CONJUNCTIONS

62H: INTERJECTIONS

63: SENTENCE PATTERNS

63A: SUBJECTS

63B: VERBS, OBJECTS, AND COMPLEMENTS

63C: PATTERN VARIATIONS

64: Subordinate word groups

64a: Prepositional phrases

64b: Subordinate clauses

64c: Verbal phrases

64d: Appositive phrases

64e: Absolute phrases

65: Sentence types

65A: SENTENCE STRUCTURES

65B: SENTENCE PURPOSES

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