Learning Unit Assignment

Where/How is it

submitted? Where do I find the text/topic? Notes

What's Coming

Next?

1 pick a topic u01a1

Reid textbook (ix and following) or

the subjects presented in the

library research guide (the tabs are

the topical subject options)

The Reid textbook has essays in it.

You can find a list of them by topic

on page ix and following. The

library research guides have been

created from this list of toipcs in

the textbook. You'll need to start

by picking just a topic area, not a

narrow topic for writing the final

paper -- that's a long way from

now, and you can think about that,

but you just need to pick a topical

area/subject area right now. You'll

use this for the papers we'll write

through unit 5.

short summary

assignment

2 write a summary u02a1

Pick an essay in the Reid textbook

that fits your topical subject area

that you selected in u01a1.

Pick an essay from Reid, using the

list of readings separated by

subject areas (ix and following).

Write a summary.

Essay #1: Summary

and Response

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First draft of

annotated

bibliography

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Essay #1: summary +

response rough draft

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annotated bibliography

u03a1

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u03a2

You can use the same text you

chose in u02a1 or pick a new essay

from Reid's textbook. In u03a1 you

will write a summary + response

essay (described in the textbook)

and for the annotated bibliography,

you'll create an annotated entry for

the essay you're working with here

in u03a1.

This is a rough draft week. You

have a rough draft of the first essay

(summary + response) and a rough

draft of the annotated bibliography

(also called a working

bibliography).

Final draft of Essay

#1: Summary +

Response.

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Essay #1: summary +

response final copy u04a1

You should use the feedback from

the instructor to revise the paper

for submission for a final grade.

Revision is not a laser-beam effect

and is not just editing. You should

edit and proofread, and you should

address the comments from the

instructor, but you need to apply

those comments to other parts of

the paper, and start to really re-

imagine the paper through the lens

of your instructor's comments.

short writing

project: summary

and response

(practice)

5

summary + response

(short writing) u05a1

Pick another essay from the Reid

textbook, based upon your topic of

choice for the course. Write a very

short summary and response.

I would choose an essay that

includes a key term or process that

I might explain in the next paper. Essay #2: Explaining

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Essay #2: Explaining

rough draft

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Annotated

Bibliography draft 2

u06d1

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06a1

Essay #2 can start from an essay in

the Reid textbook, but you will still

have to find two scholarly articles

(scholarly articles, not summaries

or opinion pieces, please) in the

library. The annotated bibliography

will include all of the sources you

have looked at up to this point, in

all assignments.

Note that thisessay #2 rough draft

is turned in through the discussion

forum. The annotated bibliography

should take the unit 3 rough draft

and add your sources from Essay

#2 to it.

Essay #2: Explaining

final copy

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Essay #2: Explaining

final copy u07a1

Take comments from your peers

and instructor and make revisions

to your paper. Submit for grading.

Remember that revision means

reimagining the paper through the

lens of the feedback you receive,

not a laser beam or band-aid effect.

argument short

writing (synthesizing

two sources from

the library on your

topic of choice)

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argument (short

writing) in which you

synthesize two library

sources u08a1

Find two articles in the library that

address the topic you want to write

about (this is that narrow topic

choice) for the final paper.

Create a short essay in which you

discuss the two essays and your

response to them (your position on

the issue and how it matches or

doesn't the two articles you found).

Essay #3: Arguing

rough draft and

Annotated

Bibliography final

draft

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Essay #3: Arguing

rough draft

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Annotated

Bibliography final draft

u09d1

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u09a1

Write an academic argument on

your topic of choice. You can find

new articles or use the ones you

used in u08a1.

Note that the rough draft of Essay

#3 is due in the discussion forum.

Your annotated bibliography is a

continuation (and summation to)

the two rough draft versions you

started before.

Essay #3: Arguing

final copy

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Essay #3: Arguing final

copy u10a1

Revise the essay based upon

feedback from peers and

instrucctor.

Remember that revision means

reimagining the paper through the

lens of the feedback you receive,

not a laser beam or band-aid effect. It's over!