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Hokusei Women's Junior College
Composition I
Tentative Syllabus

Date

Function & Exercises

Text Pages

April

16

Getting ideas: free writing, discussion

Introduction to Journals

Mechanics: titles, margins, indentation, double-spacing, hyphenation

Composition: My Name

pp. 24-26

pp. 3-5

pp. 205-206

23

Journal Responses

Peer Feedback on My Name

Mechanics: review of above; centering title (no quotation marks); punctuation; capitalization (including titles)

Time-Order List: Morning Activities
(CA's tape; Brainstorming)

Revision of My Name

pp. 3 -5

pp. 11-12

pp. 13-14

May

7

Journal Responses

Mechanics: capitalization

Time-Order Paragraph: Morning Activities

pp. 55-57

p. 40-42

14

Journal Responses

Mechanics: correction symbols; commas

Computer Lab: open/save document

pp. 44-48

pp. 202-203

p. 15

21

Journal Responses

Mechanics: time-order transitions; series commas; sentence combining

Computer Lab: indent; double space

Time-Order Brainstorming: "How To"

p. 40

pp. 20-23

pp. 58-62

28

Journal Responses

Titles vs. Topic Sentences

Mechanics: time order transitions; compound sentences; capitalization

Computer Lab: change font size

Time-Order Composition: "How To"

pp. 36-39

pp. 41-42

pp. 57-58

pp. 20-23

June

4

Journal Responses

Peer Feedback

Mechanics: prepositions; commas with conjunctions (and, but, or, so)

Computer Lab: print preview

p. 66

pp. 44-51

11

Journal Responses

Mechanics: prepositions; vague vs. specific adjectives

Computer Lab: spell check

Description of Room: "Clues"

pp. 70-71

18

Journal Responses

Mechanics: position of prepositional phrases

"The Shared Refrigerator"

Computer Lab: grammar check

Composition: Description of Mystery Place

pp. 72-74

pp. 76-77

pp. 81-82

25

Journal Responses

Topic Sentence/Concluding Sentence

Mechanics: sentence variety; prepositional phrases of place

Computer Lab: margins

Rewrite Description of Mystery Place

p. 83

pp. 85-87

July

2

Journal Responses

Peer Feedback

"The Shared Refrigerator" (continued)

Mechanics: sentence combining

Computer Lab: title page for portfolio

p. 96

p. 90

9

Journal Responses

Class Evaluation

Journal Evaluation Sheets

16

Journal Responses

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Text: Hogue, Ann. First Steps in Academic Writing. Longman, 1996

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Last updated Wednesday, April 11, 2001.