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• ENG 121 Entire Course (Ash)
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• ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay
• ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in
  Writing
• ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies
• ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Generating Ideas for Writing
• ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration

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• ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay (Ash)
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• Diagnostic Essay. The diagnostic writing exercise
  will help your instructor discover who you are as
  a writer. The essay will be used to help you
  identify your strengths and weaknesses as a
  writer, and it will allow the instructor the
  opportunity to identify grammatical, mechanical,
  and stylistic problems specific to each student.
  You will earn full credit for completing this
  assignment, as long as you follow instructions.
• Word Range 400-500 Estimated Time on Task 1hour
  
• Please select one of the topics below as the
  subject of a short essay.
• Topic 1 Favorite Location
• Think of a specific location that means something
  to you, such as the ocean, front porch of a
  favorite family restaurant, or perhaps a favorite
  room in your home. Convey that meaning to the
  reader by describing the location as it impacts
  three of the five senses sight, sound, touch,
  taste, or smell.
• Topic 2 Healthy vs. Happy? Is taking care of
  your healthwatching what you

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• ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in
  Writing (Ash)
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• Strengths and Weaknesses in Writing. In Chapter 1
  of Essentials of College Writing, you reviewed a
  comprehensive list of typical college writing
  tasks, and you had the opportunity to identify
  three tasks as strengths and three tasks as
  weaknesses. Identify and share these strengths
  and weaknesses, citing examples from past
  experiences. Then, tell specifically how you plan
  to resolve the three weaknesses you identified.

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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies (Ash)For
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ing Strategies. After studying the active reading
strategies in Chapter 2 of Essentials of College
Writing, read Chapters 1 and 2 and the
Instructor Guidance for Week One again,
applying the Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review
(SQ3R) strategy as you reread the materials.
Discuss how this reading strategy is similar to
and/or different from the way you read course
material previously. Relate how this strategy
improved your comprehension of the course
materials in just the first two chapters. Do you
think this strategy will be helpful to you in
other college courses? Explain with support from
your reading

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ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz (Ash)For more course
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1 Quiz (Ash)

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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Generating Ideas for Writing
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Writing. Review the material in Chapter 3 of the
Essentials of College Writing text regarding
development of thesis statements. Then, review
the techniques for generating ideas discussed in
Chapter 4 of Essentials of College Writing. In
preparation for your narrative essay, use both
chapters to experiment with generating ideas for
your narrative essay and to produce a working
thesis statement for your draft this week. Share
your experiences in this discussion indicating
the topic you have chosen, your working thesis
statement, and the technique(s) you have employed
to properly organize your essay.

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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration
(Ash)For more course tutorials
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After reading the essay The Death of My Father
by Steve Martin in Chapter 5 of Essentials of
College Writing, identify at least three elements
of narration in Martins essay and analyze the
effectiveness of those elements by describing
what made those elements effective. You should
also be able to state the authors purpose for
writing the narrative, determine the intended
audience, and identify the thesis statement.  

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ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative Essay Draft (Ash)For
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ative Essay Draft. The body of the essay draft
must be 500 to 600 words in length (approximately
two body pages), and it must have a title page.
The essay must be formatted according to APA
style as outlined in the Writing Center, located
within the Learning Resources tab on the left
navigation toolbar, in your online course.
Choose one of the following topics

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ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz (Ash)For more course
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2 Quiz (Ash)

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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of an Editor
(Ash)For more course tutorials
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Editor. A good editor often pays close attention
to detail, practices patience and
self-discipline, demonstrates good organization,
and seeks to correct issues in content without
losing the original intent of the work. Select
two qualities of an editor that are likely to
prove important to your editorial work in this
course and explain why they will be instrumental
in improving the quality of your written work as
you go forward.

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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 The Importance of Grammar,
Mechanics, and Style (Ash)For more course
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of Grammar, Mechanics, and Style. You have
received feedback on the Diagnostic Essay and
Diagnostic Quiz from Week One as well as your
Narrative Essay Draft from Week Two. You have
also read about and explored common writing
problems after visiting the Writing Center.
Review the feedback you have received then,
identify and discuss three errors noted in
grammar, mechanics, or style. Explain why you
think the errors occur, how you plan to correct
the errors (specifically), and how you might
avoid the errors in future work

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ENG 121 Week 3 Final Narrative Essay (Ash)For
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l Narrative Essay. After reviewing instructor
feedback from your Narrative Essay Draft, revise,
edit, and proofread your draft to produce a
polished narrative essay. The body of the Final
Narrative Essay must be 500 to 600 words in
length (approximately two body pages), and it
must have a title page. The essay must be
formatted according to APA style as outlined in
the Writing Center, located within the Learning
Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in
your online course.

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ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz (Ash)For more course
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3 Quiz (Ash)

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ENG 121 Week 4 Descriptive Essay Draft (Ash)For
more course tutorials visitwww.uophelp.comDescri
ptive Essay (Draft). The body of the essay draft
must be 500 to 600 words in length (approximately
two body pages), and it must have a title page.
The essay must be formatted according to APA
style as outlined in the Writing Center, located
within the Learning Resources tab on the left
navigation toolbar, in your online course.

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ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Elements of Description
(Ash)For more course tutorials
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After reading, Good boy, Beau. Stay, what did
you notice about the way Anna Quindlen uses
description and the way she organizes her essay?
What point is she trying to make? What sensory
details stood out for you and why? Be specific in
your explanations

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ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz (Ash)For more course
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4 Quiz (Ash)

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ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 1 Appeals to Logic and
Reasoning (Ash)For more course tutorials
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Reasoning. In Chapter 7of Essentials of College
Writing, appeals to logic and reasoning are
important components of persuasive writing. Take
a moment to review one of your own problems of
grammar, mechanics, or style that you have been
able to remedy as a result of working through
this course. Your job is to convince others to
avoid this error before revising, editing, and
proofreading their final descriptive essays. Use
examples from your own experiences, evidence from
your own essays, and good old-fashioned logic and
reason to persuade people to avoid the pitfalls
of the grammatical, mechanical, or stylistic
error you have chosen.

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ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Looking Back and Looking
Forward (Ash)For more course tutorials
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Forward. As you near the end of this course,
reflect on what you have learned about English
composition over the past five weeks. What are
the most important concepts you learned from this
course? Which chapters in your reading were the
most valuable for you and why? What guidance
provided by your instructor or TA was most
useful? What areas of your writing do you think
have improved the most? Going forward, what areas
will you focus on to continue to improve your
writing skills?  

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ENG 121 Week 5 Final Descriptive Essay (Ash)For
more course tutorials visitwww.uophelp.com Fina
l Descriptive Essay. After reviewing instructor
feedback from your Descriptive Essay Draft,
revise, edit, and proofread your draft to produce
a polished descriptive essay. The body of the
Final Descriptive Essay must be 500 to 600 words
in length (approximately two body pages), and it
must have a title page. The essay must be
formatted according to APA style as outlined in
the Writing Center, located within the Learning
Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar, in
your online course.

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