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ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay
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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
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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 ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative
Essay Draft ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of
an Editor ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 The Importance of
Grammar, Mechanics, and Style ENG 121 Week 3
Final Narrative Essay
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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies
ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in
Writing
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.
Reading 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 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration
ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz
Elements of Narration. 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.
ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz
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ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz
ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative Essay Draft
ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz
Narrative 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 3 DQ 2 The Importance of Grammar,
Mechanics, and Style
ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of an Editor
The Importance 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.
The Qualities of an 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 Quiz
ENG 121 Week 3 Final Narrative Essay
Final 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. Your revised, Final Narrative
Essay must a. Demonstrate effective techniques
of narration as outlined in your textbook. b.
Support your thesis statement by utilizing
effective evidence and details.
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ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Elements of Description
ENG 121 Week 4 Descriptive Essay Draft
Elements of Description. 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.
Descriptive 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 5 DQ 1 Appeals to Logic and Reasoning
ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz
Appeals to Logic and 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.
ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz
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ENG 121 Week 5 Final Descriptive Essay
ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Looking Back and Looking
Forward
Final 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. Your revised, Final
Descriptive Essay must
Looking Back and Looking 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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