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ENG 121 Entire Course  
ENG 121 Week 1 Pre Quiz ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz
Grammar Assessment ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Reading
Strategies ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Generating Ideas
for Writing ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Strengths and
Weaknesses in Writing ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2
Outlining and Planning the Personal Essay ENG 121
Week 1 Assignment Practice Essay
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ENG 121 Week 1 Assignment Practice Essay  
Practice Essay. This 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, stylistic, and mechanical problems
specific to each student. Do not fret over the
idea that grammar, style, and mechanics will be
evaluated in this assignment.
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ENG 121 Week 1 Diagnostic Essay  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Reading Strategies    
  Reading Strategies. After studying the active
reading strategies described in Chapter 2 of
Essentials of College Writing, read Chapters 1
and 2 and the Instructor Guidance for Week One,
apply the survey-question-read-recite-review
(SQ3R) strategy as you reread the materials.
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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.
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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Generating Ideas for
Writing  
a. Provide your three to five ideas (in list
format) and a paragraph explaining how you used
the techniques in Chapter 4 to come up with those
ideas. b. Share what you think the key elements
of a narrative are (i.e., what makes a good story
work).
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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Reading Strategies  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 1 Pre Quiz    
1.Which one of the following is indicative of
formal, as opposed to informal, language
usage? 2. Although writing can be difficult,
becoming a better writing can help you do all of
the following EXCEPT 3. Which of the following
is a type of reference book that provides
essential information and standards for clear and
consistent writing?
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ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz Grammar Assessment  
. Question Please choose the
sentence that is free from punctuation errors
from the options below.Some students could not
download the mobile application, the rush of
traffic crashed the site.
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ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz  
ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz
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ENG 121 Week 2 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
two tasks as strengths and two tasks as
weaknesses.
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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Elements of Narration  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Outlining and Planning the
Personal Essay  
Statement of purpose An introductory
paragraph Post your outline, statement of
purpose, and introductory paragraph to the
discussion board. You can also upload it as a
word document. Your initial post must be 200 to
300 words in length and posted by Day 3.
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ENG 121 Week 2 Journal Quotes  
There are three ways to support a point with
information from a source quoting, paraphrasing,
or summarizing. This week, you will practice
quoting a source and citing that source in your
journal entry. Please be sure to read and review
the Example Journal Entry Quotes document,
which describes how to integrate quotations.
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ENG 121 Week 2 Narrative Essay Draft  
Draft a narrative about returning to school. You
may explore the issues regarding why you decided
to return to school, the benefits of obtaining a
college degree, changes in your lifestyle
required for you to pursue your degree, obstacles
to successful completion of your degree program,
strategies you will use to overcome these
obstacles, or any other subject related to your
educational pursuits.
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ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz (3 Sets)  
1. Question All of the guests
_____ gone to the concert in the park. 2.
Question The house on the corner lot.
3. Question When you finally
take the test. 4. Question The
demonstrators had taken no part in the riot. 5.
Question The movie starts at 830
make sure youre there before 815
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ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz  
ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz
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ENG 121 Week 3 Assignment Personal Essay Draft  
Personal Essay Draft. For this writing
assignment, you have two choices. Please select
one of the following options for your
essay Describe a person, place, or object that
has special meaning in your life.
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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 Explore Persuasive, Personal,
and Expository Writing  
Explore Persuasive, Personal, and Expository
Writing. Review Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of
Essentials of College Writing. Thus far in the
course, you have been working on a personal essay
of your own, and you have been writing journals
that analyze the work of professional writers in
their personal essays. In your initial post for
this discussion
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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 The Qualities of an Editor  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 Peer Review    
  Peer Review. As part of the writing process,
you are expected to reflect on your work and
revise and edit accordingly. It is also useful to
establish a community of learners in which you
help edit and proofread each others papers. This
reciprocal process will help you identify areas
of strength and weakness in otherswriting as
well as reflect on your own work and perhaps
discover similar mistakes. For this week, you
will be performing a peer review on your Personal
Essay Draft before you submit it to your
instructor on Day 7.
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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 The Importance of Grammar,
Mechanics, and Style  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 3 Final Narrative Essay  
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
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ENG 121 Week 3 Journal Paraphrasing  
As you are writing this journal entry, please pay
attention to the areas that you struggled with in
your Grammar Assessment quiz and Practice
Essay assignment. Explain how you plan to use
the literary element in your personal essay.
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ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz (4 Sets)  
1. Question All movie reviews
reveal the prejudices of ___________ author. 2.
Question The congregation was
delighted with their new bus and sang its praises
at the Wednesday night supper. 3.
Question The town felt cheated when the
council spent their money on a new street light
in their neighborhood. 4. Question
Choose the sentence that correctly matches verb
tenses.
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ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz  
ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz
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ENG 121 Week 4 Descriptive Essay Draft  
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.
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ENG 121 week 4 Discussion 1 Revision Versus
Editing  
Reflect Take time to reflect on writing as a
processhow ideas develop through the use of
language, and the changing of that language.
Reflect on the differences between revising and
editing as described in the textbook.
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ENG 121 Week 4 DQ 1 Elements of Description  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 4 Journal Summarizing ENG 121 Week 4
Journal Summarizing  
Journal Entry Summarizing. This week, you
continue writing your journal entries. This
journal is designed to give you practice in
academic writing, which is very different from
the personal essay writing that you have been
practicing. Academic writing entails making a
point and supporting that point with information
from a reputable source. There are three ways to
support a point with information from a source
quoting, paraphrasing, or summarizing. This week,
you will practice summarizing a source and citing
that source in your journal entry. Please be sure
to read and review the Example Journal Entry
Summarizing document, which describes how to
integrate quotations.
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ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz (2 Set)    
1. Question Charlotte Bronte
begins her novel Jayne Eyre with the following
sentence there was no possibility of taking a
walk that day (p. 1). 2. Question
John asked his assistant, What time is our
meeting with the sales team? 3. Question
In The Writer in All of Us, author June
Gould (1989) tells writers that the process of
revising an essay allows them to see with new
eyes. (p. 121).
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ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz    
ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz
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ENG 121 Week 5 Discussion 1 Two Options  
Describe the main areas of your paper that you
need to work on as well as areas that your
reviewers felt you did well on? How will/did you
remedy any weakness in your paper Did your
reviewer feel you did a solid addressing your
purpose in the personal essay?
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ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 1 Appeals to Logic and
Reasoning  
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.
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ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Editing Checklist  
Editing Checklist- Your first post for this
discussion thread is due on Thursday, Day 3 of
this week. Your responses to your classmates are
due on Monday, Day 7. Prepare As you prepare to
write your first discussion for this course, take
a few moments to Read over the numerous quizzes
youve taken, starting with the Grammar
Assessment. Review the feedback you received
from your instructor. Review the Grading Rubric
for this discussion.
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ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Looking Back and Looking
Forward  
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?
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ENG 121 Week 5 Final Descriptive Essay  
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.
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