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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
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ENG 121 Week 1 Assignment Practice Essay FOR
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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. This writing
exercise is merely one way to take a look at any
particular patterns that exist in your writing.
You will earn full credit for completing this
assignment as long as you follow instructions. A
personal essay is about a life
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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 1 Reading Strategies FOR
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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. In your
initial post 1. Discuss how this reading
strategy is similar to and/or different from the
way you read course material previously. 2. If
using the strategy did not improve your
comprehension of the
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ENG 121 Week 1 DQ 2 Generating Ideas for Writing
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rating Ideas for Writing. Read the Final Essay
assignment instructions in Week Five of your
online course or in the Components of Course
Evaluation section of this guide. Review the
techniques for generating ideas discussed in
Chapter 4 of Essentials of College Writing.
Develop three to five ideas for your personal
essay. The draft is due in Week Three, and the
Final Essay is due in Week Five. In your initial
post 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 Pre Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
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Quiz 1. Which one of the following is indicative
of formal, as opposed to informal, language
usage? 2. 2. Although writing can be difficult,
becoming a better writing can help you do all of
the following EXCEPT 3. 3. Which of the
following is a type of reference book that
provides essential information and standards for
clear and consistent writing? 4. 4. One of the
reasons to use Ashford's Writing Resources is to
avoid plagiarism. What is plagiarism? 5. 5. Which
of the following is NOT one of the common fears
or misconceptions about writing?
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ENG 121 Week 1 Quiz Grammar Assessment FOR
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1. 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. The students rushed to download the
mobile application it was designed to help them
keep track of deadlines in their classes.
Question 2. Question Please choose the sentence
that is free from punctuation errors from the
options below. The students wanted to use their
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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 1 Strengths and Weaknesses in
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om 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. In Week One, you completed the
Practice Essay and Grammar Assessment. In your
initial post for this discussion 1. Describe at
least one task that you believe you did well on
when writing the Practice Essay in Week 1. 2.
Describe one task that
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ENG 121 Week 2 DQ 2 Outlining and Planning the
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the Personal Essay. Review Chapters 5 and 6 of
Essentials of College Writing before beginning
this post. Next, review the Introduction and
Outline Worksheet (available in the online
course). After reviewing the required documents,
use the handout to create the following for your
personal essay 1. A comprehensive outline 2.
Statement of purpose 3. An introductory paragraph
Post your outline, statement of purpose, and
introductory paragraph to the discussion
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ENG 121 Week 2 Journal Quotes FOR MORE CLASSES
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Quotes. This week, you begin 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
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
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ENG 121 Week 2 Quiz (3 Sets) FOR MORE CLASSES
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Set 2 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 6. Question Select the
sentence in which the word, usually, appears in
the appropriate position. 7. Question Perplexed
by the rising rates of inflation and alarmed by
the decline in major construction projects. 8.
Question Some of the students working in the
science laboratory last semester. 9. Question
Our solar system has
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ENG 121 Week 3 Assignment Personal Essay Draft
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Essay Draft. For this writing assignment, you
have two choices. Please select one of the
following options for your essay 1. Describe a
person, place, or object that has special meaning
in your life. 2. Describe a particular moment or
occurrence in your life that had special meaning
to you. Use the techniques described in sections
6.3 and 6.4 of Essentials of College Writing and
expand upon the prewriting done in the discussion
forum for the past three weeks to provide
specific details about the person, place, object,
or event so that readers can visualize the
subject and/or feel present in the story. Your
description should be specific and appeal to the
five senses. This rough draft needs to be at
least 550 words, and it should have a thesis
statement that clearly states what you are going
to be
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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 1 Explore Persuasive, Personal,
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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 1.
Describe how point of view, structure, and tone
differ in the three different types of essays
explained in the textbook. 2. Explain which of
the genres the journal entry most closely
resembles and why. 3. Ask your peers a question
you have about this weeks assigned reading.
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ENG 121 Week 3 DQ 2 Peer Review FOR MORE
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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. For
this discussion, please either (a) upload your
paper (.doc format) as a new thread with your
name and title of paper,
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ENG 121 Week 3 Journal Paraphrasing FOR MORE
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Paraphrasing. 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
paraphrasing a source and citing that source in
your journal entry. Please be sure to read and
review the Example Journal Entry Paraphrasing
document,
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ENG 121 Week 3 Quiz (4 Sets) FOR MORE CLASSES
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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.
5. Question When they found the cat in the
woods, Shirley asked her mother Doris if she
could keep it. 6. Question Every company
strives to keep _________ brand positive. 7.
Question Choose the sentence that correctly
matches verb tenses. 8. Question Choose the
sentence that correctly matches verb tenses. 9.
Question Tom went to the store because ________
wanted to buy some milk. 10.
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ENG 121 week 4 Discussion 1 Revision Versus
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m ENG 121 week 4 discussion 1 Revision Versus
Editing Revision Versus Editing. 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 week, take a few moments to Read Chapter
9 of Essentials of College Writing. Review the
Grading Rubric for this discussion. 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. Writ
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ENG 121 Week 4 Journal Summarizing FOR MORE
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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
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ENG 121 Week 4 Quiz (2 Set) FOR MORE CLASSES
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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). 4. Question In his non-fiction
book On Writing, Stephen King writes, Amateurs
sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just
get up and go to work. (2000). 5. Question In
Strength to Love, Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
writes, the ultimate measure of a man is not
where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of
challenge and controversy.
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ENG 121 Week 5 Discussion 1 Two Options FOR
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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? Did you effectively reach your
audience why? Or why not?
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ENG 121 Week 5 DQ 2 Editing Checklist FOR MORE
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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. Review section 9.4 of
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ENG 121 Week 5 Final Essay Personal Essay FOR
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Three, you wrote a personal essay draft in which
you Described a person, place, or object that
has special meaning in your life or
Described a particular moment or occurrence in
your life that had special meaning to you. This
week, you will complete this draft and turn in
your final personal essay. Be sure to utilize one
of the writing patterns described in Chapter 6.
The personal essay must be at least 1000 words
(not including the title page). Your essay must
include 1. A clear thesis statement in the
introductory paragraph. 2. Specific details about
the person, place, object, or event so that
readers can visualize the subject and/or
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