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2024 Fall

COMPOSITION I - COM101/3 Fall 2024


Course
Anthony Marais
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Lessons

Here is the course outline:

1. Course Introduction

Sep 2

Academic Writing and Rhetoric, Steps in the Writing Process

2. Etymology

Sep 9

The Opacity of English, The Duality of English, The History of English

3. Colloquialisms

Sep 16

Poison Words, Bankrupt Words, Expletives, Phonological Contractions, Slang, Ecstatic Language, Phrasal Verbs, Informalities

4. Poison Words

Sep 23

Exam 1, Word Choice, Sentence Skills

5. Redundancy

Sep 30

Tautology, Pleonasm, Synonymous Pairs, Syntactic Expletives, Stating the Obvious, Overemphasizing Authority

6. Pretentiousness and Grandiosity

Oct 7

Truisms, Platitudes, Clichés, Alliterations, Exaggerations, Superlatives, Incautious Language

7. Citations

Oct 14

Citation Styles, Academic Ethos

8. Plagiarism

Oct 21

Paraphrasing, Interpretation vs. Fact, Types of Plagiarism

9. Ignorance and Neglect

Nov 4

Confusions, Imprecisions, Overly Gendered Prose, Poison Words, Native-Speaker Bad Habits, Xenologisms

10. Sentence Skills

Nov 11

Faulty Parallelism, Neo-Classical Compounds

11. Formality

Nov 18

12. Formatting

Nov 25

Short Quotations, Long Quotations, References

13. Peer Review

Dec 2

14. Defense

Dec 9
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