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Week 1 Discussion

1. Introduction – Introduce yourself to the class. Tell us about your education, your family, hobbies, career goals, etc…

2. Let us know – What are the greatest challenges you face as a writer?

4. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 2 Discussion

1. What is the value of a thank you letter during the job interview process? When would you send a Thank you letter? What should you include in a thank you letter? What are formatting issues you must consider for a thank you letter? Please provide examples.

2. Why is a thesis statement so important to an essay or research paper?

3. What are some common editing techniques you use for your writing?

4. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses and essays.

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Week 3 Discussion

1. Grammar- What are your greatest grammatical challenges as a writer? What are two tips for removing grammatical errors from your writing?

2. Grammar- What challenges do pronouns, verbs, and modifiers present to you as a writer?

3. Spelling – What are some words you have a hard time spelling? How do you overcome spelling errors?

4. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 4 Discussion

1. Proofreading – What are your proofreading techniques? What mechanical errors due you often face in your writing? What are the best ways for you to overcome these challenges?

2. Status Check – What is the topic you have chosen for the research paper? How does it relate to your program or area of study? What challenges have you faced developing a topic?

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 5 Discussion

1. Let us know – Write two sentences that contain a prepositional phrase between a subject and a verb. Then look at other’s sentences and identify the prepositional phrases, the subjects, and the verbs.

2. What challenges do you face identifying subjects, verbs and prepositional phrases? Do you have any tricks or tips to find them?

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses and essays.

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Week 6 Discussion

1. Example – Provide an example of a fragment and a run-on. What are some words that can lead to a run-on? What are some causes of fragments?

2. Let us know – What are ways you are working to avoid fragments and run-ons in your writing?

3. Comma’s – How do you know you are using the proper amount of comma’s?

4. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 7 Discussion

1. Capital Letters – When should capital letters be used? When should you spell out numbers when should you write out a number?

2. Respond – What are tips you have to offer other students about mechanics, capital letters, numbers and abbreviations.

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Week 8 Discussion

1. Research Thoughts- You are required to use academic sources for your research paper. What are academic sources? Why can’t you use sources like wikipedia, webmd, and mayclinic.com for a research paper? Why are books and academic journal significantly more credible? Why should sources be from the past five years?

2. MLA – What are in-text citations? What is the proper format? What is a works cited page? What is its purpose?

2. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 10 Discussion

1. Verbs – What is the difference between a regular and irregular verb? Why is verb tense consistency important in your writing?

2. Verbs Again… – What is past participle? What is present participle?

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses and essays.

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Week 11 Discussion

1. Research Paper -How is your research paper coming along? What issues are you having? How are you adapting to MLA? What mechanical issues are you having with your writing?

2. Let us know – What roledoes punctuation play in writing your research paper or developing yourresume? What is your biggest punctuation challenge?

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 12 Discussion

1. Let us know – Why is the cover letter important? Why is your resume important? Whatare some do’s and don’ts to resume and cover letter writing?

2. Post your rough draft – Post a copy of your Cover Letter.

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses and cover letter.

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Week 13 Discussion

1. Punctuation -What role does punctuation play in a resume and cover letter? What role does punctuation play in your research paper?

2. Let us know – What is your biggest punctuation challenge? When do you use a comma? When do you use a semi-colon? When do you use a colon?

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 14 Discussion

1. Quotations – What is the difference between a direct quotation and paraphrasing? In your research paper, when is it appropriate to use a quotation and when is it appropriate to paraphrase? What should we know about in-text citations and quotations? Where should the punctuation go?

2. Post your rough draft – Post a copy of your Research Paper Rough Draft.

3. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses and research paper.

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Week 15 Discussion

1. Let us know – How is your research paper coming along?What challenges did you have with your resume and cover letter? Any tips to share with your classmates?

2. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses.

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Week 16 Discussion

1. Resume -When developing your resume what are some changes you make based ondifferent jobs you are applying for? What do you find to be the #1 mostimportant aspect of a resume?

2. Let us know – What roledoes punctuation play in writing your research paper or developing yourresume? What is your biggest punctuation challenge?

3. Post your rough draft – Post a copy of your Resume.

4. Respond – Provide feedback on student responses and research paper.

5. Post your rough draft – Post a copy of your research paper.

6. Respond – Provide critical feedback on student research papers. Apply semesters reading to research paper feedback.