Weekly Writing Practice
Fall 2009: Free Writing Practice is Back!
Join us every Thursday in the Writing Center C201(k) from 3:00-4:30 PM to
- Improve Your Writing Fluency
- Learn to Dodge Banned Errors
- Prepare for the WPE (Writing Proficiency Exam
Fall 2009 Writing Practice Schedule:
| Date | Topic |
| 9/3/09 | Unit 1: The Basic Sentence: Analyzing the Writing Assignment |
| 9/10/09 | Unit 2: Sentence Focus: Brainstorming |
| 9/17/09 | Unit 3: Joining Sentences with Coordinators; Organizing Ideas in Essays |
| 9/24/09 | Unit 4: Joining Sentences with Subordinators: Crafting Thesis Statements |
| 10/1/09 | Unit 5: Joining Sentences to Show Comparison and Contrast: Beginnings and Endings |
| 10/8/09 | Unit 6: Joining Sentences to Show Concession: Developing Supporting Paragraphs |
| 10/15/09 | Unit 7: Showing Logical Relationships with Transitions; Revising Essays |
| 10/22/09 | Unit 8: Joining Parallel Structures: Revising Student Essays* (bring an essay of your own) |
| 10/29/09 | Unit 9: Modifying Nouns with Adjectives: Editing Essays (bring an essay of your own) |
| 11/5/09 | Unit 10: Modifying Nouns with Prepositional Phrases; Proofreading Essays* (bring an essay) |
| 11/12/09 | Unit 11: Modifying Nouns with Apositves; Revising Sentences from students' work |
| 11/19/09 | Unit 12: Modifying Nouns with Adjective Clauses; Exploring Sentence Options (bring essay) |
| 12/3/09 | Unit 13: Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases |
| 12/10/09 | Unit 14: Reviewing Sentence Construction Techniques |
Required Text:
Altman et al., Sentence Combining Workbook. 2nd Ed. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4130-1977-3. Available in LTU Bookstore and online.
For further information, call 248-204-4125 or e-mail munro@ltu.edu.