Required:

• College of Communications Academic Integrity Policy
• Penn State Academic Integrity Form (just read it)
• College of Communications Consequences of Cheating
• Avoiding Cut and Paste Plagiarism
• Common Excuses for Plagiarism
• Why we should stop criminalizing practices that are confused with plagiarism

Optional

• Journalism’s Summer of Sin marked by plagiarism, fabrication, obfuscation
• Penn State's survey on academic integrity and dishonesty

Required:

• Lesson 1 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 1 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice drill: plagiarism rules and scenarios
• Practice drill: identifying plagiarized material
• Practice drill: consequences of plagiarism
• Practice drill: cyberplagiarism

• Working with Words - Pages 119; 133-142; 164-167; 173; 183-184; 217-228; 346-349
• Parts of Speech Overview from Purdue OWL
• Prepositions overview from Towson

Required:

• Lesson 2 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 2 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 123-125; 141-151; 157-162
• Clauses from Guide to Grammar and Writing from the Capital Community College Foundation
• Cases of Nouns and Pronouns from Guide to Grammar and Writing from the Capital Community College Foundation

Required:

• Lesson 3 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 3 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 152-157
• Purdue OWL Relative Pronouns
• NYT Style Manual Who vs Whom
• Grammar Girl Who vs Whom
• That vs Which Bloomsburg Business Week

Required:

• Lesson 4 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 4 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice Exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 156-172
• Plural noun forms
• Purdue OWL: The Apostrophe

Required:

• Lesson 5 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 5 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice Exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 173-199
• Summary of Verb Tenses from LEO
• NYT Style Guide Sequence of Tenses
• Irregular Verbs Purdue OWL

Required:

• Lesson 6 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 6 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice Exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 168; 177-181; 196-204; 218-223; 226-230
• Subjunctive Mood from NYT style guide
• Subjunctive Mood from AP
• Verbals from Purdue OWL

Required:

• Lesson 7 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 7 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• None

• Complete Midterm Exam

• Working with Words - Pages 205-216
• Noun/Verb Agreement
• Subject-Verb Agreement

Required:

• Lesson 8 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 8 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 217-228; 348-349
• Adjectives with Countable and Uncountable Nouns from Purdue OWL
• Adjectives or Adverbs from Purdue OWL

Required:

• Lesson 9 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 9 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 229-233; 347
• Modifier Placement
• Correct use of only from NYT

Required:

• Lesson 10 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 10 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 237-295
• Frequently Misused Words
• Misused/Misspelled Words

Required:

• Lesson 11 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 11 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 356-391
• Some rules and suggestions about spelling
• A Fun Spelling Drill

Required:

• Lesson 12 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 12 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• Working with Words - Pages 333-355
• Comma Rules from Purdue OWL
• Basic Punctuation Rules from Utah Valley

Required:

• Lesson 13 Graded Assessment
• Lesson 13 Sentences and Peer Review Discussion
• Final Editing Assignment

Optional:

• Practice exercises

• None

• Complete the Final Exam.