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This work is the first in a series of papers on DG methods applied to partial differential equations (PDEs). By consecutively applying the DG method to each space variable of the PDE using the method of lines, we transform the problem into a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We investigate the convergence criteria of the DG method on systems of ODEs and generalize the error analysis to PDEs. Our analysis demonstrates that the DG error\u2019s leading term is determined by a combination of specific Jacobi polynomials in each element. 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