ENGLISH 1101 HJ/KL - COMPOSITION ONE TTH FALL 2013 Required Materials

ENGLISH 1101 HJ/KL - COMPOSITION ONE TTH
FALL 2013
Dr. Jared Hegwood
[email protected] / Allgood E245
706-667-4429
Office Hours: TTH 11-1
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Required Materials: Rules for Writer’s, 7 ed. Hacker, Ed.
The Enlightenment: A Brief History, Jacob, Ed.
The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History, Jacob, Ed.
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50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, 3 Cohen, Ed.
Various E-texts made available via D2L
Course Objectives: English 1101 is designed to help you write better. To achieve this single goal, this
section of English 1101 will cover the following topics.
1. Getting and developing interesting and original ideas.
2. Writing coherent thesis statements that govern the course of the entire essay.
3. Writing section theses that develop the thesis statement.
4. Writing topic sentences that develop the section theses or thesis statement.
5. Finding, incorporating, and explaining evidence that proves the topic.
6. Developing college-level grammar and spelling skills.
7. Using appropriate logical appeals.
8. Improving your vocabulary by reading and writing mature and complex essays.
By the end of 1101, students should be able to do all of the following:
1. Demonstrate a sense of academic voice, tone, formality, and credibility appropriate to their
subject, purpose, point of view, rhetorical context, and the reader’s expectations in various
essays.
2. Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, explaining,
evaluating, analyzing, incorporating, and synthesizing appropriate traditional and online
sources and/or evidence; using logical appeals; and incorporating accurate vocabulary to
develop essays.
3. Write papers using strategies that include discovering, drafting, revising, critiquing, editing,
and proofreading.
4. Understand and analyze essay questions, topics, prompts and assignments; and
demonstrate creativity, fluency, and style to invent, organize, develop and support ideas.
5. Write essays with coherent, clear organization and controlling ideas; control surface features
such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling; and demonstrate proficiency in basic
elements of Modern Language Association (MLA) style.
Course Requirements:
Assigned readings in the textbook and other homework assignments.
Class Participation: You must come to class prepared, ready to contribute substantially to class
discussion, group work, etc.
Assessment Portfolio: Students will compile a portfolio comprising of all work done for the class.
It is the student’s responsibility to save all work to their Z: drive, including all major drafts of
process papers. All portfolios are due at the end of the semester.
Class Schedule:
Schedules should always be seen as fluid and ever-changing. While what's listed below is meant to better
help you prepare for each class, it doesn't mean that if you're absent that you shouldn't email me for
clarification as to what homework is and/or where we may be on a given day.
One thing you can count on is that vocabulary lists and quizzes are given most Fridays.
Week 1: Course Introduction
8/20: Class introduction, Discussion on
8/22: Discussion: (EBH 202-207): Immanuel Kant “What is Enlightenment?”
Assignment: Reflective Essay: Educational History
Week 2: Argumentative/Research Essay
8/27: Reading Response: (50 129-135) Frederick Douglass “Learning to Read and Write”
Lecture: Thesis statements and the focus of an argumentative paper
8/29: Discussion: (SBH 70-83): Rene Descartes “Discourse on Method”
Assignment: Winning vs. Learning
Week 3: Argumentative/Research Essay
9/3: Reading Response: (E-text) Stephen Jay Gould “Women’s Brains”
Lecture: Types of Evidence. Common knowledge v. Cited information
9/5: Solo Reading: (RW 469-479)
Lecture: Rhetorical Strategies
Week 4: Argumentative/Research Essay
9/10: Discussion: (50 387-395) Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal”
Assignment: Dispassion vs. Passion
9/12: Lecture: Abstracts and Outlining
Assignment: Research Paper
Week 5: Argumentative/Research Essay – Getting Started
9/17: Discussion: (E-text) Shitty First Drafts, (50 187-188, 191-192)
Lecture: Declaration of Independence, Introductory Tone
9/19: In-Class workshop of Introduction and First Major Point (around 2-2 ½ pages)
Due: Introduction and First Major Point (bring four copies)
Week 6: Argumentative/Research Essay – Writing
9/24: In-Class Writing Day
9/26: In-Class workshop of first Full Draft
Due: Full Draft 01 (full page count, bring two copies, graded for completion)
Week 7: Argumentative/Research Essay - Workshop
10/1: Lecture: Counter-Argumentation – The Toulmin Method
10/3: Solo Reading (RW 479-522)
Lecture: Introduction to MLA Style Format Writing
Week 8: Argumentative/Research Essay
10/8: In-Class Writing
Due: Full Draft 02 for instructor (graded for quality of argument)
10/10: One-on-one meetings with instructor (for those considering dropping)
MIDTERM – 10/14 LAST DAY TO DROP
Week 9: Argumentative/Research Essay
10/15: One-on-one meetings cont.
10/17: No Class, Papers will be dropped off in professor’s office
Due: Final Full Draft (graded for all aspects of paper)
Week 10: Expository Essay
10/22: Discussion: (50 15-19) Sherman Alexie “The Joy of Reading,”
Assignment: Reflective Essay Draft 02
10/24: Reading Response: (E-text) Bill Bryson “How You Became You”
Lecture: Three Modes of Expository Writing
Week 11: Expository Essay
10/29: Discussion: (EBH 159-159) Denis Diderot “Supplement to Bouganville’s Voyage”
Assignment: The Wal-Mart Essay
10/31: Reading Response: MLK “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Lecture: Narrative Writing
Assignment: That Time I Was Wrong
Week 12: Exit Essay
11/5: Discussion: (EBH 177-201) Jean-Jacques Rousseau “The Social Contract”
Assignment: That Time I Did Nothing
11/7: Reading Response: (E-text) Roland Barthes “Toys”
Lecture: Evaluative Writing
Assignment: Expository Paper
Week 13: Exit Essay
11/12: In-Class Writing
11/14: In-class workshop (bring four copies)
Due: Full Draft 01
Week 14:
11/19: In-Class Writing
Due: Full Draft 02
11/21: One-on-one meetings with professor
Week 15: Expository Essay
11/26: One-on-one meetings cont.
11/28: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Week 16: Expository Essay
12/3: Discussion: (E-text) Annie Dillard “The Death of the Moth”
Assignment: Reflective Essay Final Draft
Due: Final Full Draft
12/5: No Class
Week 17: Expository Essay
12/10: No Class, Papers AND Portfolios will be dropped off in professor’s office
Information and Policies:
Essays must be typewritten and stapled before you turn them in. Essays must be about the assigned
topic. Grammar, spelling, and punctuation all count. While there is a single day dedicated to common
grammar errors, this is not a grammar class. Should you have difficulty with grammar, spelling and
punctuation to a degree that it might affect your grade, you should consider taking another course.
You will write three process essays this semester: an expository, an argumentative, and a review essay. To
assist you in writing these essays, I have implemented numerous in-class workshops during which you can
perform research and receive help from you classmates.
If an essay assignment calls for 5 pages, this does not mean 4 and ½ pages. Any essay with less than the
full count will drop a full-letter grade. Essays will be written in 12 pt. Times New Roman with normal
margins.
Page-length may seem unnecessary and arbitrary, but it is a requirement which asks that you fully
consider the text that you’re reading, rather than giving a cursory, skin-deep analysis of it.
Hard copies of drafts will be brought to class the day they are due. Electronic copies will also be emailed
to the instructor before class.
By taking this course, you accept the amount of work assigned in this syllabus. Complaining about the
work you have to do in a class when you’re fully aware of that work at the beginning of the semester is
unbecoming to those who wish to be good students.
Speaking of… Silly Little Rules that Make Me Feel Better.
1. I do not automatically read and comment upon drafts of your essay. If you do want critique,
please schedule time with me and I’ll be happy to talk with you about any number of things. I
absolutely will not comment on incomplete, illegible, or obviously unsatisfactory drafts.
2. The information for how to reach me by phone or email is above. Keep this syllabus, if only for
that reason.
3. If a draft is due in class and you have not prepared one, you will be marked absent for the class.
Consider Murphy’s Law: traffic will be bad, you will forget to pack your essay if you wait til after
breakfast and technology will always fail you at the last minute. Prepare for these eventualities
and take steps to circumvent them.
4. Grading essays for nearly 30 students for one class takes longer than it takes for you to write
them. When you consider that I’ll be grading for at least two other classes other than your own
that are on the exact schedule you are, then you see where grading might take some time. I will
do my best to stick to the schedule, but, in order to do so, ancillary grades: in-class writing,
quizzes, etc. may take some time getting back to you. Your flexibility in this allows me to give full
consideration to your papers without having to rush through them unfairly. If you cannot be
flexible in this, I suggest finding another instructor. That said, your grades will always be available
to you. While I do not give midterm grades, all you have to do is ask to see where you stand in
the grade book.
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Anytime a student is caught browsing the internet on a site they’re not supposed to be on, they
will be invited to leave for the day. This includes minimized windows.
You’re. Your. They’re. There. Their. Not that hard.
Attendance is required. Because participation in workshops, discussions and other activities is crucial,
attendance is important. If you don’t participate, class will be boring and frustrating—for all of us. If I get
bored, I do things that make the class more interesting for me that might not be so interesting for you.
According to university policy, you can be automatically withdrawn from the course if you miss—
for any reason—more than 10% of class meetings. We have forty-six scheduled hours of class, so you can
be withdrawn if you miss as few as five hours. To be counted as present for an hour you must be present
for at least 80% of that hour.
Every time you miss, I will email you for my records. If you miss four class meetings, I will
withdraw you, and I will not warn you in advance. You are responsible for keeping track of your absences.
A withdrawal before mid-term will result in a grade of “W”; after the mid-term the grade will be a “WF”
unless there is a medical reason for your missing class. It is your responsibility to inform me of medical
emergencies.
Late papers. One late paper may be turned in up to 24 hours late. Any other late papers will not be
accepted.
Grades will be calculated as follows:
Argumentative Essay – 40% total
Full Draft 01 - 10%
Full Draft 01 - 10%
Final Draft - 20%
Expository Essay – 40%
Full Draft 01 – 10%
Full Draft 02 – 10%
Final Draft - 20%
In-class exercises, responses – 20%
There are no make-ups for in-class writing.
You must also pass the Exit Assessment to pass the course. If you do not pass the Exit Assessment, you
will receive either a “D” or “F” in the course, depending on your other work.
The Final Exam will comprise two parts: vocabulary and an editing exercise that gauges proficiency in
grammar, usage and MLA style.
90-100: A
80-89: B
70-79: C
60-69: D
0-60: F
Plagiarism will result in automatic failure of this course. Plagiarism is the act of using language and ideas
from other sources in your writing and claiming them as your own. This includes lifting material from
published sources (cutting and pasting) or buying or copying material off the Internet. Work generated
for a class other than this one or that you wrote for a former class may not be turned in for credit in this
class. See your student handbook for policies on Academic Honesty.
All final drafts of essays must include, at the top of the first page, your acknowledgment that you are in
compliance with university Academic Honesty and plagiarism policies (see section below). You must
include this statement to have your essay graded:
"I have read, understand, and am in compliance with the Academic Honesty policy. In particular, I have
not committed any kind of plagiarism. There are no unattributed direct or indirect quotations or
paraphrases from printed materials, websites, other students' papers, or any other sources in my essay."
Essays without this statement will receive zero points.
If you plagiarize, you will fail the course, and you may be subject to further sanctions under the Code of
Student Conduct. Plagiarism can ruin your academic career. Don't do it.
Cell phones and laptops. Turn your cell phones off before entering the classroom. Do not send or read
text messages during class. (Your phone should not be out.) You may not use laptops in class. Breaking
this rule more than once is grounds for the instructor asking you to leave for the day and marking you
absent for the class.
The Writing Center is a free program available to all student writers. It offers one-on-one help with any
kind of writing project, at any stage in the writing process. In addition to the tutorial service it provides,
The Writing Center also houses resources such as reference guides. You can get information about the
Writing Center from their website (http://www.aug.edu/writing_center/writing_center.htm).
Accommodations for Students With Special Needs: If you think you have a disability that qualifies under
the Americans with Disabilities Act and requires accommodations, you should contact the Office of
Testing and Disabilities for information on appropriate policies and procedures at Tel. 706-737-1469; Fax.
706-729-2298; [email protected].