English 1301:
Composition and Rhetoric I
Fall 2016—Infinity Early College High School
3 Credit Hours
Contact Information
Instructor: Ms. Angela D. Hollier
Classroom: J113
Phone: 281-577-2890 ext. 5362
Office Hours: Monday 4:00 PM-5:00 PM; Tuesday 7:30-8:00 AM; by appointment
Email: [email protected]
Course Description
Intensive study of and practice in writing processes, from invention and researching to drafting, revising, and editing, both individually and collaboratively. Emphasis on effective rhetorical choices, including audience, purpose, arrangement, and style. Focus on writing the academic essay as a vehicle for learning, communicating, and critical analysis.
Prerequisite
Placement by testing or completion of ENGL 0309 or its equivalent
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative writing processes.
2. Develop ideas with appropriate support and attribution, following standard style guidelines in documenting sources.
3. Write in a style appropriate to audience and purpose.
4. Read, reflect, and respond critically to a variety of texts.
5. Use edited American English in academic essays. Core Competencies:
1. Critical Thinking Skills: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
2. Communication Skills: To include effective written, oral, and visual communication.
3. Teamwork: To include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.
4. Personal Responsibility: To include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making
REQUIRED TEXTS
The Bedford Guide for College Writers, Eighth Edition. X.J. Kennedy, Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Marcia F. Muth
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Other readings at the instructor’s discretion
*Remember that handouts, rubrics, supplemental readings, and other important content will be available through D2L*
RECOMMENDED SUPPLIES
Notebook paper, black/blue pens, pencils, highlighter, Post-It® Notes, page markers
Quality College-level dictionary and thesaurus
Folder or binder for organizing materials
MLA Handbook—You will check out one for the entire school year.
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ACADEMIC FREEDOM STATEMENT: Dual credit courses are college courses. On college and university campuses, the free exchange of ideas is encouraged and expected. The same will be true in a dual credit course. Censorship of ideas or opinions runs counter to the openness of the learning environment and inhibits the development of critical thinking skills. Understand that students who enroll in dual credit courses may be exposed to, and will be expected to participate in, open exchanges of ideas, discussions, debates, and even class assignments concerning subject matter that is challenging, mature and/or representative of differing worldviews, just as they would on a college campus.
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CLASS POLICIES
Attendance and Participation: Regular attendance and lively participation is expected. Any unexcused absence after two (2) will damage your participation grade. Three (3) tardies are equal to one unexcused absence. If you are considering dropping the course, please see me first to discuss the situation. The last day to drop the course and receive a “W” is November 11, 2016.
Late and Makeup Work: All essays and assignments are due on the day and time specified on the guidelines/tentative course calendar. Daily assignments and homework are due at the beginning of the class period. If you know you will not be in class the day an assignment is due, send it with a classmate who will turn it in on time or email it to me as a Microsoft Word document by the time your course begins
I will accept late essays; if an essay is received after the due date/time, but it is submitted the same day, then it will be deducted 5 points; however, all late papers will be automatically lowered one letter grade (10 points) each day. After the fourth day, the paper will be deducted 20 points every day. Therefore if an essay is submitted four days late, it will be deducted 50 points. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to meet with another student to find out what material you missed. When you return to class, you are still required to be on the same schedule as the rest of the class. If you know you will be missing a class, you may arrange with me ahead of time to complete an alternative quiz before the original due date, but not after. Daily assignments, such as exit slips, discussion questions, reflective responses, in-class assignments, and Writing Process exercises will not be accepted late and will receive a zero. All other assignments will be accepted late; however, each day is -10 points, but will not be accepted after 5 days. ***The final research project will not be accepted after the due date and time***
Grading: Students will check their grade progress through D2L, so please access this through “myLoneStar”. Your grade in this course will be determined according to the following formula:
Assignment Types Weight Major Essays (4) 40% Midterm Exam—In-Class Essay 10% Research Paper 15% Of Mice and Men Unit Assignments 10% Final Exam—Grammar and Response to Article 10% Quizzes, Journals, Participation, Discussions, Short 10% Responses, Reflections, and Other Assignments
New Caney ISD Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 80-89=B, 75-79=C, 70-74=D, 69 or below=F
LSC Grading Scale: 90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, 59 and below =F
Academic Integrity Policy
Cheating includes looking at or copying from another student’s assessment, orally communicating or receiving answers during an assessment, having another person take an assessment or complete a project or assignment, using unauthorized notes, texts, or other materials for an assessment or assignment, and obtaining or distributing an unauthorized copy of assessment or any part of an assessment.
Plagiarism means passing off as his/her own the ideas or words of another (that is, without giving proper credit by documenting sources) or using outside sources when the assignment requires students to come up with the ideas and words completely on their own. Plagiarism includes submitting a paper, project, or assignment that someone else has prepared in whole or in part.
Collusion is inappropriately collaborating on assignments that are to be completed independently.
**For this class, we will be turning in all essays to “turnitin.com” through D2L. Any suspicious work will be questioned on an individual basis.
**Please refer to the Infinity Early College Academic Integrity Policy for the consequences for cheating and/or plagiarism.
Formatting: All essays must be turned in the following format:
Typed, double spaced
Font size: 12 pt.
Font: Times New Roman or Arial
Margins: 1” (default) Heading—left justified (default):
Name
Ms. Hollier
ENGL 1301, class period
01 January 2015 (your date must look like this)
Title (centered)
I will provide detailed instructions and a rubric before each of your papers is due.
Conduct:
1. Students are to behave in a mature and appropriate manner.
2. Students will come to class prepared every class period and participate in all activities.
3. Students will monitor their own progress and seek help when needed.
4. Students will use technology appropriately.
Writing in English 1301:
1. To avoid a failing grade, your papers must always meet the minimum length requirements. Papers that fall short of this minimum length requirement can receive a zero (0).
2. While your Thesis Statements will come from you, you will consult secondary sources for all of your papers; therefore, you will use parenthetical citations when quoting from the primary source (the Norton anthology) as well as your secondary source(s). All papers will include a Works Cited page with the full bibliographical information for the sources you use in your papers.
3. All essays and the research paper must be typed using MLA format (see handout) and submitted to turnitin.com on the specified date and time.
4. Most of your secondary sources (for your essays and research paper) will come from the Lone Star College Library Databases. You will have to use your Lone Star student ID number to gain access to these databases. Use your USB flash drive to save the articles you find.
5. Please be aware that for written work to be considered acceptable at this level, should be thoughtful, clear, and carefully organized. Furthermore, it must be free of glaring mechanical errors that distract and confuse.
English 1301 Tentative Course Calendar
The instructor reserves the right to amend the course polices, assignments and schedule at any time. It is the student’s responsibility to keep up with changes as they are announced. Sometimes there will be pop quizzes —BE AWARE!! The readings listed should be complete BEFORE coming to class. Bring your textbook every class meeting.
Week 1 Monday/Tuesday Introduction to class; review syllabus; good writing August 22/23 Homework: Read Plagiarism Article—Bring OMAM novel to class; turn in OMAM Reflection Essay Wednesday/Thursda Review Plagiarism Article; Review OMAM Vocabulary #1 y Homework: Study for OMAM test August 24/25
Week 2 Monday/Tuesday Grammar Lesson #1; OMAM Test August 29/30 Homework: Bedford—pgs. 398-419 Wednesday/Thursday Thesis Statements, Organizing Papers, Outlining August 31/September Homework: Bedford—Chapter 7 pgs. 116-133 and other assigned readings 1
Week 3 Monday/Tuesday Vocabulary # 2; Introduction to Compare/Contrast Writing; Generating Ideas; September 5/6(Labor Day Introduction 9/5) Homework: Choose a topic; work on thesis statement and outline Wednesday/Thursday/Frida Compare/Contrast: Introduction and Body—giving details/outline y Homework: Complete Introduction and body paragraphs September 7-9
Week 4 Monday/Tuesday Grammar Lesson #2; Conclusion; Transition words September 12/13 Homework: Complete Rough Draft Wednesday/Thursday Peer Revision/Writing Conferences September 14/15 Homework: Complete Final Copy Compare/Contrast Essay due by September 17 @ 11:45 PM in D2L
Week 5 Monday/Tuesday Vocabulary #3; Grammar Lesson #3 September 19/20 Homework: Complete Lesson 3 Assignment Wednesday/Thursday Grammar Lesson #4 September 21/22 Homework: Complete Lesson 4 Assignment; Read “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”
Week 6 Monday/Tuesday Introduction to Cause and Effect Writing; Go over “Beauty”; Prewriting Assignment September 26/27 Homework: Bedford pgs. 136-141;145-153 Wednesday/Thursday Cause and Effect Writing: Review “Layoffs”; Organizing Writing September 28/29 Homework: Choose topic; begin outline Week 7 Monday/Tuesday Grammar Lesson #4; Lesson 4 Vocabulary; Cause and Effect Writing: Work on October 3/4 outline and introduction; body paragraph writing Homework: Work on Rough Draft Wednesday/Thursday Cause and Effect Writing: Elaboration techniques October 5/6 Homework: Cause and Effect Final Copy Cause and Effect Essay due by October 8 @11 45 PM on D2L
Week 8 Monday/Tuesday Chapter 14: Responding to Visual Representations—Midterm Essay October 10/11 Wednesday/Thursday Midterm Essay: Visual Representation Response—In-Class Essay October 12/13
Week 9 Monday/Tuesday PSAT Review October 17/18 Homework: Read “New Directions” on D2L Wednesday/Thursday (Class will be adjusted due to the PSAT being given on October 19) October 19/20 Narration Writing: Go over “New Directions”; Introduction to Narration Writing Homework: Work on Prewriting Assignment; choose topic
Week 10 Monday/Tuesday October (Class will be adjusted for October 24 holiday) 24/25 Grammar Lesson #5; Chapter 4: Recalling an Experience; Develop ideas Homework: Work on Narrative Essay Wednesday/Thursday/Frida Narrative Writing: Developing Ideas; Vivid words; better word choice y Homework: Finish Rough Draft October 26-28
Week 11 Monday/Tuesday Narrative Writing: Peer Revision October Homework: Narrative Essay Final Copy 31/November 1 Narrative Essay due by November 6 at 11:45 PM on D2L Wednesday/Thursday Introduction to Research; finding sources; evaluating sources November 2/3 Homework: Bedford—Chapter 9
Week 12 Monday/Tuesday Review Chapter 9; Choosing a topic; organizing paper November 7/8 Homework: Work on outline Wednesday/Thursday Library Day; Topic Conferences November 9/10 Homework: Find sources; work on outline
Week 13 Monday/Tuesday Library Day; Topic Conferences November 14/15 Homework: Organize sources and complete outline Wednesday/Thursday MLA Documentation November 16/17 Homework: Complete Works Cited page Week 14 NO CLASS THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 15 Monday/Tuesday Research: Writing Research Paper; Conferences November 28/29 Homework: Work on Research Paper Wednesday/Thursday Research: Peer Editing/Revision November Homework: Complete Research Paper 30/December 1 Research Paper is due on December 4 @ 11:45 PM on D2L
Week 16 Monday/Tuesday Research Presentations December 5/6 Wednesday/Thursday Research Presentations December 7/8
Week 17 Monday/Tuesday FINAL EXAMS December 12/13 Wednesday/Thursday FINAL EXAMS December 14/15