Course Syllabus Dual Enrollment English:
English 12 – Winslow High School
ENL 101 College Composition I – Northland Pioneer College
Fall 2017, 3 credits
Instructor: C. Gile
Winslow High School, room 204
Textbooks
Convergences: Message-Method-Medium 2nd ed. 2005 ed., Atwan, Robert; Bedford, Freeman,
Worth
Everyday Writer 3rd ed., Ruszkiewicz, Hairston, Seward; Allyn & Bacon/Longman
This course deals with writing college-level academic essays. You will study the elements of good writing and develop critical analysis and research skills.
The following writing assignments are necessary to fulfill the objectives of this course:
Four essays minimum of 500 words
One research paper minimum of 1500 words
One in-class mid-term essay minimum of 500 words
One in-class final essay minimum of 500 words
Portfolio prepared according to instructions
Literacy and critical inquiry: Essays will be written and critiqued for each assigned chapter. Class discussion will incorporate critical inquiry skills needed to critique model essays and write student essays. The research paper will also demonstrate mastery of critical inquiry skills, as well as the development of research skills.
All of your work must be typed. The research paper will only be accepted if it is submitted through Turnitin.
Course Outcomes
As a result of successfully completing this course, the student will be able to:
· Utilize MLA format and documentation style
· Organize compositions using invention as a systematic and on-going process
· Generate and present ideas precisely and effectively in writing, showing evidence of ability to think critically, perceive relationships, solve problems, and give order to experience
· Develop a central idea, supporting and illustrating it logically
· Control the logic and structure of sentences with additional attention to stylistic matters involving sentence patterns and diction
· Identify rhetorical modes and arrange them appropriate to purpose, subject, and audience
· Choose appropriate grammatical and rhetorical principles to write coherent, unified, and well-developed paragraphs
· Organize a whole essay effectively, using paragraphing as a development process in relation to the purpose, audience, and type of discourse
· Present conclusions and judgments that are consistent with the data and arguments that precede them
· Revise, accept the critical judgment of others, and integrate recommendations in developing new revisions
· Proofread accurately and correct major deficiencies in spelling, punctuation, usage and structure
· Read and analyze college-level prose