Gordon State College Division of Humanities English Department

Glossary: p. 1165 1101

Key Terms: p. 1192

Critical Approaches to Lit: pp. 1128-1132

Gordon State College– Division of Humanities – English Department

SPRING 2015COURSE SYLLABUS

PART I OFSYLLABUS= SCHEDULEOF ASSIGNMENTS

ENGL1101 – CRN 531 - 8AM - Rm Ac 205 - MW Office Hours: - By appointment

ENGL 1101 –CRN 532 - 9:30AM - Rm Ac 205 - MW MW: 7:00-7:50; 11:00-11:50

Email:

Attend the class and hour for which you registered. See Registrar to change your class time.

Expect a quiz or a paper over each daily assignment.

A Winning Writing Process = Prewrite,Form Rough Draft, Edit/Proofs, Revise, Submit

Required Texts:

• Literature and Ourselves, 6th Edition, Gloria Mason Henderson, Bill Day, Sandra Stevenson Waller, Anna Dunlap Higgins, Pearson Longman Publishers, c. 2009. No in-class sharing of textbooks.

ThePrentice Hall Reference Guide, no longer required, is on reserve in the library. Assistance with grammar is also available at the SSC. For assistance with MLA guidelines, consult: Literature and Ourselves, pp. 1142-1164, the library, SSC, and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Google purdue owl and click on MLA Formatting and Style Guide.

Any student needing special accommodations because of a disability must go through the process of receiving approved accommodations through the Student Counseling and Disability Services Office, Student Center, room 212, phone – 678-359-5585. It is the responsibility of each student to make official request for academic accommodations at the beginning of the semester.

PARTII OF SYLLABUS = COURSEPOLICY

(Note: other statements of Course Policy, carrying the same authority as this document, may be given in class at any time; taking notes is required and assumed.)

ENGL1101 – CRN 170, 8 AM, Rm Ac 207 Office Hours: - By appointment

ENGL 1101 – CRN 188, 10 AM, Rm Ac 207 MWF: 7:00-7:50; 9:00-9:50

ENGL 1101 – CRN 189, 11 AM, Rm Ac 207 Email:

Attend the class and hour for which you registered. See Registrar to change your class time.

REQUIRED TEXTS

Required Texts:

• Literature and Ourselves, 6th Edition, Gloria Mason Henderson, Bill Day, Sandra Stevenson Waller, Anna Dunlap Higgins, Pearson Longman Publishers, c. 2009. No in-class sharing of textbooks.
• Because the formerly used Prentice Hall Reference Guide is so expensive and the same information is available for free on the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), this text is no longer required. The student may get assistance with grammar at the SSC and the Purdue Online Writing Lab at:

MISCELLANEOUSMATERIALS NEEDED

Blue or black penDictionary. Only hard-copy dictionaries for

# 2 pencilin-class writing assignments.

Loose-leaf paper for in-class writingAccess to computer for ALLwritten assignments

Two Scantron cards (purchase @ bookstore)(no hand-written papers for at-home assignments)

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

ENGL 1101:

• A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and including the use of research skills. Students must be placed in ENGL 1101 by their advisor. In order to be eligible to enroll in English 1101, students must have completed or must have been exempted from Learning Support courses in Reading and English

• A grade of “D”in ENGL 1101 is a fail, meaning you did not earn a grade of 70 or above. A “D” will not transfer for credit to any other academic institution and will require you to retake and pass 1101.In order to receive credit for the course and advance to ENGL 1102,you must demonstrate ability to do 1102-level work.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

English 1101is designed to teach students to use the Winning Writing Process, p. 1,to produce unified, coherent, organized essays free of major errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and diction. Students are expected to think, read, and write with discrimination and understanding. Upon completion of the course:

1. Students will be able to write simple, compound, complex, and complex-compound sentences in Standard English.
2. Students will be able to make their thinking visible by organizing a series of Standard English sentences into coherent, unified paragraphs.
3. Students will be able to use the stylistic conventions expected by an academic and professional audience.
4. Students will be able to cite the ideas and words of others using the M.L.A. formal system of style and citing.
5. Students will be able to articulate and use a set of strategies for creating, reading, comprehending, and analyzing a variety of electronic and traditional texts.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1. Students will write a minimum of 4 essays and 5 "daily" papers. Assignments will include in-class discussion and responses. Students will participate in SSC workshops. Because the development of writing skills is a process, work completed at the end of the semester should show definitive, positive growth.

2. Students will complete a minimum of FIVEessays,drawing from the following rhetorical strategies, either in a singular mode or in some combination.

1 personal narration

1 comparison/contrast

1 literary analysis

1 documentation

1 argumentation

Other assignments will include papers and quizzes on assigned readings, in-class writing projects, revisions, andgrammar exercises.

EVALUATION SYSTEM AND GRADING STANDARDS

Basic Requirements

The student must:

1. Complete all reading and writing assignments in a timely mannerin accordancewith due datesdelineated

inthe syllabus

1. Participate in SSC workshops and conferences
2. Provide classmates with constructive and thoughtful feedback
3. Actively participate in class discussions and group activities

Grading of essays

Essays will be graded on the basis of citing, subject/verb agreement, pronoun/antecedent agreement, conciseness, clarity and sentence structure, sentence length, punctuation, thesisstatement, topic sentences, consistency of tense, and the “Thou Shalt Not” terms. Writtenevaluationsof the essay by the instructor will facilitate competent writing. Graded papers will carry a numerical grade of 0-100.

Letter Grade Equivalents

90-100 = A

80-89 = B

70-79 = C

60-69 = D

Below 60 = F

Percentage breakdown of grade

Essay # 110%Essay # 5/Final exam 10%

Essay # 210%Daily exercises (quizzes/papers,

Essay # 310% in-class performance)40%

Essay # 410%Comprehensive grammar exam10%

All grades will be available on ENGRADE( ENGRADE access codes will be available to students early in the semester. It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of academic grades via ENGRADE.

Perfect Attendance – five points will be added to your FINALgrade for perfect attendance. Because this is a free gift, that is, a student who does not receive these points is in no way being PUNISHEDby having something he earned taken from him, there will be no exceptions – a miss is a miss.

SSC Workshops and Tutorial Participation –ten points will be added to thegrade of any essay which is resubmitted after getting SSC assistance with the revision. SSC Workshops on commas, pronouns, and other grammatical subjects are highly recommended and proven effective. Avail yourself of the SSC tutoring servicewhen writing a paper or working on grammar exercises. Make sure your SSC tutor fills out a Tutor Session Notes form when you visit. These are forwarded to me via email and will ensure that you get full credit for your SSC visits.