COURSE SYLLABUS
Mr. Kenny
Course Name & Number Composition I (English 3 & 4) ENGL 1301
Semester & Year Spring 2019
Catalog 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.
[Rev. Fall 2012 THECB]
Prerequisite: Satisfactory placement test score or passing grade in ENGL 0305.
Instructor’s Name Peter Kenny Office Phone # 469-235-3486
Instructor’s Office # 1425 Office Fax # n/a
E-mail Address kennyp@lisd.net
Office Hours 2:05 to 3:35
Textbooks & Materials Required
Joining the Conversation
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
Unnaturally Delicious
[Rev. Fall 2017]
Learning Outcomes Students who successfully complete English 1301 will meet the following learning outcomes:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative writing processes.
2. Develop ideas with appropriate support and attribution.
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.
[Rev. Fall 2017 THECB]
Core Objectives
Foundational Component Area: Communication
Courses in this category focus on developing ideas and expressing them clearly, considering the effect of the message, fostering understanding, and building the skills needed to communicate persuasively. Courses involve the command of oral, aural, written, and visual literacy skills that enable people to exchange messages appropriate to the subject, occasion, and audience.
• Critical Thinking Skills (CT)- to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
• Communication Skills (COM)- to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication.
• Teamwork (TW)- to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.
• Personal Responsibility (PR)- to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making [Rev. 5-2014 THECB]
Grading Policy & Procedures
- Major Grades - 80%
- Minor Grades - 20%
- Due Dates and Late Work:
- Please understand that due dates are firm. There is a 30-point deduction for work that is a day late, and no work will be accepted more than a day late. If you are going to be absent the day an assignment is due, you are still responsible for turning in that assignment by the due date and time. You may either send a hard copy with a classmate or you may submit electronically and bring a hard copy with you when you return. This applies to both major and minor grades.
- Make up work:
- You have one day for each day you are absent to make up missed work. This includes missed quizzes and tests.
- It is your responsibility to obtain missed assignments.
Scholastic Integrity Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, sharing work with another student that is meant to be completed individually, revealing quiz/test content to others, and collusion. See Student Handbook “Student Rights & Responsibilities: Student Conduct [FLB- (LOCAL)]” #18.
Disciplinary Actions [Student Handbook, #5] “When cheating, collusion, or plagiarism has occurred beyond any reasonable doubt, the instructor may give the student or students involved an “F” on a particular assignment or in the course. [See Scholastic Dishonesty FLB (Local)] The instructor shall make a written report of the incident and of the planned action to his Department Chair. The Department Chair shall report the incident and action to appropriate instructional dean who shall review the case, notify the student and, if necessary, take further action. This may involve either probation or suspension of the student or students in question. If such disciplinary action is deemed necessary, the Dean of Student Services shall be notified, and the action shall be taken through that office.”
Plagiarism, which should be avoided at all costs, includes the following student actions:
1. Turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own;
2. Unintentionally or inadvertently turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own as the result of failing to document sources both internally and in the Works Cited;
3. Copying words, ideas, or images from someone without giving credit; failing to put a quotation in quotations marks;
4. Giving incorrect information about the source of information, quotations, or images;
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit;
6. Copying so many words, ideas, or images from a source that it makes up the majority of the student's work, whether or not the student gives credit.
[Rev. 3-20-2012–Plagiarism text added cb]
Attendance Policy Regular and punctual attendance is expected of all students in all classes for which they have registered. All absences are considered to be unauthorized unless the student is absent due to illness or emergencies as determined by the instructor. It is the student’s responsibility to provide documentation as to the emergency for approval and judgment by the faculty member. Approved college sponsored activities are the only absences for which a student should not be held liable and only when provided by a college official ahead of the absence. Valid reasons for absence, however, do not relieve the student of the responsibility for making up required work. Students will not be allowed to make up an examination missed due to absence unless they have reasons acceptable to the instructor. A student who is compelled to be absent when a test is given should petition the instructor, in advance if possible, for permission to postpone the exam. Student will be dropped from a class by the Registrar upon recommendation of the instructor who feels the student has been justifiably absent or tardy a sufficient number of times to preclude meeting the course’s objectives. Persistent, unjustified absences from classes or laboratories will be considered sufficient cause for College officials to drop a student from the rolls of the College. From Board Policy FC (LOCAL)
Last day to withdraw from a course with a “W” is February 21, 2019.
We will follow Lewisville ISD’s attendance policy.
ADA Statement North Central Texas College does not discriminate on the basis of disability for admission or access to its programs. The College is committed to providing equal access to its students with disabilities by providing appropriate accommodations; a variety of services and resources are made available through the ACCESS Department. Students are responsible for notifying the ACCESS Department of their need for assistance. Students with documented disabilities, such as mobility impairment, hearing or visual impairment, learning, and/or psychological disorders are eligible for services.
Disability Accommodations
The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) provides accommodations for students who have a documented disability. A disability is anything that can interfere with learning, such as a learning disability, psychological challenge, physical illness, or injury. Accommodations may include extra time on tests, tests in a distraction-reduced environment, volunteer note taker in class, etc.
On the Corinth Campus, go to room 170 or call 940-498-6207. On the Gainesville Campus, go to room 110 in the Administration Building (100) or call 940-668-4209. Students on the Bowie, Graham, Flower Mound, and online campuses should call 940-668-4209 to arrange for an intake appointment with OSD.
North Central Texas College is on record as being committed to both the spirit and letter of federal equal opportunity legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, ADA Amendments Act of 2009, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-112).
http://www.nctc.edu/StudentServices/SupportServices/Disabilityservices/DisabilitiesFacultyResources.aspx
[Rev. 7/25/2012 per Brent Wallace/Mary Martinson]
EEOC Statement North Central Texas College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, or disability in the employment or the provision of services.
Calendar / Course Outline on the following page will use these abbreviations:
JtC = Joining the Conversation
WWS = Writing with Style
EA = Everyone’s an Author
RD = Rhetorical Devices
WCS = Writing with Clarity and Style
CRE = Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
UD = Unnaturally Delicious
Course Schedule:
1/7: (LO: 1,3,4)
Listening and Conversing: Thinking Rhetorically, Rhetorical Situations, Reading Rhetorically, Writing reflections, Writing a Personal Narrative.
Readings EA Ch.1 and 3 (Rhetorical Approaches) and Ch. 12, pp. 159-174, (Writing Narratives).
WCS chapter 1: Parallelism, Chiasmus, Antithesis (Complete one chapter each week)
Unnaturally Delicious chapter 1
“When the Winds Died Down”
“Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist” intro and title chapter
“My First Lifeline” and “Still I Rise”
1/7 Introductions and course overview. HW: Read UD chapter 1 and articles about listening: “The Other Side is not Dumb” and “Nobody is Immune . . .”
1/8 Quiz over UD Ch. 1 with brief discussion. Read and complete WCS Ch. 1, Parallelism segment.
HW: WCS Ch. 1, Chiasmus section; Kingsnorth intro
1/9 Read pages 159-174 of EA Ch. 12; Read the narrative “When the Winds Died Down”
HW: WCS Ch. 1, Antithesis section; EA Ch. 3
1/10 Discussion of Narratives for content and style: Bragg article
Read Kingsnorth Ch. 7 “Confessions”
HW: “My First Lifeline” narrative and questions
“Still I Rise”
1/11 WCS Chapter 1 ALL exercises are due
Discussion of “My First Lifeline”
Writing a Composition Tips and Expectations
Assign Personal Narrative Composition
Upcoming:
*Personal Narrative hard copy draft for peer editing due 1/17
*Personal Narrative Due Friday, 1/18 (major grade)
1/14: (LO: 1,3,4)
1/14 Should have read ½ of Unnaturally Delicious by this date (Chapters 1—6).
1/18 Major Grade: Personal Narrative Composition due.
RD chapter 2
Upcoming:
Collaborative Project, assigned groups of 3, due 1/24
Finish reading Unnaturally Delicious by Tuesday, 1/22
1/21: (LO: 1,2,3,4,5)
1/22 Finish reading Unnaturally Delicious by January 22.
1/24 Collaborative Project due January 24
1/25 Skim (review, slowing to read parts as necessary)chapters 1—5 of JtC
1/25 WWS chapter 1-3 must be read by this date. Quiz.
RD chapter 3
1/28: (LO: 1,2,4,5)
RD chapter 4
WWS chapter
Arguing a Position, Making a Proposal, Analyzing and Constructing Arguments, Strategies for Supporting an Argument
2/4: (LO: 1,2,3,4,5) Holiday on Monday, 2/19
RD chapter 5
WWS chapter
Readings (EA Chapters 24, 25, and 26)
Upcoming:
Argument Composition (Chapters 3, 6, and 9 of UD)due 2/15 [Major Grade]
2/11: (LO: 1,2,3,4,5)
RD chapter 6
WWS chapter
*Major Grade: Argument Composition due Friday, 2/15
2/18: (LO: 1,2,3,4,5). Holiday on Monday.
RD chapter 7
WWS chapter
Test over Rhetorical Structures and Good Style
2/25:
RD chapter 8
WWS chapter
2/28: Substitute for absence.
3/1: Major Grade: In-Class Composition
3/4: Exam Week
3/7: Proposal for Research Paper due
Please note that all dates are tentative and subject to change.