Eng 1101

Dr. David Janssen

MW, 12:30-1:45

Fall 2005

Office: Academic Building 103-J

Office Hours: 11:00-12:30, MW

                       4:30-5:30, M

                       11:00-12:00, TR

                       2:30-3:30, TR

or by appointment

Phone: (770) 358-5093, office

e-mail: djanssen@gdn.edu

 

 

English 1101 Course Objectives

 

In order to successfully complete ENGL 1101, the student should fulfill these objectives:

 

Literacy Objective

Students must read, comprehend, and respond to college-level writing.

 

Critical Thinking Objectives

Students should develop or improve their ability to engage in the following:

  • Synthesis, for example in a comparative analysis of two texts.
  • Reflection on the composition process and product.
  • Inquiry into questions ranging from personal to wider social import.

 

Process Objectives

Students should develop or improve their ability to recognize and apply complex writing processes, including but not limited to the following:

  • Prewriting, through various forms of invention.
  • Writing and drafting.
  • Rewriting, through revision and editing.

 

Product Objectives

Students should develop or improve their ability to produce an organized, coherent, and developed essay demonstrating a mastery of Standard Written English.  Successful demonstration of these skills include the following:

 

  • Competency in rhetorical strategy as related to audience, tone, and purpose in a variety of contexts.
  • Articulation and understanding of an explicitly-stated thesis.
  • Demonstration of modal competency across modes such as Narrative, Comparison and Contrast, Classification/Illustration, Problem and Solution, Description, and Process Analysis.
  • Demonstration of basic documentation skills, including but not limited to the use of quotation, summary, and paraphrase.
  • Competency in grammatical and mechanical correctness.

 

 

Course Requirements

The purpose of this course is to initiate and acquaint you with the style, methods, and expectations of academic writing in a college community.  You will be required to write five essays during the semester.  You will also be required to keep a writing journal, so you will need to get a folder or notebook that holds 8 1/2 x 11 size paper. There will be as well a final exam at the end of the semester.  Your grade will also be determined by a series of quizzes I will give throughout the semester.  Some will be announced, but others will be “pop” quizzes, so you need to come to class prepared. 

 

 

Required Texts: Literature and Ourselves

                            Prentice Hall Reference Guide

If you don’t already have one, you should get a college paperback     dictionary as well.

 

 

Policies

In order to succeed, you need to be here.  Accordingly, if you miss more than four days, your final grade will be dropped by one letter.  If you miss more than eight, it drops two, and so on.  Sleeping in class is not accepted, nor is “resting one’s eyes.”  I expect my students to at least be conscious; if you fall unconscious once, I will help revive you.  If it becomes a pattern, I will ask you not to return to my class.  It can be quite difficult to do my job when two or more students decide to secede from class and hold their own dialog.  It can also be difficult for students who are trying to do their job by participating in the class discussion when such secessions occur.  Therefore, feel free to secede, but not in my classroom.  I will ask you to leave, and you will be counted absent, even if there are only two minutes left.  Notice that part of your job involves class participation.  It is your responsibility to keep up with the class.  If you do miss class, it is also your responsibility to seek me in order to help you catch up, not the other way around.  Late work will be deducted five points for each day it is late.  Quizzes may not be made up.  If you are caught plagiarizing, you automatically fail the course.  Finally, unless we are engaging them as a class, computers are to remain logged off.  Anyone caught violating this computer policy will be asked to leave and will be counted absent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Class Schedule

 

Sept.    28        Regents’ Test Review

                        Grammar Review                     

 

Oct.     3          Invention Strategies

                        Grammar Quiz 

 

5          Regents’ Test #1         

 

            10        Fall Break       

 

12        Revision Strategies

            Classification

 

17        Draft Classification Essay (in-class)

 

19        Revise and Edit Classification Essay (in-class)

 

            24        “Sonny’s Blues,” 101-125

                        “Everyday Use,” 136-143

           

26                “Winter Dreams,” 590-606

“Araby,” 1234-1239

 

31                “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 333-345

“A Rose for Emily,” 607-614

MLA Citation

 

Nov.    2          Regents’ Test #2

 

            7          Conferences

 

            9          Conferences

 

            14        Short Story Essay Due

 

            16        Regents’ Test #3

 

            21        “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” 1344-1356

                        “Greenleaf,” 1357-1374

 

            23        Thanksgiving Holiday

 

28        Read Secondary Sources, 1374-1394

            Evaluating and Incorporating Sources

 

30                Library Orientation

 

Dec.     5          Rough Draft of O’Connor Due

 

6          Final Exam, 10:15-12:15

                        O’Connor Essay Due

 

Grade Percentages:

Average of first two Essays: 20%

Classification Essay: 10%

Comparative Analysis Essay: 15%

O’Connor Research Essay: 15%

Regents’ Tests: 20%

Quizzes: 10%

Final Exam: 10%