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COURSE SYLLABUS (Updated 09.22.) Term: Fall 2015
Course: EWPC 103B English Composition
Instructor Information: Instructor Name Erik Larsen Office Number: Room 181 Phone Number: Email: [email protected] Hours Available: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00-11:30 AM (by appointment) Instructor Background: I am completing a PhD in the humanities, and hold masters and bachelors degrees in humanistic disciplines. I am broadly interested in the relationship between literature, philosophy, and science in modern western culture, and focus my studies on nineteenth-century American literature.
Course Information:
Course Time: Tuesday and Thursday from 1:45-‐3:15 Classroom: 182 Prerequisites: Required Books and Materials:
Kirszner and Mandell, The Concise Wordsworth Handbook Readings on Blackboard Pope Francis, Laudato Si
Learning Outcomes/ Competencies:
-The student will write a unified, coherent, well-developed familiar essay, expository essay, and persuasive essay.
-The student will understand and gain greater control over all the phases of the writing process – prewriting, writing, re-writing, and editing.
-The student will apply various techniques for generating ideas, apply a variety of revision and editing strategies, and understand the role of a writer in relation to academic audiences.
-The student will organize a familiar, expository, and persuasive essay using traditional academic form.
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-The student will write a clear and focused thesis for an expository essay, support that thesis with paragraphs that express one, general main idea in a topic sentence. They will support those topic sentences with body paragraphs that develop the main idea through illustration, using an accumulation of specific details or one extended detail.
-The student will write coherent body paragraphs with effective use of transitions and correct pronoun reference.
-The student will write effective introductory and concluding paragraphs.
-The student will write clear, grammatically correct sentences.
-The student will write complete sentences, avoiding fragments, comma splices, run-ons, and other common errors.
-The student will write sentences with active verbs, eliminating wordiness, and correctly utilizing parallel construction.
-The student will write a variety of sentence types: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex, distinguish correctly between subordinating and coordinating conjunctions.
-The student will correctly use common punctuation marks, including period, comma, semi-colon, colon, dash, parentheses, and quotation marks. Course Description: In this course students learn the concepts and skills needed to write an effective, college-‐level expository essay. Through both traditional and workshop methods, student gain greater control over the writing process, essay organization, paragraph construction, and sentence grammar. Before successfully completing the course, students must demonstrate basic competency in a portfolio of semester writing. Learning Strategies: This course utilizes lecture, discussion, readings, and workshopping to teach effective writing and argumentation skills. Experiential Learning Opportunities: This course utilizes project-‐based learning and participates in a field trip to the Art Institute of Chicago. Attendance of the Institute trip is a requirement for passing the class. Linked Classes: This is a Learning Communities Class, and is thus linked to two other classes: RLST 110 E, and HUM 110 Assessments:
Major Assignments:
4 Summaries (25 points each) Attend student success center 4 times (50 points each) Familiar Essay Draft (50 points) Familiar Essay Final Draft (150 points)
100 points, 10% of grade 200 points, 20% of grade 50 points, 5% of grade 150 points, 15% of grade
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Expository Essay Draft (50 points) Expository Essay Final Draft (150 points) Persuasive Essay Draft (50 points) Persuasive Essay Final Draft (150 points) Cover Letter Draft (100 points)
50 points, 5% of grade 150 points, 15% of grade 50 points, 5% of grade 150 points, 15% of grade 50 points, 5% of grade
Class Participation Total possible participation: 50 points Total:
50 points, 5% 1000 points
Signature Assignments
This General Education class will help you prepare for CCSJ's Signature Assignments, a common written and oral assignment that students complete in Introduction to Social Justice as freshmen, Religious Studies as sophomores, and Philosophy as juniors. Signature Assignments are assessed for written communications, oral communications, and critical thinking. You must meet required scores in Religious Studies to move ahead to Philosophy, and in Philosophy to complete your General Education program.
Course Schedule:
Class Date Topic/Activity Assignments/Readings Week 1: 09.01 Tuesday
Introductions, syllabus, portfolio The value of writing as a skill Good arguments in a time of ecological crisis Watch An Inconvenient Truth
Prepare writing sample
09.03 Thursday Humanities in-‐class testing 1 Finish An Inconvenient Truth The purpose of essay writing
Writing sample due Read pages 11-‐15 and 29-‐36 Wadsworth
Week 2: 09.08 Tuesday
The writing process How to think about topics, audience, and a thesis. Ethos-‐Pathos-‐Logos and examples
09.10 Thursday Basic essay structure Preparing to write/outlining Discuss familiar essay assignment
Read and summarize E.O. Wilson’s “Is Humanity Suicidal?” (online) Read 64-‐78 Wadsworth
Week 3: 09.15 Tuesday
Transitions between paragraphs Using evidence effectively in paragraphs. Writing effective paragraphs and topic sentences Project groups meet to select a topic
Summary of Wilson essay due
09.17 Thursday Writing effective introductions and conclusions.
Topic, thesis statement, and basic outline due for familiar essay
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Week 4: 09.22 Tuesday
Draft of familiar essay due Read and summarize NFL essay
09.24 Thursday
Study Skills Workshop Discuss expository essay assignment Discuss NFL essay
Summary of NFL Essay Due
Week 5: 09.29 Tuesday
Writing complete sentences and avoiding common grammatical errors.
10.01 Thursday
Writing active, eloquent sentences. Active and passive voice. Discuss Klein Workshop expository essay materials
Week 6 10.06 Tuesday
Research and appropriate sources Different sentence types. Discuss persuasive essay assignment
Draft of expository essay due Homework: Read and summarize Naomi Klein’s “Capitalism vs. the Climate”
10.08 Thursday Citations and plagiarism Discuss Klein Work on familiar essay in class LC Social 9:30-‐11:00
Summary of Klein Due
Week 7 10.13 Tuesday
Using quotations
Final draft of familiar essay due
10.15 Thursday Workshop persuasive essay materials
Bring introduction, thesis, and two paragraphs of persuasive essay
Week 8 10.20 Tuesday
Watch Drop in the Ocean? Work on expository essay in class
10.22 Thursday Types of reasoning and logical fallacies
Final draft of expository essay due
Week 9 10.27 Tuesday
Work on persuasive essay in class
10.29 Thursday In class writing evaluation LC Social 10:00-‐1:00
Draft of persuasive essay due
Week 10 11.03 Tuesday
Writing cover letters Review of 103 portfolio
Read and summarize Hayes’ “The New Abolitionism”
11.05 Thursday
Discuss Hayes Reasoning and logical fallacies
Summary of Hayes due
Week 11 11.10 Tuesday
Workshop cover letters Review logical fallacies Work on final draft of persuasive essay in class
Bring draft of cover letter
11.12 Thursday Work on cover letters in class Final draft of persuasive essay due Week 12 11.17 Tuesday
Draft of cover letter due
11.19 Thursday Art Institute Field Trip You must attend the field trip to pass the class
Week 13 Humanities in-‐class testing 2
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I reserve the right to change this schedule to meet the needs of the class.
Responsibilities Attending Class
You cannot succeed in this class if you do not attend. We believe that intellectual growth and success in higher education occur through interaction in the classroom and laboratories. However, we do not want to penalize students for participating in college-‐sponsored events. When you miss class because of a college event, you must give notice of your absence in advance, and you are responsible for all missed work. Being absent doesn’t excuse you from doing class work; you have more responsibilities to keep up and meet the objectives of this course. Please provide notice for an absence as far in advance as possible, either by speaking with me in class or by emailing me. If you miss class for an excusable reason other than for a college-‐sponsored event (for illness, for example), please notify me through email. Students who leave class early, for any reason other than a major emergency, will be marked absent for that class day. As per common policy at Calumet, if you miss nine class hours total, regardless of the reason (sports, illness, injury, etc.), you will fail the class. This means that if you miss six classes you will fail.
Turning In Your Work
You cannot succeed in this class if you do not turn in all your work on the day it is due. Please submit all work completed outside of class at the beginning of the class period during which it is due. Assignments should be submitted as hardcopies (printed on paper). I will accept electronic versions, emailed to me, in case of emergency or for excused absences.
Late work will be accepted in this class, but with increasing deductions to possible points for the assignment. For each day the assignment is late, I will subtract 10% from the total.
Using Electronic Devices
You will not be allowed to use Electronic devices (laptops, tablets, ipads, cellphones, etc.) in class. These devices cannot be kept out on desks or tables, and must be stowed in bags. If you use one of these devices you will lose your participation points for the day.
Participating in Class Frequent and informed class participation is extremely important in this class. Please come to class having completed all assigned readings and assignments, and with questions, comments, and concerns ready for our discussion. Your participation grade is based not simply on attending class, but on regular contributions to it.
11.24 Tuesday Discuss field trip 11.26 Thursday Thanksgiving, no class Week 14 12.01 Tuesday
Review
12.03 Thursday Last day of class Assemble portfolios
Submit portfolios
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Any talking out of turn in class is prohibited. It distracts your neighbors and me, and it proves, undoubtedly, that you are not learning. If you talk in class you will need to leave for the remainder of the class period. You will lose ten participation points and will be marked absent. After being so dismissed from class you are welcome to return for the next and subsequent classes, assuming that you do not engage in talking out of turn again.
Doing Your Own Work
If you turn in work that is not your own, you are subject to judicial review, and these procedures can be found in the College Catalog and the Student Planner. The maximum penalty for any form of academic dishonesty is dismissal from the College. Using standard citation guidelines, such as MLA or APA format, to document sources avoids plagiarism. The Library has reference copies of each of these manuals, and there are brief checklists in your Student Handbook and Planner. PLEASE NOTE: All papers may be electronically checked for plagiarism.
Withdrawing from Class
After the last day established for class changes has passed (see the College calendar), you may withdraw from a course by following the policy outlined in the CCSJ Course Catalog.
Resources Student Success Center:
The Student Success Center provides faculty tutors at all levels to help you master specific subjects and develop effective learning skills. It is open to all students at no charge. You can contact the Student Success Center at 219 473-‐4287 or stop by the Library.
Disability Services:
Disability Services strives to meet the needs of all students by providing academic services in accordance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines. If you believe that you need a “reasonable accommodation” because of a disability, contact the Disability Services Coordinator at 219-‐473-‐4349.
CCSJ Alerts:
Calumet College of St. Joseph’s emergency communications system will tell you about emergencies, weather-‐related closings, or other incidents via text, email, or voice messages. Please sign up for this important service annually on the College’s website at: http://www.ccsj.edu/alerts/index.html. In addition, you can check other media for important information, such as school closings: Internet: http://www.ccsj.edu Radio: WAKE – 1500 AM, WGN – 720 AM, WIJE – 105.5 FM, WLS – 890 AM, WZVN – 107.1 FM, WBBM NEWS RADIO 78 TV Channels: 2, 5, 7, 9, 32
