FALL SEMESTER 2011 English 1301 (Sections 4803/4804) Composition I FTW: For The Win Learning Community Instructor: Shazia Ali, Ph.D Office: G216 Phone: (972) 391-1067 Email: [email protected] OFFICE HOURS: If you are unable to meet during posted office hours, please see me to make an appointment. MW 10.00 – 12.00 p.m. TH 12.30 – 1.30 p.m. COURSE DESCRIPTION: English 1301: Composition I (3 credit hours) Prerequisite: One of the following must be met: 1. Developmental Reading 0093 AND Developmental Writing 0093; 2. English as a Second Language (ESOL) 0044 AND 0054; or 3. Have met Texas Success Initiative (TSI) Reading and Writing standards. This course focuses on student writing. It emphasizes reading and analytical thinking and introduces research skills. Students practice writing for a variety of audiences and purposes. Coordinating Board Approval Number (3 Lec): 2304015112 REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: Kirszner & Mandell. Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide. 2009 MLA Update. 11th ed. Bedford/St. Martins, 2010. ISBN: 9780312488413 RECOMMENDED TEXT: Strunk, William and E.B. White. The Elements of Style. 4th ed. New York: Longman, 2000. ISBN: 0-205-30902-X STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: Upon completion of the English program at Eastfield College, students should be able to: - Critically read and analyze college-level material. - Compose academic prose with a clear purpose and effective, logical, and relevant support.- Apply various strategies to locate, evaluate, and synthesize ideas for a range of writing tasks. - Establish and maintain a clear controlling idea that serves as a thesis/claim statement in an essay. - Develop an essay that employs convincing evidence resulting in a sequence of effective and organized paragraphs. - Compose effective, grammatically sound sentences. - Use the library and Internet as tools to locate and assess college-level reading materials. - Apply MLA format and style to cite sources within an essay. - Successfully revise, edit, and proofread an essay. - Compose an essay applying computer-based technology. - Demonstrate effective participation in a collaborative activity - Collaborative learning: 1. Can be an effective team player. 2. Should be able to participate effectively in a cooperative learning setting through individual research, writing, and speaking. (Contribute to the work through individual research, writing, and speaking.) 3. Be open to others’ ideas. Be capable of arriving at consensus. Grading Scale: A = 90 – 100 B = 80 – 89 C = 70 – 79 D = 60 – 69 F = 0 – 59 Method of Evaluation: Essays 40% Reading Responses 30% Quizzes 10% Timed Writing 10% Final Exam 10% WRITING EXPECTATIONS: Students will compose essays that adhere to grammatical and stylistic standards of academic American English and that follow Modern Language Association (MLA) style. Essays will need to adhere to stylistic, topic, and length requirements designated for each assignment. Essays will be graded according to students’ ability to follow specific assignment guidelines, grammatical instruction, and MLA style requirements. Essays: Students will be required to write several essays during the course of the semester. Essays include in and out of class papers, peer reviews, rewrites and timed writing. Unless otherwise directed, all essays must be in MLA format, typed, double-spaced, 800 – 1000 words. Please use Times New Roman font. Do NOT staple the pages of the final essay. Paperclip the pagesof the essay together. Final essays should be typed or printed on one side. Two-sided is unacceptable. Please keep a copy of your drafts and final essay on a disk, flash drive or CD. Also keep a copy of each graded essay. REMEMBER: Each paper will be submitted to the instructor in a thin colored folder. Reading Responses: Students will be required to write several reading responses during the course of the semester. They are designed to allow you to critically respond to literature and media. Reading responses are to be typed, double-spaced, ONE FULL page in length. FINANCIAL AID STUDENTS: If you are receiving Financial Aid grants or loans, you must begin attendance in all classes. Do not drop or stop attending any class without consulting the Financial Aid Office. Changes in your enrollment level and failing grades may require that you repay financial aid funds. Failure to contact the instructor will result in your name being submitted to the Financial Aid Office as a ―non-attendee.‖ All students receiving financial aid must open an Email account through NetMail. See directions in this syllabus for opening an Email account. Financial Aid Statement for Distance Learning Classes If you are receiving Financial Aid grants or loans and are enrolled in a Distance Learning class, you must show participation in this class prior to the certification date by either e-mailing or contacting the instructor or logging on to eCampus. Do not drop or stop attending any class without consulting the Financial Aid Office. Changes in your enrollment level and failing grades may require that you repay financial aid funds. ACADEMIC HONESTY & PLAGIARISM Scholastic dishonesty is a violation of the Code of Student Conduct. Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. As a college student, you are considered a responsible adult. Your enrollment indicates acceptance of the DCCCD Code of Student Conduct published in the DCCCD Catalog at http://www1.dcccd.edu/cat0506/ss/code.cfm Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on tests, plagiarism and collusion. Cheating includes copying from another student’s test or homework paper, using materials not authorized, collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test, knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting the contents of an unadministered test, and substituting for another person to take a test. Plagiarism is the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work. Collusion is the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements. Academic dishonesty is a serious offense in college. You can be given a failing grade on an assignment or test, can