Revised 11-08-17
English 150: Writing and Research (Sections 01 and 18)
Instructor: Dr. E. Derek Taylor
Fall 2017
Office Hours: MF 12:00-1:00; W 3:00-4:00; Thursday 2:00-3:00 (Grainger 306)
Phone: 434-395-2748
E-mail: [email protected]
Course Description ENGL 150. Writing and Research. Writing and reading for a variety of academic purposes including in-depth research. Oral presentation required. Prerequisite to all other English courses. 3 credits. *Fulfills General Education Goal 2.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
* Understand and adapt to rhetorical and contextual differences in tasks involving writing, reading, speaking, and listening
* Engage in academic inquiry using and evaluating a variety of sources, incorporating and documenting source material appropriately, and avoiding plagiarism
* Develop flexible processes for engaging in academic writing
* Develop knowledge of conventions for different kinds of texts and demonstrate substantial control of the conventions of Edited American English Reflect on and make judgments about their own texts and writing processes
Course Concept and Goals
This course is more important to you than you may at first suspect. It serves an immediate pragmatic function in preparing you to read in and write for a variety of disciplines that you will encounter as a college student. It serves a slightly less immediate, but still pragmatic, function in preparing you one day to succeed in a graduate program or profession of your choosing. But it is worth mentioning as well the vital, if introductory, role that this course plays in preparing you to become a "citizen leader" who will take part in shaping our collective democratic future.
Course Policies
Tardiness, Absence Policy, Late Papers:
1. Students are expected to arrive for class on time. Consistent tardiness will not be tolerated.
2. Any student whose unexcused absences total 10% or more of total class meetings will have his or her grade lowered by one letter-grade. Any student whose absences, excused or otherwise, total 25% or more of class meetings will receive an “F” for the course.
3. Late papers will lose one letter grade per class period unless prior arrangements are made.
Honor Code:
All work is governed by the Longwood University Honor Code. Written work must contain the pledge in writing and be signed. Students should read closely the section on plagiarism in the Longwood Style Manual.
Classroom Decorum:
All students are expected to behave civilly both to each other and to the instructor and to conduct themselves in a manner that encourages learning in the classroom. Email, voice mail, and the like will be considered as part of the participation grade, so students should think carefully about the tone and content of such messages.
Required Materials: Susan Miller-Cochran, Roy Stamper, Stacey Cochran, eds. An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader, Bedford, 2016.
Grading
* 9-11: Rhetorical Analysis Essay (3 pgs.): 20 points
* 9-29: Cause / Effect Essay (3 pgs.): 20 points
* 10-20: Literature Review (3 pgs): 20 points
* 11-17: Comparison Essay (5 pgs.): 25 points
* 12-6. Final Exam (Reflection Essay): 10 points
* “Connections” Presentation: 5 points
* Quizzes, Informal Writings, Participation: 5 extra points possible
A: 93-100, A-: 90-92, B+: 87-89, B: 83-86, B-: 80-82, C+: 77-79, C: 73-76, C-: 70-72, D+: 67-69, D: 63-66, D-: 60-62, F: 59 and below
Course Schedule All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the day specified. I reserve the right to make changes to this syllabus by giving oral notice in class. Absence from a class meeting is never an excuse for being unprepared for the following meeting. Always bring your textbook to class—we will be making regular use of it.
Week 1
M. 8-21. Introduction to Course Concept and Course Policies: Academic Disciplines
W. 8-23. Reading and Writing Rhetorically: Insider’s Guide (20-27)
F. 8-25. Reading and Writing Rhetorically: Insider’s Guide (27-32)
Week 2
M.8-28. Developing Arguments: Insider’s Guide (37-48)
W. 8-30. Developing Arguments: Insider’s Guide (46-58)
F. 9-1. Developing Arguments: Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Week 3
M. 9-4. Class canceled for Labor Day.
W. 9-6. MLA: Insider’s Guide (613-618).
F. 9-8. Workshop for Essay 1: Rhetorical Analysis (bring at least your introductory paragraph and an outline for the remainder of your essay.)
Week 4
M. 9-11. Meet in Greenwood Library, 209 B for an Introduction to Library Research
W. 9-13. Rhetorical Analysis Essay Due.
F. 9-15. Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” and Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”
Week 5
M. 9-18. Academic Writing in the Humanities (History): Warren E. Milteer, Jr. “The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina” (Insider’s Guide, 336-347).
W. 9-20. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting from Sources: Insider’s Guide (71-76).
F. 9-22. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences.
Week 6
M. 9-25. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences.
W. 9-27. Bring rough draft of Cause/Effect Essay to class for peer review.
F. 9-29. Cause/Effect Essay Due.
Week 7
M. 10-2. Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences: Insider’s Guide (152-164 and 176-179).
W. 10-4. APA: Insider’s Guide (619-622); Literature Review: Insider’s Guide (180-195).
F. 10-6. Popular and Academic Writing in the Social Sciences: Andrew Cherlin, “How American Family Life is Different” (Insider’s Guide, 310-315); Melissa A. Harrison and Jennifer C. Shortall, “Women and Men in Love: Who Really Feels It and Says It First?” (Insider’s Guide, 348-356).
Week 8
M. 10-9. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
W. 10-11. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
F. 10-13. No Class: Open office hours from 9:00-12:00. Stop by so that we can be sure you are on track for a productive Fall Break!
Week 9
M. 10-16. Class canceled for Fall Break
W. 10-18. Writing in the Natural Sciences: Insider’s Guide (209-226).
F. 10-20. Writing in the Natural Sciences: IMRAD format (Insider’s Guide, 166-173) and Student Sample Lab Report (Insider’s Guide, 248-259).
Week 10
M. 10-23. Revision Workshop: Bring the paper you intend to revise to class
W. 10-25. Popular Writing in the Natural Sciences: Sharon Begley, “Are You Ready for More?”; Daniel Sarewitz and Roger A. Pielke, Jr., “Rising Tide” (Insider’s Guide, 546-554).
F. 10-27. Peer Review Session: Bring full draft of Literature Review
Week 11
M. 10-30. Social Sciences Literature Review Due. Logical fallacies: What is Truth?
W. 11-1. Academic Writing in the Natural Sciences: Tingzhi Su, et. al., “Distribution of Toxic Trace Elements” (Insider’s Guide, 588-600); Donatella Marazziti and Domenico Canale, “Hormonal Changes When Falling in Love” (Insider’s Guide, 356-362).
F. 11-3. In-class Writing (just show up--I'll explain).
Week 12
M. 11-6. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
W. 11-8. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
F. 11-10. Revision of Paper 1 or 2 due. Presentation Preparations: Read Rebecca Shuman, “PowerPointless”
Week 13
M. 11-13. In-class workshop for "Connections" Presentations
W. 11-15. Peer Review Session: Bring rough draft of Comparison Essay (at least three solid pages)
F. 11-17. Class canceled: Open Office Hours from 9:00-12:00.
Week 14
M. 11-20. Comparison Essay Due. (Email as electronic attachment by 5:00 pm).
W. 11-22. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
F. 11-24. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
Week 15
M. 11-27. In-class “Connections” Presentations
W. 11-29. In-class “Connections” Presentations
F. 12-2. In-class “Connections” Presentations
Week 16
W. 12-6. 11:30-2:00: Final Examination for section 01
3:00-5:30: Final Examination for section 18
English 150: Writing and Research (Sections 01 and 18)
Instructor: Dr. E. Derek Taylor
Fall 2017
Office Hours: MF 12:00-1:00; W 3:00-4:00; Thursday 2:00-3:00 (Grainger 306)
Phone: 434-395-2748
E-mail: [email protected]
Course Description ENGL 150. Writing and Research. Writing and reading for a variety of academic purposes including in-depth research. Oral presentation required. Prerequisite to all other English courses. 3 credits. *Fulfills General Education Goal 2.
Learning Outcomes
Students will:
* Understand and adapt to rhetorical and contextual differences in tasks involving writing, reading, speaking, and listening
* Engage in academic inquiry using and evaluating a variety of sources, incorporating and documenting source material appropriately, and avoiding plagiarism
* Develop flexible processes for engaging in academic writing
* Develop knowledge of conventions for different kinds of texts and demonstrate substantial control of the conventions of Edited American English Reflect on and make judgments about their own texts and writing processes
Course Concept and Goals
This course is more important to you than you may at first suspect. It serves an immediate pragmatic function in preparing you to read in and write for a variety of disciplines that you will encounter as a college student. It serves a slightly less immediate, but still pragmatic, function in preparing you one day to succeed in a graduate program or profession of your choosing. But it is worth mentioning as well the vital, if introductory, role that this course plays in preparing you to become a "citizen leader" who will take part in shaping our collective democratic future.
Course Policies
Tardiness, Absence Policy, Late Papers:
1. Students are expected to arrive for class on time. Consistent tardiness will not be tolerated.
2. Any student whose unexcused absences total 10% or more of total class meetings will have his or her grade lowered by one letter-grade. Any student whose absences, excused or otherwise, total 25% or more of class meetings will receive an “F” for the course.
3. Late papers will lose one letter grade per class period unless prior arrangements are made.
Honor Code:
All work is governed by the Longwood University Honor Code. Written work must contain the pledge in writing and be signed. Students should read closely the section on plagiarism in the Longwood Style Manual.
Classroom Decorum:
All students are expected to behave civilly both to each other and to the instructor and to conduct themselves in a manner that encourages learning in the classroom. Email, voice mail, and the like will be considered as part of the participation grade, so students should think carefully about the tone and content of such messages.
Required Materials: Susan Miller-Cochran, Roy Stamper, Stacey Cochran, eds. An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing: A Rhetoric and Reader, Bedford, 2016.
Grading
* 9-11: Rhetorical Analysis Essay (3 pgs.): 20 points
* 9-29: Cause / Effect Essay (3 pgs.): 20 points
* 10-20: Literature Review (3 pgs): 20 points
* 11-17: Comparison Essay (5 pgs.): 25 points
* 12-6. Final Exam (Reflection Essay): 10 points
* “Connections” Presentation: 5 points
* Quizzes, Informal Writings, Participation: 5 extra points possible
A: 93-100, A-: 90-92, B+: 87-89, B: 83-86, B-: 80-82, C+: 77-79, C: 73-76, C-: 70-72, D+: 67-69, D: 63-66, D-: 60-62, F: 59 and below
Course Schedule All assignments are due at the beginning of class on the day specified. I reserve the right to make changes to this syllabus by giving oral notice in class. Absence from a class meeting is never an excuse for being unprepared for the following meeting. Always bring your textbook to class—we will be making regular use of it.
Week 1
M. 8-21. Introduction to Course Concept and Course Policies: Academic Disciplines
W. 8-23. Reading and Writing Rhetorically: Insider’s Guide (20-27)
F. 8-25. Reading and Writing Rhetorically: Insider’s Guide (27-32)
Week 2
M.8-28. Developing Arguments: Insider’s Guide (37-48)
W. 8-30. Developing Arguments: Insider’s Guide (46-58)
F. 9-1. Developing Arguments: Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Week 3
M. 9-4. Class canceled for Labor Day.
W. 9-6. MLA: Insider’s Guide (613-618).
F. 9-8. Workshop for Essay 1: Rhetorical Analysis (bring at least your introductory paragraph and an outline for the remainder of your essay.)
Week 4
M. 9-11. Meet in Greenwood Library, 209 B for an Introduction to Library Research
W. 9-13. Rhetorical Analysis Essay Due.
F. 9-15. Bruce Catton, “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts” and Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”
Week 5
M. 9-18. Academic Writing in the Humanities (History): Warren E. Milteer, Jr. “The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina” (Insider’s Guide, 336-347).
W. 9-20. Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting from Sources: Insider’s Guide (71-76).
F. 9-22. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences.
Week 6
M. 9-25. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences.
W. 9-27. Bring rough draft of Cause/Effect Essay to class for peer review.
F. 9-29. Cause/Effect Essay Due.
Week 7
M. 10-2. Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences: Insider’s Guide (152-164 and 176-179).
W. 10-4. APA: Insider’s Guide (619-622); Literature Review: Insider’s Guide (180-195).
F. 10-6. Popular and Academic Writing in the Social Sciences: Andrew Cherlin, “How American Family Life is Different” (Insider’s Guide, 310-315); Melissa A. Harrison and Jennifer C. Shortall, “Women and Men in Love: Who Really Feels It and Says It First?” (Insider’s Guide, 348-356).
Week 8
M. 10-9. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
W. 10-11. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
F. 10-13. No Class: Open office hours from 9:00-12:00. Stop by so that we can be sure you are on track for a productive Fall Break!
Week 9
M. 10-16. Class canceled for Fall Break
W. 10-18. Writing in the Natural Sciences: Insider’s Guide (209-226).
F. 10-20. Writing in the Natural Sciences: IMRAD format (Insider’s Guide, 166-173) and Student Sample Lab Report (Insider’s Guide, 248-259).
Week 10
M. 10-23. Revision Workshop: Bring the paper you intend to revise to class
W. 10-25. Popular Writing in the Natural Sciences: Sharon Begley, “Are You Ready for More?”; Daniel Sarewitz and Roger A. Pielke, Jr., “Rising Tide” (Insider’s Guide, 546-554).
F. 10-27. Peer Review Session: Bring full draft of Literature Review
Week 11
M. 10-30. Social Sciences Literature Review Due. Logical fallacies: What is Truth?
W. 11-1. Academic Writing in the Natural Sciences: Tingzhi Su, et. al., “Distribution of Toxic Trace Elements” (Insider’s Guide, 588-600); Donatella Marazziti and Domenico Canale, “Hormonal Changes When Falling in Love” (Insider’s Guide, 356-362).
F. 11-3. In-class Writing (just show up--I'll explain).
Week 12
M. 11-6. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
W. 11-8. Class canceled for “Touching Base” conferences
F. 11-10. Revision of Paper 1 or 2 due. Presentation Preparations: Read Rebecca Shuman, “PowerPointless”
Week 13
M. 11-13. In-class workshop for "Connections" Presentations
W. 11-15. Peer Review Session: Bring rough draft of Comparison Essay (at least three solid pages)
F. 11-17. Class canceled: Open Office Hours from 9:00-12:00.
Week 14
M. 11-20. Comparison Essay Due. (Email as electronic attachment by 5:00 pm).
W. 11-22. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
F. 11-24. Class Canceled for Thanksgiving
Week 15
M. 11-27. In-class “Connections” Presentations
W. 11-29. In-class “Connections” Presentations
F. 12-2. In-class “Connections” Presentations
Week 16
W. 12-6. 11:30-2:00: Final Examination for section 01
3:00-5:30: Final Examination for section 18