TR+Syllabus+1301.030

ENG 1301.030: College Reading and Writing COURSE SYLLABUS: FALL 2015

Instructor: Michelle Tvete Office Location: Hall of Languages 233 Office Hours: MWF 10:50-12:00; TR 10:45-11:30 & 3:15-3:45 Office Phone: (903) 886-5262 Office Fax: (903) 886-5980 University Email Address: michelletvete@gmail.com Class Web Site: 13014u.wikispaces.com

=COURSE INFORMATION =


 * Materials – Textbooks, Readings, Supplementary Readings **

Textbook(s) Required

Problem Posing: Readings for Democratic Learning. Eds. Mary Couzelis, J.D. Isip, and Tabetha Adkins. Fountainhead Press, 2013.

ENG 1301 Course Pack- available from your instructor and online: http://13014u.wikispaces.com/Course+Pack

Journal (lined and bound—composition or spiral notebook)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Package of 50 Notecards (3X5, lined)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Course Description **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">English 1301 - (formerly ENG 101) - Introduces students to writing as an extended, complex, recursive process and prepares students for English 1302, which more rigorously examines the forms and structures of argument and means to approaching multiple audiences. In 1301 students will write weekly, and will work on essay organization and development. The course will emphasize close reading, summarizing, and analysis of expository texts, including student writing.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Student Learning Outcomes **


 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">1. Students will be able to use rhetorical terminology to describe writing.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2. Students will be able to identify instances of plagiarism and explain why it is a serious offense in academic writing.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">3. Students will be able to interpret texts written for academic audiences.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">4. Students will be able to use academic writing conventions in their own writing.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">COURSE REQUIREMENTS =


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Instructional / Methods / Activities Assessments **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Major Writing Assignments (WAs) **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writing Assignment 1 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(10 pts.) Consider this essay as a look at your own personal writing history. This essay is an assessment of your own writing based on our readings. You may want to include your early education, your family influences, and other literacy sponsors. Have the readings changed how you see this history? If you have a new way of “seeing” your history, how did it change? Have you developed a new approach for your writing and research? This assignment will follow the MLA format (Times New Roman 12 pt. font, double-spaced, 1”margins). 3-5 pp.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writing Assignment 2 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(10 pts.) For this writing assignment, pick a specific discourse community that you are interested in and explain to me why and how it qualifies as a discourse community by comparing it to the criteria described in your English 1301 course pack. This assignment will be 2-3 pages in length (500-750 words), typed Times New Roman 12-font, double-spaced, and follows standard MLA format. You need to include at least 2 citations (quotes from your course material) in your essay and a Work Cited page. 2-3 pp.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writing Assignment 3 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(10 pts.) Based upon our review of the types of argumentation used in communication (logos, pathos, ethos, and kairos), pick a particular (current) television commercial and analyze it by comparing these forms of argumentation to it. This assignment will be 2.5-4 pages in length (625-1000 words), typed Times New Roman 12-font, double-spaced, and follows standard MLA format. Include at least two references and a separate works cited page with this assignment. 2.5-4 pp.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Photo Essay (WA 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(30 pts.) Choose a key theme from the course (discourse community, literacy sponsor, literacy, Burkean Parlor, CARS model, rhetorical terms, etc.) and create a photo essay illustrating your understanding of these themes. This essay will consist of images you created or collected with a paragraph about each image explaining why that image illustrates the concept you chose. Keep in mind, this essay should be more than just a collection of images. Those images should help tell a story about the concept. Think about what stories involved: an argument, a beginning, middle, an arc, and an end. In other words, you are using your images—a kind of rhetoric—to tell a story about a concept.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In addition to completing WA 4, all students will present their photo essays to the class on a designated day on the last week of class. The grading breakdown for the photo essay project is as follows:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Photo Essay: 15pts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Presentation: 10pts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Attendance: 5pts <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Total: 30pts

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(10 pts.—5 pts. each) All students will be required to attend two conferences with the instructor during the semester. These conferences are designed to give us time to discuss expectations and any questions or concerns that may arise.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Conferences **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(10 pts.) Participation is based on class attendance and involvement with discussions and in-class activities. Students are encouraged to attend the Celebration of Student Writing on December 11, 2015 at 11am to prepare for ENG 1302. Students who attend can receive extra credit or replace one absence.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Participation **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Make sure to complete all reading assignments before class, because we will discuss each reading as a group. I believe knowledge is created through such group collaboration—the unique intersection of all of our perspectives, ideas and experiences. So for our class to be successful, each of you needs to come to class ready to ask your questions and share your insights. I will typically ask you to prepare for our discussion by writing an in-class response on a notecard (Spot Check) at the beginning of class. If I notice that our discussion is not fruitful (due to a lack of preparation), I will give pop quizzes, as well. Since you have chosen to become a college scholar, this should not be necessary.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Discussion, Notecards (Spot Checks) and Quizzes **

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grading =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grading Percentages

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10% WA 1 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10% WA 2 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10% WA 3 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">30% Photo Essay (WA 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10% Conferences <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">10% Notecards (Spot Checks) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">20% Participation (discussion and group work), Quizzes, & Informal Writing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">100%

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grading Scale


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">90-100 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">A ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">89-80 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">B ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">79-70 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">C ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">69-60 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">D ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">59 and below || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">F ||

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENTS =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You will need:


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">•A valid, working email address that you check often (everyday)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">•Regular internet access (additional readings available online)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">•Access to a computer with a word processing program and a printer (assignments must be typed and printed, and you will print approximately 100 pages for this class.)

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ACCESS AND NAVIGATION =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Class Website and Reading Materials <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Some texts for this course exist exclusively online, so you must have Internet access to read and/or view these texts. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">myLeo Support <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Please email helpdesk@tamuc.edu or call us at 903-468-6000 with any questions about setting up your myLeo email account. You may also access information at[|https://leo.tamuc.edu]. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Learner Support <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Go to the following link[|One Stop Shop]- created to serve you by attempting to provide as many resources as possible in one location. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Go to the following link[|Academic Success Center]- focused on providing academic resources to help you achieve academic success.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Interaction with Instructor Statement

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Please contact you instructor with any questions you may have. Your instructor’s communication preference is e-mail, and her address is: michelletvete@gmail.com. Also, each instructor in the department of literature and languages is required to keep at least three office hours per course per week. My office hours are MWF 10:50-12:00 and TR 10:45-11:30 & 3:15-3:45 in HoL 233. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Grievance Procedure <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students who have concerns regarding their courses should first address those concerns with the assigned instructor in order to reach a resolution. Students who are unsatisfied with the outcome of that conversation or have not been able to meet individually with their instructor, whether in-person, by email, by telephone, or by another communication medium, should then schedule an appointment with the Director of First-Year Writing, Dr. Tabetha Adkins, by completing a student grievance form available on the program website: http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/literatureLanguages/firstYearWriting/informationForStudents.aspx). <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Where applicable, students should also consult University Procedure 13.99.99.R0.05 (“Student Appeal of Instructor Evaluation”).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Departmental Chain of Command for ENG 100/1301/1302 courses: Instructor -> Dr. Tabetha Adkins, Director of First-Year Writing -> Dr. Susan Stewart, Assistant Department Head or Dr. Hunter Hayes, Department Head

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">COURSE AND UNIVERSITY PROCEDURES/POLICIES =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Course Specific Procedures
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Attendance Policy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Since our class meets twice a week, you may miss up to four (4) times without penalty. After the fifth absence, your final grade will drop by one letter. After the seventh absence, you cannot pass the course.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Three tardies=one absence. Please arrive for our class on time. Coming in late not only means that you are missing important information/discussion and showing disrespect for your professor—it distracts your fellow students who have put in the necessary effort to arrive on time.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The university has no policy for “excused absences” except for university sanctioned events, so please save your absences for illness, court appearances, child care arrangements, and other situations when you must miss class.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The reading response you write (on your notecards) at the beginning of class will also count for your attendance. If you are not in class to write the response, then you cannot make it up (whether you are absent or simply tardy). If you are tardy, then you must write me an explanation on your notecard instead and turn that in at the end of class (so you will be counted present, but tardy).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Academic Honesty <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The official departmental policy: “Instructors in the Department of Literature and Languages do not tolerate plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonestly. Instructors uphold and support the highest academic standards, and students are expected to do likewise. Penalties for students guilty of academic dishonesty include disciplinary probation, suspension, and expulsion. (Texas A&M University-Commerce Code of Student Conduct 5.b [1,2,3])

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">If you ever have any questions about a particular use of a source, always ask your instructor. They want you to avoid plagiarism, too, so they will help you do so whenever and wherever they can. Do what you can to take advantage of this support—to look innocent in addition to being innocent when it comes to charges of plagiarism.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students guilty of academic dishonesty of plagiarism can expect to fail the assignment in question or the entire course depending on the nature of the incident. See your Writing at Texas A&M University-Commerce Guide (a required text for this course) for more information.)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">On University-Sanctioned Activities <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">To accommodate students who participate in university-sanctioned activities, the First-Year Composition Program offers sections of this course at various times of the day and week. If you think that this course may conflict with a university-sanctioned activity in which you are involved--athletics, etc.--please see your instructor after class on the first day.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">ADAStatement
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students with Disabilities <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Office of Student Disability Resources and Services <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Texas A&M University-Commerce <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Gee Library- Room 132 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Phone (903) 886-5150 or (903) 886-5835 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Fax (903) 468-8148 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">StudentDisabilityServices@tamuc.edu

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Student Conduct
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">All students enrolled at the University shall follow the tenets of common decency and acceptable behavior conducive to a positive learning environment. (See Code of Student Conduct from Student Guide Handbook). Students should also consult the Rules of Netiquette for more information regarding how to interact with students in an online forum: []

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Texas A&M University-Commerce will comply in the classroom, and in online courses, with all federal and state laws prohibiting discrimination and related retaliation on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or veteran status. Further, an environment free from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression will be maintained.

=COURSE OUTLINE / CALENDAR=

This calendar will change, including the addition of reading assignments from //Posing Problems//, based on our class interests and needs. We will discuss assigned readings, specifics about writing assignments, and class discussion changes in class. Another reason you to attend class regularly.

Keep in mind that the readings listed in the “due” column must be read **prior** to coming to class.


 * ** Week ** ||  ** Topics **  ||  ** Due **  ||
 * ** Week 1 **

September 1 ||  Icebreaker, Course Introduction and Syllabus  || à Purchase textbook for the class || à Bring “Writing” object ||
 * September 3 ||  Intro & Syllabus Cont.; Share “Writing” object  || à Purchase textbook for the class
 * ** Week 2 **

September 8 ||  Class Discussion: Course Pack, pp. 4-11; Discuss Burkean Parlor  || à Read Course Pack pp. 4-9 || Class Discussion: Course Pack 12-5 || à Read Course Pack 12-5 ||
 * September 10 ||  Visit to Writing Center
 * ** Week 3 **

September 15 ||  Discussion: Course Pack 16-9; [|How to Write an Email to a Professor]; How to take notes  || à Read Course Pack 16-9 & 41 ||
 * September 17 ||  Discussion: Course Pack 31-5; Journal Problem Posing  || à Read Course Pack 31-5 ||
 * ** Week 4 **

September 22 ||  Discussion: Course Pack 37 & 39; Analyze Prompt for Photo Essay; Analyze a reading  || à Read Course Pack 37 & 39-40 ||
 * September 24 ||  Discuss Plagiarism  || à Read Problem Posing 1-3 ||
 * ** Week 5 **

September 29 ||  ===Discussion: Course Pack 38 applied to

|| Read Course Pack 38 & MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail ||
 * October 1 ||  Discuss reading
 * Sign up for conferences ** || à Read //Problem Posing// 297-300 ||
 * ** Week 6 **

October 6 ||  CONFERENCES (no class)  || à Make a list of your questions and concerns for your conference with me. ||
 * October 8 ||  CONFERENCES (no class)  || à Make a list of your questions and concerns for your conference with me. ||
 * ** Week 7 **

October 13 ||  Workshop WA 1  || à ** Rough Draft of WA 1 Due ** ||
 * October 15 ||  Introduce WA 2 Journal Discourse Communities  || à ** WA 1 Due ** ||
 * ** Week 8 **

October 20 ||  Discuss: //PP// 55-70  || à Read //Problem Posing// 55-70 ||
 * October 22 ||   || à ** Read Problem Posing 342-51 ** ||
 * ** Week 9 **

October 27 ||  Introduce Photo Essay and brainstorm possible approaches  || à ||
 * October 29 ||  Introduce WA 3; Workshop WA 2 ; Class Discussion: PP 6-11   || à Rough Draft of WA 2 ; <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Read Problem Posing 6-11 ||
 * ** Week 10 **

November 3 ||  CONFERENCES (no class)  || à WA 2 DUE at your conference meeting ||
 * November 5 ||  CONFERENCES (no class)  || à ||
 * ** Week 11 **

November 10 ||  Class Discussion: CP 24-6; Mis en Scene exercise  || à Read CP 20-6 ||
 * November 12 ||  Continue Mise en Scene & begin Montage Discussion  || à ||
 * ** Week 12 **

November 17 ||  Watch Commercial & write WA 3 in class  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Re-read CP 25 ||
 * November 19 ||  Peer Edit WA 3  ||   ||
 * ** Week 13 **

November 24 ||  Discussion: CP 40 &42 and Introductions--using this handout  || à <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15.6px;">WA 3 DUE ||
 * November 26 ||  ** NO CLASS-Thanksgiving Break **  || à ||
 * ** Week 14 **

December 1 ||  Photo Essay Workshop (bring any questions, concerns, etc.);Storyboarding & Presentation Information  || à Bring potential photos to class ||
 * December 3 ||  Peer Edit Photo Essay  || Rough Draft of Photo Essay ||
 * ** Week 15 **

December 8 ||  Photo Essay Presentations  || ** Photo Essay (WA 4) Due; ** **// Students are required to attend both class days for presentations (even if you have already presented) //** ||
 * December 10 ||  Photo Essay Presentations  ||  Celebration of Student Writing on **Friday, December 11 from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM** in the Student Center Conference rooms A, B, & C.  ||
 * ** Week 16 ** || Congratulations! You finished! || à ** No formal exam for this class ** ||