Textbooks
Recommended text: Lisa Ede - The Academic Writer: A Brief Guide (ISBN: 978-0312603199)
One of the following handbooks might also be helpful (its purchase is optional):
One of the following handbooks might also be helpful (its purchase is optional):
About English 1010
Course Description:
This course examines concepts of rhetoric, research, and argumentation placing a strong emphasis on the writing process, including invention, drafting, peer review, and revision. You will be introduced to the conventions of academic writing, including summary, thesis statements, analysis, synthesis, argumentation, and citation. The class will also focus on covering rhetoric (pathos, ethos, logos, kairos), audience, and genre. In this class students will read and write extensively in order to focus on developing and questioning their own ideas. Students will also critique their own and peers’ writing.
Course Outcomes:
The English Department lists the following as its desired outcomes for student writers, who at the completion of English 1010 will be able to demonstrate through writing:
Attendance:
The English Department recognizes that attendance and active participation in class determine your success. Therefore, department policy stipulates that at least 10% of your final grade will be based on your involvement in class. You may miss class four (4) times without penalty. Each subsequent absence will reduce your attendance grade (worth 100 points, 10% of your grade) by ten (10) points per absence.
Participation:
Your success in this course will be a product of two things: completing out-of-class reading and writing assignments, and your attendance and participation in class sessions. There is no way for you to pass this class if you do not attend class having completed the reading and writing assignments. In this class, you will be required to bring writing to class. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility find out what you missed, either by contacting a classmate or by visiting the class website. If you are unclear about an assignment, please e-mail me or see me before or after class. (I am available via e-mail and will generally respond within 24 hours, usually much sooner.) There is no way to pass the class if you do not complete the assignments.
General Education ePortfolio:
Each student in General Education courses at SLCC maintains a General Education ePortfolio. Instructors in every Gen Ed course will ask you to put at least one assignment from the course into your ePortfolio, and accompany it with reflective writing. It is a requirement in this class for you to add to your ePortfolio; throughout the semester we will talk about what I expect you to add to your ePortfolio. Your ePortfolio will allow you to include your educational goals, describe your extracurricular activities, and post your resume. When you finish your time at SLCC, your ePortfolio will then be a multi-media showcase of your educational experience. For detailed information, visit http://www.slcc.edu/gened/eportfolio.
After you have picked an ePortfolio platform, go to the corresponding help site to watch the tutorials and look at the examples so you can get started on your own:
If you would like to start your ePortfolio in a computer lab with a person there to help you, sign up online for one of the free workshops at the Taylorsville-Redwood library: http://libweb.slcc.edu/services/forms/eportfolio. You may also visit an ePortfolio Lab (in the Taylorsville-Redwood Library LIB 047 as well as in HTC 102a on the Jordan Campus) during business hours, and staff will help you without an appointment. Finally, questions regarding the ePortfolio can be directed to [email protected].
Accommodation for Disabilities:
If you need accommodation, please talk with me and/or someone at the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at the beginning of the semester or as soon as you are aware that accommodation is necessary. The DRC is in CC 230, or you can call them at 957-4659 (voice) or 957-4646 (TTY).
Writing Center:
SLCC's Writing Center offers an advising program where you have the opportunity to discuss your work with a peer tutor or faculty writing advisor. The intent of the Writing Center advisor is to help you think about your writing process by sharing their impressions of your materials, offering revision strategies, discussing different ways to approach an assignment, as well as to provide another reader and voice for you. The Writing Center is not simply a place to go to get a paper "fixed" or "corrected." Be prepared with questions for your advisor. Ask yourself what you want to work on, whether it's understanding an assignment, having an advisor give you his/her impressions of a passage you've written, or to talk about "what you want to say." The Writing Center also offers real time online Writing Advising using Wimba. Go to www.slcc.edu/swc/liveonline.asp to find the schedule for writing tutors and to make an appointment. At the Jordan campus, the Writing Center can be found in HTC 102.
This course examines concepts of rhetoric, research, and argumentation placing a strong emphasis on the writing process, including invention, drafting, peer review, and revision. You will be introduced to the conventions of academic writing, including summary, thesis statements, analysis, synthesis, argumentation, and citation. The class will also focus on covering rhetoric (pathos, ethos, logos, kairos), audience, and genre. In this class students will read and write extensively in order to focus on developing and questioning their own ideas. Students will also critique their own and peers’ writing.
Course Outcomes:
The English Department lists the following as its desired outcomes for student writers, who at the completion of English 1010 will be able to demonstrate through writing:
- Rhetorical Strategies, including adapting to differences in purpose, audience and genre
- Critical Thinking Processes, including summary, analysis, synthesis, and argumentation
- Composing Processes such as invention, drafting, revision, editing, peer feedback, and self-assessment
- Conventions of Writing, especially the conventions of citing multiple texts and incorporating them into one’s own writing.
Attendance:
The English Department recognizes that attendance and active participation in class determine your success. Therefore, department policy stipulates that at least 10% of your final grade will be based on your involvement in class. You may miss class four (4) times without penalty. Each subsequent absence will reduce your attendance grade (worth 100 points, 10% of your grade) by ten (10) points per absence.
Participation:
Your success in this course will be a product of two things: completing out-of-class reading and writing assignments, and your attendance and participation in class sessions. There is no way for you to pass this class if you do not attend class having completed the reading and writing assignments. In this class, you will be required to bring writing to class. If you miss a class, it is your responsibility find out what you missed, either by contacting a classmate or by visiting the class website. If you are unclear about an assignment, please e-mail me or see me before or after class. (I am available via e-mail and will generally respond within 24 hours, usually much sooner.) There is no way to pass the class if you do not complete the assignments.
General Education ePortfolio:
Each student in General Education courses at SLCC maintains a General Education ePortfolio. Instructors in every Gen Ed course will ask you to put at least one assignment from the course into your ePortfolio, and accompany it with reflective writing. It is a requirement in this class for you to add to your ePortfolio; throughout the semester we will talk about what I expect you to add to your ePortfolio. Your ePortfolio will allow you to include your educational goals, describe your extracurricular activities, and post your resume. When you finish your time at SLCC, your ePortfolio will then be a multi-media showcase of your educational experience. For detailed information, visit http://www.slcc.edu/gened/eportfolio.
After you have picked an ePortfolio platform, go to the corresponding help site to watch the tutorials and look at the examples so you can get started on your own:
- https://sites.google.com/site/slcceport
- http://slcceportfolio.wordpress.com
- http://slcceportfolio.weebly.com
If you would like to start your ePortfolio in a computer lab with a person there to help you, sign up online for one of the free workshops at the Taylorsville-Redwood library: http://libweb.slcc.edu/services/forms/eportfolio. You may also visit an ePortfolio Lab (in the Taylorsville-Redwood Library LIB 047 as well as in HTC 102a on the Jordan Campus) during business hours, and staff will help you without an appointment. Finally, questions regarding the ePortfolio can be directed to [email protected].
Accommodation for Disabilities:
If you need accommodation, please talk with me and/or someone at the Disability Resource Center (DRC) at the beginning of the semester or as soon as you are aware that accommodation is necessary. The DRC is in CC 230, or you can call them at 957-4659 (voice) or 957-4646 (TTY).
Writing Center:
SLCC's Writing Center offers an advising program where you have the opportunity to discuss your work with a peer tutor or faculty writing advisor. The intent of the Writing Center advisor is to help you think about your writing process by sharing their impressions of your materials, offering revision strategies, discussing different ways to approach an assignment, as well as to provide another reader and voice for you. The Writing Center is not simply a place to go to get a paper "fixed" or "corrected." Be prepared with questions for your advisor. Ask yourself what you want to work on, whether it's understanding an assignment, having an advisor give you his/her impressions of a passage you've written, or to talk about "what you want to say." The Writing Center also offers real time online Writing Advising using Wimba. Go to www.slcc.edu/swc/liveonline.asp to find the schedule for writing tutors and to make an appointment. At the Jordan campus, the Writing Center can be found in HTC 102.