ENGL 1010 College Composition I



ENGL 1020 -049: CRN #70458 |Composition I (3. Cr. Hrs.) | |

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|Mrs. Kathleen LaMoreaux |Watkins Glen High School |

| |Room 742 |

|Room 742: Period 5 |535-3210 Ext. 7420 |

|klamorea@ |Office Hours for individual help: |

| |Period 1,5,8 |

| |and after school |

| |Please schedule an appointment |

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|Syllabus and individual assignments will be posted at: | |

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|Textbook: |Ready Reference Handbook, 3rd Edition |

| |by Jack Dodds |

| |Exploring Literature, 2nd Edition |

| |by Frank Madden |

|Supplementary Readings: |One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |

| |Macbeth |

| |The Color Purple |

|Required Materials: |Reading log |

| |3-ring binder |

| |Sticky notes |

| |Hi-Lighter |

| |Folder with 2 pockets |

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|Course Description: |

|ENGL 1020 College Composition II |

|Writing course designed to advance critical and analytical abilities begun in ENGL1010. Literary analysis essays on works of fiction, poetry,|

|and drama. (3 credit hours). Prerequisite: ENGL1010 and satisfactory completion of all reading skills placements. |

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|This course also meets your requirement for a 4th year of secondary English. Passing this course will be necessary for graduation. Most |

|colleges will expect you to get a B in this course in order to transfer credit. If you do not meet the attendance requirement of W.G.H.S. or |

|C.C.C., you will not receive credit. |

|Student Learning Outcomes: |

Students should demonstrate competency in the following areas:

A. Prewriting techniques that include:

1. Generating ideas through reading, brainstorming, discussion, research, etc.

2. Analyzing the audience.

3. Evaluating ideas and formulating a unifying thesis.

4. Organizing material into a coherent plan.

5. Annotating texts

B. Composing well-organized essays that:

1. Include clear theses (claims).

2. Offer carefully selected textual evidence and analysis of that evidence as support for those theses.

3. Avoid fallacies of logic and avoid clichéd or unexamined ideas.

4. Define terms sufficiently.

5. Use language appropriate to college level writing.

6. Anticipate and refute counter-arguments where appropriate.

7. Comprise well-developed body paragraphs, introductions, and conclusions.

8. Conform to standard usage, grammar, and mechanics.

9. Conform to MLA Style standards for citing material.

C. Improving writing skills through the analysis of works of literature by:

1. Summarizing effectively.

2. Responding personally and enriching that response with critical reading and interpretive writing.

3. Employing appropriate literary terminology accurately.

4. Conducting research into historical contexts, author’s biography, and/or literary criticism to expand and facilitate the understanding of the text, where appropriate.

D. Improving critical reading skills through the analysis of works of literature by:

1. Considering the writer’s purpose.

2. Identifying and understanding deliberate ambiguity.

3. Exercising inferential reading skills.

4. Understanding literal, figurative, and symbolic language and action.

5. Understanding and interpreting different types of irony.

E. Improving analytical thinking through the consideration of disparate ideas and cultural attitudes by:

1. Understanding the multiple meanings that may exist in the reading of a text.

2. Understanding the historical and cultural contexts of a work of literature.

3. Recognizing the assumptions of our time and culture and how they affect our reading of literature.

4. Understanding how literature connects to the world outside the classroom.

5. Appreciating multiple and sometimes conflicting interpretations of a text.

6. Exposure to a diversity of literature.

|Course Requirements: |

|Students are required to complete five essays. Also, students will keep a journal and reading log, and attend class prepared to participate. |

|Essays: |

|Submitting exploratory writing, an outline, and rough drafts for each essay is required in this course.  Writing is a process and the |

|instructor will evaluate steps to guide students in their writings.  Students are expected to keep exploratory writing, outlines, rough |

|drafts, and final essays and must be prepared to show each written step of the process that was used to arrive at the final version of every |

|essay. You will submit your final stapled essay in a folder which also contains your pre-writing and rough draft. |

|I also expect you to submit essays written outside of class to . Please hand in the printed report with your essay. You may do so|

|by emailing your essay to Mrs. Edgley at: |

|medgley@ |

|Exam: |

|The final exam will include short answers and essay questions that cover various topics in the course. Students will receive a study guide |

|for the final during the first week of June |

|Grading Policies: |

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|Essay #1: Non-graded guided writing |

|Essay #2: Literary analysis 10% |

|Essay #3: In class Poetry interpretation 10% |

|Essay #4: Poetry project 20% |

|Essay #5: Macbeth 20% |

|Essay #6: Capstone Essay 30% |

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|Journal and Reading Log: 10% |

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|Students must complete all essays to be eligible to earn a passing grade in the course. |

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|Grading Standards: |

|4.0 |

|A |

|An “A” is an exceptional paper in ENGL1010. It represents a high standard of achievement. |

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|3.0 |

|B |

|A “B” indicates a good paper. Except for some weakness that prevents the paper from being described as a model, it is still significantly |

|better than the ordinary effort. |

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|2.0 |

|C |

|A “C” is an average paper. It represents competence, what is minimally expected of the student in the course. |

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|D |

|A grade of “D” indicates substandard work. There is some redeeming merit, e.g. good idea or clean grammar, that prevents it from being a |

|failing paper, yet it is still not at a competent level of writing. |

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|0. |

|F |

|A grade of an “F” indicates an unacceptable paper. |

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|Late Assignments: |

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|I expect that you will complete all assignments when they are due. If an assignment is late, it will be reduced by one letter grade. An essay|

|that is submitted late may not be rewritten for a higher grade. If you are absent from school, you may e-mail your paper to me so that I |

|receive it on the due date. |

|Rewrite Policy: |

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|No more than one of essays #2-4 may be rewritten for a higher grade. If you choose to rewrite an essay, it is due within one week of the |

|date it was returned to you. You must submit your original essay and evaluation rubric with the modified version. |

|A conference with the instructor is required before a student rewrites an essay.  |

|No essay that is turned in late may be rewritten. |

|No essay that receives an F because of plagiarism may be rewritten. |

|Students should not plan on saving rewrite opportunities for later essays because rewriting early in the course helps students master basic |

|skills that are needed throughout the course.  |

|Attendance Policy: |

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|The Corning Community College Communication Division believes that |

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|since the college classroom experience is more than just a transfer of information from teacher to student, but also an opportunity for |

|gaining insights and tolerance of divergent opinions from ideas shared through open discussion – all of which are necessary in the educated |

|individual; |

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|and since, by the fact of the student’s voluntarily entering a situation in which the exchange of ideas is intrinsic, a student assumes the |

|obligation to participate in classroom activities; |

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|the Attendance Policy of the Communications Division is that if a student is absent from the equivalent of six hours of classroom meetings in |

|any one course, |

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|the student will be dropped from the course, |

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|or, if the date for dropping a course without penalty has passed, the student will receive a failing grade, unless prior arrangements have |

|been made between the teacher and student. |

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|Any absences, legal or illegal, will count in the 6 day maximum. |

|If you exceed the 6 day maximum, you may still earn W.G.H.S. credit, but you should withdraw from CCC or you will have a failure on your |

|college transcript. |

|Plagiarism Statement: |

|COMMUNICATIONS/HUMANITIES DIVISION |

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|There are ways by which a person can borrow and use other people’s ideas, information, or words, as long as the borrowing is properly |

|acknowledged. However, unacknowledged borrowing – plagiarism – is a serious crime and is dealt with severely. |

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|Plagiarism occurs when a person presents other people’s ideas, information, or words as if they were his or her own creation. Plagiarism is a|

|form of theft, as well as cheating. |

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|When a person copies a passage from a published source, such as a periodical, an encyclopedia, or book, or downloads a passage from an |

|Internet source, and presents that information without proper documentation in a paper or project, then that person has committed plagiarism. |

|Even if the wording has been slightly changed, a little plagiarism is still plagiarism. If a person submits a paper or project in |

|satisfaction of a course assignment that was authored in part or in whole by someone else, then that person is guilty of plagiarism (and the |

|other person could be equally as guilty.) |

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|Any act of plagiarism will result in a failing grade for that paper or project, and could result in the student’s failing the course. |

|Documented acts of plagiarism will be kept on record. Repeated acts of plagiarism have more serious consequences. See the section entitled |

|“Code of Student Conduct” in the Student Handbook. |

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|A paper which receives a failing grade because of plagiarism cannot be re-written for a better grade. |

|Accommodations Statement: |

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|Students with documented disabilities have the right to reasonable accommodations. These accommodations must follow prescribed guidelines. It|

|is your responsibility to notify me if you have an I.E.P. or some other disability |

|Extra Help |

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|I will always be glad to provide you with extra help if you need it. You may email me or ask me in person if you wish to set up an |

|appointment for extra help. Please do not wait until the paper is due and expect that I will be immediately available. |

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