New York City College of Technology
English 1101 – D305 – Fall 2015
Professor: Kara Hughes Schedule: Tuesday/Thursday, 8:00-9:45 AM Email: khughes@citytech.cuny.edu Location: Namm 1018
Office hours: Thursdays, 10-11 AM (Namm 529) and by appointment
OpenLab address: openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/eng-1101-d305-fall-2015/
What to expect: An introduction to all phases of the writing process, including pre-writing, composition, editing, and revision. Our papers will be written in three rhetorical modes (narrative, process, and argument) and will ask you to focus on three primary factors (audience, purpose, and strategy). An emphasis will be placed on integrating outside sources and revising.
Your responsibilities:
- be fully present during class discussion;
- actively read and listen;
- ask questions;
- complete homework and in-class writing assignments;
- edit your work and the work of your classmates; and
- have an operational email account that you check daily.
Course learning outcomes and objectives project that you will come to successfully:
- respond to the needs of different audiences;
- formulate original ideas and relate them to the ideas of others by employing conventions of ethical attribution and citation;
- integrate your own ideas with those of others and practice summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and documenting this work in various writing projects;
- develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proof-reading; and
- control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
Textbook: The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Edition. Edited by Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan.
Please always bring your textbook, readings, and handouts with you to class, as we will refer to them throughout the semester. You may also choose to bring a dictionary to assist you with any in-class writing exercises.
Attendance: For this section, three late marks equate to one missed class (being late is arriving more than five minutes after the start of class). Per University policy, missing more than three total classes is grounds for failure. Whenever possible, please notify me of your absence before the start of class. If you must miss a class, the onus is on you to determine what work you missed; checking our OpenLab site is a great place to start.
Evaluation:
15% Narrative essay Grading scale: A = 90-100
15% Process essay B = 80-89
10% Argument essay, draft C = 70-79
20% Argument essay, final D = 60-69
15% Narrative or Process essay, revision F = <59
15% Classroom participation
10% Final exam*
*Students must pass the final exam to pass this course.
Grading rubric: The rubric being used to assess the above-noted essays will be provided on the first day of class and can also be found on pages 5-6 here: cuny.edu/academics/testing/cuny-assessment-tests/CATWInformationforStudentsandpracticeweb.pdf.
Grading rules: Five points will be deducted if you are more than five minutes late to class on the day an assignment is due. Due to the rapidity by which we will move through the semester, no late work will be accepted. If circumstances prevent you from being in class on the day an assignment is due, please contact or speak with me before the assignment is due so that we can strategize together.
Submission guidelines: All work is to be typed and printed out before class unless otherwise noted; please use 12-point type, double spacing, 1-inch margins all around, no extra spacing between paragraphs, and Arial, Calibri, or Times New Roman font. Please title your work; the title should be in 12-point font and centered, with no quotation marks, bolding, italics or underlining. No cover page is necessary; instead, on the upper left-hand corner of your first page, please list your name, ENG1101 and our section number (D305), the name of the assignment, and the due date. Use of page numbers should begin on the second page.
Citation style: We will be using MLA (Modern Language Association) style to cite sources. Visit the Purdue OWL website for additional information about MLA: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/.
Plagiarism: According to the University’s Academic Integrity code, “[p]lagiarism is the presenting of someone else’s ideas without proper credit or attribution.” Plagiarism may be punished not only by failure in English 1101, but by suspension or dismissal from the University as well. To allow someone else to pass off your written work as their own is another form of the same practice and may receive the same punishment.
Because the charge of plagiarism is so serious, it is important that you learn how to work with the ideas and words of other people responsibly. If, at any stage, you are unsure about how to properly acknowledge a source, see me. You can find the full version City Tech’s Academic Integrity policy at: http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/aboutus/docs/policies/AI_PolicyManual.pdf.
Recycling papers: Recycling work by taking a paper, speech, or assignment you have previously worked on and resubmitting for our class is not allowed. If a previous assignment comes to mind as a good fit for our work, please see me so that we can discuss and strategize together.
Paperwork: You must devise a system for filing the paperwork provided and created during our semester; do not discard anything until after you have received your final grade. Further, back-up all of your own work on a thumbdrive, Dropbox, Google docs, etc.
The Atrium Learning Center: All students are encouraged to visit the Learning Center (located in the Atrium Building, G-18) and take advantage of their online resources (websupport2.citytech.cuny.edu/learningcenters/). If error patterns are noted in your work, you will be required to attend tutoring sessions at the Learning Center.
Classroom rules: In addition to adhering to the rules delineated in this syllabus, you are asked to conduct yourself diplomatically and respectfully. Additionally, during class hours you are to refrain from using any electronic devices. If you use your cell phone or other device during class, you will be asked to leave and will be counted absent.
Note: The 2015-16 academic year welcomes the addition of a “writing lab” to ENG 1101 courses. Each week, we will set aside 50 minutes to engage in student-driven activities including in-class writing, peer-review and discussion. Writing lab work is flagged below for reference.
| Date | Text distributed | Homework |
| 8/27/15Thursday | · Syllabus, Scoring rubric | Þ Buy textbookÞ Find and physically bring in examples representing narrative, process, and argument writing (1 example per mode; 3 total) |
| 9/1/15Tuesday Lab: Annotation | · Annotation exercise· “The Storm” (Feig)· Excerpt from Suburban Nation (Duany et al.)· “Lessons From the Virginia Shooting” (Kristof) | Þ Buy textbook (if you haven’t already!)Þ Annotate “The Storm,” excerpt from Suburban Nation, and “Lessons From the Virginia Shooting” |
| 9/3/15Thursday | Þ Write! This assignment has two discrete components and should be between 2-3 pages: write about something that makes you pause (1 page) AND about a time that things didn’t go your way (1 page).Reminder: review our submission guidelines on page 2 of the syllabus for formatting instructions | |
| 9/8/15Tuesday Lab: Student Interviews | Þ Expand EITHER your “pause” or your “didn’t go my way” piece using at least two of the pre-writing strategies discussed in class.Þ Read our textbook’s “My American Journey” (Powell) | |
| Classes on Thursday 9/10/15 follow a Monday schedule. There is no school on Tuesday, 9/15/15. | ||
| 9/17/15Thursday Lab: Narrative categories | · Narrative essay prompt | Þ Write! Begin prewriting your narrative essay. In your prewriting, you should utilize no more than two narrative categories. Bring with you to class at least 2 pages of prewriting, including an outline.Þ Read our textbook’s “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” (Kim) |
| There is no school on Tuesday 9/22/15. But Tuesday classes will meet on Friday, 9/25/15; we will meet on back-to-back days next week. | ||
| 9/24/15Thursday | · “Forced From Home Yet Never Free of It” (Kim) | Þ Read “Forced From Home Yet Never Free of It” (Kim) |
| 9/25/15Friday Lab:Matrix | · Suki Kim matrix | Þ Revisit prewriting and outline; revise and come to class with a full rough draft of your narrative essay. |
| 9/29/15Tuesday Lab:Peer review | · Editing handout | Þ Write! Finish your narrative essayReminder: review our submission guidelines on page 2 of the syllabus for formatting instructions |
| 10/1/15Thursday Lab: Reflection | · The Scoop on Process Writing (Austin Peay State University)· Transitions handout (University of Richmond, Harris) | Þ Generate a list of 7 topics whose processes you’re knowledgeable about (i.e., you don’t have to be an expert, though you’re not a novice). Note: This assignment does not have to be typed |
| 10/6/15Tuesday Lab:Research questions | · Process essay prompt | Þ Whittle down your list of topics to 2-3 AND capture at least 2 research questions for eachReminder: on Thursday we will be going to the library at 8:30 am |
| 10/8/15Thursday | Þ Bring in 2 pieces of research to support your projected process essay topic | |
| 10/13/15Tuesday | · Plagiarism handout (CUNY)· Purdue OWL MLA handout· Excerpt from Travels in Siberia (Frazier) | Þ Continue researching and writingÞ Read excerpt from Travels in Siberia (Frazier)Þ Read our textbook’s “Colossus of New York” (Whitehead) |
| 10/15/15Thursday Lab: Close reading | Þ Revisit prewriting and outline; revise and come to class with a full rough draft of your process essay (this draft should include outside research and a Works Cited page). | |
| 10/20/15Tuesday Lab:Peer review | · Editing handout | Þ Write! Finish your process essayReminder: review our submission guidelines on page 2 of the syllabus for formatting instructions |
| 10/22/15Thursday Lab: Reflection and list generating | Þ Rank the list of topics we generated in class according to their potential to catapult a successful argument essay. Note: This does not have to be typed | |
| 10/27/15Tuesday | · Final prep prompt· “Do Happier People Work Harder?” (Amabile and Kramer)· “In Defense of Justin Bieber” (Blakeman) | Þ Read “In Defense of Justin Bieber”Þ Come to class prepared to argue for or against Blakeman’s stance Note: We will take a practice final today which will be graded as an in-class writing exercise. |
| 10/29/15Thursday Lab: Key findings | Þ Read our textbook’s “The Gospel of Wealth” (Carnegie) Note: You will be given mid-semester grades today (Passing, Borderline, Unsatisfactory, Stopped Attending). | |
| 11/3/15Tuesday | Þ Read our textbook’s “How the Other Half Lives” (Riis) | |
| 11/5/15Thursday Lab: Scope | · Argument essay (draft) prompt | Þ Identify your argument essay topic, capture at least 2 research questions, and begin prewriting. Bring with you to class at least 2 pages of prewriting, including an outline. |
| 11/10/15Tuesday Lab: Speed dating | Þ Determine your essay topic and begin to identify potential research questions. | |
| 11/12/15Thursday Lab: Debate | Þ Write! Finish a polished draft of your argument essay. Remember that this draft is a precursor to the final essay, which will be due on 12/1/15.Þ Bring in TWO copies of your essay | |
| 11/17/15Tuesday | · “Robovie, You’ll Have to Go into the Closet Now” (Kahn et al.)· Editing handout· “Siri, You’re Messing Up a Generation of Children” (Shulevitz) | Þ Peer edit using the editing handoutÞ Read “Siri, You’re Messing Up a Generation of Children” (Shulevitz) |
| 11/19/15Thursday | · Argument essay (final) prompt· “Some Thoughts on Mercy” (Gay) | Þ Read “Some Thoughts on Mercy” (Gay) |
| 11/24/15Tuesday Lab: Ways to invigorate | Þ Write! Finish your final argument essay | |
| There is no school on Thursday, 11/26/15. | ||
| 12/1/15Tuesday Lab: Transitions | · “Curse Loop” (Butler)· Narrative/process revision prompt | Þ Decide whether you’re going to revise your narrative or process essay; bring the selected essay with you to class. |
| 12/3/15Thursday Lab: Editing questions | · “20 Great Writers on the Art of Revision” (assembled by Temple) | Þ Begin revising and bring your work-in-progress with you to class |
| 12/8/15Tuesday | · Untitled piece (Lennon)· Excerpt from Lolita (Nabokov) | Þ Write! Finish your narrative/process revision |
| 12/10/15Thursday Lab: Peer review | ||
| 12/15/15Tuesday | · Final prep prompt· “It’s Hard to be a Hero” (Nocera) | |
| 12/17/15Thursday | Note: We will take our final today |
Note! For a Word version of our syllabus, please click below:
Syllabus, ENG 1101, Section D305
