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Course Number: ENG 1101

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Credits / Hours: 3 credits/ 4 hours

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Course Description: 

A course in effective essay writing and basic research techniques including use of the library. Demanding readings assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing. 

Prerequisite: 

CUNY proficiency in reading and writing 

Course Meetings:

Note to instructors: you should have information here about whether your course will be fully asynchronous or if it will have a synchronous component. If your course is designated “online,” it must be fully asynchronous. If it is designated “hybrid,” you may have a synchronous component.  However, you should note that some students may have issues with technology (or other scheduling issues) that make synchronous meetings difficult in light of the pandemic. For this reason, we encourage you not to make synchronous meetings the CORE of your class, but an addition to your class: a place to discuss issues and ask questions and to build community. We also ask that you record synchronous meetings and make them available for students who cannot attend and that you do not penalize students who cannot attend these meetings. 

Learning Outcomes

It is expected that at a minimum, students in ENG 1101 will:

Read and listen critically and analytically in a variety of genres and rhetorical situations: Identify and evaluate exigencies, purposes, claims, supporting evidence, and underlying assumptions in a variety of texts, genres, and media.

Adapt to and compose in a variety of genres: Adapt writing conventions in ways that are suitable to different exigencies and purposes in a variety of contexts, including academic, workplace, and civic audiences. When appropriate, repurpose prior work to new genres, audiences, and media by adjusting delivery, design, tone, organization, and language.

Use research as a process of inquiry and engagement with multiple perspectives: Learn to focus on a topic and develop research questions that lead to propositions and claims that can be supported with well-reasoned arguments. Persuasively communicate and repurpose research projects across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media. Demonstrate research skills through attribution and citation gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing both primary and secondary sources. Learn how to use appropriate citation styles depending on disciplinary and situational requirements (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.).

Use reflection and other metacognitive processes to revise prior assumptions about reading and writing and transfer acquired knowledge into new writing situations. Students write reflections of their own reading and writing process from the beginning and throughout the semester with the intention to transfer their acquired knowledge about genre and composing practices into new writing situations.

Demonstrate the social and ethical responsibilities and consequences of writing: Recognize that first-year writing includes academic, workplace, and civic contexts, all of which require careful deliberation concerning the ethical and social ramifications concerning fairness, inclusivity, and respect for diversity. Write and revise for academic and broader, public audiences accordingly.

Compose in 21st Century Environments: Learn to choose among the most current and effective delivery methods for different composing situations. Students learn to compose in new media environments, including alphabetic texts, still and moving images, sonic, and mixed media compositions. Use digital media platforms appropriate to audience and purpose.

Self-Care Statement: 

There isn’t a handbook for the situation we are in right now as a state and a nation, and the resultant uncertainty can be stressful. We need to recognize the toll this situation might be taking on us and be compassionate with ourselves and with others. This semester, our priority will be to foster intellectual nourishment, social connection, and personal accommodation. We will remain flexible, and if we have to, we will adjust to the situation (adapted from Prof. Brandon Bayne’s syllabus, UNC). 

Self-Care Statement: 

There isn’t a handbook for the situation we are in right now as a state and a nation, and the resultant uncertainty can be stressful. We need to recognize the toll this situation might be taking on us and be compassionate with ourselves and with others. This semester, our priority will be to foster intellectual nourishment, social connection, and personal accommodation. We will remain flexible, and if we have to, we will adjust to the situation (adapted from Prof. Brandon Bayne’s syllabus, UNC). 

Course Website: 

This course will take place online (instructors: please see the First Year Writing memo about synchronous/ asynchronous instruction and reiterate for students what the situation will be in your class here. Also, if you are using Open Lab, please include instructions for signing up in an email and on Blackboard. Students may check your course Blackboard site). It is extremely important that you familiarize yourself with our website and find out where everything is. This is where you will find your assignments and post your homework as well as finished units.  This is how we’ll keep in touch, so please check in daily! You are responsible for being up-to-date and knowing what is on our course site.  Please contact me if you are having trouble! 

Readings / Texts: 

All course readings are OER/ZTC (see below) and can be found on the course website in the schedule and the weekly agendas. A list of readings is also available in the Course Resources.

Open Educational Resources/Zero Textbook Costs (OER/ZTC):

This course uses OER/ZTC materials, which means instead of buying a textbook, students will use materials that are freely or openly available. These OER/ZTC materials, available to students throughout the semester and remaining available after the end of the semester, can include:

  • Open educational resources that are Creative Commons (openly) licensed, including but not limited to open textbooks
  • Freely available web resources that do not violate copyright
  • Library licensed digital resources
  • Materials in the public domain.

Core Books at CUNY

Several of the books we’ll read in this course are part of Core Books at CUNY, a CUNY-wide Teagle Foundation grant. Reading these texts will help us engage with broad humanistic questions that we will use to inspire our writing.

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Attendance: 

One thing you may not know is that in face-to-face classes we take attendance for your sake as much as for our own. If someone isn’t coming to class, we worry they won’t succeed in a writing class– and that’s because writing is more about work and learning your own process than it is about magical talent. Even in an online class, you have to show up if you want to see progress with your writing– I’ll take attendance by checking to see that you’ve done the daily assignments. 

Writing Center: 

For one-on-one help with your writing assignments, send an email to CityTechWritingCenter@gmail.com requesting an appointment. You will receive an automatic reply with information about available tutoring sessions.

Schedule

Find a detailed schedule for this course on the Schedule page.

UNIVERSITY POLICIES: 

Accessibility Statement:

 Your success in this class is important to me. We all need different accommodations because we all learn differently. If there are aspects of this course that prevent you from learning or exclude you, please let me know as soon as possible. Together we’ll develop strategies to meet both your needs and the requirements of the course.I encourage you to visit or contact the Center for Student Accessibility to determine how you could improve your learning as well. If you need official accommodations, you have a right to have these met. If you have or think you may have a disability, you may be eligible for reasonable accommodations or academic adjustments as provided under applicable federal, state and city laws. You may also request services for temporary conditions or medical issues under certain circumstances. The Center for Student Accessibility is located at 300 Jay Street room L-237, or can be reached at (718)260-5143 or http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/accessibility/.

Academic Integrity Policy

Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting and citation of sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the college recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension and expulsion. More information about the College’s policy on Academic Integrity may be found in the College Catalog. 

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