Syllabus

Course Description:   English 100 is a course in intensive reading and writing.  All writing courses are, by nature, primarily courses in thinking--critical thinking.  In this course you will read significant texts to seek to understand the ideas involved and the critical thought that gave rise to those ideas and their expression.  You will expand your own skills and thoughts effectively in writing.  The concentration of the course is on exposition.  By careful analysis of effective writing we understand what makes it effective and can use that understanding to create moving, meaningful prose.

There is no final examination covering the whole of the course, but rather a final essay in which you will bring to bear the whole of the semester’s work and progress.

Required Texts

  • The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
  • The Little, Brown Reader, 8th Ed., Marcia Stubbs, Sylvia Barnet
  • Everyone is expected to purchase or  have a Composition Handbook, and  a competent dictionary

Assignments & Grading:  Final grades will be formed as follows:

  • Discussion and Attendance...................... 15%
  • Four Papers................................................ 40%
  • Journal Assignments................................. 20%
  • Final Paper................................................. 25%

Policies: 

  • All written work is submitted as MS Word Documents via attachment to email.
  • Attendance is sensible and mandatory. 
  • More than three unexcused absences will be grounds for grade reduction or failure. 
  • Any instances of plagiarism will be dealt with according to guidelines in the student handbook.
  • All papers are to be typed, double-spaced and carefully proofread, in MLA format.
  • Assignments must be turned in, on the due date given. Late work may only be submitted with permission of the instructor.
  • All work must be completed to pass this course.
  • Should you need help with anything in this class, see me.  I am available in the above office happy to arrange other times when necessary. 

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