ENC1101 Composition I CRN 17740 Section S95
Class Meetings: Mondays and Wednesdays 07:00am – 08:15am in Bldg. 3 Room 229
Professor:Email(*):
Phone:
Office(s): / Adam Pridemore
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Bldg. 3 Rm. 218 (Osceola Campus)
Bldg. 5 Rm. 240 (West Campus) / "Dialogue is the encounter between (people), mediated by the world, in order to name the world...True dialogue cannot exist unless the dialoguers engage in critical thinking - thinking which perceives reality as a process, as transformation, rather than as a static entity."
~Paulo Friere from Pedagogy of the Oppressed
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT HOURS:
Mondays
Tuesdays
Wednesdays
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Fridays / 1:00pm - 1:30pm
11:30am -2:00pm
1:00pm - 1:30pm 11:30am -2:00pm
9:30am - 2:30pm / (WEST)
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Course Description:
Development of essay form, including documented essay; instruction and practice in expository writing. Emphasis on clarity of central and support ideas, adequate development, logical organization, coherence, appropriate citing of primary and/or secondary sources, and grammatical and mechanical accuracy. Gordon Rule course in which the student is required to demonstrate college-level writing skills through multiple assignments. Minimum grade of C is required if ENC 1101 is used to satisfy Gordon Rule and general education requirements.
Gordon Rule: State Board of Education Rule 6A-10.030, the Gordon Rule, requires that students complete, with grades of C or better, 12 credit hours in designated courses in which the student is required to demonstrate college-level writing skills through multiple assignments, and six credits of mathematics course work at the level of college algebra or higher. These courses must be completed successfully (with grades of C or better) prior to the receipt of an A.A. Degree and prior to entry into the upper division of a Florida public university.
Prerequisites: Score of 103 on writing component of PERT or equivalent score or other state-approved entry test or minimum grade of C in ENC 0025C or EAP 1640C and score of 106 on the reading portion of the PERT, or equivalent score on other state-approved entry test or minimum grade of C in REA 0017C or EAP 1620C.
Required Materials:
Please bring the following with you to every class: writing utensil, paper, and textbooks. Please also be sure to have access to email, the internet, and a computer or laptop.
Textbooks: Everyone’s an Author 2nd Ed. Lunsford et al. W W. Norton 2017
The Little Seagull Handbook. 2nd. Ed Bullock et al., W. W. Norton 2014
Core Competencies:
The faculty of Valencia College have established four Core Competencies that describe the learning outcomes for a Valencia graduate. They are: Think, Value, Act, and Communicate. These general competencies can be applied in many contexts and must be developed over a lifetime. They specify how learning can be expressed and assessed in practice.
Course Outcomes and Objectives:
(1) Students will compose expository essays. Objectives related to this outcome:
~Student will be able to construct a thesis that clearly expresses the assignment’s main idea.
~Student will be able to develop topic sentences that support the thesis.
~Student will be able to generate supporting ideas/details.
~Student will be able to integrate supporting ideas/details.
~Student will be able to connect supporting ideas/details to thesis statement.
~Student will be able to compose introductions and conclusions.
~Student will be able to implement transitions between ideas.
~Student will be able to draft, revise, edit, and proofread.
(2) Students will write in standard American English. Objectives related to this outcome:
~Student will be able to write grammatically correct sentences.
~Student will be able to write mechanically correct sentences.
~Student will be able to vary sentence patterns.
~Student will be able to employ effective diction.
~Student will be able to edit for clarity.
(3) Students will write a documented essay. Objectives related to this outcome:
~Student will be able to recognize information that requires documentation.
~Student will be able to integrate source materials into essay.
~Student will be able to use a recognized documentation style, which includes in-text citations
and a works cited/reference page.
(4) Students will demonstrate information literacy. Objectives related to this outcome:
~Student will be able to recognize credible print and digital source material.
~Student will be able to identify existing technological resources for writing.
(5) Students will develop critical reading skills. Objectives related to this outcome:
~Student will be able to identify main ideas and supporting details.
~Student will be able to recognize overall patterns of organization.
~Student will be able to discern author's tone.
~Student will be able to recognize intent and/or bias.
~Student will be able to read texts for literal meaning.
~Student will be able to read texts for inferential meaning.
“There are no ‘neutral’ words… It becomes ‘one’s own’ only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions… appropriates the word, adapting it to (their) own semantic and expressive intention. Prior… the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words … one must take the word, and make it one’s own” ~Mikhail Bakhtin / GRADING:This is how your grade will be determined for this course.
Homework and Quizzes / (18%)
Participation / (10%)
Final Exam / (5%)
FINAL Portfolio (3 Essays) / (67%)
Grading Categories Explained:
Homework and Quizzes (18%). This category can include written responses to readings, in-class free-writing, journaling, announced and unannounced reading quizzes, and announced and unannounced grammar quizzes, as well as posts to Blackboard. Because these quizzes will very often take place at the beginning of class, it is especially important to be on time; you can’t make up a missed quiz, even if you show up as we’ve just completed the quiz.
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Informed Class Participation (10%). I expect each student to come prepared to participate actively in each class day’s work. Thoughtful participation is especially important on draft workshop days. Class participation, as I see it, does not necessarily mean that you are the life of the party; being shy or quiet is completely fine. Instead, informed participation includes helping yourself and others learn by asking questions, asking someone to speak louder, challenging or extending the ideas of others, giving thorough and thoughtful critiques of your peers’ writing, and listening actively to what others say in class.
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Final Exam (5%). Your final exam will require you to reflect upon what you’ve learned in the course, and to demonstrate it through your writing (including a knowledge of grammar). Don’t worry, though… I promise it won’t be too scary! The final exam is scheduled to take place Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, from 7:00am – 9:30am in our normal classroom.
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Final Portfolio of Essays (67%). Writing is a PROCESS. This is a very important concept, central to this course, and to the idea of college writing and writing in general. As such, in this course you have the opportunity to revise every formal essay that you write before it receives its final grade.
We will write 3 main essays. When you bring a draft for feedback, I will give you feedback and suggest ideas for revision, as well as give you an idea of how the essay would be graded, but the draft will not receive a grade at that point, other than for completion.
At the end of the semester, you will compile a final portfolio that includes your best revised writing, and an introductory essay that reflects on your writing development throughout the course. I’ll give you lots more information about the portfolio later in the term. HOWEVER, know that you must earn a C or better on the portfolio, and all of its individual essays, to earn a C or better in the course.
/ Rene Magritte: The Treason of Images (1928-29) / / “Words matter. But words fail.”~Me.
Rene Magritte: The Two Mysteries (1966)
Grading Policies
The grading for this course is set up to reflect what I believe about writing: we don’t always get a piece of writing right on our first attempt. It takes lots of steps to produce effective writing, including pondering, brainstorming, drafting, revising, and editing—not necessarily in that order. Until we reach that final portfolio stage, your grade will / HINT: This process, the very idea of writing as a process, is something that the course is attempting to model for you to then allow you to internalize it and make it a part of how you approach all of your other courses.reflect not only your developing writing abilities but also your attention to all stages of this process.
At the end of the semester, final portfolio grades will reflect the quality of the writing you’ve revised and polished so that it’s the best it can possibly be. The final portfolios will reflect how well you write at the end of the course. This means YOU are ultimately in the driver’s seat for your grade all the way up until when you hand in the final portfolio. Consider that your portfolio is worth 67% of your overall grade.
“There is nothing outside the text.” ~Jacques Derrida
An Important Note on Grading and Grammar: When I grade your essays, I will use a rubric, which is a system that breaks your essay down into categories, and assigns sub-grades to those categories, to help demonstrate for you exactly how you earned the grade that you end up earning.However, one of those categories will NOT be grammar. Instead, with grammar, what I will do is I will penalize your essay for any grammatical errors. Specifically, several egregious major errors will be heavily penalized, making it difficult to pass if your essay is laden with them. These errors are: Run on sentences, comma splices, sentence fragments, and subject verb disagreement. If you don’t know what these are, we will go over them. If a final draft has more than 5 of these major errors, it will automatically receive a 50%. Other errors will result in penalties ranging from -0.5 to -2 points. If any draft earlier than the final has 10 or more major errors, it will receive 75% of the points possible for completion.
Course Policies:
Attendance: Per the Valencia attendance policy, students are expected to attend all classes for which they are registered. An absence is defined as any time a student misses more than half a class period either because of actually missing class, lateness, or early departure. Regular and active participation is an essential, unmistakably important aspect of class. Students are expected to attend and be on time to all class meetings. It is the student’s responsibility to communicate with his/her professor regarding any absences. Failure to attend the first week of class will result in an automatic withdrawal from the class unless previous arrangements have been made and approved by the instructor. You will be allowed three (3) absences over the course of the semester. All absences, for whatever reason, are considered the same, the only exceptions being medical emergencies or ongoing medical conditions with written documentation provided. Any student who misses four (4) class meetings without proof of exception may be immediately withdrawn from the course.
No-Show Procedure: The no-show reporting period for this course is January 18-27,
2017. If students registered for the course have not attended any classes from the first
day of class to the beginning of the no-show reporting period, then the instructor will
withdraw them from the course on the first day of the no-show period.
Electronic Devices: Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices during class
time. If there is an emergency situation, please notify instructor prior to the beginning of
class. Texting will not be permitted during class time.
Academic Honesty: All forms of academic dishonesty are prohibited at Valencia College.
Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to: plagiarism, cheating, furnishing false
information, forgery, alteration or misuse of documents, misconduct during a test
situation, and misuse of identification with intent to defraud or deceive. All work
submitted by students is expected to be the result of the student’s individual thoughts,
research and self-expression. Whenever a student uses ideas, wording or organization
from another source, the source shall be appropriately acknowledged.
Students guilty of engaging in a gross or flagrant act of academic dishonesty or repeated
instances of academic dishonesty will suffer the following consequences: 1) First offense
– the student shall receive a zero on any plagiarized assignment, exam, or project; 2)
Subsequent offense(s) – the student shall receive a failing course grade and will be
subject to administrative and/or disciplinary penalties which may include warning,
probation, suspension and/or expulsion from the College.
Tardy Policy: Please be respectful to your fellow classmates by arriving on time and
staying for the entire duration of the class. If you arrive late, please take your seat as
quietly as possible. If you must leave class early, please contact me beforehand. Three (3)
tardies will equal one (1) absence.
Word/Page Count: Word count and/or page ranges are provided for each assignment.
Failure to meet length requirements will be considered an incomplete assignment and a
reduction in the grade will apply.
Withdrawal Policy: Per Valencia Policy 04-07 (Academic Progress, Course Attendance
and Grades and Withdrawals), a student who withdraws from class before the withdrawal
deadline of November 10, 2017, will receive a grade of “W.” A student is not permitted to
withdraw after the withdraw deadline. A faculty member MAY withdraw a student up
to the beginning of the final exam period for violation of the class attendance policy.
A student who is withdrawn by faculty for violation of the class attendance policy will
receive a grade of “W.” Any student who withdraws or is withdrawn from a class during
a third or subsequent attempt in the same course will be assigned a grade of “F.” If you
do not intend to complete the course, you must withdraw yourself prior to the withdrawal date. For a complete policy and procedure overview on Valencia Policy 6Hx28:4-07,