Eng 111College Composition I
Michael Faul DE Adjunct
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Stone Bridge High School-based Instructor: Michael Faul
Email: mfaul@lcps.org
Phone: 571-252-2200
Syllabus WILL change depending on the needs of this class: You
will be notified of any updates in class.
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Course Description
The course introduces students to critical thinking and the fundamentals of academic writing.
Through the writing process, students refine topics; develop and support ideas; investigate,
evaluate, and incorporate appropriate resources; edit for effective style and usage; and
determine appropriate approaches for a variety of contexts, audiences, and purposes. Writing
activities will include exposition and argumentation with at least one researched essay.
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Course Credit: 3 credit hours
Prerequisites:
Students must achieve satisfactory scores on placement tests or SATs as established by the
VCCS and adopted by their college, or have satisfactorily completed either ENF 1 or ENF 2,
depending on where the student was placed.
Drop Date: The last date to drop is October 19, 2015. If you are not proving successful in this
college course due to its rigor or personal issues, the course can be dropped by the above date. ours
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Your school will not be billed for your participation in the course. With your agreement, your
teacher will send an e-mail with this request to the DE Registrar. If a transferrable course, you Syll
must be removed from the course. If non-transferable, you can take the high school only credit abus
and remain in the course.
Withdraw Date: The last date to withdraw is December 1, 2015. If you missed the drop
deadline, you may also be withdrawn from the course. A withdraw places a W on your college
transcript but does not impact your college GPA. To be withdrawn, with your permission, your
DE Instructor will complete the DE withdraw form and send to the DE Registrar. Please note, a
“W” on a college transcript may impact your ability to secure financial aid in the future!
Course Objectives
Goal 1: THE PROCESS OF WRITING
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to produce an effective essay
through an organized and coherent process.
 They will be able to develop a topic, draft an essay, revise the draft for improvement,
and edit a final copy.
 They will be able to incorporate reading and experience into their writing.
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Goal 2: EXPOSITORY AND ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to explain, describe and inform in
expository writing and will be able to identify the purpose of the mode of argument in
persuasive writing.
 They will be able to organize and explain ideas with clarity, vividness, effectiveness
and grammatical and mechanical correctness in expository essays.
 They will be able to use evidence in a thesis-driven essay argumentatively asserting one
viewpoint over another. (A fuller and more robust study of argument is the province of
ENG 112.)
GOAL 3: CRITICAL THINKING AND RESEARCH
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to analyze and investigate ideas
and present them in well-structured prose appropriate to a particular purpose and audience.
 They will be able to read, summarize, and respond to college level texts – their own and
others--of varying lengths
 They will be able to create unified, coherent, well-developed texts that demonstrate a
self-critical awareness of rhetorical elements such as purpose, audience, and
organization.
 They will be able to employ grammatical and mechanical conventions in the
preparation of readable manuscripts, including the documented research essay.
 They will be able to use and evaluate outside sources of information, incorporate and
document source material and avoid plagiarism.
 They will be able to produce 15-20 pages of finished, graded text, including a
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Major Topics to be Included
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 Critical thinking
 Selecting/Refining topics
 Composing effective sentences and paragraphs
 Developing, organizing, and supporting ideas
 Investigating and evaluating resources
 Incorporating appropriate resources into a text
 Considering context, audience, and purpose
Method of Instruction:
Classroom; lab, Turnitin.com, Edmodo.com: This is a lab-based course, and students will be
expected to write during scheduled lab time as well as outside of class. All mastery
assignments will be posted on my website and/or distributed in class. If you are absent, it is
your responsibility to check the classroom website to retrieve assignments and be aware of due
dates. If you know in advance that you will miss class, please alert the instructor to make
arrangements for missed work. Most final writing assignments will be submitted to
Turnitin.com.
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Instructional Materials:
Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler. Seventh ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Print. (CLASS SET)
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VanDermey, Randall, et al. The College Writer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company,
2004. Print. (CLASS SET)
Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That
Changed America. New York: Crown, 2003. Print. (STUDENT PURCHASE)
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Supplemental materials will be posted online or provided as handouts. Articles from current
journals and periodicals (New York Times, Washington Post, for example) will be assigned
periodically as writing style samples.
Grading and Evaluation:
30% In-class assignments, journals, quizzes, projects
70% Completion of the Formal Writing Process and Formal Writing Assignments
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Be advised that extra credit offered during this course is conditional on completing all the work abus
in the class. Therefore, if you have not turned in all assignments, you will not be eligible for
the credit at the semester’s end.
A = 100 - 90 B = 89 - 80
C = 79 - 70
D = 69 - 60
F = 59 and below
*Note: Your Stone Bridge course grade will be based on the LCPS grading scale.
Honor Code:
Stone Bridge High School and NVCC do not condone academic dishonesty. SBHS policy may
be reviewed in the annual Student Agenda. NVCC policy may be reviewed at
https://www.nvcc.edu/curcatalog/policies/integrity. Faculty are required to report violations
of the policy.
Neither cheating nor plagiarism will be tolerated. If you are found cheating or plagiarizing you
will receive a grade of 0 for the assignment and the incident reported to the department and
dean. According to the NOVA Student Handbook: “Academic dishonesty cannot be
condoned. When such misconduct is established as having occurred, it subjects you to possible
disciplinary actions ranging from admonition to dismissal, along with any grade penalty the
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instructor might, in appropriate cases, impose. Procedural safeguards of due process and appeal
are available to you in disciplinary matters.”
Special Services:
To the extent allowable by NVCC, students with IEPs or 504 plans will receive the
accommodations specified in those IEPs or 504 plans. It should be noted that such
modifications will NOT include excusing students from completing the minimum page
requirement for the class specified by NVCC.
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Attendance:
As per LCPS policy, when you are absent, you have one class to make up any missed work for
each class you have missed. In other words, if you miss three consecutive classes—when you
return—you have three classes to make up your work.
Policy Due Dates and Late Work:
Papers and assignments must be submitted at the beginning of class or at the specified time
indicated on Turnitin.com or they are considered late.
 Late assignments are penalized 10% per day that they are late. A maximum of
50% could be deducted from the final score.
 If you are absent and an assignment was due the previous class, it should be
submitted on the day you return. MOST Turnitin.com assignments should be
submitted on time no matter your attendance status because the class starts them
with clear understanding of due dates, requirements, and expectations well in
advance. If you check the syllabus now, for example, you will know the due dates ours
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 If you are absent and missed an assignment, you should come to see me before
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school, after school, during early release, or email me immediately to ensure that
you can complete the assignment the next class. Otherwise, it will be considered
late. I seldom have time immediately (within ten minutes of the start) to discuss
your missing work because I am preparing for the upcoming class. Thus, to avoid
confusion, I don’t usually discuss a recent absence during this time.
 If for some reason Turnitin.com does not work on the due date of a paper, you
should email the IDENTICAL paper that you tried to submit.
 It is your responsibility to verify that your essay was uploaded successfully to
Turnitin.com.
 If there are extenuating or mitigating circumstances, you should communicate
these with me and, if appropriate, we will work out an accommodation.
 Field trips are based on the stipulation that you are responsible for completing
work that was missed. The field trip announcements provided teachers all include
this guideline. I expect students who go on field trips to complete missed work on
time unless there are pre-negotiated arrangements.
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Reassessment Policy
1. Grammar/Mechanics Quizzes: You may retake one grammar quiz during the semester. Your first
and second quiz scores will be averaged. You must retake the quiz within one week of your score being
posted. The quiz retake will be administered in the Student Support Center (SSC) and you must fulfill
SSC requirements for a retake.
2. Essay Rewrites: You may rewrite one essay during the semester in order to improve your skills. To
rewrite an essay, you must meet the following criteria:
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Meet with me between 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. (school day) within one week of receiving your score
to create an action plan for revision.
Utilize the Writing Center for assistance in your revising and submit proof of visit to me at final
meeting.
Submit the side-by-side original/revision (as outlined in conference meeting) to Turnitin.com
within one week of initial visit.
Meet with me between 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. (school day) within one week of resubmission to
review and reassess revision.
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Classroom Etiquette
This is a college course, and you are expected to behave like a college student. This means
refraining from all distracting behavior including participating in irrelevant discussions,
sleeping, using personal electronic devices at unauthorized times, and completing work for
another class. Students engaged in disruptive behaviors will be asked to leave.
Class Schedule:
Aug. 31/ Sept.1,
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Sept.
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Preliminary Class Agenda
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Course introduction and guidelines
Introduction to the Writing Process.1
Writing Diagnostic
Outside Reading: “Twenty-Four Word Notes,” David Foster
Wallace
 2Journal #1 (J1—notation hereafter to signify journals
Students should obtain a copy of The Devil in the White City by
Sept. 24 when the first reading assignment will begin in this work.
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Lab
Sept 15/16:
Lab
Sept 17/18:
Sept: 21/22
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Mechanics Usage3 Grammar (MUG) *Note: Throughout the
semester, there will be unscheduled but announced grammar
quizzes.
 Reading: Description Essay Examples in Available Texts or via
handouts.
 For Next Class: Read In Cold Blood—selections from Chapter 1.
Assigned: Paper 1--Description
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Description and the Writing Process
Outlines
Reading: Additional Description Essay Examples in Available
Texts or via handouts.
For Next Class: Bring Outline of Paper #1.
Lab Day—Drafting Paper #1
MUG
J4
For Next Class: Bring Copy of Paper #1 Draft to class for Peer
editing.
Lab Day (if possible)—Peer Review and Editing of Paper #1; Hard
Copy Required if Lab not available
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Introduction of Book Project
Modeling of Close Reading (CR) Paper Development
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Paper #1 Due.
For Next Class: Read and Annotate: The Devil in the White
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City Prologue and Part I.
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Close Reading Assignment #1 (CR#1)—Essays for analysis
provided.
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Reading Check Quizzes for The Devil in the White City possible
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any time through Oct. 7/8
For Next Class: Read and Annotate: The Devil in the White
City Part II.
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Lab Day for Close Reading Assignment #1
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CR#1 Due
For Next Class: Read and Annotate: The Devil in the White
City Part III.
--Assigned: Paper 2—Process Analysis
--Process Analysis and the Writing Process
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Models for Process Analysis
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Book Discussion
Complete Book Project and presentations (Due next class)
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Book Project due
Project Presentations
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Book Project Presentations
Oct 20/21:
Lab
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Oct 22/23:
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Paper #2 Draft Composition in Lab (Block 1—Outside Class
Draft)
J15; First Quarter Journals Due
Paper #2 Drafts Due—Peer Editing in lab if possible; otherwise,
bring hard copy.
MUG
Oct 26/27:
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Paper #2 Due
MUG
Oct 28/29:
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Close Reading Assignment #2 (CR#2)
MUG
Oct 30/Nov 4
Lab
END of Quarter 1 – Oct 30
Nov 5/6
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Nov. 9/10:
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 CR#2 Due
--Assigned: Paper 3—Comparison Contrast (CC)
--Discussion/Review of Models Assigned
--CC and the Writing Process
Oct 7/8:
Oct 9/13:
Oct 14/15:
Oct 16/19:
Read and Annotate: The Devil in the White City Part IV and
Epilogue.
Lab Day for work on CR#2
Comparison Contrast Essay models provided for reading.
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MLA Research Basics
--Lab Day for Research Exercises and Drafting of Paper #3
For Next Class: Have Draft Completed or Very Near Completed
for Peer Review and Editing
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Paper #3 Drafting and Peer Review in Lab
Nov 17/18
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Principles of Argumentation
MUG
Nov 19/20
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Principles of Argumentation
Argumentation models
Nov. 23/24:
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 Paper #3 Due
--Assigned: Paper 4—Argumentation and Persuasion—an MLA
Documented Assignment
--Argumentation and Persuasion: the Writing Process
 MLA Review
 Argumentation and Persuasion Essay models provided for reading.
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 Lab Research for Paper #4
 Argumentation and Persuasion Essay models provided for reading.
Socratic Circles and selected debates to practice Argumentation and
Persuasion Techniques.
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Nov. 30/Dec. 1:
Lab
Dec. 2/3:
Dec. 4/7:
Socratic Circles and selected debates to practice Argumentation and
Persuasion Techniques.
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Organizational Structures
Selecting APPROPRIATE Sources
Compiling an Annotated Bibliography
For Next Class: Bring Paper #4 outline.
Work on Draft of Paper #4
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Work on Draft of Paper #4
For Next Class: Bring rough draft.
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Peer Review and Editing of Paper #4
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MUG
Dec. 10/11:
Lab
Dec. 14/15:
Lab
Dec. 16/17:
Lab
Dec. 18/Jan. 4
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Paper #4 Due to Turnitin.com 11:59 PM on day 6th or 7th
Close Reading Assignment #3 (CR#3)
Work on CR#3
Introduction to Magazine Project
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Magazine Project
MUG
CR#3 Due
Jan. 13/14
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Magazine Project
Jan. 15/19
Lab
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Magazine Project
MUG
Jan. 20/21
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Magazine Project due
Presentations
Jan. 22/25
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J27 Semester Reflection
Second Quarter Journals Due
Presentations
Jan. 26/27
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Writing Conferences
Jan. 5/6
Jan. 7/8:
Lab
Jan. 11/12:
*Students will schedule writing conference during this week to review
Writing Portfolio with Instructor. Review process grade will be
included in 2nd Quarter Grade.
Jan. 27/28
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Writing Conferences
*All essays and close readings must be uploaded to Turnitin.com by 11:59 p.m. on the
days they are due.
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Writing Process—We will consider the Writing Process throughout the semester, considering
planning, drafting, revising, and submission components. The Writers’ triangle will also be presented.
As we begin each new type of paper, we will review the Writing Process and the nuances associated
with each.
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Journals: Narrative Writing—using stories to make a point or provide examples, will be performed
throughout the semester—mostly in the form of journals. Students should have marble composition
notebooks with college rule for this purpose. There will be 25 assigned journals during the course.
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Mechanics, Grammar, Punctuation, Research, and Composition Techniques: During the first
twelve weeks of the course, we will do exercises to improve the more mechanical aspects of your
writing. We will have periodic assessments (quizzes) on these components to verify understanding.
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Close Reading Papers—One of the course objectives is to consider the types of writing that students
will encounter across the curriculum. Three one-page, typed, double spaced papers are required in
accordance with the schedule. Students will be given essays or excerpts of a cross curricular nature
(science, math, business, political science, etc.) from which they may select to write each assigned
paper. We will model one of these papers before attempting one independently.
Northern Virginia Community College Course Policies and Procedures can be found at
http://www.nvcc.edu/current-students/policies--forms/student-handbook/
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Teach Act Copyright Notice "The materials provided for this course are only for the use of students
enrolled in this course for purposes associated with this course, and may not be retained or further
disseminated."
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