La ng a Fa ra l ar l 2 Co ch 00 lle ive 7 - ge d ENGLISH 1128-30 (2007) COURSE OUTLINE INSTRUCTOR: Trevor Newland OFFICE: A301 LOCATION: A368 CLASS HOURS: M/T/W/F 8:30 am-9:25 am OFFICE HOURS: M/T/W/F 10:30-11:25 am PHONE: 604-323-5840 E-MAIL: tnewland@langara.bc.ca LEARNING OUTCOMES_______________________________________________________ Students of English 1128 will • learn the nature of writing as argument • perfect MLA format • learn critical thinking skills and apply them to various short stories and essays • improve their ability to write logically and grammatically coherent literary insight, argumentative and research essays • engage in more intensive reading. TEXTS_______________________________________________________________________ • Furberg, Jon and Richard Hopkins. The College Style Sheet (6th Edition) (ISBN 1896661-06-8) • English 1128 Readings (Fall 2007) ASSIGNMENTS_______________________________________________________________ • 1 Research Paper Outline (5 marks) • 1 Research Paper (15 marks) • 1 In-Class Essay (Argumentative) (10 marks) • 1 In-Class Essay (Argumentative Revision) (10 marks) • 1 In-Class Midterm (Literary Insight) (15 marks) • Final Exam (20 marks) • Participation (10 marks) • Seminars (10 marks) • Library Workshop (5 marks) ATTENDANCE________________________________________________________________ Attend all classes. If you miss a class, check with a classmate to see what you have missed and what the class will be doing for the following meeting. It is your responsibility to get missed notes from a fellow student and to catch up on missed material. You may wish to exchange phone numbers with a classmate. If you miss eight classes or more you will be asked to leave the course immediately. This is not a correspondence course. Coming to class is mandatory. You must attend the Library Workshop. LATE ASSIGNMENTS__________________________________________________________ Essays lose 5% for each day late, unless you have a documented health problem. I cannot accept papers once the rest of the class’s assignments have been returned. PLAGIARISM_________________________________________________________________ La ng a Fa ra l ar l 2 Co ch 00 lle ive 7 - ge d Plagiarism includes (but is not limited to) the following: • knowingly submitting the work of another person, whether published or unpublished, paid or unpaid – for example, an essay purchased from an essay-writing service; written, edited, or revised by a tutor, friend or family member; or copied from a book, article, or website • failing to distinguish between your ideas and the ideas of others and/or failing to indicate which points in your essay come from someone else’s work – for example, an idea you got from a website or journal article in your research on the topic • failing to distinguish between your own words and the words of others and/or failing to distinguish between quotation and paraphrase • failing to paraphrase accurately: it is not enough to provide synonyms for the key terms in someone else’s sentence; you must change sentence structure enough so that the idea is truly expressed in your own idiosyncratic way • failing to cite your sources, both quoted and paraphrased, using an approved documentation style (in this class, using MLA parenthetical citation keyed to a separate Works Cited page). Everyone faces problems with documentation from time to time; we all encounter the kinds of sources or situations we are not sure how to document. I do not expect that you know everything about documentation, but I do expect you to consult a reputable, reliable source when you run into difficulties – for example, a good grammar handbook with a section on documentation, your instructor, a reference librarian, the Writing Centre. If you are caught plagiarizing, the academic consequences are severe. For the first instance, you will receive a zero mark for the given assignment. For the second instance, you will be asked to leave the course. For the third instance, you will be expelled from the college. M: T: W: F: Introductions Sentence Structure Sentence Structure Sentence Structure Exercises Two: Sept. 10-14 M: T: W: F: Essay Writing Essay Writing Essay Writing Essay Writing Three: Sept. 17-21 M: T: W: F: Essay Writing What is a Short Story? (film) Erdrich, “Dear John Wayne” Common Writing Errors Four: Sept. 24-28 M: T: W: F: Carter, “The Bloody Chamber” Carter, “The Bloody Chamber” Figurative Language Seminar 1/Lethem, “Super Goat Man” (5%) Five: Oct. 1-5 M: T: W: F: Figurative Language Descriptive Writing Descriptive Writing Seminar 2/Chabon, “Solitude and the Fortress of Youth” (5%) Six: Oct. 8-12 M: T: W: F: HOLIDAY Writing a Timed Essay (film) Writing an Argumentative Essay (film) In-Class Argumentative Essay (10%) Chabon, “The Lost World” Seven: Oct. 15-19 M: T: W: F: O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” Library Workshop (5%) In-Class Argumentative Essay Revision (10%) Library Workshop research (no class) Eight: Oct. 22-26 M: T: W: F: Borges, “Death and the Compass” O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Achebe, “Girls At War” Seminar 3/Vonnegut, “Harrison Bergeron” (5%) Nine: Oct. 29Nov. 2 M: T: Common Grammar and Diction Exercises Common Grammar and Diction Exercises Research Paper and Outline assigned Midterm (Lit Insight) (10%) La ng a Fa ra l ar l 2 Co ch 00 lle ive 7 - ge d One: Sept. 4-7 ) W: F: Seminar 4/Updike, “A&P” (5%) Ten: Nov. 5-9 M: T: W: F: Cheever, “The Five-Forty-Eight” Malamud, “Angel Levine” Millhauser, “The Knife Thrower” Seminar 5/Yeats, “The Second Coming” (5%) Eleven: Nov. 12-16 M: T: HOLIDAY Research Paper Outline Due (5%) Carver, “Cathedral” LeGuin, “Omelas” Seminar 6/ King, “Borders” La ng a Fa ra l ar l 2 Co ch 00 lle ive 7 - ge d W: F: Twelve: Nov. 19-23 M: T: W: F: Hemingway biographical information Hemingway, “In Another Country” Hemingway, “In Another Country” Hemingway, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” Thirteen: Nov. 26-30 M: T: W: F: Research Paper due (20%) Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Pt. 1 of 2) Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Pt. 2 of 2) Ross, “One’s A Heifer” Boyle, “Greasy Lake” M: Review for Final Exam Fourteen: Dec. 3