English 1101 College Writing
Central New Mexico Community College -- Spring 2015 -- 3 credit hours
Section
CRN
Wks
Room
Day
Time
101
85512
16
MS-204
Mon/Wed
7:30 -- 8:45 AM
107
85519
16
MS-204
Mon/Wed
9:00 -- 10:15 AM
103
85514
16
MS-411
Tue/Thu
7:30 -- 8:45 AM
Instructor: Dr. Peter Lundman
Office and hours: KC-101. Office Hours page has details.
Email: plundman @ cnm.edu
Personal website: http:// peterlundman.com
CELL phone: [Write it here after I tell you in class]:
SPECIAL NEEDS. The Master Syllabus states: "Qualified students with special learning needs
are encouraged to notify the instructor at the beginning of the class about any specific assistance
that may be required to support the student’s learning. It is the instructor’s intent to assist
qualified students with special learning needs by making course modifications that will ensure a
successful learning experience for the student. Students are asked to contact the CNM Disability
Resource Center (DRC) office in order for support staff to assist the instructor with course
modifications. The Disability Resource Center contact information is: Phone (505) 224-3259
(phone); TTD Line 224-3262; Fax 224-3261. When students are assigned to a support counselor,
individual email contact information is also provided."
RELATED CLASSES. "Students who need extra help in the grammar and mechanics of College
Writing should consider enrolling in English 1096, CNM's 'Emergency Writing Repair
Workshop.' This 1-credit, low-stress workshop is designed to give students a strong foundation
for academic writing while building confidence, competence, and a deeper understanding of how
the language works. Instructors also provide extra support for students writing 1101 papers. The
workshop begins in Week 3 of the semester. Please ask your instructor for details" (English
Department ).
PREREQUISITES: "Credit in Reading 0950 or Accuplacer Reading Skills=80+ and credit in
English 0950, or Accuplacer Sentence Skills=85-109, or ACT=between 16 and 22, or
SAT=between 330 and 450. Failure to meet a prerequisite (or corequisite) may result in
offending students’ being dropped from the class at any time during the term" (Master Syllabus).
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COURSE DESCRIPTION. "English 1101 is a course in text-based essay composition.
Assignments include critical reading, summary and analytical writing, and synthesis. English
1101 is an expository writing course with readings designed to provide topics for discussion and
writing and to improve students' accurate uses of language. The course emphasizes learning how
to organize and support ideas clearly, fully, and interestingly in written form. Students review
English grammar, usage, and punctuation in the context of college writing" (Master Syllabus).
We will work about equally on reading for meaning, thinking critically, shaping responses, and
mastering basic forms of academic writing. Note that a final grade of 'C' or higher is required to
pass the course with a grade high enough for transfer credit (Peter).
TEXTS AND OTHER MATERIALS NEEDED.
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McQuade, Donald and Robert Atwan, eds. The Writer's Presence: A Pool of Readings, 7th
edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins. 2012. (Most readings in this textbook are not
available on the web.) All readings should be read before the days they are scheduled to
be discussed in class (see the course outline / calendar of readings]).
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A usable grammar & style manual. CNM's "official" text is: Hacker, Diana, and Nancy
Sommers. The Bedford Handbook. 9th edition. Boston & New York: Bedford /
St.Martins, 2014. [BUT ANY grammar & style manual published in the past ten years,
containing an MLA style guide that knows about the World Wide Web, is okay.]
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A useful dictionary. A "useful" dictionary is one that you will actually use. You cannot
rely on computer spell-checkers or grammar-checkers: They often make idiotic
"corrections" because they are machines and have no idea what you want to say.
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A three-ring binder and three-hole punched standard-sized college-ruled writing paper (8
x 10½ inches; larger sizes get tattered). I do not accept assignments written on pages
ripped, torn or cut out of a spiral-bound notebook.
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Dark-colored ink ball-point pens. (Pencils are not used for college-level writing.)
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An email account. Use it to send documents (such as revisions of TPs [typed papers]).
Use email to back up drafts of your writing. Just send yourself document files, and leave
them in your In-Box. A USB-drive is also useful, but it can easily get lost.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: The English Department's Master Syllabus also states that
"Students can expect to write five complete essays, one of which will be a multi-source research
paper (integrating ideas and quotations from multiple sources and using formal documentation)
and one of which will be the Final Essay Exam; participate in workshop activities that may
include peer editing; complete other assignments such as reading comprehension quizzes, writing
short response essays, small group work, journal writing."
The Master Syllabus continues "It is a Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS)
policy that all courses require final evaluations. All students must take the Final Exam in order to
pass the course (although taking the final does not guarantee that a student will pass)."
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LEARNING OUTCOMES (previously called COURSE OBJECTIVES):
Students will learn to
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analyze and evaluate college level texts in terms of situation, audience, purpose,
aesthetics, and diverse points of view
express a primary purpose and organize supporting points logically, and to use
rhetorical strategies to engage, inform, or persuade
employ composing processes such as planning, collaborating, organizing, revising,
and editing to create documents using correct diction, syntax, grammar, and mechanics
integrate and cite, correctly and ethically, resources to support the primary purpose in
college level written work
My ENG-1101 classes will also learn to:
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see the rhetorical forms of "short-essay questions" used in college writing
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understand the rhetorical form of essay best suited to express an idea
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write "short-answer test" essays that support main ideas with arguments and evidence
ADDITIONAL NOTES
You will write a brief Reader Response (for each assigned reading, 10% of the semester grade),
and will bring typed papers to class, when due. Participation in a full-class Norming process of
revision is worth about 5% of the semester grade. Attending lectures equals 10% of the
semester grade.
The level of skills among students in first year college classes varies widely. You may find that
some instruction is below your level. Please be patient as I explain ideas you may already know.
(Others may need to be patient with you, at times, as you meet ideas they already know.)
I schedule semesters to be "front loaded": Classes at the start of the semester are VERY
important because new concepts and techniques will be learned before we put them to use. If
you miss classes in the first few weeks, you may be "lost" in the remaining weeks.
First week absences of students who register for the class late DO count toward total absences.
Missed assignments for late-registering students will be counted against grade averages -- unless
the assignments are of a kind that cannot be made up.
New CNM policy: Students who do NOT attend the first class of the semester can be dropped,
allowing "waiting" students to take the empty seats. If you cannot attend the first classes of a
semester, contact your instructors) before the first class asking NOT to be dropped.
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This is a "face to face" (f2f) class based on discussions and lectures: It is not "on-line,"
"blended," or "web-enhanced." Though I use some tech, you will NOT be sitting through
PowerPoint presentations, projected web-videos, or Blackboard "shell"-type lessons. I avoid
machine-like methods employed by many for-profit corporate colleges to rip-off students.
I have heard the complaints of students scammed by such institutions, and promise that -- if you
attend classes and participate in my classes -- YOU WILL LEARN things that you can actually
use and enjoy using.
All documents in this syllabus or distributed in class have been published first* on my
personal website. If you lose parts of the syllabus, you can get them by printing my webdocs. (Under U.S. law, all web documents are © copyrighted automatically. I claim this
copyright unless documents have been attributed to others.)
This syllabus is written in plain-text (without tables or columns) so that visually impaired
students who use computer page-readers can listen to the contents without problems.
Add additional notes here, from the first day Course Introduction lecture
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