English Composition 1 – ENG 1101
Sinclair Community College/Eaton High School CCPlus Composition Elective
Credits – Sinclair 3 Credit Hours/EHS 1 Credit
Course Description
Eaton High School Composition is a College Credit Plus course taught according to the syllabus and expectations of Sinclair Community College. In other words, this is a college class, not a high school class. According to the course master syllabus, “In English Composition 1 students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience.
Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situation and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics.”
Required Text
Bullock, Richard, Maureen Daly Goggin, and Francine Weinberg. The Norton Field Guide to Writing.
3 rd ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2010. Print.
This text will be provided by EHS.
My Contact Information
If you should have any issues outside of class, email me at jdehart@eaton.k12.oh.us.
You can make appointments to see me before school as early as 6:45, during advisory, or after school until 2:50.
General Education Outcomes
1.
Apply the stages of the writing process (prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing) to a document.
2.
Organize observable data into useful formats.
3.
Read and respond critically.
Course Outcomes
Rhetorical Knowledge
Construct audience-smart texts to achieve and intended purpose, while using an appropriate voice, tone, style, and level of formality and the conventions of format and structure.
Think, Read, and Write Critically
Analyze through reading and writing the complex social, institutional, and cultural issues relevant to students’ experience; explore through reading and writing the relationships between writer, text, and audience in various genres.
Composing Process
Understand and use a recursive writing process, including peer involvement, employing situation-appropriate writing strategies to produce successive drafts of increasing quality.
Knowledge of Conventions
Control sentence-level language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, etc.); employ appropriate conventions for larger structural components (paraphrasing, structure, format, etc.); and use standard documentation format to document a variety of texts ethically and appropriately.

Electronic Environments
Understand and use electronic environments to support writing tasks and to share and publish texts.
Participation
Participation is 5% of your overall grade. Participation will come in multiple forms. First, actively participating in class is vital. You are to come prepared to discuss and work in groups every day.
Discussion is a means of not only sharing what you believe, but also helping others to learn by seeing information and ideas through diverse viewpoints. While you are always expected to be respectful of the thoughts and feelings of others, you must be willing to verbally participate in class.
Participation also means having your daily assignments ready for class. While the largest component of your grade will come from your major essays, daily assignments or homework will factor into your participation grade. If you fail to have your preparation done, you will not have the information necessary to be an asset to class. This will have a negative impact on your participation grade overall.
Attendance and Late Work Policy
Each day’s agenda will be written in the absence binder in my room. This binder will also have handouts that may have been passed out. When you check the binder, please be sure to sign and date when you checked it as well as write the date and time an assignment was put in the tray. You must follow the EHS attendance policy in order to get participation credit for homework assignments.
Late essays will lose 10% of final credit each day late, although emergencies will be considered on a case-by-case basis. If you are having a problem, please be open and honest with me before an assignment is due. Come see me before school or during advisory prior to class. It is much easier for me to exercise leniency when I am aware of what is happening before it becomes an issue.
Plagiarism
Sinclair’s English Department plagiarism statement is as follows:
Plagiarism, the misuse of source materials, is unacceptable in student work. At the discretion of the instructor, the penalty for plagiarism may be a grade of zero credit, “F,” with no opportunity to rewrite. Subsequent plagiarism, at the discretion of the instructor, shall be grounds for failure of the course. Plagiarism is cheating. It is unethical and a violation of the
Sinclair Honor Code.
You are expected to do your own work. If you are not ready to do your own work, then you are not ready for a college course. Understand that if you are taking this course for college credit and do not pass, you will have to pay the tuition fees. Do not risk this consequence by not showing academic integrity.
Grading
While much of my evaluation will come from a rubric, my goal will be to give you meaningful comments to help you see where a paper stands on an A – F grading scale. Remember, this is a college class, not a high school class, so you will be graded according to college standards. A paper that may be an A in an
EHS English class will not necessarily be an A in a college composition course, so you must expect to be graded with rigorous expectations.
In understanding that your essay grades will show you where a paper currently stands, you may have the opportunity to revise. However, true revision is more than simply adding a few punctuation marks.

True revision involves considering the paper as a whole. Should you decide you would like to revise an essay, you will need to make a revision plan, submit the original and revised paper, and provide highlighting and annotation to help explain what you changed and how you think it improved the essay.
Assignments
You will be expected to write 20 pages of polished writing for this course. The following is the grade spread:
Participation
Literacy narrative
Analysis essay
(3 pages)
(3 pages)
5%
10%
15%
Summary
Literary analysis
(1 page)
(4 pages)
Research proposal (2 pages)
Researched argument (5 pages)
5%
20%
5%
30%
Self-assessment
3 Peer reviews
(1 page)
(3 pages total)
5%
5%
These assignments are all to be typed using size 12 Times font. We will also be following the rules of
MLA format with an introduction to APA.
Rules and Expectations
As this is a college class, your behavior should be above that of a typical high school student. Even though our class will meet during your EHS schedule, this is a course you could travel to a college campus to take. Your behavior should reflect that of a college student. You are expected to be on time, have all work completed, be respectful to me, classmates, and classroom space, have all necessary materials, follow all rules in the EHS code of conduct, and refrain from unapproved use of electronic devices. You will not be texting, using social media, playing games, or surfing on your electronic devices during this class. There will be times that you may need electronic devices in order to complete research or work on assignments. If you are using your devices for anything other than what is required in class, I am taking them and turning them in to the office. You must learn to be responsible with technology and understand that there are certain environments that playing on your phone is not appropriate. My classroom is one of them.
Course Outline
The following is a rough timeline of when we will be working through each unit in the course. Please be aware that this timeline may be adjusted as we work our way through the course. Also, I am not listing the specific texts we are reading or assignments due to the need to be flexible with our schedule.
Documentation style and conventions will be taught throughout on an as-needed basis.
Weeks 1 and 2
Getting acclimated to course
Go over syllabus, read texts on annotation, reading like a writer, exploring Sinclair resources, examine writing process
Weeks 3 through 5
Literacy Narrative
Weeks 6 – 8

Analysis Essay
Weeks 9 – 11
Literary Analysis and Summary
Week 12
Research proposal
Weeks 13 – 16
Researched argument
Weeks 17 – 18
Self-Assessment and Revision Finals