ENG 112 - Watson

English 112 (Tuesdays):  Spring B 2020

Dr. Reginald W. Watson (252) 367-6227/ Email Address: RWWatson@NCWC.EDU

 Texts: Lunsford, Andrea A., John J. Ruszkiewicz, Keith Walters. Everything’s an Argument: With Readings (6^th edition).  New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s,  Abbreviation: ETA

Bullock, Richard and Francine Weinberg. The Little Seagull Handbook. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. Abbreviation: LS

Course Description and Purpose:

English 112 is the second of two introductory college courses required for graduation that emphasizes critical reading and thinking. This course should help you:

• Develop individual writing process and style.
• Explore the many different purposes of writing, research, and argument.
• Practice drafting and revising.
• Become attentive to how audience and purpose affect content, tone, and style.
• Incorporate sufficient and appropriate details and examples.
• Express your ideas with clarity and with effective syntax and punctuation.
• Schedule and meet deadlines.

During this course, you must be prepared to write extensively and share your writings for peer reviews during class time. You will be asked to write in various styles and genres (academic essays and reflective narratives, etc.).

You will also be expected to grasp basic grammar and proper research methods in the preparation of your drafts.

Grading:

10% Narrative/Descriptive paper (2 pages) Due July 5

15% Short Analysis paper (1 page) Due on July 11

15% Process paper (2 pages with one source) due July 18

15% Expository paper (3 pages with one source) due July 25

20% Cause/Effect paper (4-5 pages with two sources) Aug 1

25% Argumentative paper (final draft) (6 pages with three sources) due Aug 14.

Rules

No late work will be accepted, unless a documented emergency is the reason.

All assignments that are due during class will be taken up in the beginning of the period.

In grading your compositions I will weigh the following factors:

1. Organization

2. Content

3. Grammar/spelling

4. Valid research support.

Attendance Policy For ASPIRE:

Students are required to attend every class session. Missing any class will have a negative impact on your course performance. Any student who misses more than twenty-percent of a course (6 hours) before the official withdrawal deadline will be administratively withdrawn. If a student misses twenty-percent of a course after the withdrawal date, he/she may receive an “F” in that course.

With this said, students in this course will be allowed to miss a total of three hours. For each hour over this limit, the student will lose a letter grade, with the understanding that an absence of 6 hours after the withdrawal period will be grounds for an automatic “F”.

Calendar

Week One June 27: Read over your texts and be prepared to discuss the following page numbers: Introduction: The Writing Process/Writing Processes/Developing Paragraphs LS, 2-26, MLA documentation LS, 93-135; ETA Text, 446-475/ Personal Narratives LS.46-49/ Grammar review: Sentence Fragments LS, 233, Subject/verb disagreement LS 246-47Comma splices/fused sentences LS, 235-37.

Week Two: July 4: Narrative Descriptive Paper due/In-class discussion and work on Short analysis papers. /For Week Three, read Punctuation Review, LS 282-304/ Also continue reading grammar section, LS 247-281. For the Short analysis paper, students will choose at least one essay from Part 5: Arguments in ETA Chapter 22, (479-567)

Week Three: July 11: Short analysis paper due/ Start discussion of and in-class work on Process papers; read 20-21 in LS. Read ETA book, pgs. 3-29 (Chap I), and Chapter 21, pgs. 446-475 (Documenting sources); Also read LS, 68-92 (Research).

Week Four: July 18: Process paper due/ Start discussion of Expository process/ In-class work on Expository papers/ For Week Five, read ETA book, pgs. 187-213 (Chap 9: Arguments of Definition).

Week Five July 25: Expository Paper due/ Start discussion of Cause/Effect paper/ In-class work on Cause/Effect paper/ Read 16-17 in LS/ For Week Six In ETA read Chapter 11 (Causal Arguments) on pgs. 242-272

Week Six   Aug 1:  Cause/Effect paper due by 10pm on Aug 1. Read ETA pages 367-394 (Chap 16: Academic Arguments).

Week Seven Aug 8: First draft of Argument papers due/ Proofreading exercises of the draft will take place. For Week Eight, read ETA pgs. 74-89, 395-409(Chaps 5, and 17).  Also read ETA pgs. 732-815/ 816-885 (Chaps 25-26).

Week Eight Aug 15: Argumentative final drafts are due on Aug 14 by 10pm.

All papers should be typed according to MLA format. Brief, 5-minute oral presentations will be required for all papers that are due during class times. All papers with due dates outside of class time should be emailed to me at dr1998@embarqmail.com

How to conduct research (MLA style) for papers that are based on argument. Types of papers will be comparison/contrast, expository, cause and effect, process, and a final argumentative paper that will require showing both sides of an argument.