Text Box: Let your voice be heard! Text Box: Kenneth Burke writes: Imagine that you enter a parlor. You come late. When you arrive, others have long preceded you, and they are engaged in a heated discussion, a discussion too heated for them to pause and tell you exactly what it is about. In fact, the discussion had already begun long before any of them got there, so that no one present is qualified to retrace for you all the steps that had gone before. You listen for a while, until you decide that you have caught the tenor of the argument; then you put in your oar. . . . The hour grows late, you must depart. And you do depart, with the discussion still vigorously in progress.

 

Course objectives

     The current SUU catalog describes ENGL 1010 this way:  “A disciplined approach to the rhetoric of English composition with emphasis on organization and development in the whole composition, on coherence and effectiveness in paragraphs, and on maturity and flexibility in sentence styles. While grammar and usage are not neglected, they are treated as means to achieving rhetorical objectives”

Students with ACT English scores below 29 are required to take ENGL 1010 before enrolling in 2010. Students with ACT English scores below 17 must concurrently enroll in ENGL 1000 Intro to Academic Writing Workshop (302).

 

 A longer list of  the goals that 1010 classes share appears in our department’s core curriculum listing.

 

Texts:

Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New

York: Back Bay Books-Little, 2008.  Print. ISBN

978-0-316-01793.

Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst. They

 Say/I Say with Readings. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 2012. Print. ISBN 978-0-393-91275-3

 

Internet and Library Electronic Reserve  readings as announced in the schedule

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Course Requirements:

· Regular attendance and in-class and out-of-class assignments. You may drop assignments worth a cumulative total of  30 points without penalty, but note that the syllabus indicates several assignments that do not qualify for the drop privilege.  30 percent    

 

· Three short argumentative essays, all of which must earn a minimum grade of at least C- to qualify you for a passing grade in class. 35 percent  

 

· A six-page persuasive essay formatted and documented in MLA style, which must earn a minimum grade of C-  to qualify you for a passing grade in class. 35 percent    

 

NOTE: You will be using the CANVAS system to submit all out-of-class assignments as well as your essay drafts and final essays.

The BC204 Writing Center, where writers of all levels of expertise can find help, is open  8-5 Monday through Friday. You may earn bonus points equivalent to 10 percent  of the point total of each essay. Ask your tutor give me documentation that you completed a productive  one-hour appointment at least THREE days before the paper’s final due-date.