English
101 Syllabus
Fall
2003, 3483. TU, TH.
Prof.
Dipo Kalejaiye
Office:
M3053
Office
hours: M: 9-10
W: 8-11
Thur: 4-5
Phone:
301-322-0567
E-Mail: dkalejaiye@pgcc.edu
Assignments
for a given day are to be completed before coming to class. In addition
to The Bedford Guide for College
Writers, (7th edition),
your instructor may supplement the assignments below with quizzes, additional
readings, or grammar and punctuation exercises. He may amend the syllabus if
there is a need for it.
Required Text The Bedford Guide for College Writers (7th edition).
NOTE: All Page numbers in this syllabus are from the required text.
Week 1
Tues
1/24 Introduction to the course. The Writing Process, The
Th.
1/26 Guide: Chap 2. pp. (18-40). Critical Thinking/Reading. Essay 1 assigned. (Observation Essay).
Read: ‘Class Struggle: Is Homework Really So Terrible?’ by Jay Matthews. (p.
26) Critical Thinking Exercises. Read the essay by Amy Tan ‘Mother Tongue’
(397-402)
Week 2
Tu.
1/31The Writing Process: generating ideas. pp (55-62).
Strategies
for Generating Ideas. Class activity: Brainstorming essay topics and subtopics.
Thesis.
Thurs
02/2. Developing a Working Thesis and Tentative Organization of your essay.
Group discussion of Amy Tan’s ‘Mother Tongue’. (397-402).
Week 3
Tu.
2/7. Strategies for Drafting. Read section on planning, drafting, and revising.
(73-78)
Working draft of Essay 1 due. Your draft should be at least 500 words.
Peer review or conferences on working draft. Developing Ideas Sufficiently: examples,
details, definitions. Coherence, transitions.
Thurs.
2/9 Reading Critically. Compare and Contrast Essay. (95-112) Class activity:
practice critical reading techniques on “Take me out to the ball game" (99-101).
Essay
2 assigned.
Final draft of Essay 1 due. Your essay must be at
least 500 words long.
Week 4
Tu.
2/14
Compare/Contrast
essays continued. Uses of a compare/contrast technique. Class activity on
Compare/Contrast essays. Essay Nicholas Wade ‘How Men and Women Think’
(447-451).
Thurs.
2/16 .Writing that Compares and Contrasts. In class exercises on
compare/contrast essays. Read (99-112)
Week 5
Tu.
02/21 Continued discussion of comparison and contrast, with attention to essay
assignment issues. Identify comparison/contrast transition phrases in assigned
essays. Working draft of Essay 2 due.
Your draft should be at least 500 words long. Peer review or conference of
working drafts. Applying critical thinking skills to working drafts.
Thurs.2/23
Bibliographical Instructions: finding sources on ProQuest. Accokeek Library. Final
draft of Essay 2 due. Your
essay must be at least 500 Words. Writing that Explores Causes and Effects. Read (113 -130) and "The Invisible
Women" by Yun Yun Choi (114-115). Essay 3 assigned: Your essay must be
600words.
Week 6
Tu.
2/28 Cause/Effect Essays continued.
Thurs.3/2
Tentative Library Research Day. Roll will be taken. Preliminary discussion on
the research essay. Essay 4 (Research) Assigned.
Week 7
Tu.
3/07 Working draft of Essay 3 due.
Your essay should be at least 600 words long.
Peer Review sessions. (Guide,
p. 196) for peer review and/or conference.
Thurs.
3/09 Essay
3 due. Introduction to writing the research essay. The Nature of
Research (547- 565). Planning and Managing your research project.
Problem/Solution research essay.
Class
activity: review brainstorming notes and write a statement of the problem and a
statement of the proposed solution you currently favor. Exchange problem and
solution statements with a classmate. Make a list of questions the author will
need to answer to convince you of the truth of the problem and solution
statements. Share and discuss. Problem/solution research paper. Your research
essay should be a minimum of 1200 words, use in-text citations, and include a
Works Cited list (bibliography) in correct MLA
format. (642-655)
Week 8 Research
Problems and Solutions.
Tu.
3/14 Preliminary Search. Answering
Research Questions, Library Research.
Period
for print information on problem/solution questions. 547 - 564 Evaluating
Sources pp. (570-583). Evaluating Sources Working bibliography.
Thur
3/16 Guide: Finding Sources in
the library, the Internet and in general. (566-590)
Listing Sources: MLA Style, pp.
Research checkpoint 1: Bring to class a
preliminary bibliography (list of sources) in correct MLA format. Drafting the
Research Paper: Incorporating Source Material
Bring
a copy of one research article you plan to use in your paper. Read it
critically and underline the important information and ideas. In-class exercise
in summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and interpreting source material. Sample
Research essay Citing Sources: MLA Style
Week 9
Tues:
3/21: Evaluating Sources (591-605) Research
checkpoint 2: Bring to class, a working thesis statement and a rough
outline of your problem-solution essay. In-class work with thesis statements
and outlines. Sample Research Essay (630-638) Documenting Sources MLA
(640-655).
Thur:
3/23. Integrating Sources. Guide completed research papers. (630-638)
Research
checkpoint 3: individual conferences. Bring your working draft and
bibliography, and photocopies or printouts of research materials.
Week 10
Tues:
3/28 Writing the Research Paper Research
checkpoint 3: individual conferences. Bring your working draft and
bibliography, and photocopies or printouts of research materials. Reporting on
Research
Thur:
3/30: Research Continued. In class diagnosis of Research Problems
Week 11
Tues:
04/04: Research Class activity:
identifying and analyzing the opposition. Describe the characteristics of the
chief opponents of the solution you proposed in your research paper.
Thurs.
04/06: Research as Argument. / The Argument in your essay. Taking a stand.
pp.
(131-150)
Tuesday, April 11 through
Sunday April 16 College Closed Spring Break.
Have a nice
break.
Week 12:
Thur:
04/20: Essay 4 (Research due) Class activity: Discuss Writing Strategies
/questions for
Assessing
Arguments Guide: Paired essays from Guide, or as directed by your. Form small
groups, one essay per group. Essay 5
Argument) Assigned.
WEEK 13
Tues:
4/25 Argument Essay. The nature of argument. Judy Brady ‘I want a Wife’
(427-429) Group responses to this essay. Read Shelby Steele’s ‘Affirmative
Action: The Price of Preference’ (530-534). Note: In-class group exercises on this essay.
Thur:
04/27 Class activity: Group Learning: Getting a Response to Your Position.
WEEK 14
Tues.
05/2 Errors in Reasoning: Fallacies Guide: review Recognizing Logical
Fallacies, pp. 104-108.Prentice Hall: Chap. 7g. Argument. Review of
essays.
Thur.
05/4. Argument Review of Essays. Essay 5
Due.
Week 15
Tues.
5/9 Revisions.
Thur.
5/11 Revisions
Thursday
May 11through Sunday May 14 (Last week of Classes/Examinations.)