College English I – Sample Syllabus
For Three Essays (with Exploratory Essay omitted and Persuasive and Research Essays combined)
Requirements for Analytical Essay I: Read at least four essays or 20 pages in the unit
Paper: 3-5 pages long (750 -1250 words)
Rhetorical concept/ Developmental strategy: Division and Classification.
Stylistic concept: Bias in language (Handbook, 472-474); Purpose and audience (Handbook , Part I, Chapter 1, p. 3 and 10-13)
Research concepts: Incorporation of quotations; in-text citations and Works Cited (MLA format); Note taking (see Handbook).
Grammar concepts: “Word Choice,” “Clear Sentences,” “Punctuation” (see Handbook).
They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction, Part 1, and Part 4, Chapter 11.
Week I: Introduction; validation essay; syllabus review; The Little Seagull Handbook, Write, “Writing Contexts”; Reading the World, Part 1, Chapter 1, “On Education,” Newman (53); They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction.
Week II: : The Little Seagull Handbook, Write, “Writing Processes,” “Developing Paragraphs”; Reading the World, Part 2, Chapter 8, “Reading Ideas”; Part 1, Chapter 1, “On Education,” Tzu (8); Douglass (46); They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction.
Practice prewriting, drafting, and revising (using the diagnostic essay or as preparation for the first Analytical Essay). The readings on Education can be discussed in class or linked with images from this unit, in preparation for the Analysis of a Visual Text.
Weeks III, IV, and V: Analytical Essay I – Analysis of a Visual Text
Critical/Analytical Essay I (of a Visual Text): Little Seagull, Kinds of Writing, “Analyses”; Reading the World, Part 2, Chapter 10, “Structuring Ideas”; Part 1, Chapter 4, “War and Peace,” St. Thomas Aquinas (260); image “The Progress of an Aztec Warrior” (265); Delacroix “Liberty Leading the People” (968); Orwell (282); Picasso “Guernica” (271); TSIS, Part 1, Chapters 2-3 and Part 4, Chapter 11, “Entering Class Discussions.”
Requirements for Analytical Essay: Read at least five essays or 25pages in the unit
Paper: 4-5 pages long (1000– 1250 words)
Rhetorical concept/ Developmental strategies: Division and Classification; Definition.
Stylistic concept: Bias in language and Logic, metaphor and analogy
Research concept: Note taking; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook); Paraphrasing and summarizing; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook).
Grammar concepts: Sentences, Language (see Handbook).
They Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 2, I Say.
Weeks VI, VII, VIII: Critical/Analytical Essay (of a Visual Text and a Written Text): Critical/Analytical Essay I (of a Visual Text): Little Seagull, Kinds of Writing, “Analyses”; Reading the World, Part 2, Chapter 10, “Structuring Ideas”; Part 1, Chapter 4, “War and Peace,” St. Thomas Aquinas (260); image “The Progress of an Aztec Warrior” (265); Delacroix “Liberty Leading the People” (968); Orwell (282); Picasso “Guernica” (271); Part 1, Chapter 11, “Structuring Ideas”; Part 1, Chapter 3, “Law and Government”; DePizan (175); Machiavelli (184); King (202); Tutu (227); Obama (238); TSIS, Part 2, Chapters 4-6 and Part 4, Chapter 12, “What’s Motivating the Writer?
Requirements for Persuasive/Research Essay Essay:
Read at least four essays or 20 pages in each unit (eight essays or 40 pages together)
Paper: at least 6 pages long (1500 – 1750 words)
Rhetorical concepts: Causal Analysis; Comparison and Contrast.
Stylistic concepst: Tone and stance; Logical fallacie
Research concept: Analyzing and evaluating web sites; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook);
Grammar concepts: Punctuation, Mechanics (see Handbook).
They Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 3, and Part 4, Chapters 13 and 14.
Weeks XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV: Persuasive/Research Essay: Little Seagull Handbook, Kinds of Writing, “Argumentation”; Reading the World, Part 1, Part 1, Chapter 5, “Wealth, Poverty, and Social Class”; New Testament, Luke, Chapter 16 (315); Gandhi (332); Walls (summer read); Part 1, Chapter 2, Plato (89); “Language and Rhetoric”: Chapter 7, “Language and Rhetoric,” Perecles (470); Plato (478); Aristotle (489); Chapter 6, “Science and Nature,” Maimonides (397); Carson (419); Gore (454); TSIS, Part 3, Chapter 9 and Part 4, Chapter 13, “Reading in the Sciences” and Chapter 14 “Reading in the Social Sciences.”