College English I –Sample Syllabus
\nFor Four Essays
\n(With AEI and AEII combined \u2013 other combinations are, of course, possible \u2013 see below)<\/p>\n
Requirements for Exploratory Essay (should be graded):
\nRead at least two essays in the unit
\nPaper: 2-3 pages long (500-750 words)
\nRhetorical concept\/ Developmental strategy: Process Analysis (Sequencing) ; Stylistic concept: Purpose and audience
\nResearch concepts: Incorporation of quotations; in-text citations and Works Cited (MLA format) (see Handbook).
\nGrammar concepts: “Punctuation” (see Handbook).
\nThey Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction, Part 1, and Part 4, Chapter 11.<\/p>\n
Week I: Introduction; validation essay; syllabus review; The Little Seagull Handbook, Write, \u201cWriting Contexts\u201d (section W-1); Chapter 1; Reading the World, Part 1, Chapter 1, \u201cOn Education,\u201d Seneca (16); They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction.<\/p>\n
Week II: The Little Seagull Handbook, Writing, \u201cWriting Processes,\u201d \u201cDeveloping Paragraphs\u201d; Reading the World, Part 2, Chapter 8, \u201cReading Ideas\u201d; Part 1, Chapter 1, \u201cOn Education,\u201d Tzu (8); Douglass (46); TSIS, Part 1, Chapter 1.<\/p>\n
Practice prewriting, drafting in preparation for the Exploratory Essay.<\/p>\n
Weeks III and IV: Exploratory Essay. Exploratory Essay; Little Seagull Handbook, Write, \u201cReading Strategies,\u201d \u201cDesigning What You Write\u201d (sections W-4, W-2; Reading the World, Part 2, Chapter 9, \u201cGenerating Ideas\u201d; Part 1, Chapter 1, \u201cOn Education,\u201d Newman (53), Freire (62); TSIS, Part 1, Chapters 2-3 and Part 4, Chapter 11, \u201cEntering Class Discussions.\u201d <\/p>\n
Requirements for Analytical Essay: Read at least five essays or 25 pages in the unit
\nPaper: 4-5 pages long (1000– 1250 words)
\nRhetorical concept\/ Developmental strategies: Division and Classification; Definition.
\nStylistic concept: Bias in language and Logic, metaphor and analogy
\nResearch concept: Note taking; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook); Paraphrasing and summarizing; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook).
\nGrammar concepts: Sentences (see Handbook).
\nThey Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 2, I Say.<\/p>\n
Weeks V , VI, VII: Critical\/Analytical Essay (of a Visual Text and a Written Text): Critical\/Analytical Essay I (of a Visual Text): Little Seagull, Kinds of Writing, \u201cAnalyses\u201d; Reading the World, Part 2, Chapter 10, \u201cStructuring Ideas\u201d; Part 1, Chapter 4, \u201cWar and Peace,\u201d St. Thomas Aquinas (260); image \u201cThe Progress of an Aztec Warrior\u201d (265); Delacroix \u201cLiberty Leading the People\u201d (968); Orwell (282); Picasso \u201cGuernica\u201d (271); Part 1, Chapter 11, \u201cStructuring Ideas\u201d; Part 1, Chapter 3, \u201cLaw and Government\u201d; DePizan (175); Machiavelli (184); King (202); Tutu (227); Obama (238); TSIS, Part 2, Chapters 4-6 and Part 4, Chapter 12, \u201cWhat\u2019s Motivating the Writer?<\/p>\n
Requirements for Persuasive Essay:
\nRead at least five essays or 25 pages in the units (\u201cLanguage and Rhetoric\u201d and \u201cScience and Nature\u201d)
\nPaper: 4-5 pages long (1000 \u2013 1250 words)
\nRhetorical concept: Causal Analysis
\nStylistic concept: Tone and stance
\nResearch concept: Analyzing and evaluating web sites; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook).
\nGrammar concepts: Language (see Handbook).
\nThey Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 3, Tying It All Together and Part 4, Chapter 13.<\/p>\n
Weeks VIII, IX, X: Persuasive Essay: Little Seagull Handbook, Kinds of Writing, \u201cArguments\u201d; Reading the World, Part 1, \u201cLanguage and Rhetoric\u201d; Chapter 7, \u201cLanguage and Rhetoric,\u201d Pericles (470); Plato (478); Aristotle (489); Chapter 6, \u201cScience and Nature,\u201d Maimonides (397); Carson (419); Gore (454); TSIS, Part 3, Chapters 7-8 and Part 4, Chapter 13, \u201cReading in the Sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Requirements for Research Essay:
\nRead at least five essays or 25 pages in the unit.
\nPaper: at least 6 pages long (1500 \u2013 1750 words)
\nRhetorical concept\/ Developmental strategy: Comparison and Contrast
\nStylistic concept: Logical fallacies
\nResearch concept: Research techniques; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook).
\nGrammar concepts: Punctuation and Mechanics (see Handbook).
\nThey Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 3, cont\u2019d and Part 4, Chapter 14.<\/p>\n
Weeks XI, XII, XIII, XIV: Research Essay: Little Seagull Handbook, Research and Documentation; Reading the World, Part 1, Chapter 5, \u201cWealth, Poverty, and Social Class\u201d; New Testament, Luke, Chapter 16 (315); Gandhi (332); Part 1, Chapter 2, Plato (89); Walls (summer read); TSIS, Part 3, Chapter 9 and Part 4, Chapter 14 \u201cReading in the Social Sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other concepts to be developed cumulatively throughout the semester (one introduced per unit\/ paper)
\nPurpose and audience
\nTone and stance
\nLogic, metaphor, and analogy
\nLogical fallacies
\nBias in language<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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