College English I – Sample Syllabus
\nFor Three Essays (with Exploratory Essay omitted and Persuasive and Research Essays combined)<\/p>\n
Requirements for Analytical Essay I: Read at least four essays or 20 pages in the unit
\nPaper: 3-5 pages long (750 -1250 words)
\nRhetorical concept\/ Developmental strategy: Division and Classification.
\nStylistic concept: Bias in language (Handbook, 472-474); Purpose and audience (Handbook , Part I, Chapter 1, p. 3 and 10-13)
\nResearch concepts: Incorporation of quotations; in-text citations and Works Cited (MLA format); Note taking (see Handbook).
\nGrammar concepts: “Word Choice,” “Clear Sentences,\u201d “Punctuation\u201d (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; Reading the World, Part 1, Chapter 1, \u201cOn Education,\u201d Newman (53); They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction.<\/p>\n
Week II: : The Little Seagull Handbook, Write, \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); They Say, I Say (TSIS), Introduction.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Weeks III, IV, and V: Analytical Essay I \u2013 Analysis of a Visual Text
\nCritical\/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); 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 25pages 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, Language (see Handbook).
\nThey Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 2, I Say.<\/p>\n
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, \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\/Research Essay Essay:
\nRead at least four essays or 20 pages in each unit (eight essays or 40 pages together)
\nPaper: at least 6 pages long (1500 – 1750 words)
\nRhetorical concepts: Causal Analysis; Comparison and Contrast.
\nStylistic concepst: Tone and stance; Logical fallacie
\nResearch concept: Analyzing and evaluating web sites; further practice in all previous techniques (see Handbook);
\nGrammar concepts: Punctuation, Mechanics (see Handbook).
\nThey Say, I Say (TSIS), Part 3, and Part 4, Chapters 13 and 14.<\/p>\n
Weeks XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV: Persuasive\/Research Essay: Little Seagull Handbook, Kinds of Writing, \u201cArgumentation\u201d; Reading the World, Part 1, Part 1, Chapter 5, \u201cWealth, Poverty, and Social Class\u201d; New Testament, Luke, Chapter 16 (315); Gandhi (332); Walls (summer read); Part 1, Chapter 2, Plato (89); \u201cLanguage and Rhetoric\u201d: Chapter 7, \u201cLanguage and Rhetoric,\u201d Perecles (470); Plato (478); Aristotle (489); Chapter 6, \u201cScience and Nature,\u201d Maimonides (397); Carson (419); Gore (454); TSIS, Part 3, Chapter 9 and Part 4, Chapter 13, \u201cReading in the Sciences\u201d and Chapter 14 \u201cReading in the Social Sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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