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ENGLISH 1101132 (CRN54121) SYLLABUS Summer 2017

Tuesdays and Thursdays, NA 2220, 11:00 a.m. -- 1:45 p.m.

Instructors name: Lynn McGill. Advising/Tutoring Hours:

lmcgill@gsu.edu. M/W 12:30 1:45 p.m. and 2:30 3:45 p.m.; T/R
2:00 4:00 p.m. Advising hours may be held in the Learning and
Tutoring Center at the Library. Office E2801; telephone 770.274.5560.

Course Abbreviation: ENGL 1101; Credit Hours: 3 hours

Course Title: English Composition I
Prerequisites: Exit or exemption from Developmental Studies English, Reading,
and ESL requirements
Course Description: This course focuses on skills required for effective writing in a
variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and also
includes introductory use of a variety of research skills.

Text: McWhorter, Kathleen T. Successful College Writing. Sixth ed. Boston/New York
Bedford Bks St. Martins. 2015. Print

Writing Skills to be Developed

Students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate the critical thinking skills involved in exploring, limiting,
and focusing the subject in order to produce a thesis statement appropriate
for the audience and the assignment.
2. Organize essays, using outlining and prewriting techniques, so that the
plan indicates the major divisions of the thesis and provides specific
support for assertions.
3. Compose introductory paragraphs containing the thesis statement of the
essay, body paragraphs containing adequately supported topic sentences,
and conclusions indicating completion of the discussion.
4. Revise essays for logical coherence and completeness as well as
appropriate rhetorical strategies, style, and diction.
5. Edit essays for correct punctuation, grammar, and usage.
6. Locate sources on computer databases and cite those sources correctly in
documented essays.
7. By the end of the course, students should be able to write well-organized,
well-developed, and mechanically correct essays of various types.

Writing Requirements
Students will write:
1. Four expository essays progressively increasing in length and complexity.
2. At least one documented essay and Power Point requiring numerous
library sources.
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Welcome to English Summer Camp! Like many camps, we have a theme: We will be
studying the era between 1960 and 1975 around the world, but concentrating on America.
We will be connecting this period to the current political arena, and all but two of the
assignments during the course will revolve around this time period. Your Persuasive Paper
will focus on the current presidential situations. The essays on films will be in the forms of
study questions about the films and their cultural contexts. For your final project, you will be
part of a team exploring a variety of topics (see handout). Final Project: 26 points,
including the groups presentations of their 1960s70s project and the final exam,
which will be an in-class test on other teams projects. With regard to final research
projects, I will reserve the right to grade people individually if they fail to work on their
teams properly.

GRADING TABLE
Grammar/Chapter Exercises: 3--5 points each (24 points total). Due
Dates include: 13 June (Scavenger Hunt); 15 June (Autobiography and
LSI); 20 June (Logical Fallacies); 5 July (Sources Worksheet); 11 July
(Annotated bibliography)
Four Essays Narrative Autobiography 10 points, due 15 June;
Persuasive 10 points, due 20 June ;
Two Essays about films 10 points each, due 27 June (Selma) and 11
July (The Most Dangerous Man in America).
Class Participation 10 points
Research project with all stages documented 26 points (10 final exam)
Grade points:
A+= 96 -- 100 B+ = 86 89 C+ = 7679 D+ = 66 69 F = 59 or below
A = 95 B = 85 C = 75 D = 65
A- = 90 -- 94 B- = 80 84 C- = 70 74 D- = 60 -- 64

Week 1 6 June. Its Got to be You, Wonderful You

Course overview, write and present a brief biography of another classmate, then introduce
that person to the rest of the class.

Homework: Grammar Exercise #1, Grammar Scavenger Hunt. Post the Scavenger
Hunt to the iCollege drop box by 12 June. Your first essay is due Week 4.
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Week 2 8 June. Crafting Narrative

Turn in Scavenger Hunt. We will be studying and writing narratives in class to help you
with your autobiography assignments. Turn in these stories at the end of class.
Homework: Work on your autobiography and VARK Learning Style Inventory, page 30
37 in textbook. Due Week 3.

Week 3: 13 June. The Power of Persuasion

Classroom activities: Learning Styles Inventory and AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUE 14

June. Presentation of Logical Fallacies and how to identify them in your research.
Homework: Read chapter 20, paying special attention to the chart on page 518. Find and
document in MLA style (Easybib.com) at least three examples of logical fallacies in the
news to discuss in class. This counts as a grammar exercise (3 points). We will discuss
how to construct a Persuasive paper. Look in the Content area of iCollege for an
instruction sheet on how to create reference sources.

Week 4 14 5une. Politico.com

Classroom: Turn in papers. Students will discuss logical fallacies found in the news. We
will explore how to approach answering the Study Questions (see iCollege) for the two
films we will see. The first is Selma, a film about the 1965 march from Selma to
Montgomery, Alabama.
Homework: Work on your Persuasive Papers.

Week 5 20 June. Its Movie Time!

Classroom Activities: PERSUASIVE PAPER DUE. We will begin watching Selma,
with a view to answering the study questions.
Homework: Work on your Study Questions for Selma. Review chapter 22, planning
a research project.

Week 6 22 June. Stranger Danger

Classroom Activities: The second film we will see is The Most Dangerous Man in
America, the documentary about a man named Daniel Ellsburg and The Pentagon Papers.
Homework: Work on Study Questions for The Most Dangerous Man in America.
Take one of your research sources and evaluate it using the worksheet on page 573.

Week 7 27June. Danger Gets Stranger

Classroom Activities: Watch films. TURN IN STUDY QUESTIONS FOR SELMA
and sources worksheet.
Homework: Work on Most Dangerous Man study questions.
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Week 8 29 June. Watergate

Classroom activities: Discuss cultural context and analysis for films. We start looking at
the strange events of Watergate.
Homework: Work on Most Dangerous Man Study Questions.

Week 9 5 July.
Classroom activities: TURN IN MOST DANGEROUS MAN STUDY QUESTIONS.
Creating an annotated bibliography using graphic organizers and worksheet on
page 597.
Homework: Using the worksheet, create an annotated bibliography for the Most
Dangerous Man Study Questions.

Week 10 11 July. Historys Mysteries

Classroom Activities. Turn in Annotated Bibliography. We will discuss the final
project and divide into teams.
Homework: Work on your Final Project.

Week 1113 July Revealed

Classroom Activities: Turn in Study Questions for The Most Dangerous Man in
America. Class time will involve working on your team projects.
Homework: Your final project.

Week 12 18 July. and interpreted.

Classroom activities: Research workshop on your Final Projects.

Week 13 20 July. Presentations

Classroom activities: Learning teams will present.

Week 14 25 July. Presentations

Classroom activities: Learning teams will present.
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Final Exam: Wednesday, 27 July. Test on 60s70s Project,

10:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. This test is comprised solely of multiple
choice questions taken from your presentations and an essay
portion about your individual presentation. You will need a
green Scantron and a blue (or green) exam book.

GRADING and complete all work on

time.)
A grade is Exceptional
Work (You exceed the
minimum requirements D grade is Below Average
dramatically through Work (You did not meet the
additional work, research, minimum requirements of
on time, and being the class and either/and/or
thorough.) did not complete all work
B grade is Above Average on time.)
Work (You exceed the F grade is Failed Work
minimum requirements (You did not meet the
through additional work minimum requirements of
and research.) the class and
C grade is Average Work either/and/or did not
(You met the minimum complete all work on
requirements of the class time.)

Course Policies
PROVISION FOR LATE WORK AND MAKE-UP EXAMS:
I expect you to submit work on time. It is very important that
you keep notes in this class. There will be a lot of
information coming at you and some of it will apply to you
now, while most of it will be useful to you after you leave
college behind you. Keep it all in your book so you can refer
to it when you need to. And if none of this hits home to you
yet, then Just do it! because you have to. Students should
bring textbook and notebook to all class sessions.
Deadlines are important aspect of business, and this same
approach will be echoed in our class. Late assignments will
receive one full letter grade lower than if turned in on time,
and a zero if not received within one week of the due date. If
there is a valid reason for missing the deadline, please contact
me ASAP to discuss the issue.

ATTENDANCE AND WITHDRAWAL POLICY: It is the

students responsibility to attend all classes, laboratories, and
examinations as scheduled. Any student who is absent more
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than twenty percent (6 classes) of the total scheduled time

for the course will receive a one-letter grade drop for
EACH absence after that. Remember that each class
meeting during summer constitutes an entire week during
the regular semester, so missing one day equals two
classes.

WRITING LAB: Instructional Support Services provides

academic help for day and evening students and serves as a
convenient means of getting additional writing instruction.
Instructors may assign lab work for those students who need
or desire extra help.

AID FOR THE DISABLED: If you are a student who is

disabled as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act
and require assistance or support services, please seek
assistance through the Center of Disabilities Services. A CDS
counselor will coordinate those services.

CHEATING/ PLAGIARISM POLICY: Cheating includes

any attempt to defraud, deceive, or mislead a professor in
arriving at an honest grade assessment. Plagiarism is a
form of cheating that occurs when students present as
their own the ideas, language, or work of others. Giving
unauthorized help to other students also constitutes
cheating.

Unless specifically authorized by the professor, the following

are examples of cheating or plagiarism, although this list is
certainly not exhaustive:

CHEATING/ PLAGIARISM POLICY: Cheating includes

any attempt to defraud, deceive, or mislead a professor in
arriving at an honest grade assessment. Plagiarism is a
form of cheating that occurs when students present as
their own the ideas, language, or work of others. Giving
unauthorized help to other students also constitutes
cheating. Unless specifically authorized by the professor, the
following are examples of cheating or plagiarism, although
this list is certainly not exhaustive:

1. Cheating on a test or quiz includes: Looking at or

copying from other students work; allowing other students to
look at or copy your work; exchanging information with other
students; speaking or whispering (students may speak to
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professors any time); opening a textbook, notes or notebook

during an exam; using any form of electronic aid

2. Cheating on writing assignments, homework or other

out-of-class assignments includes: copying work or answers
from other students; copying ideas or text from printed
sources and from computer or other electronic sources
without proper documentation; having someone else do the
assignment; allowing other students to "borrow" work and
present it as their own.

3. Cheating on late work or tests includes: Providing false

information or documents in order to be allowed to make up a
missed test, quiz, or homework; when source materials are
used in the writing of papers, students must document the use
of these sources by following the documentation style
stipulated by their professor.

Students who require clarification of any of the above

concepts must consult with their professor. Cheating of any
kind may result in penalties ranging from a grade of F or 0 on
the assignment to a course grade of F. Professors also may
refer cases to the College Court for assignment of additional
penalties that may include suspension or expulsion from
Georgia Perimeter College. Such cases may be brought before
the College Court regardless of whether or not the accused
admits guilt when initially charged. The accused should know
that, at the sentencing phase, the Court may consider any
previous record of cheating in determining the severity of the
penalty. The Georgia Perimeter College Student Handbook
section on "Academic Dishonesty" outlines the steps of due
process in such cases.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICY: No person shall, on the

grounds of race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin,
age or disability, be excluded from employment or
participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be
subjected to discrimination under any program or activity
conducted by Georgia Perimeter College.

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY: Georgia Perimeter

College adheres to affirmative action policies designed to
promote diversity and equal opportunity for all faculty and
students.
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Inclement Weather Statement. In the event that this course

is not able to meet face-to-face due to an unscheduled closing
of any GPC campus, students should log into iCollege for
further directions regarding the course. During this time,
students will be responsible for the material and assignments
given by the instructor on iCollege.