Dr. Karen U. Fulton,
Professor
Tel: 271-4317(work)1-660-582-8830
(home)
email: fulton@missouriwestern.edu
Office: Eder 222-H;
M10-12, TTh 11-12:30
· Access to word processor with spell-checker. All papers must be word processed.
· A ring binder (spine no wider than ½” ) for end of semester portfolio
· A research notebook of some sort to compile your own research guidelines
· Internet access
Attendance will be recorded at each session. Class work is distributed and usually completed during the same class session. This work is graded (see grading policies); the resulting points comprise one third of the final total. When assignments are turned in after class, students will complete and sign a rating sheet at the end of the hour. There is no *good* way to make up a missed session.
· The final session is required. Missing it carries a heavy penalty--failure for the course. Instead of a traditional "final," you will write to next semester's class and present your portfolio to this semester's class. Attendance is a requirement and failure to appear at the designated time will result in failure for the course (so line up your baby-sitter or work replacement now!).
It is required that
students submit their own work. Students who are guilty of plagiarism or
cheating in any form will automatically receive a zero for the assignment
involved and will place themselves in jeopardy of failing the course.
Students having a
disability that might prevent their maximum performance in the class should
make this known to the instructor immediately so that provisions may be made
for any assistance needed.
ENG 112: Honors Composition and Rhetoric is a one semester course designed to fulfill the English requirement at Missouri Western. As such it covers the goals of ENG104 and those of ENG 108. In addition to the common goals of the two courses, the two courses differ in the emphasis on "formal distinctions [between] different prose genres" in ENG 104 and the ENG108 emphasis on research skills stated as "ideas are property in our culture and must be correctly attributed to their sources."
This class will fulfill the ENG 108writing description, in that we will do three research projects, growing out of our study of language; these will be arranged in degrees of complexity. In addition, the self-reflective essay of the portfolio is of a research nature.
See
http://www.missouriwestern.edu/eflj/genstud.asp
for full objectives and means for ENG 104 and108.
Student will acquire knowledge to think critically and reason analytically and to write clearly and effectively, two goals stated on under the MWSC catalog description of the General Studies Program.
I believe that everyone can write and that everyone has something unique to say. Research in this class will not be "cut-and-paste" or xerox machine research. Instead you are asked to become "curious" researchers about questions that you have developed out of your own interests.
We will learn and practice the research conventions (distinctions between primary and secondary sources, use of such sources, footnoting and bibliography forms, etc.) through this personal research rather than on predetermined or assigned topics.
I believe in a process approach to writing, but I don't teach or expect each student to follow my process. I do, however, expect students to learn and use generating strategies as part of a project's development.
I believe that the best teacher of writing is another writer; I will write with you on projects (particularly the first two) and will share my materials with you when they are being drafted.
Mid-term grades
Because no grades are in place by mid-term (the portfolio is not due until later), grades at mid-term will be based on attendance, completion of assignments, and class participation.
Final grade
Your grade for this class will be determined on the basis of a portfolio due April 18, 2003. This portfolio will consist of at least three finished pieces of writing (not counting the self-reflective essay). One piece must come from class and demonstrate your ability to integrate and present research, as well as your mastery of research apparatus.
During the first two weeks of class, more detailed portfolio specifications will be handed out and previous portfolios will be brought to class. We will begin work on the portfolio April 1, 2003. The week prior to portfolio submission, we will make minimal adjustments in the scoring rubric.
I
will meet with each of you individually at a designated time the week of April
21. We will have no class sessions that
week. You have the option of revising
and resubmitting the portfolio at the class final session.
You have only one opportunity to resubmit a portfolio.
The writing topics will be very broad in nature and more than one approach will be given. It is desirable that you shape each of these assignments in your own way; the instructor will be glad to provide assurance that you are on the right track. Ideally, the three pieces completed can be combined to create a portfolio theme as a natural extension of the researching and learning you did this semester.
The portfolio contents should demonstrate your mastery of research apparatus, incorporation of sources, and college level writing.
In order to pass (grade of "D") the class
We will begin most classes with a 5-minute freewriting or "fastwriting" as Bruce Ballenger calls it. These are used to warm up. Most frequently, the writing will focus on the reading assignment, sometimes the writing will focus on language, and sometimes the writing will be without focus. In all cases you will know how long you will be writing and with whom (if anyone) you will be sharing. Freewritings are not graded; however date and keep each freewriting (in the notebook provided).
Reflections will be done in response to specific questions about issues raised in reading and discussion. They will most frequently come at the end of class; sometimes they will be assigned for completion prior to the next class.
In
order to facilitate publishing and peer feedback, all drafts of papers
(including early drafts which will be seen by others) must be word-processed.
It is your responsibility to have material ready (i.e. proofread, spell-checked, edited, etc.) by deadlines assigned.
Project #1: February 6, 2003
Project #2: February 27, 2003
Project
# 3: Survey/research project March 27, 2003
Portfolio:
April 18, 2003
Final: May 6, 9:30 am
Papers are scheduled so I can do three readings of your work and return the work to you at the next class period. If you do not meet the due date, I do not guarantee the return of the paper to you in a timely fashion.
No letter grades are given on these project. Instead feedback is given in three ways:
1. an audio-tape contains my spoken on your paper,
2. a GUT score, and
3. a ranking of the papers in thirds.
These indicators are not convertible to letter grades. I welcome conferences with anyone who has questions about the paper, the tape, or how the paper might fit into the final portfolio.
The project will be returned unread and uncredited if
1. required materials (especially the audiotape) are not submitted correctly; and
2. correct word-processing and spell checking have not been completed.
3. peer responses are not completed if the class elects this.
Calendar
1.
January 14, 2003
Introduction, syllabi, discussion of language.
2.
January 16, 2003: Prior to class read Nunberg, “The Way we
Talk Now” Preface (vii-xi) and “The Passing Scene” 3-17.
3.
January 21, 2003: Prior to class read Ionesco “The Bald
Soprano”
4.
January 28, 2003:
Nunberg, 16-43
5.
January 30, 2003:
Nunberg “Portmanteau Words” (85-87), “Whaddya Know?” (210-212) Carroll,
“Jabberwocky” (17-18) “Poet Fit, non Nascitur” (32-35
6.
February 4, 2003: Nunberg “I Put a Spell on You”
(137-139),”Naming of Parts” (”Distinctions”
(137-139), “Reading for the Plot” (143-145)“ Rossetti “Goblin Market “ (1-16)
7.
February 6,
2003: Paper #1 due—language in any poem
in “Imagist Poetry”
8.
February 11, 2003: Nunberg “The Edge” (91-93), Swift
“The Voyage to Laputa” (109-142)
9.
February 13, 2003:
Nunberg “Remembering Ned Ludd” 76-78; Coleridge “Kubla Khan” (58-59)
10. February 18, 2003:
Nunberg “Standard Issue” (118-121), Dunbar “We Wear the Mask” and “When
Malindy Sings” (64-66) J.W. Johnson “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing (55-56)
11. February 20, 2003: Nunberg “The Decline of Slang”
(61-63), “The Last Galoot” (64-65), “Uber and out” (66-68), Wilde “The
Importance of Being Earnest”
12. February 25, 2003: Literacy Literacy” (166-169) Donne
“Elegy XIX” (37-39). “Holy Sonnet XIV”
(64)
13. February 27, 2003:
Paper # 2 due
14. March 4, 2003: Nunberg “Technical Terms” 173-187
15. March 6, 2003 Nunberg “Technical Terms “187-206
16. March 18, 2003: Nunberg “Business Talk” 207-220
17. March 20, 2003: Nunberg “Business Talk” “Valediction”
220-234, Donne “A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning”
18. March 25, 2003:
Nunberg “Points in Your Favor” 160-162, e.e.cummings “pity this busy,
monster, manunkind,” (hand-out)
19. March 27, 2003: Paper # 3 due individual research on language based on
survey
20. April 1, 2003: Revisit earlier topics; work on
portfolio
21. April 3, 2003: Revisit earlier topics; work on
portfolio
22. April 8, 2003: Revisit earlier topics; work on
portfolio
23. April 10, 2003: Revisit earlier topics; work on
portfolio
24. April 15, 2003: Revisit earlier topics; work on
portfolio
25. April 17, 2003 Portfolio due
26. April 22, 2003 Individual conferences; no class
27. April 24, 2003
Individual conferences; no class
28. April 29, 2003 Last class period
29. Final Meeting, May 6 9:30 am.