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Analytical Reading and Writing - ESL version ENGLISH 0812 – Sample syllabus
Suggested Model for English 0812 Syllabus English 0812, Section *** Fall **** Days/Times Instructor: Office: Office hours: E-mail: Telephone: Website: http://TUPortal.temple.edu“Blackboard” I. Course Goals As the equivalent course of English 0802, English 0812 is designed to help students whose native language is not English to develop critical reading, writing and thinking skills that are essential to academic work. To achieve these goals, we will take “International Views of the U.S.” as our theme and as our field of research. It has been chosen as our theme because the U.S. has been greatly expanding its political, military, economic, and cultural power in the world, affecting many countries and individuals (you, as members of the international community, may already be aware of this expansion). Throughout the semester, we will critically read and discuss how the U.S. thinks about its power and influence in the world and how the rest of the world sees it and reacts to it. You will also learn to write effective argumentation that integrates the course readings, class discussions, and your own research and that, while recognizing other points of view, leads to solid, informed conclusions. By the end of the course, you will be expected to have achieved the following specific objectives: A. be able to summarize, analyze, and critique the assigned reading and the writing of your classmates; B. be able to write clear, coherent, grammatically and mechanically correct, effective argumentative essays; C. be able to accurately acknowledge differing points of view and to make connections between source materials, and between your own ideas and those presented in sources; D. be able to document all sources used in your essays according to MLA guidelines. II. Required Texts
Gumery, K. International Views: America and the Rest of the World. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006. Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Marin’s, 2008.
III. Course Requirements
A. Writing Assignments and Portfolio
In this course, you will complete four essays that involve research, evaluation, argumentation, and synthesis. Essays will go through a draft read in a peer review workshop and by me before it is turned in as a final version in your portfolio. With each assignment you will hand in a short (approximately 1-page) assessment of your own development as a writer (self-reflective essay). This requirement will help you to articulate and reflect on the critical writing skills you are learning in the course. All the essays, revisions, and reflective essays will be included in a portfolio evaluated holistically at the end of the course.
On the last day of class, you will submit a portfolio containing your three revised essays, final essay, and reflective essays (placed in the left of the folder) and all drafts of your essays (placed in the right of the folder). This requires that you save all the essays you write in the course. A panel of instructors will review your portfolio to ensure that all students are fairly graded and that consistent standards are used in the First-Year Writing Program. In order to be eligible to pass the course, you must receive a C- or above on the portfolio, although a passing portfolio alone does not guarantee that you will pass the course. Refer to “Portfolio Goals” (p. 3) as these are the criteria that will be used to evaluate your portfolio.
B. Reading Assignments: You must come to class having completed all assigned readings and ready to participate in our class discussions. C. Class Participation: Your active and thoughtful participation during class discussion, small-group activities, and peer review is essential for the success of this course. In this course, participation includes asking questions and making observations. D. Individual Conferences: You will meet with me individually three times this semester. We will arrange dates and times. In our meeting, we will discuss your work, and you will explain ideas you have and ask questions specific to your work. You must be prepared for each conference by bringing a typed paper. If you miss your appointment, an absence will be counted, regardless of make-ups. Make-ups are given only when you notify me 24 hours in advance in any form of communication. We will also meet multiple times in small group conferences that will take place in the fourth scheduled hour of the class. This conference will rotate through all of the students in the class and we will set up the schedule early in the semester. VI. Course Policies A. Attendance: You are permitted a total of two absences throughout the semester, excused or unexcused. If you have more than two absences, you will have a lowered final grade (a reduction by one letter grade). If you have more than four absences, you will not pass the course. B. Lateness: If you are not in class when I take attendance, you will be marked as late. Two latenesses will equal one absence. If you miss a class, you are responsible for catching up with the work from that day. C. Late Essays: If you turn in your essay late, it will affect your final grade (a reduction of one letter grade for each class meeting of lateness). D. Etiquette: Please turn off your cell phone while you are in class. Eating is not permitted in class. V. Grading (You must receive a C- or above to pass the course): A. Portfolio: 60% B. Quizzes: 15 % C. Participation (both verbal and non-verbal [i.e., attention and attitude]): 15% D. Peer Reviews: 10%
VI. Portfolio Goals
Goal 1 – Critical Reading/Critical Writing Connections Portfolios will
Goal 2 – Shaping Meaning and Communication Portfolios will
Goal 3 – Academic Writing Practices Portfolios will
Goal 4 – Self-Reflection The self-reflection included in the portfolio will
VII. Policy of Academic Honesty (Excerpted from the Temple University Statement on Academic Honesty for Students in Undergraduate Courses)
A. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person's labor: another person's ideas, words, or assistance. In general, all sources must be identified as clearly, accurately, and thoroughly as possible. Academic cheating is, in general terms, the thwarting or breaking of the general rules of academic work and/or the specific rules of individual courses. It includes falsifying data; submitting, without the instructor's approval, work in one course that was done for another; helping others to plagiarize or cheat from one's own or someone else's work; or actually doing the work of another person. B. Penalties for Academic Dishonesty The penalty for dishonesty can vary from a reprimand and receiving a failing grade for a particular assignment, to failure for the course, to suspension or expulsion from the University. If you plagiarize in my class, you will fail the course. This is not negotiable. If you are uncertain about anything, ask BEFORE you hand in the work. It will be too late afterwards. Of course, we do not want to discourage you from using other people’s ideas or data. Our aim is exactly the opposite. But you must always acknowledge your sources. The following rules will help you to avoid plagiarism: 1. The language in your paper must be either your own or a direct quote from the original author. 2. Changing a few words or phrases from another writer’s work is not enough to make the writing “your own.” The writing is either your own or the other person’s; there are no in-betweens. 3. In text citation and an accurate bibliography, acknowledge that the fact or opinion expressed comes from another writer. If the language comes from another writer, quotation marks are necessary in addition to a correct citation. If you are in any way uncertain about what constitutes plagiarism, consult with me. VIII. Disability Disclosure Statement Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately to discuss the specific situation as soon as possible. Contact Disability Resources and Services at 215-204-1280 in 100 Ritter Annex to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. IX. Statement on Academic Freedom Freedom to teach and freedom to learn are inseparable facets of academic freedom. The University has adopted a policy on Student and Faculty Academic Rights and Responsibilities (Policy # 03.70.02) which can be accessed through the following link: http://policies.temple.edu/getdoc.asp?policy_no=03.70.02.
Schedule of Reading and Essay Assignments Week 1 (Sept. 2, 4) T Introduction of course objectives, requirements, and policies Th Reading: O’Connor (pp. 160-162) & Rice-Oxley (pp. 163-167)
Week 2 (Sept. 9, 11) T Reading: Roberts (pp. 167-172) Th Reading: Bayles (pp. 172-177)
Week 3 (Sept. 16, 18) T Reading: Pells (pp. 185-194) & Discuss Assignment #1 Th Essay 1 Due (Bring two copies of your essay.) Peer Review Week 4 (Sept. 23, 25) T Reading: Bush (pp. 101-111) Th Revision 1 and Self-reflective Essay Due Grammar and Writing Lessons (GW)
Week 5 (Sept. 30, Oct. 2) T Reading: Wallerstein (pp. 119-127) & Schlosser (pp. 131-134) Th Conferences (1) – Class Cancelled
Week 6 (Oct. 7, 9) T Reading: Roy (pp. 111-119) & Discuss Assignment #2 Th Reading: Schmitt (pp. 127-130) & Swomley (pp. 151-156) Week 7 (Oct. 14, 16) T Essay 2 Due (Bring two copies of your essay.) Peer Review Th Reading: Lindsay & Daalder (pp. 141-151)
Week 8 (Oct. 21, 23) T Revision 2 and Self-reflective Essay Due GW Th Reading: De La Gaarde (pp. 8-14)
Week 9 (Oct. 28, 30) T Verdu (pp. 23-25) & GW Th Conferences (2) – Class Cancelled
Week 10 (Nov. 4, 6) T Reading: Giddens (pp. 14-22) & Discuss Assignment #3 Th Reading: Al-Shaykh (pp. 48-53) & Shehadeh (pp. 90-93) Week 11 (Nov. 11, 13) T Reading: Friedman (pp. 33-45) & GW Th Essay 3 Due (Bring two copies of your essay.) Peer Review Week 12 (Nov. 18, 20) T Reading: Kohut (pp. 62-67) & & Parris (pp. 94-97) Th Revision 3 and Self-reflective Essay Due Reading: Koh (pp. 67-74) & Discuss Assignment #4 Week 13 (Nov. 25, 27) T Conferences (3) – Class Cancelled Th Thanksgiving Recess
Week 14 (Dec. 2,4) T Conferences (4) – Class Cancelled (Bring your Research Proposal.) Th Essay 4 Due (Bring two copies of your essay.) Peer Review Week 15 (Dec. 9) – Last day of class T Course Evaluations Quiz 3 Revision 4 Due Portfolio Due
Essay Assignments
Essay Assignment #1
Length: three to four pages In their essays, Brendon O’Connor and Mark Rice-Oxley argue that American products, from fast food and entertainment to fashion, language, and sports, have penetrated so far and so deeply that Americanization has occurred or is occurring everywhere. Despite some positive impacts of Americanization on the world, many countries suffer, as both writers comment, from the detrimental effects of Americanization, including the loss of national identities, the decline of local businesses, and the creation of a single, homogeneous world culture. In addition, many local cultures seem to be negatively influenced by American entertainment media, so often characterized by “profanity, nudity, violence and criminal activity,” as writers such as Martha Bayles have suggested (174). Write an essay in which you, as a person who has experienced both your own and American culture, critically evaluate the extent to which O’Connor’s and Rice-Oxley’s impression about the pervasive Americanization of world culture holds true in your country and the extent to which Americanization has negative effects on your country. (If you left your country long ago, try to recall your impression on your latest visit home; if you haven’t visited your country recently, interview those who have). In order to accomplish this task, you need to decide on a few specific areas of American culture that you can manage to discuss persuasively. You could focus on food (e.g., McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, TGIF, Starbucks), or on entertainment (e.g., movies, TV shows, music, video games, sports), or on how the English language has been imported into your language(s), or on commercial products (e.g., clothes, shoes, cars). You should cite at least four sources (two sources from the textbook and two from outside sources—international sources are accepted). Essay Assignment #2
Length: three to four pages
Based on our readings and discussions on current American foreign policy, specifically on President Bush’s 2002 document titled “National Security Strategy of the United States,” write an essay in which you argue about one of Bush’s controversial claims. First, you need to identify a controversial claim in our course readings. For example, the Bush document suggests that “[f]ree trade and free markets have proven their ability to lift whole societies out of poverty” (104). However, Arundhati Roy argues that current “multilateral trade laws and financial agreements” based on free market capitalism serve to “keep the poor in their Bantustans,” exacerbating inequality (116). She asks, “[w]hy else would it be that countries that grow cocoa beans … are taxed out of the market if they try to turn it into chocolate?” (116). For Roy, free trade creates poverty, instead of fighting against it, and yet Bush’s policy claims the opposite. Which is it? Does free trade improve the lives of poor people around the world or does it make them worse? This is just one example of a controversy, and you may identify a different kind of controversial claim, such as one based on discrepancies in ideology or history. To construct a strong and comprehensive argument, you need to consult course readings and conduct library research to learn more about your chosen topic and to find support for your argument—you need to include at least five sources, three from the textbook and two from outside sources. Also, you must acknowledge a contrary position to your point of view (supported by a source) in your discussion and then argue against that by constructing an effective refutation.
Essay Assignment #3
Length: four to five pages
Globalization, sometimes referred to as Americanization, is considered a set of complex processes by which goods, services, capital, ideas, and culture are exchanged on the international level. This means that globalization is not just an economic phenomenon, but also political, technological, cultural, and social in its scope, as Anthony Giddens claims in his essay “Globalization.” Many writers, including Giddens, Vincente Verdú, and G. Pascal Zachary, acknowledge both the positive and negative effects of globalization. Supporters argue that globalization benefits the world through the promotion of such ideals as human rights, democracy, and freedom and that it enhances the prosperity of the world through “the increased flow of goods, services, and capital.” On the other hand, critics argue that we need to control the “runaway” global process because it widens economic inequality (Giddens 22); increases consumption of world resources such as oil, paper, and meat, resulting in environmental disaster; creates homogeneity of world culture; and violates local norms of propriety. Are the costs of globalization outweighed by its benefits? Write an essay in which you argue for or against globalization. As this assignment requires synthesizing different source materials, it is vital to make clear connections among source materials, and between your own ideas and those presented in sources. In your essay, you should formulate a clear and focused thesis and provide a detailed account of your evidence. For this assignment, you need to provide at least six sources, three of which should be outside sources. Essay Assignment #4
Length: six to seven pages For this assignment, select a topic from one of the previous assignments that is compelling to you, and write a research paper that explores this topic. Although your discussion of this topic should be informed by your previous writing, your new approach must go further by conducting new research to develop your ideas, explore the topic from a new perspective and/or to include new debates that complicate it. This will ensure that your final writing will treat the topic with more complexity than did your previous writing. You must include a minimum of three new sources in this paper. Your first step will be to submit a one-two-page research proposal to me. In this proposal, you must state your topic, explain why you have selected this topic, and describe how you will go about expanding the topic further. You should include some of the primary arguments you will address as you research and expand your topic, along with some sample references that you will draw on. |
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