Dual Enrollment 2023-2024

University of Memphis Fall 2023 ENGL 1010––English Composition Syllabus

Instructor: Charlotte Moss Room: A212 E-mail: [email protected]

Description

Writing is not only something that we do; it is also something we study. This course is designed to provide you with guided practice to help you develop into a more effective college writer and reader. This course is also designed to provide you with an introduction to writing studies, which is the academic inquiry into the ways we write and the ways writing works in the world. You will read and respond to an array of writing research that will help you better understand your own writing as well as that done in––and beyond––the university. You will analyze your own literacy practices and those of others, and you will conduct original research into aspects of writing that interest you.

Learning Outcomes

The work assigned in ENGL 1010 is designed to develop in first-year college writers a deeper understanding of the complexities of writing through instruction and guided practice in the skills, processes, and strategies necessary for effective, successful writing.

Students should develop and demonstrate the abilities to do the following:

A) Identify how an author’s purpose, audience, genre, and context determine effective writing

B) Discover, develop, and explain ideas through writing processes that include generating, planning, revising, editing, and proofreading multiple drafts of a text

C) Compose an effectively organized essay that focuses on a clear purpose and that develops major points that support its main idea(s) in reasonable and effective ways

D) Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality

E) Critique their own and others’ writing

F) Control features such as sentence structure, grammar punctuation, spelling, and appropriate documentation (MLA)

This course must be completed with a grade of “C” or better before students can count credit for English 1020. This course must be completed with a grade of "B" or better before students can qualify for the dual enrollment grant for second semester.

Required Text (Available at University of Memphis Bookstore and at Tiger Bookstore.)

Wardle, Elizabeth and Doug Downs. Writing about Writing: A College Reader. Fourth Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2020.

Course Requirements and Grading

Semester Grade Percentages

A+ (98 – 100)	A (94 – 97)	A- (90 – 93)
B+ (88 – 89)	B (84 – 87)	B- (80 – 83)
C+ (78 – 79)	C (74 – 77)	C- (70 – 73)
D+ (68 – 69)	D (64 – 67)	D- (60 – 63)
	F (0 – 59)

Gradebooks: Because your grades for University of Memphis are calculated on a semester basis, you will have two separate grades posted in two separate gradebooks for this course, one for U of M and one for BCS. A separate handout and/or verbal explanation that describes the purpose and process for each major assignment, as well as its grading criteria, will be presented and discussed in class.

Gradebook 1: University of Memphis

Assignment	% of Final Grade
Literacy Narrative	10%
Discourse Community Analysis	10%
Revision	20%
Autoethnography	20%
Drafts	15%
Homework and In-class Assignments	25%

Gradebook 2: BCS grade (visible in PowerSchool)

Grade calculation per quarter

Assignment Percentage of quarter grade

Major Grades 60% (Rough drafts count once; final drafts count twice.)

Minor Grades 40% (Peer evals count twice.)

Total 100%