Syllabus

Arkansas State University English 1003: Composition I Credit Hours = 3

Instructor: Dr. Glinda Hall
Office: Wilson Hall, Room 310
Contact: Email: ghall@astate.edu

Recommended: a writer’s guide with quick reference usage and MLA documentation info (of course, a collegiate dictionary)

Course
Description: English 1003, Composition I is designed as an introductory course for academic writing and discourse.

Objectives: Through the writing process, students will develop skills in organizing coherent, related essays supporting a clear thesis statement. Students will read, analyze, and respond to texts offering global and cultural perspectives.
Students will construct and deliver a well-organized, logical, and informative oral or written presentation, accurately documented, that demonstrates proficiency in standard American English.
Students who successfully complete this course should demonstrate the ability to:
Demonstrate rhetorical flexibility through writing and revising a variety of texts in multiple genres and for a variety of college-level audiences and purposes.
Use proper formatting for a given assignment.
Reflect upon the writing process and themselves as writers.
Employ awareness of how and when to perform the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, and spelling.
Critically read a variety of texts (e.g., model student essays, newspaper articles, scholarly articles), and analyze the effectiveness of the rhetorical choices made in these texts.

Discussion 1 post worth 40 points
Board

Summary/
Response Each is worth 40 points.
Pages There will be twelve (12) assigned throughout the course.

Essays Seven (7) MLA-formatted essays ranging from 800-1200 word (2 - 4 pages) will be assigned. Each essay is worth 100 points.

Grade: 480 points total for Summary/Response pages 40 points for Discussion Board 700 points total for Essays 1220 points total for course.

1098 - 1220 points (A) 976 - 1097 points (B) 854 - 975 points (C) 732 - 853 points (D) 0 – 731 points (F)

Student
Conduct: Students are responsible for knowing conduct guidelines set out in the Student Handbook, and those guidelines apply to this class as well.

Academic
Honesty: Students must turn in THEIR work. Please refer to the student handbook policies for Academic Honesty for the specific rules and consequences. Consequences of plagiarizing will follow the handbook; or the student may be asked to redo the assignment with an automatic grade reduction if the plagiarism seems unintentional; or if the cheating is blatant the student will receive a zero grade for that assignment, or possibly fail the course, and/or other disciplinary actions.
Plagiarism is the use, theft, purchase, or obtaining by any means another’s work or ideas, and the unacknowledged or insufficiently documented submission and/or incorporation of that work as one’s own. It involves quoting or paraphrasing someone else’s work without providing the source or properly assigning credit. This is not merely an offense of academic dishonesty that may result in failure of a course or dismissal from the university; it is also an illegal act subject to criminal prosecution.
(quoted from Arkansas State University’s English/Composition course description website)