I.   ENGL 111   Composition I   3 credit hours

 

II.   Fall 2001   David Worley

            Avery 206       869 6329        dworley@inetlmu.lmunet.edu

            Conference Hours:  MTWRF  11:00 to 12:00  and by appointment

 

III.  Admission determined by ACT scores

 

IV.   Course Description and Goals: This course is designed to improve the clarity of students' thinking and       writing by offering instruction in writing effective sentences, in composing unified paragraphs, and in            constructing unified essays. The course will also promote oral expression and reading comprehension.

 

V.  Texts:  The Millenium Reader 2nd ed.

                  The Holt Handbook 5th ed.

                American Heritage College Dictionary

 

VI.  Course Objectives

            To eliminate grammatical and mechanical errors in student writing

            To improve students' paragraph development

            To provide instruction in various methods of topic development

            To encourage the development of an individual prose style

            To improve students' reading ability

 

VII.  Outline of Course Contents

You will read approximately forty selections from the first six sections of The Millenium Reader, and you will write nine or ten essays.

 

VIII.  Suggested Reading

            A Death in the Family James Agee

            The Robber Bride Margaret Atwood

Going to Meet the Man James Baldwin

Park City Ann Beattie

Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver

            The Enormous Radio John Cheever

White Noise Don DeLillo

David Copperfield Charles Dickens

A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard

            Invisible Man Ralph Ellison

            Go Down, Moses William Faulkner

            The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

            The Power and the Glory Graham Greene

            Catch 22  Joseph Heller

            The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway

            Dubliners James Joyce

            Shiloh and Other Stories Bobbie Ann Mason

Lives of Girls and Women Alice Munro

            The Things They Carried   Tim O'Brien

            Collected Stories Flannery O'Connor

Look Homeward, Angel  Thomas Wolfe

            To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

            Native Son Richard Wright

           

 

IX.  Course Requirements/ Evaluation Methods

 

            Regular attendance is required. More than three unexcused absences may lower the course grade.   You should keep a journal, to be turned in weekly. You will have at least two individual conferences with me during the semester, but you are welcome to drop by my office any time.

 

            You will write nine or ten themes. Grades on these themes will largely determine the course grade, with some consideration being given to the journal and to attendance. Graded themes should be kept in a theme folder, which should be brought to conferences with me and to meetings with tutors. These theme folders are to be turned in at the end of the semester.

 

            You may be required to schedule tutoring appointments in the Tagge Center to help you overcome basic writing deficiencies.

 

You are responsible for discovering what happened in classes you have missed.

 

            Plagiarism is a serious offense, which may result in failure in a course and in expulsion from the university.

 

            Grades given in the course are as follows:

 

A   4.0  exceptional; excellent in all respects

A-    3.67

B+  3.33

B   3.0  good

B-     2.67

C+  2.33

C   2.0  satisfactory                                

C-     1.67

NC  0.0  unsatisfactory (GPA unaffected, but course must be repeated)

F   0.0  failure