I. ENGL 111F Introduction to College Writing 3 credit hours

II. Fall 2001 Dr. Chloe Nichols Office 114 Avery, Office hours 2:30-3:30 TTh

or by appointment. nicholschloe@hotmail.com

III. Pre-requisite: ACT test on file

IV: Course Description: A one-semester course introducing college writing requirements, skills and general forms. Teaches writing from sources, logical argument, and reader awareness. Includes mechanics, grammar and spelling, as practical. Classroom and computer lab.

V. Texts: The New Millenium Reader (Second Edition) Hirschberg and Hirschberg

The Holt Handbook (Fifth Edition) Kirsczner and Mandell

Webster's Collegiate or American Heritage Dictionary

VI. Course Objectives

To teach college writing skills and forms

To develop clear thought, full explanation, and organization methods

To learn to use the work of others to support and develop clear thinking

To think of writing as a process of contact with a reader

VII Outline of course content:

Guides to word processing, as advisable

Selections From Millenium Reader will be taken from:

NARRATION--Hampl 34, Barry 41, Pemberton 93, Dillard 199, Keller 307, Ballou 482, Tyler 678, O'Brien 760

OBSERVATION AND DESCRIPTION--Gershi 60, Carver 85, Ouspensky 119

Zinsser 131' Wickert 162, Sanger 351, Leopold 418, LeGuin 420, London 492,

Hershey 509, Dillard 199, McMurtry 392, Hershey 509, Carter 473

ILLUSTRATION AND EXAMPLE

Peters 37, Wickert 162, Cofer 209, Hentoff 282, Lurie 296, Chernin 366,

Morrow 389, Wheelwright 728

COMPARISON AND CONTRAST

Twain 157, Tompkins 324

Other short class readings may be added.

VIII. Course Requirements / Evaluation Methods

There will be three major tests and several minor quizzes. Quizzes on readings may be

unannounced. Students will write 8 major projects, and from these, 7 will be selected for final grading. A project is an essay or a collection of paragraphs of 750 to 1000 words in length. The last project, a book review, will include research, and careful writing from a source. Specific directions and grading standards will be explained for each project. Different qualities of the

project are marked separately; however, the final judgment is the teacher's.

IX. Book Selection for Book Review (final project)

Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton * I Am the Cheese, by Robert Cormier * Henderson, the Rain King, by Saul Bellow * The Natural, by Bernard Malamud * The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers * Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich * Wise Blood, by Flannery O'Connor * The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien * Go Down, Moses, by William Faulkner * Native Son, by Richard Wright * Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens *The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Eric Maria Remarque

X. Grade 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)