ENC 1101

Mr. Alex Pollack

apollackucf@knights.ucf.edu

Colbourn 304B

Monday and Wednesday 11:30am-1:30pm

Literacy, language, and writing

conversations that explore the act of writing: the people who do it and how they do it.

researched arguments for academic readers about writers, writing, reading, and discourse.

argumentation, library research, and empirical research methods such a ethnography, all methods by which academic writers participate in ongoing scholarly conversations

• 1.) Study writing as situated, motivated discourse (as an active, lively conversation)
• 2.) Study rhetoric as a theory of writing and a way of knowing and persuading.
• 3.) Study the conversational and knowledge-creating nature of researched writing

4.) Study how we read and the conversational, contribute nature of reading.

5.) Practice locating and evaluating documentary and human sources.

6.) Practice Identifying available choices in writing and editing and making the strongest choice

Gordan Rule

• 1.) C-
• 2.)university
• 3.) state

• 1.) 6000
• UCF and the Department of English

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• 1.) The writing will have a clearly defined central idea or thesis
• 2.) It will provide adequate support for that idea
• 3.) it will be organized clearly and logically
• 4.) It will show awareness of the conventions of stardard written english

From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader with 2009 MLA and 2010 APA Updates by Stuart Green and April Lidinsky

KnightsMail

Printing Cost

25% and 100 Points

Attendance; Preperatrion for and participation in class discussion and activities; thoughtful participation in workshops and out of class peer preview; completion of the required minimum number of drafts for all major assignments; Serious revin between drafts. The extent to which you revise pieces will vary, but "revision" is not copy-editing. it is a substansive change in a piece in response ot my or other readers' feadback;absenses

95 Points and 25 Percent

• 1.) Weekely Reading Responses
• 2.) Literacy Narrative
• 3.) Interpretive Summary
• 4.) Research Plan
• 5.) Annotated Bibliography
• 6.) A Review of Literature
• 7.) Reseached Argument Paper
• 8.) Presentation

• 30 points
• Weekly 1-2 written responses to reading due on Fridays. While we will write in-class reading responses each day, I'll give you discretion to turn in your best work of the week on Friday. lowest score is dropped.

• 10 points
• A discussion of your writing habits and history (assignment sheet will be handed out in class)

• 10 points
• a 2-3 page evaluative summary of an article that pertains to your research question (assignment sheet will be handed out in class)

• 5 Points
• Short proposal of a research projuct you plan to conduct this semester (assignment sheet will be handed out in class)

• 10 Points
• Working bibliography on your research question complete with evalutate annotations (assignment sheet will be handed out in class)

• 10 points
• This will eventually be the opening pages of your researched argument; it is a compliation of your research that maps the conversation to which you will be contributing (sheet handed out in class)

• 10 Points
• Your completed 10-12 page semester project; it will report the findings of your research and argue for their significance within the conersation you have sought to join (guidelines will be discussed in class all semester and put into writing as needed)

• 10 Points
• A condensed version of your findings suitable for presentation to the class in 10 minutes of speaking (guidelines will be discussed in class)

• 200 Points and 50 percent
• During the semester you will receive daily work/writing points for turning in your work and i will give you written feedback to help you revise your work. The portfolio is the majority of your grade, and to do well on it you are expected to revise all your writing assignments as needed over the course of the semester. At the end of the semester all of your work will go into the portfolio with is your opportunity to demonstate your best. Keep everything because it all goes into the portfolio.

94-100 (UCF does not assign A+ grades)

90-93

87-89

84-86

80-83

77-79

74-76

70-73

incompletes

NC (no credit)

a little lecture and a lot of class discustion (while you make regular progress on a research project and write responses to what's happening in readings, classs, and your own mind throughout the semester.)

panel presentations and revision of major assignments for the final portfolio.

If i find you doint these thins (or shopping online or downloading or playing games) I'll ask you to leave, count you absent, and give you a zero for all work due that day

write things that you wish to remain private.

must be typed.

keep all drafts of your writing

no be accepted for credit unless you discuss problems with me in advance

lost or missing

• 4= a D for engagement
• 5= a F for engagement
• If you get and F for engagement then your highest grade possible is a C.

will only be exused only if you notify me and bring documentation ASAP.

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Please submit required work in print and in class. in case of emergency, i'll allow 2 papers to be submitted via KnightsMail, but generally you should turn in your assignments via print

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