Course Syllabus

Course Syllabus

ENG 120: College Composition I

Center: Online    

Course Description

ENG 120 is a college-level writing course that introduces students to various forms of academic discourse. Students are required to prepare essays in a variety of rhetorical modes, including exposition, description and argumentation. In addition to out-of-class writing assignments, students will be required to compose in-class essays in response to readings and other prompts. ENG 120 introduces students to process writing techniques, library research and MLA documentation procedures. The primary focus of ENG 120 is to help students acquire the writing skills they need to succeed in an academic environment. Enrollment is kept intentionally small, typically 15 students per section, to assure maximum benefit.

Course Objectives

• Produce writing whose form, organization, syntax, diction, style, and tone are appropriate for a given audience, subject, and purpose
• Read critically with an eye toward identifying main ideas, supporting evidence, and conclusions so that they can utilize these components in their own writing
• Use process writing for generating ideas, drafting, and revising
• Locate, evaluate, and integrate information purposefully from electronic and print sources and to document them correctly using MLA style
• Write captivating introductions, coherent theses, well developed, organized, and supported body paragraphs, and conclusions that lead the reader to the bigger picture
• Demonstrate personal and collaborative editing skills developed through workshops and peer feedback
• Write grammatically correct sentences demonstrating control over punctuation, syntax, and word choice
• Craft a variety of essays, beginning with a personal narrative, progressing to explanation and critical analysis assignments, and leading up to the final research paper

Course Prerequisites

Completion of ENG 101 or placement by the freshman writing coordinator/department chair

Textbooks

Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis                       

Randall Fallows

978-1-4533-1145-5 or 978-1-4533-1146.2               

http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/97#

The Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers                              

Miles McCrimmon          

978-1-4533-1073-1 or 978-1-4533-1074-8  

http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/118

Writing for Success                         

Scott McLean    

978-1-4533-1071-7 or 978-1-4533-1072-4               

http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/242

Instructor Availability and Response Time

Your instructor will be active in Canvas at least five days each week; this is where most of our class interaction will happen. Communication, when in the Canvas environment, benefits the entire class. Emails to the instructor directly should be reserved for concerns of a personal/sensitive nature. Your instructor will respond to questions—either via the discussion board or via email—within 24 hours.

Grade Distribution

 

This course may also contain practice activities. The purpose of these non-graded activities is to assist you in mastering the learning outcomes in the graded activity items listed above.

University Grading System

* Incomplete and Incomplete/Failure: Any student requesting an “I” grade must complete a Student Petition & Contract for a Grade of Incomplete and submit it to the proper offices prior to the final day of the term/semester. The petition will specify a deadline by which the course work must be completed. The incomplete automatically becomes an “IF” if work has not been completed and a grade has not been submitted by the specific deadline.

Grading Guides

Grading guides can be found in the Assignments area of the course, as well as by using the links in the Grade Distribution table above.

Course Assignments and Activities

The course content, including all assignments and activities, is listed below. However, assignments will not be released for completion until the specified week, unless otherwise noted. All assignments are due by 11:59 p.m. EST on the last day of the week. 

Week	Assignments and Activities
Before You Begin	The syllabus quiz must be completed correctly before you receive access to the rest of the course. Syllabus Review Syllabus Quiz
One	Narrative Essay Icebreaker Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapters 1 and 2 Writing for Success, Chapters 6, 8, 9, and 10 Discussion: A Good Story Short Paper: Narrative Essay and Smarthinking Report
Two	The Writing Process Exploring Perspectives, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapter 20 Discussion: Movie Review Short Paper: Narrative Essay and Smarthinking Report
Three	Coherence Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapters 16, 17, and 18 Writing for Success, Chapters 2, 3, and 4 Discussion: A Little Reflection Goes a Long Way Short Paper: Analysis: Evaluation
Four	Arguments Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 Writing for Success, Chapters 11 and 12 Discussion: Argue with Me Here!
Five	Revision Writing for Success, Chapter 13 Discussion: Peer Review Short Paper: The Argument
Six	Sources Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapters 7 and 8 Writing for Success, Chapter 7 Discussion: My Research Process
Seven	Citing Sources Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapter 22 Writing for Success, Review Chapter 13 Discussion: Why Cite?
Eight	MLA Format Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers, Chapters 3 and 11 Final Paper  Discussion: Final Thoughts

 

Attendance Policy

Failure to participate during the first week of the course (12:00 a.m. Monday through 11:59 p.m. Sunday) will result in automatic withdrawal. Participation is defined as posting in a discussion board, wiki, or blog, and/or an assignment submission. Students who do not participate during the first week forfeit their rights to be reinstated into the course.

Students are expected to participate in their course at least three (3) separate days per week throughout the term.

While online education classes are asynchronous, they are not correspondence- or self-paced. Although only a portion of student’s grades are tied to discussion, participation in discussion boards is mandatory.

 Extended absences, defined as failure to post within the Canvas classroom for more than five days, must be coordinated with the instructor. Students who fail to coordinate any such absence with the instructor, or who fail to withdraw from the course in accordance with the COCE official drop and withdrawal policy, will be graded appropriately. 

SNHU College of Online and Continuing Education Withdrawal Policy

https://www.snhu.edu/648.asp

SNHU College of Online and Continuing Education Guide to Student Success

https://my.snhu.edu/Resources/StudentHandbooks/Pages/default.aspx

Additional Expectations for Students

Students are expected to participate in their Canvas course at least three separate days per week throughout the term. Posting three times in one day does not meet the participation requirements.

 All assignments must be submitted through the appropriate Canvas tool (using Microsoft Word, other word-processing format, or other specified software) by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on the specified due date. Papers should follow formatting defined in the grading guides and other course materials. Most courses follow APA style, though MLA and Turabian are used as well.

Course Tools/Areas Overview

Your course will be delivered through Canvas. Below are the most often used tools and areas.  

 

 

Southern New Hampshire University Policies

More information about SNHU policies can be found at: https://my.snhu.edu/Academics/Pages/SyllabiStatements.aspx.

Continuing Education Center Instructor Availability: All undergraduate Continuing Education instructors at all center locations (Manchester, Nashua, Salem, Portsmouth, and Brunswick, ME) will be available to students for a minimum of four additional hours of face-to-face meeting time per term. This time is in addition to the required 20 hours of face-to-face time in hybrid classes and the required 40 hours of face-to-face time in lecture classes. How the additional meeting time is utilized is at the discretion of the instructor and may vary by course.

Academic Honesty Policy: Southern New Hampshire University requires all students to adhere to high standards of integrity in their academic work. Activities such as plagiarism and cheating are not condoned by the university. Students involved in such activities are subject to serious disciplinary action. Plagiarism is defined as the use, whether by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another without full and clear acknowledgment. Cheating includes the giving or receiving of unauthorized assistance on quizzes, examinations, or written assignments from any source not approved by the instructor. Understand that in taking this course your assignments may be submitted to Turnitin.com or other plagiarism-detection services, and reviewed for textual similarity suggestive of plagiarism. All submitted papers are subsequently included as source material in the Turnitin.com database for the purpose of detecting plagiarism in other submitted work. Please review the Turnitin.com Usage Policy should you have any questions. For more about academic dishonesty please refer to the undergraduate or graduate catalogs.

ADA/504 Compliance Statement: Southern New Hampshire University is committed to meeting the needs of students challenged by physical, emotional, or learning disabilities with regard to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended, and Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act. To request accommodations to be made in your course or to an assessment, contact the SNHU Disability Office.

Technical Support: Support for technology and Canvas software issues can be found at http://www.snhu.edu/techsupport or by dialing SNHU 24/7 Live Support at 1-877-708-2909.

Academic Assistance: Online students enrolled in undergraduate courses in the areas of math, writing, accounting, and statistics will have access to Smarthinking online tutoring: https://my.snhu.edu/offices/COCE/Tutoring/Pages/default.aspx

Library Resources Statement: In addition to the intellectual resources available onsite and online (http://www.snhu.edu/library), Shapiro Library makes available group and one-on-one instruction in information literacy, enabling students to define and articulate what knowledge-based resources are relevant to their research interests.

Copyright Policy:  Southern New Hampshire University abides by the provisions of United States Copyright Act (Title 17 of the United States Code). Any person who infringes the copyright law is liable. The SNHU Copyright Policy can be accessed from the Shapiro Library’s Copyright LibGuide at http://libguides.snhu.edu/content.php?pid=5411. Questions regarding copyright may be addressed to the dean of the university library.

 

 ENG120 Course Syllabus