ENGL 1301 Freshman Composition 1
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Lecture Notes for Engl 1301



You are expected to read all the
chapters assigned in the course
schedule regardless of whether they
are covered in class
.

Not all 1301 classes will use the Handbook by
Troyka and Hesse; if your class is not using it, the
notes are for your edification and are not required.
Introduction to course.

Thinking Like a Writer.

Thinking, Reading, and Writing Critically.

Writing Argument.

Here Be Dragons

Writing a Literacy Narrative

My literacy narrative. or here

Norton . Purpose, . Audience, . Genre, . Stance,
. Media • Design.  

Planning, Shaping, Drafting, and Revising.


Comparing the Disciplines.  

Norton  Memoirs.

Writing Paragraphs.

Using Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism.

MLA Documentation with Case Study.

Norton  Collaborating.

Norton  Generating Ideas and Text.

Norton  Drafting.

Research Writing as a Process.

Norton. Assessing Your Own Writing.

Norton  Getting Response and Revising.

Norton . Editing and Proofreading.

Norton  Compiling a Portfolio.

Handbook Site of exercises

Excellent grammar handbook online

Finding and Evaluating Sources.

Norton  Finding Sources.

Norton  Evaluating Sources.

Norton  Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarizing.

MLA has changed.

Norton  MLA Style.

Norton  Reporting Information.

Writing in the Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.  

Norton Beginning and Ending.

Norton Guiding Your Reader.

Norton Analyzing Causes and Effects.

Norton  Classifying and Dividing.

Norton  Comparing and Contrasting.

Norton . Defining.

Norton  Describing.

Norton  Arguing a Position.

Norton . Abstracts.

Norton  Annotated Bibliographies.  

Conciseness.

Writing About the Humanities and Literature.

Literary Analyses.

Parallelism.
Website for fallacies

Assigned reading for
outside of class; each
class meeting, I will
assign the fallacies to
know for the next class:

Fallacies
Blackboard submission of papers

Database Issues

Blog with Links for 1301 class

Grading Criteria

Norton Field Guide's Site
A Reminder for Students Who Turn In A Paper They Didn't Write

Don't be surprised when I follow my own policy.

Academic Integrity

College Policy: Students who practice academic dishonesty may be dropped from this course. It is the intent of
Cisco College to foster a spirit of complete honesty and a high standard of integrity. The attempt of students to
present as their own any work they have not honestly performed is regarded by the faculty and administration as
a serious offense and renders the offender liable to serious consequences, possibly suspension.

(Plagiarism is the presentation of another person’s work as your own, whether you intend to or not. Copying or
paraphrasing passages from another writer’s work without acknowledging that you have done so is plagiarism.
Allowing another writer to write any part of your essay is plagiarism.)
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You should know the library password.
It's part of being responsible.
Fall 1301 Class Days
Each section has its own blackboard
shell. Please go to the blackboard shell
for your turnitin assignments.

I am teaching five sections of 1301 this
fall. If you email me, please tell me what
section you are in.
Fall 2011 Regular Classes schedule

Fall 2011 Region 14 schedule