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Prof. Dana S. di
Rende
Office hrs: by appointment,
Writing Center
Tel.: (909)
951-452-5000
SYLLABUS 1B- FALL
2010
Welcome
to English 1B!!
By enrolling in this course you are
engaging in a lifestyle that includes writing as the most
effective expression of your own personal power in the
world. You will
reach out to a wider audience than this classroom, and learn
to rely exclusively on your own considerable talents for
creativity and critical thinking.
Method of
Evaluation
Students will be evaluated for
mastery of learning objectives by methods which may include,
but are not limited to;
Oral
reports/presentations
Written
assignments
Midterm
Quizzes/exams
Collaborative and individual
projects
Participation and regular
attendance
Performance in both
lecture and Writing Lab
Final
Examination
Projects
Students will be writing a research
paper on a literary topic, of about 12-15 pages, to include: research, location of
material, works cited, bibliography, documentation of resources, MLA
guidelines, topic generation. There will be more about this
later in the semester.
Students will engage in an on-going
Scholarly Discourse, introduce
topics, produce rebuttals and/or concordances, and attempt to
achieve publication of their literary criticism papers, as
contributions to the Student
Literary Periodical, 1B version--the
"P.O.W.--the Power of Words,"also displayed in the Writing
Center.
Students whose assigned essays are
chosen for
publication will receive extra points (2 pts) for the Literary Criticism/Scholarly Discourse
section of this course.
Participation in the Scholarly Discourse project and Student Literary Periodical will
significantly impact
grades.
Guidelines
It is important that the student be consistently present in class, and
especially that the student be ON TIME
No late work will be accepted. No
exceptions.
In Class Essays--The class will produce extemporaneous 2 1/2 -3
page compositions based on current topic under discussion in
class.
Random quizzes will be given to
cover assigned reading and class lectures. There will be a
mid-term and a final exam.
Participation will affect grade. To
participate, you must be in class. All
assignments MUST be TYPED, DOUBLE
SPACED, MLA format, and turned in on time. Due to the volume of writing you
will produce, no journals are required for this
class.
Students who find a graded essay
marked T (see tutor re), should go
to the Writing Center to make an appointment for tutoring on
that specific subject,(or take advantage of drop-in free tutoring available),take graded essay to the tutor. Neglected tutoring
assignments will probably negatively impact grade.
.
The tutoring is simply to fine-tune
and immediately resolve a particular grammar issue that needs
addressing and which is negatively impacting the students'
writing grade. Students are not
penalized for receiving tutoring, but if errors are repeated unrelievedly,and the absence of tutoring slips demonstrates that no tutoring has taken place, grades will suffer accordingly, as this would demonstrate a lack of participation in the course, aside from the errors themselves which lower writing grade; if errors are relieved without tutoring, grades are not negatively impacted--but grammar errors seldom disappear on their own, although occasionally this is the case. Please keep in mind that even an "A" paper can require tutoring if it contains minor grammar errors--Tutoring is not necessarily a sign of a low grade.
. Think of yourselves as fine
race cars with exquisite engines. Tutoring makes
certain your engine is purring at top productivity, addressing
any potential noises before these become serious problems, by
taking the car to the garage--the tutoring
session!
Grading:
Final Exam30
Midterm 20 A=130-140
B=115-
129
Research Paper 20
C= 90-114
D=71-89
Student Literary Review and essays= 60 F=0-70
Quizes 10 (no.
varies)=1 each
Total Points 140
Grading
Occasionally
a student may receive two letter grades per
essay/composition. The first grade is for grammar (correct
spelling, grammar, syntax, balance), the second for content
(level of vocabulary, organization, intro, thesis statement,
logic, conclusion, ideas, originality, sophistication of
thought and language-- The first grade is the actual
grade--the second grade represents language level and content--what student "would have"
received had the grammar grade been
better.
Course
Aims
Having said all that, let me state that the
purpose of this course is not to make students slaves of
grammar, but rather, to free the student of grammar. Poetic license
allows the rules
of grammar to be ignored, but only when this is done
deliberately, not through ignorance of the rules of
English. W.
Faulkner, e.e. cummings, and L. Carroll did not use grammar;
they transcended it. So can you.
Course
Content
This course will engage you in and should produce student outcomes in competency inthree different (though overlapping)
areas:
The first
area involves becoming familiar with literary
critical theories, current and historical, and with engagement
in in-depth critical analysis of simple to complex rhetorical
devices/modes in the assigned readings.You will be looking at
cultural paradigms and how they function in literature and in
society, as a necessary ramification of literary critical
theory.
The second
area involves writing "readings" in response
to your awareness of the ongoing scholarly discourse in
academia in general and your engagement in particular in
an on-going scholarly discourse with your fellow students,
leading to publication of the best essays , or "readings" in
the Student Literary
Periodical,1B version,
"P.O.W. -the Power of Words," published
monthly.
The third
area concentrates on further developing your
technical skills in your ability to write logical and cogent
argumentative papers produced in response to the first
two areas of concentration.
I'm looking forward to a great semester and
wish you a most productive and beneficial experience here in
1B. Please feel free to approach me with any problems re your
turning in assignments on time, BEFORE the assignment is
due.
Attendance is absolutely required at first two
class sessions--otherwise student will be dropped. No more
than three missed classes are allowed or student will
be dropped.
NOTE: Class
lectures will convey information you will need to know for the
midterm and final exam, and which you are expected to
incorporate in your critical anaysis is some form, so make
certain that when the professor is talking, you are taking
notes!! The lecture notes are as central to the course as are
the textbooks, and most of the info in the lectures will not
be found in the texts.
If you have a handicap and need to be accomodated in any
way to facilitate learning, please let me know.
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Stuent Learning Outcomes: Students will master critical thinking skills, critical analysis skills, literary discourse skills, advanced writing skills, logic, logical fallacies, philosophical discourse, as presented in the course.
NOTE: Please do not remove
Student Literary Periodicals from the Writing Center--this
would prevent your fellow classmates from carrying out reading
assignments based on these Periodicals, so PLEASE respect the
regulation and read the Periodicals only in the Writing
Center. Thank You.
INTRODUCTION to MATERIAL:
Terms List:
TERMS
1) Reading: to look at literature from a particular field of inquiry.
2) Field of Inquiry: a subject under investigation , at most universities or labs, a field of study.
a) All other information is ignored.
b) Fields include: science, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, etcetera
3) Archetype: a culturally significant stereotype
a) E.g. The Lone Ranger, Barbie, Santa Clause
4) Semantic: origin of words; analysis of single words per dictionary, “proper” definition
a) This is like entomology
Proper: dictionary definitions of words
5) Trope: a change in meaning of a word over time.
6) Rhetorical: patterns of language; groups of words; opposite of semantic
7) Metaphysical: dealing with awareness of a higher or ultimate reality
8) Euphemism (adj): use a bland word in place of another. Denies reality. The substitution of an expression for a more offensive one.
9) Syllogism: a method of reasoning made of a major premise, minor premise, and a conclusion; deductive reasoning
10) Distributed middle term: the term repeated in a syllogism.
11) Deductive: conclusion must be true if the premises are true
a) From known to known
b) General to specific
c) Gives finite results
d) Absolute certainty
12) Inductive: probability
a) Known to unknown
b) Specific to general
c) Not limited to finite results
d) Probability
13) Belief qualifier: if, as if, as though, it appears
14) Conceit: tradition, technique in rhetoric
15) De verbal negative: prefix that undoes a verb; ex., disbelief, unbelievable
16) Reification: to perceive living beings as mere objects; the I-Other
17) Autobiography: subjective interpretation of reality. Fiction and non-fiction at the same time
18) Analysis: critical analysis of non-fiction reading
19) Dichotomy: opposite; extreme difference
20) Juxtaposition: opposite position; not a side by side union
21) Language: a system of signs and symbols
22) Transcendent: to inter into a higher reality
23) Logos: appeal to logic in argument
24) Pathos: appeal to emotion
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25) Ethos: appeal to ethics” “
26) Text: the physical visible text
27) Subtext: the figurative meaning in the text such as metaphor or symbolism
28) Non-text: the rhetorical linguistic patterns; the virtual text—locus of embedded meaning
29) Winged creature: symbol of the transcendent
30) Evolution: transcending up
31) Devolution: descending
32) monogenetical:from a single source--the whole in the part, higher orders evolve from simpler orders
33) ideographic: multi-cultural
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LANGUAGE:
"JABBERWOCKY "
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
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HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS:
Read -Heart of Darkness-. Number paragraphs.
Note: I will be in WRC from about 5 to 5:45 on Thursday,6/24 for tutoring
6/22- Read "Lenses" handout
prepare 2 copies of a rough draft of 2 1/2 page essay on "Kitchen Stories". Bring to class Monday 6/28 for Peer Review. Final draft due Tuesday 6/29.
Expect a quiz on Conrad's novel at any time
Expect random quizzes to cover terms and lectures at any time
Due Tuesday,7/6--rough draft of LENSES, psychological reading (explain meaning of character's experience to the reader) 3rd person, eternal present, two typed copies, for Peer Review
Read "Once More to the Lake", by E.B. White , for Tuesday 7/6
Read "My Last Duchess" for Thursday 7/1
7/1: Write and diagram three syllogisms
Due: 7/12/2010: peer Review of Critical Analysis of Cochran's or Anderson's Analysis of "Kitchen Stories"
Due: 7/12: go to library, find theat HUGE dictionary-look up 1 word at random--get the tropes (fr., grk, Ita, lt) for extra credit
due:7/12: In "Lake" reading, find: number and place of repetitions for: "summer" and synonyms, "holy" and synonyms, "creepy" and synonyms, magic and synonyms, pagan "gods" and pre-Christian synonyms, dates and similar. Bring to class in columns.
Due: 7/13: Final version of Critical analysis of Cochran's or Anderson's essays
Havr Heart of darkness finished by Thursday
Due : 7/15--in-class essay-bring dictionary and thesaurus, Heart of Darkness text,and Blue Book
Due: 7/22=Rough drafts for peer Review of Critical paper on Anderson or Kristian
Final draft due Monday 7/26.
7/20: Finish finding the metaphysical earmarks in "Once More to the lake"--the remaining paragraphs
Due: 7/26--In-class essay--on Figurative language
+Print up "Tell-Tale heart" by Edgar Allen Poe from Google
Due: 8/5--peer review of Final Research Paper.
Due:8/9--oral presentations
Due 8/10 and 8/11--oral presentation to class of your research project.
Due: 8/12 final in-class essay
7/28: Print 3 poems from Google: Donne's A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Steven's "Domination of Black", bring to class for group work
7/29: quiz on terms
8/12: FINAL EXAM and RESEARCH Paper due
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