ENGL 212 Syllabus AA year 2020 fall Course Syllabus PDF

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Course outline for winter 2019 ENGL 212. Useful if you would like to transfer and need to send in course outlines for transfer courses....

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English 212 Course Outline

English 212/AA ENGLISH COMPOSITION-STAGE I Day and Location: Mondays 18:00 – 20:15 MB S1.255 (SGW) Instructor: Karen Rhodes

E-mail: [email protected]

Office: LB 665

Phone: 514 848-2424

Office Hours: By appointment - to be finalized in class The purpose of English 212 is to help students develop their writing skills so that they can produce clear, concise, and well-organized essays and reports. Instruction and assignments focus primarily on purpose, thesis, organization, paragraph development, and effective sentences. Students are graded on a variety of in-class and homework assignments such as summaries, essays, presentations, and a book report on a selected text. Class time is a mixture of instruction, individual, and group work. Course Outcomes After taking this course, students in English 212 should be able to do the following:    

Produce prose that is free of major grammatical errors Create prose, including essays and summaries, using writing process that integrates critical reading and thinking, academic integrity, organization, and purpose. Write well-organized essays using different rhetorical strategies and modes to communicate developed ideas in an appropriate voice and style for the audience. Write outlines that reflect the thesis and structure of the essay and describe how the points will be supported by examples and evidence.

Requirements & Grade Distribution Task Worth

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Book Review

25%

Essay

10%

Review of assigned book that includes all elements of a successful review 500-600 words

Essay

15%

600-800 words Comparison/Contrast

Essay

20%

750-850 words Argumentation

10%

Grammar activities and preparation work for essay assignments Held during the exam period- common exam for all sections of English 212

Outlines and thesis statements, class work Final exam

20%

English 212 Course Outline

Notes: 

Good attendance is mandatory as in class presentations and assignments are all graded.

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Missed in-class assignments, even if for a valid reason, cannot routinely be made up at a later date.

Required Texts: •

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Norton, Sarah, Green, Brian, Dynes, Rhonda. Essay Essentials with Readings, 7th edition bundled with MindTap available in bookstore. (Available hard copy and web, or just web version.) BOOK: King, Thomas. The Inconvenient Indian. Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2012 A good dictionary

Important Dates Mon., September 16, 2019

Deadline for withdrawal with tuition refund from first-term and twoterm summer session courses.

Mon., November 4, 2019 Last day for academic withdrawal from first-term summer session

courses. Grades: A: superior; the work is of near professional quality. The document meets or exceeds all the objectives of the assignment. The content is mature, thorough, and well-suited for the audience; the style is clear, accurate, and forceful; the information is well-organized and designed so that it is accessible and attractive; the mechanics and grammar are correct. B: good; the document meets the objectives of the assignment, but it needs improvement in style, or it contains easily correctable errors in grammar, format, or content, or its content lacks depth, insight, or interest. C: competent; the document needs significant improvement in concept, details, development, organization, grammar, or format. It may be formally correct but superficial in content. D: marginally acceptable; the document meets some of the objectives but ignores others; the content is inadequately developed; or it contains numerous or major errors. F: unacceptable; the document does not have enough information, does something other than the assignment required, or it contains major errors or excessive errors. When grading your papers, I will also consider your participation during the unit, including your participation in the draft workshop and your demonstrated response to feedback.

English 212 Course Outline

Note: It will be difficult to get an "A" for the course if you miss more than two classes or turn your work in late. Unless you make arrangements ahead of time, late work will be docked one letter grade per day that it is late. Work without drafts or peer review participation will be not be graded.

Grading Values Letter Grade A+ A AB+ B BC+ C CD+ D DFNS R

Numeric Range 90-100 85-89 80-84 77-79 73-76 70-72 67-69 63-66 60-62 57-59 53-56 50-52 40 20

GPA 4.30 4.00 3.70 3.30 3.00 2.70 2.30 2.00 1.70 1.30 1.00 0.70 0 0

Course Schedule Note: Only major assignments and due dates are listed in bold below: the dates may be subject to change. The order and subject of some classes might change as needed.

Tentative Schedule ENGL 212/AA

Week 1

Sept. 2

No class - Labour Day

Week 2

Sept. 9

Intro class/organize groups for TII

Week 3

Sept. 16

Assign Essay 1 (Outline in class) TII: Chapter 1

Week 4

Sept. 23

Essay 1 draft due: Workshop TII: Chap. 2

Week 5

Sept. 30

ESSAY 1 DUE

Week 6

Oct. 7

Assign Essay 2 (Outline in class) TII: Chap. 4

TII: Chap. 3

English 212 Course Outline

Week 7

Oct. 14

No class – Thanksgiving

Week 8

Oct. 21

Essay 2 draft due: Workshop TII: Chap. 5

Week 9

Oct. 28

ESSAY 2 DUE

Week 10

Nov. 4

Assign Essay 3 (Outline in class) TII: Chap. 7

Week 11

Nov. 11

Essay 3 draft due: Workshop TII: Chap. 8

Week 12

Nov. 18

ESSAY 3 DUE Assign Book Report TII: Chap. 9

Week 13

Nov. 25

Book Report Outline: Workshop TII: Chap. 10

Week 14

Dec. 2

Book Review Draft Due: Workshop

Week 15

Dec. 3 TUESDAY

BOOK REPORT DUE

TII: Chap. 6

Preparation for Final

*December 3rd is a MONDAY SCHEDULE replacing Thanksgiving Monday....