Santa Ana College: English 101: Hybrid

Course Syllabus:  [Digital Syllabus]

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Course Description:  This course will introduce you to the theory and practice of college writing. You will discover ideas through prewriting, draft those ideas into a cohesive whole, and revise that draft into a final, polished work. You will also learn to give and receive feedback on written work. We will discuss the rudiments of style, how to cite outside sources, and how to proofread and edit your work for clarity and correctness.

Textbook Information: 

• Super Document
  • 101 Super Document.docx
  • 101  Super Document.pdf

• 1984, by George Orwell. Signet Classic. ISBN 0-451-52493-4 

  • 1984-George-Orwell-1937-dystopia.pdf

• Watchmen, by Alan Moore. DC Comics.

  • Digital Watchmen Link

• The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris. Free Press. ISBN 978-1-4391-7122-6

• Portal. Valve. 2007. Platform: PC/Mac, Playstation 3, XBOX 360

  • Portal - Steam Store Link

Course Learning Objectives: 

Texts exist everywhere; it is our goal to learn how to access and analyze them, as well as demonstrate those skills through a professional use of the English language. This means that while our texts may be unconventional, we need to find a common, or acceptable, means of representing our own ideas in a formal academic fashion.

Student Learning Objectives: 

• Students will use the writing process to write, in MLA format, academic essays, including a documented research paper, using appropriately chosen details, organizational strategies, more complex sentence variety, and sufficiently correct grammar, punctuation, effective word choice, and style.
• Students will be able to read critically for literal and implied meaning, identify main ideas, organizational strategies and authors’ writing strategies as well as summarize, paraphrase, and analyze written works.
• Students will evaluate and ethically use primary and secondary academic sources to avoid plagiarism and will use the library’s resources, including online databases.