English 61 Syllabus 

Course Syllabus:  61 Syllabus Fall 2018.pdf

Revised Course Calendar: Revised Course Calendar 61.pdf

Required Texts:
Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein and Russel Durst, They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (With 2016 MLA Update) 3rd ed. Norton, 2016.
Gladwell, Malcolm Outliers: The Story of Success Back Bay, 2011
Recommended Texts:
Cohen, Samuel, editor. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology. 5th ed. Bedford, 2017   

Course Learning Objectives: 

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Narrow and Select an essay topic.
2. Use a variety of prewriting activities to generate ideas, focus a topic, and formulate a method of developing an essay.
3. Formulate a thesis statement.
4. Select a pattern of organization appropriate to the topic and the thesis of an expository essay.
5. Using a process approach, write 4 formal essays ranging from 2-5 pages in length.
6. Write unified and coherent paragraphs using a variety of methods of development.
7. Read, analyze and interpret approximately 200 pages of primarily cross-discipline texts reflecting a diversity of authorship, disciplines, genres and perspectives.
8. Synthesize one course reading from a cross-content discipline into an essay completed in-class.
9. Evaluate & Revise student essays for content, organization, style, and mechanics.
10. Analyze the structure, development, and features of writing style in professional and student essays
11. Find, read, analyze, interpret, synthesize, and evaluate outside sources, including online information.
12. Using MLA documentation, incorporate sources into writing as appropriate.
13. Develop a 4-5 page Persuasive Paper, including the use of outside sources.

Student Learning Outcomes: 

*Students will use the writing process to write, in MLA format, essays, including a documented paper, using appropriately chosen details, organizational strategies, sentence variety, and sufficiently correct grammar and punctuation.
*Students will be able to read critically for literal meaning and identify the main idea of a reading and the author’s writing strategies as well as summarize and paraphrase effectively.
*Students will evaluate and ethically use primary and secondary sources.