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English 101 is composition course designed to help you develop the writing skills necessary for your college career. As you continue your university coursework and pursue your career goals, you will need the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills which you will learn about and practice throughout our time together in English 101. It is your instructor's sincere goal that by the end of this course, each of you will:

• Understand and be comfortable using the critical thinking, reading, and writing skills necessary for academic work
• Develop a sense of ownership and pride in your written work and the writing process you use
• Feel confident in finding and using sources to inform, expand, and support your arguments

Course Calendar/Other Schedules

• A complete course calendar can be found on pages 6-8 of your syllabus
• Here is the schedule for the additional Freshman Focus Activities, of which you must attend four and write about.
• Here is the schedule for the movies, of which you must attend four and write about.

General Handouts

• Handout on critical reading
• Handout on MLA paper format
• Handout on the source formula
• PowerPoint shown in class on 09/22/08
• Handout on annotated bibliographies

Project Assignment Sheets
These will also be handed out in class, but if you need another copy just download one from the links below.

• Paper #1: Rhetorical Analysis OR Personal Narrative
• Paper #2: Entering the (Scholarly) Conversation
  • TIMELINE for sections 36 & 38
• Paper #3: The Research Paper
• End-of-Semester Reflection Letter and Portfolio: coming soon
• They Say/I Say group project: how-to & guidelines, example document produced by the group for the instructor
• Stiff group project: how-to & guidelines, example document produced by the group for the class
• Freshman Focus Activities and Movies: how to do write-ups

Course Readings (in addition to They Say/I Say and Stiff)
Paper copies will be provided in class, but if you lose your copy or want to read ahead before the handouts are provided, you can always grab the PDF from this site. Note that you will be prompted for a username and password when you attempt to download a file. The username and password pair is your dorm name in lowercase. The username is the first word in the name (the one that begins with "s") and the password is the second word in the name (the one that begins with "n").

• "The Paradox of Moral Complaint" from 10 Moral Paradoxes by Saul Smilansky (also, here is the annotated version)
• Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" and excerpt from Plato Unmasked
• "Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett in Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy
• "Fortunate Misfortune" from 10 Moral Paradoxes by Saul Smilansky
• "Unspeakable Conversations" by Harriet McBryde Johnson in the New York Times
• "Decisions About Death" by Peter Singer in Free Inquiry
• Canto XXXIV from Dante's Inferno
• No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
• excerpt from Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• "Star Witness" by Colin Allen in Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy

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