Eng 101 Syllabus

Required Text and Materials
• Bundle containing The Norton Field Guide, 3rd Edition, and The Norton Mix (UNLV Custom Edition)
• The Norton Handbook http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/bullock2_readings_handbook_ebook/welcome.asp

Course Description and Goals
ENG 101 is the university’s first-semester course of the first-year composition sequence required of all undergraduates. This evidence-based, writing intensive course is designed to improve critical thinking, reading, and writing proficiencies through guidance in writing the thesis-driven essay. Students develop strategies for turning their experience, observations, and analyses into evidence suitable for academic writing.

Course Objectives
Rhetorical Knowledge
• To understand
WEEK 2
Monday
Sept. 2 Labor Day Recess
Wednesday
Sept. 4 • Norton Field Guide 1-4: Purpose, Audience, Genre, Stance
• Norton Field Guide 22: Writing as Inquiry
• Norton Field Guide 55: Writing Online
• Norton Mix,”What Is College For?”
• “How to Write a Great Blog Comment” at http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-write-great-blog-comment • Annotated copy of “What Is College For?

Friday
Sept. 6 Blog post after Wednesday class discussion due on WebCampus by 11:59 p.m.
WEEK 3
Monday
Sept. 9 • “Response/Reaction Paper”
• http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/assets/response%20paper.pdf
• Norton Field Guide 24: Generating Ideas and Text
• Norton Field Guide 25: Drafting
• Norton Field Guide 47: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing • Responses to blog posts by 11:59 p.m.
Wednesday
Sept. 11 • Norton Field Guide 48: Acknowledging Sources, Avoiding
on Friday, Sept. 13
Friday
Sept. 13
Blog post of WP1 draft by 11:59 p.m.

Fact and Definition WEEK 4
Monday
Sept. 16

• “Stasis Theory” at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/736/1/
• Norton Field Guide 56: “The Gettysburg Address,” 609-10
• Norton Field Guide 8: Analyzing Texts, “A Spirit Reborn” (62-4) and pages 52, 69-81
• “Writing about Photography” at http://twp.duke.edu/uploads/assets/photography.pdf
• Gettysburg photographs at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/03/battle-of-gettysburg-150th-anniversary-images_n_3541851.html • One-page response to one Gettysburg photograph due in class

Tuesday
Sept. 17 Responses to two WP1 drafts posted to blog by 11:59 p.m.
Wednesday
Sept. 18 • Norton Field Guide 37: Describing
• Norton Mix, “Blue-Collar Brilliance” • Completed analysis template for “Blue Collar”
• Folder with all WP1 materials except finished essay
• Topics for WP2 posted to WebCampus by 11:59 p.m.

Friday
Sept. 20 Final version of WP1 emailed via WebCampus by 11:59 p.m. with Reflection Assignment
WEEK 5
Monday
Sept.