ESSAY NEEDED FOR ENG 101 ASSIGNMENT

Mini Syllabus - Luque – Session 5 - Week Three – English 101 – 60211 – Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

National University

Effective College English 101 – 60211

Syllabus November 2020

Professor Gayle Luque

College of Letters and Sciences

[email protected]

Dates and Times: TuTh – October 27th - November 21st – 5:30 – 10pm.

Saturday classes: November 14th and November 21st at 8am.

Due to the nature of online classes being so new for most of us, I will be sending you the assignments via your NU email, post them in Blackboard in our folder of the week and post them in Announcements in Blackboard.

Hi Students! Here are the assignments for Session 4 Week Two of English 101.

Today on Tuesday, November 10th we will review the following material in class and the rest you will complete for homework.

Chapters 10 and 14 in EAA

In Seagull:

Pages 90 – 118 on Doing Research

Argument rough draft is due Tuesday, November 10, 2020.

Your assignments for Thursday, November 12th, 2020 are as follows:

Please read in EAA:

Chapters 13 and 14.

Pgs 66 – 69.

Journal 5 – Compose a 1-2 page proposal on a call to action that you want to persuade your readers to join you in your quest for change. Use the following organizational headers to address the issue:

Introduction

Assessment of Current Efforts

The Benefits of Change

Counter Arguments

Recommendations

Conclusion

Works Cited

Journal List:

Journal 1 – Please analyze one or more aspects of MLK’s “Letter from the Birmingham City Jail”.

Journal 2 – Pg 19 - Respond to one of the three types of arguments and provide your own example.

Journal 3 – Please analyze your own example, or an example from our readings of a logical, an ethical or an emotional argument.

Journal 4 – Please analyze a fallacy from Chapter 5 in EAA and provide your own example, or analyze the film 12 Angry Men with regards to it’s use of fallacies.

Journal 5 – Compose a 1-2 page proposal on a call to action that you want to persuade your readers to join you in your quest for change.

Journal Guidelines:

· Your journal will be comprised of at least one full page each of computer generated 8’11”, double-spaced, 12 point font of analytical commentary on the material assigned in class by the professor. See page 161 of Little Seagull

· Please do not summarize as we are here to write a detailed examination of the elements of the material and provide our own analytical interpretations and opinions.

· Consider your journal as a resource from which to draw ideas for full-length essays and an opportunity to practice the templates. You will begin journaling in class and you will finish them at home on your computer.

· You will compile your journal entries and turn them in together the last Tuesday of class via email or you have the option of turning them in each week.

Assignments:

1. Argument Essay – Rough Draft – Criteria

Compose a 6 to 8 page essay that responds to a topic of your choice and has been approved by your instructor. This is a project that will evolve over time so be certain that you have spent time on it, which means thinking in depth about the issue you have chosen. If you have chosen a broad topic, be sure that your have sufficiently narrowed your focus. It is best to choose a topic that you either have some personal investment in or that you are extremely interested in exploring. Also, you may look to your journals as material. You must choose an argument that is feasible and must be supported by examples from the National University database. Please do not repeat topics that you have previously written about in English 100 or 101.

Please provide the following for your Argument Essay, which is mandatory. I have attached a variety of links from 100 that we have discussed in class that will help to guide you as reference material in your assignment

Use the handout template from They Say/ I Say on page 11 to organize your introduction and thesis statement.

http://www.drivelearning.org/uploads/4/4/1/1/44110523/they_say_i_say_3rd_edition.pdf

Use the organizational guide from Chapter 17 in Everything’s an Argument to assist with argumentative structure. Note how the 2 author examples at the end of the chapter structure their arguments

In your essay, also please employ logical, ethical and emotional appeals as examples that have been discussed in class and read about in EAA Chapters 2, 3, & 4.

Additionally, use MLA formatting that includes Title, Introduction, Thesis, Body Paragraphs that include 3-4 examples, and a conclusion. See Seagull (p. 161-169).

Use a variety of transitions. See Seagull (p.26-28).

Use strong, active verbs to introduce quotations and paraphrasing from They Say/I Say (p.40 - 41).

Be sure to introduce your quotes, provide your quotes, and analyze your quotes. Here is the link from They Say/I Say regarding Quotation Sandwich, as indicated in They Say/ I Say.

http://1020wsu052.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/100251509/they%20say%20i%20say_art%20of%20quoting.pdf

Include a Works Cited Page See Seagull (p.129-160).

Your quotes must originate from sources via the National University database. Refer to the material in our mini syllabus for each class that provides information from National University Library Resource Center regarding how to access and use the database.

Remember that your analysis is to be 85% of the essay with your quotations that function as support for your original ideas comprising the remainder of the essay.

Essays that are overwhelmed with source and informational material will not be accepted. See Seagull In-Text Citations (p.122 – 129). Essays that I have not seen a rough draft version of will not be accepted on the last day of class.

Rough Draft is due Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Library Resources:

At this time, the library is not open for face to face meetings, however library staff are readily available via phone (858)-541-7900, text (858)-367-0904, email [email protected] and online chat through the library database.

Please review these points in the Library database

In Blackboard, scroll down to Library Resources and click on it. This will take you to:

>English Resources – Take note of the Contact Information on how you can reach a library representative.

>General Information – Please look at all of the tabs in this section >About the Library > Citations and > Library Services. After you have looked at the General Information material, go back to:

>Learn More and review the information under >Library Tutorials including >iLibrary >watch the iLibrary Orientation Video. After you have watched the video, go back to:

>Learn More >Tutorials and Training Tools > Boolean Operators and Search Modifiers.

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