General Course Information

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• Have a curious exploratory attitude about these new tools

• Remember, we’re evaluating them as well as becoming familiar - so relax!  If things don’t work perfectly the first time or you don’t like the app, it's okay. 

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In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (formerly ENG 1A) or similar first-year college writing course. Credit may be earned for ENGL C1001 or ENGL C1001H, but not both. Formerly offered as ENG 1B.

Transfers: CSU, UC; Prerequisite: ENGL C1000 (formerly ENG 1A) with a grade of “C” or better.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to write an essay that contains the following:

1. Controlling Idea: The essay contains an arguable thesis.

2. Development: The essay contains at least 900 words and develops support for the thesis through summary, analysis, and evaluation.

3. Sentences/Style: The essay contains a variety of sentences that have no fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences.

4. MLA Formatting: The essay integrates MLA standards to the following (8) items: heading, running header, fonts, spacing, indentation, works cited page, in-text citations and use of outside sources with minor errors.

Objectives/Outcomes

At the completion of this course, the student should be able to: 

1. Read analytically to understand and respond to diverse academic texts.

2. Compose thesis-driven academic writing that demonstrates analysis and synthesis of sources as appropriate to the rhetorical situation. 

3. Demonstrate strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading written work.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following:

1. Read, analyze, and evaluate diverse texts, primarily non-fiction, for rhetorical strategies and styles.

2. Apply a variety of rhetorical strategies in academic writing, including well-organized essays with effective theses and support.

3. Develop varied and flexible strategies for generating, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading formal writing.

4. Analyze rhetorical choices in students’ own and peers’ writing and effectively provide and incorporate feedback.

5. Write in various genres and modalities, including low stakes, analytical, argumentative, collaborative, reflective writing, synthesis, literature review, and other forms.

6. Exhibit acceptable college-level control of mechanics, organization, development, and coherence.

7. Identify, evaluate, and effectively integrate material from source texts through paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting using appropriate documentation conventions.

8. Compose a minimum of 5,000 words of formal writing across major assignments.

Textbook

As noted on the Welcome page, this is a course with a zero textbook course option.

Zero Textbook Course. All materials will be provided digitally to students.

Supplements

Supplements are provided through Canvas to students.

Bedford St. Martin's. Documenting Sources in MLA Style: 2016 Update. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2016.  (Replaces chapter 13 in the textbook).

Writing Commons. Writing Commons, OER, 2008.

Various Texts. Lumen Learning. 2019.

See also Course Resources for the ZTC content and itemized supplemental readings.

Materials

• Organizational folder/binder for course materials/assignments

You will access your course by logging into Saddleback’s Canvas.  All your course materials, assignments and other information will be in Canvas.  Canvas works best on Chrome.

You will log on with your Saddleback student username and password.  If you have any problems logging on, be sure to contact Student Technical Support for assistance.

If you’ve never used Canvas before, I highly recommend you check out these great video tutorials!

Help/Support

• New to Canvas?  I highly recommend checking out the video tutorials before getting started.

• Saddleback Student Technical Support - Canvas, password, and email assistance

• Library - online databases and librarian assistance

• Tutoring Center 

• Student Health Center

• Additional help links will be provided with course assignments 

Online Access 

Expect to check our course Canvas site or your official Saddleback College email address for correspondence, announcements, and/or assignments. 

Required Online Accounts/Access

• Canvas: Canvas: https://canvas.instructure.com 

  • Applications through Canvas

• TurnItIn: Canvas will connect you automatically

• RefWorks: RefWorks: http://www.refworks.proquest.com   (Sign up using Saddleback email)

• Google Drive/Gmail Account: Google: http://drive.google.com/ All papers are to be written in and maintained through Google Drive.  NOTE: Students are expected to respect each other’s work; any student caught messing with another student’s or group’s paper(s) or assignment(s) will automatically earn a zero on the assignment in question.

• Zoom: https://conferzoom.us/ 

Recommended Online Accounts/Access

• Padlet: https://padlet.com/ (a free account should be fine: used in class to document discussions)

• Kahoot! App (Recommended to install on your phone; we play 5-6 games throughout the semester)

• Monosnap: https://monosnap.com/ (download the free app; don’t sign up; useful for creating videos and screenshots for homework)

• Trello: https://trello.com/ (free account; we use this 2-3 times in the semester)