CCBC, Catonsville Campus/Fall 2014

Course: ENGL 101, English Composition 1

Academic School: Liberal Arts

Course Description
English 101 provides instruction that focuses on writing skills, evaluating and explaining ideas,
conducting library and internet research, developing a research paper, and documenting research.
Placement is based on assessment and/or successful completion of ENGL 052 or ESOL 052 and
RDNG 052 or ESOL 054.
Basic Course Information
Instructor: Barbara Crawford
Office: HUMN 213 (Catonsville)
Phone: 443-840-4972 Email: bcrawford@ccbcmd.edu
Department phone number: 410-840-4138
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30-5:30 (Catonsville); Tuesdays/Thursdays 11:30am 12:30pm,
(Owings Mills, Room 309, phone # in RM 309, 443-840-5891) Tuesdays, 2:30pm 4:30pm
Class Meeting day/time: Mondays 5:45-8:40pm
Class Work Expectation: This is a three-billable hour class. You are expected to complete at least
6 hours of work per week of reading, course preparation, homework, studying, etc.
Materials:
Kennedy, X.J., Doroty M. Kennedy and Marcia F. Muth. The Bedford Guide for College Writers, 9th
or 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2014. Print.
Strunk, William and E.B.White. The Elements of Style, 4th ed. New York: Pearson-Longman,
2000. Print.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to
1. Employ a writing process that includes invention, planning, drafting, revising, editing and
proofreading.
2. Write whole essays with clear thesis statements and coherent and unified paragraphs
3. Think critically and support their thinking with details, examples, reasons and evidence
4. Write essays for a purpose, such as argumentation or exposition
5. Vary sentence structure and length for clarity, coherence and interest
6. Employ a variety of rhetorical strategies and modes to express complex ideas
7. Use language appropriate to a given audience
8. Conduct research using both print and electronic sources
9. Incorporate direct quotes, summaries and paraphrases into their essays
10. Use parenthetical documentation and provide documentation for sources on a Works Cited
page.
11. Edit their writing to conform to the grammar and punctuation rules of standard written English.
Major Topics
Writing as a recursive process
Unity, coherence, and clarity
Rhetorical Strategies
Revision
Editing and proofreading
Summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting
Documenting sources

Grammar, mechanics and usage

Evaluation
English 101 is designed to help you become a more effective and more confident writer through
practice, revision and editing, and studying the writing process. As the first course in a two-course
sequence of writing courses, English 101 is one of the essential components of the CCBC General
Education Program, providing knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable you to achieve many of your
academic and career goals. The course provides you with knowledge that includes basic methods for
planning and writing essays, methods of revision, and techniques for editing and proofreading. Most of
these methods and techniques can be readily transferred to life-work situations in which you will be
required to communicate your ideas and arguments in writing. The fundamental skills that you learn in
this course the thinking as well as writing skills- will enable you to develop exam responses and
longer essays for a variety of academic courses as well as job-related writing assignments. In addition,
the writing experiences that you have in this course will help you develop attitudes of persistence and
corporation that will enable you to succeed within the diversity of the contemporary world.
Requirements:
1. Participate actively in class activities/discussions
2. Write and revise four essays, employing all of the steps in the writing process
3. Submit all pieces of writing by the due dates. Five percent of final grade will be deducted for
every two class/week an assignment is late.* No assignment will be accepted more than two
weeks after the due date.
*consideration given for documented proof of illness or death
Grading Policy: All major assignments must be completed to earn credit for English 101. If your first
submitted essay earns a check mark (V-, V, or V+), instead of a grade, you must resubmit a revised
paper. If no revision is turned in of a paper that did not earn a grade on the first submitted draft, that
paper earns an F at the end of the semester.
The assignments will be graded as follows:
Essay 1
15%
Essay 2
15%
Essay 3
10%
Essay 4
20%
**All essays will include research and working with sources.
MLA Exercise
Midterm Quiz (MLA Quiz)
Summary
Drafts/Peer Review
Presentations
Research items (on time)
Grammar Quiz

5%
10%
5% (summarize one article used for essay 4)
5%
5%
5%
5%

The Writing Center

The Writing Center provides free assistance with any stage of the writing process, including generating
ideas, organizing, editing etc. A writing center is located on all three CCBC main campuses. Writing
assistance is also available online through OWL.
Course Procedures

Attendance Policy

Students are expected to attend class regularly and on time.

CCBCs Writing Policy, CCBC Code of Conduct related to Academic Integrity
Plagiarism is using another person's ideas or words without giving them credit. This could be done
unintentionally with forgetting to site a few quotes to deliberately using someone else's paper.
Having someone else write your paper and turning it in as your own is also plagiarism. When you
borrow someone elses ideas, you must carefully document so that the reader or listener knows
the original source. Plagiarism is grounds for failure of the course and you could be dismissed
from the college for academic dishonesty.
Contact Information for course related concerns: Students should first attempt to take
concerns to the faculty member. If students are unable to resolve course-related concerns with
the instructor they should contact Evan Balkan, English Coordinator for Catonsville campus, 443840-4976 or email, ebalkan@ccbcmd.edu.
Services for Student with Disabilities
CCBC is committed to providing equal access to educational opportunities for all students by
arranging support services and reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities. A
student with a disability may contact the appropriate campus office for an appointment to discuss
reasonable accommodations. An appointment must be scheduled within a time period which
allows staff adequate time to respond to the special needs of the student. The student must
provide the appropriate office with proper documentation supporting the need for reasonable
accommodations.
For more information, contact:
CCBC Catonsville
410-455-6946 or
410-455-4163 (TTY)

CCBC Dundalk
410-285-9808 or
410-285-9529 (TTY)

CCBC Essex
410-780-6741 or
410-238-4601 (TTY)

CCBC Counseling Services

CCBC provides students with personal, social and emotional support in order to assist students in
overcoming barriers to their academic success. Counseling is confidential and
separate from your academic record. To make an appointment, call 443-840-4087.
Course outline
Please note: Instructor may change dates and assignments as needed.
Week 1 Sept. 8
Introductions/Course overview/Evaluation mode /
Introduction to the Writing Process/ Prewriting: How to move beyond writer's block/ Practice pre-writing/
Use one of the discussed techniques /
READ: Chapter 1 Writing Process and Chapter 19 Strategies for Generating Ideas
Week 2 Sept. 15
Review MLA lesson and MLA Guidelines on Purdue University OWL website/Do MLA Exercise due by
end of class
READ: Chapter 36 MLA Style for Documenting Sources
Essay structure & Development (thesis, support) / Introductions/Conclusions /Taking a stand/ Working
with sources/ Summary/Paraphrase/Quoting discussion/
READ: Chapter 2 Reading Process and Chapter 20 Strategies for Stating a Thesis and Planning
Week 3 Sept. 22
Grammar lesson / Begin essay 1

READ: Chapter 3 Critical Thinking Process/

Also READ: and Chapter 22 Strategies for Developing
Week 4 Sept. 29
Tentative topic/s for research essay due to instructor this week: Topic has to deal with a
controversial issuean issue where the two sides find it difficult to agree. (No topics permitted on
abortion, same sex or the topics used for essays 1, 2) Essay 1 due for peer review by 12 noon
Thursday (see course calendar for due date)
READ: Chapter 9 Taking a Stand
Week 5 Oct 6
Peer Review responses for essay 1 due back to students by noon Tuesday
Essay 1 due to instructor by midnight Thursday (see course calendar for due dates /Begin Essay 2
(see course calendar for due date)
Week 6 Oct. 13
Begin grammar workshops by 12 noon Thursday (see course calendar for due date/
READ: Review grammar section in textbook as needed (Chapters 38 42)
Read The Elements of Style and post to discussion board/ Take grammar diagnostic
Week 7 Oct. 20
Give instructor final topic for research essay
READ: Chapter 32 (Finding Sources), Chapter 33 (Evaluating Sources), and Chapter 34 Integrating
Sources
Essay 2 due for peer review
Week 8 Oct. 27
Essay 2 due to instructor /Begin essay 3
Library Orientation (search for 5 sources) / Send 5 sources (in correct MLA format) by Thursday at
midnight
Week 9 Nov. 3 (Nov. 5 is last day to WITHDRAW with a W)
Review writing a summary/ Essay 3 due for peer review / Discuss reading handout Should drugs be
legalized?
READ: Chapter 12 Supporting a Position with Sources
Week 10 Nov. 10
Conferences/ Lab session (rest of class)
Thesis and outline due for essay 4 For thesis, essentially write a sentence that clearly gives your
position on the controversial issue and also include in the sentence three reasons why you take that
position. Outline should provide at least 3 evidence for each reason in outline format for essay 4 (see
outline template under assignment sheets)/ Due during Conferences
Essay 3 (Annotated Bibliography and Summary) due to instructor by midnight Thursday
READ: Chapter 35 Writing Your Research Paper
Week 11 Nov. 17
Conferences
Week 12 Nov. 24
Essay 4 due for Peer Review by 12 noon /Peer Review via Bb (THANKSGIVING break, 11/27-28)
Week 13 Dec. 1
Presentations begin

Week 14 Dec. 8
Presentations / Essay 4 due to instructor
Last day of classes is Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.
FINAL EXAM WEEK - Dec. 10-16 Grammar quiz / Class wrap-up