ENGL 3##: Advanced Composition Fall YEAR Location and Time Instructor: Dr. Brittany Cottrill Email: bcottrill@grandview.

edu Office: Jensen 101 Office Phone: xxxx Office Hours: by appointment

Course Description Advanced Composition is a workshop course that emphasizes developing a flexible use of the canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery) and modern discourse convention. Building on the writing process, students will: study purpose, audience, and context; write substantial, original, academic research projects; and reflect on their growth as writers, scholars, and thinkers. Learning Goals/Instructional Objectives This course will help students: Develop skills in written and oral communication Develop skills, competencies, and points of view needed by effective writers Advance their information literacy competency, including how to analyze, evaluate, and incorporate texts Demonstrate informed rhetorical choices for audience, purpose, and context Students will be able to: Identify their own writing processes, particularly through reflections Experience writing as an extended, recursive process Gain enhanced facility with academic genres, style, and delivery Develop greater awareness of audiences Increase familiarity in composition and literacy studies through course readings Instructional Resources: Discipline specific style manual (such as MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.) Gregory Colombs The Craft of Research, Third Edition Joseph Williams and Gregory Colombs Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace Assignments Analysis: 2 total; you will analyze the conventions of academic and professional texts as a way to understand audience, purpose, and context. This assignment will help you identify skills, competencies, and points of view of successful writers. Due Week 3 Annotated Bibliography: You will collect and evaluate 15-20 resources on a single topic in order to identify a gap in the academic conversation, which you will eventually work to fill. Your sources should come from a variety of academic sources. Due Week 6 Proposal: You will write a 1-2 page proposal to conduct research. We will critique sample proposals and explore the purpose, audience, and context for the assignment. You will practice the writing process as you work on this. Due Week 5

Literature Review: Building on your findings from the annotated bibliography, you will compose a literature review of 5-7 pages that identifies the academic conversations surrounding your topic. Your literature review will conclude with a research question or argument that you will use to begin your proposal. You will practice the writing process. Due Week 9. Research Project: You will write a substantial, original research project (10-15 page), building on your analysis research, literature review, and proposal. You will practice the writing process, including substantial revision. Rough Draft Due Week 11; Final Due during Finals Presentation: At the end of the semester, each of you will present your projects at an undergraduate conference, held during finals week before your peers, English faculty members, and invited members from the community. Assessment Drafts, Peer Review, and Process Work will function much as daily classroom activities and will contribute to your participation and preparation. Self Evaluation will be used to help you identify your strengths, weaknesses, and areas of/for growth. Self evaluation will happen in formal and informal reflections throughout the semester. Calendar Key: Colomb The Craft of Research Williams Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace Class Design: with the exception of week 1, 15, and 16, when we meet on Monday you should expect to discuss The Craft of Research, on Wednesday you should expect to apply Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace to your own writing, and Friday you should expect to be a workshop day on your research project. In other words, we will have a discussion, guided application, and workshop day most weeks. Week Topic(s) Readings (to be discussed) 1 Introductions; What is Research; Colomb: Chapter 1: Thinking in Introduction to Research Project and Print: The Uses of Research parts; Analysis Colomb From Topics to Questions 2 Audience; What is Style; Style Analysis Colomb Connecting with your Workshop Reader: (Re)Creating Yourself and your Reader Williams Lesson One: Understanding Style 3 Clarifying your research problem; Colomb From Questions to a Others Style; Style revision activity; Problem Introduction and Workshop on Review Williams Lesson One Proposals 4 Research; Action; Introduction to Colomb From Problems to Annotated Bibliography Sources Williams Lesson Two: Actions: 5 Making Good Arguments; Characters; Colomb Making Good

Proposal Revision 6 Claims; The Literature Review; Literature Review analysis

Engaging sources actively; Using Secondary Sources; Cohesion and Coherence; Revising for Cohesion and Coherence

8 Drafting Your Project; Cohesion and Coherence Continued; Drafting Workshop Drafting (cont.); Emphasis; Drafting Workshop Revising Your Organization and Argument; Concision; Revision for Concision * Rough Draft Conferences * Communicating Visually; Visual Style; Presentation Workshop Revising Introductions; Shape; Introduction Workshop Reasons and Evidence; Elegance; Workshop Revising for Style; Williams Review; Style Revision Activity Workshops and Individual Conferences Presentations

Arguments: An Overview Williams Lesson Three: Characters Colomb Claims UNC Chapel Hills Writing Centers Literature Reviews http://writingcenter.unc.edu/ha ndouts/literature-reviews/ Colomb Engaging Sources Actively Colomb Using Secondary Sources to Find a Problem and Using Secondary Sources to Plan your Argument: Williams Lesson Four: Cohesion and Coherence Colomb Drafting Your Report Review Williams Lesson Four Colomb Drafting Your Report Williams Lesson Five: Emphasis Colomb Revising Your Organization and Argument Williams Lesson Six: Concision Colomb Communicating Evidence Visually Colomb Introductions 16.116.5 Williams Lesson Seven: Shape Colomb Reasons an Evidence Williams Lesson Eight: Elegance Colomb Revising Style

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