CCBC, Owings Mills/Winter 2015

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: HUMM 213 (Catonsville)
Phone: 443-840-3882 Email: bcrawford@ccbcmd.edu
Department phone number: 410-840-4138
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays: 2pm 3pm (Owings Mills, Room 309, phone # in RM 309,
443-840-5891)
Class Meeting day/time: TWR, 9am 1:30pm
Class Work Expectation: This is a three-billable hour class. You are expected to complete at least
10 hours of work per DAY of reading, course preparation, homework, studying, etc.
Materials:
Aaron, Jane E. The Little Brown Handbook, Brief Version, 5th ed. Boston: Pearson, 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 papers, 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
days/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
25%
**All essays will include research and working with sources.
MLA Exercise
MLA Quiz
Textbook Exercises
Drafts/Peer Review
Classwork/quizzes
Research items (on time)
Grammar Quiz
Presentation

5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
5%
10%
5%

Assignments

Percent

Points

Classwork/quizzes
MLA Exercise
MLA Quiz
Research items (on time)
Grammar Final

5
5
5
5
10

50
50
50
50
100

Textbook exercises

50

Presentation
Essay 1, 2
Essay 3
Essay 4
Total Possible:
890-1000 (89-100%)
790-880 (79-88%)
700-780 (70-78%)
580-699 (58-69%)
570-0 (57% and below)

5
30
10

50
300 (150 each)
100

25 (5 extra credit)
105 %

250
1050 points

A
B
C
D
F

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. Because of the brevity of this
course, you are expected to attend class every day.
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 (Jan. 4-9, 2015)
Tuesday:

Introductions/Course overview/Evaluation mode /

MODULE 2 --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, 2 (Writing Situation, Invention)
MODULE 4--Essay structure & Development (thesis, support) / Taking a stand/ Working
with sources/ Summary/Paraphrase/Quoting discussion/
READ: Chapter 3 (Thesis and organization)
MODULE 5-- Conclusions/Grammar lesson / Begin essay 1

Wednesday: MODULE 3 Review MLA lesson and MLA Guidelines on Purdue University OWL website
in MODULE 3
READ: Chapter 56 MLA Documentation and Format/ READ: Chapter 54 (Avoiding
plagiarism and documenting sources)**
**DO Assigned Exercise from this chapter
Do MLA Exercise due
READ: Chapter 4, 5, 6 (Drafting, Revising, Editing) and Chapter 10 (Critical thinking
and reading)
Essay 1 due for peer review
Tentative topic/s for research essay due to instructor today: 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)
READ: Chapter 12 Writing arguments
Thursday:

Peer Review responses for essay 1 due back to students by noon Thursday
Read The Elements of Style and post to discussion board/ Take grammar diagnostic
Essay 1 due to instructor by midnight /Begin Essay 2
MODULE 7--Begin grammar /Take MLA quiz
READ: Review grammar section in textbook as needed (Part 4, 5 and 6)**
**DO Assigned Exercises from these chapters
Give instructor final topic for research essay
READ: Chapter 52, 53 (Finding Sources, Working with sources) **
**DO Assigned Exercise from this chapter

Week 2 (Jan 12-16, 2015)

Tuesday:

Essay 2 due for peer review

5 sources Due (in correct MLA format) that you will use for essay 4 due
Essay 2 due to instructor by midnight

Wednesday:

Complete assigned textbook exercises/ Essay 3 due to instructor

Thursday:

Thesis and outline due for essay 4 Sunday at midnightFor 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)
Chapter 55 Writing the paper
January 16 is last day to withdraw from course with W on transcript.
Week 3 (Jan. 19-23, 2015)
Tuesday:

Essay 4 due for Peer Review/ Grammar review

Wednesday:

Presentations/Grammar Final

Thursday:

Essay 4 due to instructor by NOON / Conferences

Last day of classes is Jan. 23, 2015/ Grades due Jan. 26, 2015