Last Updated on Jun. 15, 2009
Instructor: Dr. Leslie Bai
Office: HM 217C Tel.: 718-314-0076
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm or by appointment
Email: lesliebai@yahoo.com, hbai@liu.edu
Course wiki: http://lesliebai.wetpaint.com
Class blog: http://lesliebai.blogspot.com
Required Texts:
1. Nadell, Judith, John Langan & Eliza A. Comodromos. The Longman Writer: Rhetoric, reader, research guide and handbook, 7th ed. (Brief Edition). New York: Pearson Longman, 2008
2. Belinda Kremer & Richard McNabb, Collide: Styles, Structures, and Ideas in Disciplinary Writing, Pearson, 2007.
Other required materials:
A pocket dictionary
A folder for portfolio
Copies of assigned reading materials for class discussion.
Course Objectives:
ENG 2F is a writing course for international students in analysis and argumentation, focusing on scholarly research and documentation. Building on the work begun in ENG 1F, the course develops knowledge of complex rhetorical and stylistic techniques, and produce argumentative essays based on analysis and research. What you are expected to do:
Although ENG 2F continues strategies introduced in ENG 1F, the course focuses more explicitly on critical thinking of reading materials on cultures and encourages students to produce creative writing based on sufficient research. In ENG 2F, students learn to read more closely and think critically by situating texts in broader symbolic, historic, and socio-cultural contexts. In addition, students are introduced to rhetorical conventions of writing in other disciplines.
Read texts by considering the historical, socio-cultural contexts for analysis
Analyze texts rhetorically, taking into account knowledge gained through research
Search and evaluate relevant secondary sources to support the creative writing
Develop research strategies, including ways of incorporating and documenting quotations, summaries and paraphrases
Develop and revise essays supported by research, data and secondary materials
Course requirements
In-Class Diagnostic essay
Essay I - Writing a Visual-Verbal Text (5 pages) (20%)
Essay II - Personal Reflective Essay (5 pages) (20%)
Research paper: (8-10 pages) (30%); (with a title page, "Work Cited" listed in MLA style and documentation, or a bibliography containing a minimum of ten secondary sources, at least five of which are being referred to within the essay.)
Essay IV - Informal writing (1) (3-4 pages) (10%)
In-class writing and activities and other assignment (including blog and wiki posting) (10%)
Class Participation (10%)
Portfolio
Extra Credit: blog posting and comments except required (10%)
*Any essay submitted after the due date will NOT be accepted. Failing to submit TWO essays will fail the course.
Statement on Plagiarism
Plagiarism is intellectual theft. If you submit someone else's writing as your own, you shortchange yourself and your education - you simply cannot learn without doing the work. Equally important, if you plagiarize, you create a situation that is unfair to those serious students who do work hard. As the University's catalog states, "the offense of plagiarism may be punished by a range of penalties up to and including failure in the course and expulsion from the university." The English Department takes this policy seriously and enforces it vigorously. If you plagiarize, you will fail the course.
Plagiarism includes:
Submitting as your own work a paper that has been written by someone else;
Submitting as your own work a paper that has been purchased or copies from the Internet;
Submitting as your own work, and without documentation, prose that has been copied from a printed or electronic source.
Participation and Attendance
You are expected to attend all the class punctually and participate actively in the creative and intellectual work of each session, and any absence will restrict your accomplishment of each assignment and slow your individual progress. If you have to miss a class because of poor physical condition or other uncontrollable emergency, make an early contact and get permission from the teacher first, and, meanwhile, you are still responsible for all assignments, materials and due dates relevant to the day, as well as for being prepared for the following class. More than 6 absences without permission will result in failure in the course.
Writing assistants in the Writing Center
The Writing Center, located in Humanities 202, is a free academic support service, open to all students. Writing assistants in the Writing Center are available to help students with critical reading, analysis, drafting, researching, revising and editing.
You are encouraged to seek help there in the following period:
Mondays - Thursdays 9:00 am --- 7:00 pm
Fridays 11:00 am --- 3:00pm
Weekly syllabus
Week 1: (1/14)
Introduction to Class
Writing skill review:
In-class diagnostic writing on Joan Ryan "We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way" (What It Makes, p42)
Student's writing: A Critique of "We Are Not Created Equal in Every Way" by Joan Ryan
TOPIC I: We are Same! (because we love in the same way)
Week 2--4: (1/21---2/4, 1/19 no class)
Instructions to Essay 1: Visual-verbal Essay
Writing skills:
Reading materials:
Activities: In-class evaluation to outline. (Evaluation Sheet)
Weekly blog-posting: Week 3 & 4 (Blog: I Write, I Blog)
Essay I due on Feb. 4. (Submit before class begins)
TOPIC II: What makes us different? (Race, Gender, Education, Culture)
Week 5-8: (2/9---3/4)
Instructions to Essay 2
Writing skills: Perceptions and Perspectives (Perspectives, Selecting Perception)
Reading materials:
Activities: In-Class Peer-Review (Peer Review Worksheet)
Weekly blog-posting: Week 5, 6, 7 & 8 (Blog: I Write, I Blog)
Essay II due on Mar. 4 (Turn in before class begins)
Week 9: (3/9---3/11) Spring Recess --- No Class
TOPIC III: Research on Culture---When Cultures collide
Week 10-14: (3/16---4/15, 4/8 no class, Passover/Easter)
Instruction to Research Paper
Writing skills:
Reading Materials:
Activities: Wiki-posting: Topic Selection, Research Paper Design, Bibliography
Research paper due on April 15.
Topic IV: Why to write?
Week 15-16: (4/20---4/29)
Instruction to Essay IV
Writing skills: Write to inform, Write to persuade, Write to entertain
Reading Materials:
Activities:
