English 1A Spring 2012 section 31
Time: MW noon-1:15
Location: BBC 205
Description
English 1A is the first course in SJSU’s two-semester lower-division composition sequence; it provides an introduction to baccalaureate-level composition, with attention to the “personal voice” and personal experience, on the one hand, and the more formal attitudes and demands of writing at the university (expository and argumentative essays), on the other. Students will develop college-level reading abilities, rhetorical sophistication, and writing styles that give form and coherence to complex ideas and feelings.
Syllabus and Schedule
Documents
Assignments
Documents
- Personal Essay [DOCX]
- Book Club Project Details [DOCX]
- Book Club Project brief version [DOCX]
- Interview Essay [DOCX]
- Extra Credit Possibilities [DOCX]
- Book Club Progress Report [DOCX]
- OPTIONAL Revision Assignment [DOC]
- Book Club conferences [DOC]
- Book Club Response Essays, all combined [DOCX]
- Book Club Project Post-Read Analysis [DOCX]
Peer Review Sheets
Documents
- Personal Essay peer review sheet [DOCX]
- Interview Essay Peer Review sheet [DOC]
- Book Club Response Essay Peer Review [DOCX]
Basics of Rhetorical Analysis
Documents
- Analyzing Arguments, Basic Concepts [DOC]
- Rhetorical Analysis: The Basic Questions [DOC]
- Evaluation Criteria Defined [DOC]
Course Readings
This section contains readings that aren't in the text. Please print out a hard copy and bring it to class the day we are discussing it.
Documents
- "College Pays Off" [DOCX]
- Responses to "College Pays Off" [DOCX]
- "Your So-Called Education" [DOC]
- Responses to "Your So-Called Education" [DOCX]
- "Scrimping on College Has Its Own Price" by Amy Wu [DOCX]
- "It's Not All About You, Froshies" [DOCX]
- "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" by Amy Chau [DOCX]
- Film Club excerpt by David Gilmour [PDF]
- The Pact [PDF]
- Outcasts United [PDF]
- The Translator [PDF]
- Working in the Shadows [PDF]
- Lost in the Meritocracy [PDF]
- Modern Love essay #1 [DOCX]
- Modern Love essay #2 [DOCX]
- Finding My Daughter's Roots [DOCX]
- Performance Philanthropy [PDF]
Supplemental Readings
Documents
- "Why I Love my Strict Chinese Mom" by Sonia Chau [DOCX]
- "The French are Better Parents? Excuse Moi? [DOCX]
- Martin Curiel Jefferson Award Profile [DOCX]
Homework Small Assignments
Documents
- Reading Questions for Amy Chau, "Tiger Mother" [DOCX]
- Homework Questions for Outcasts United, Working in the Shadows, and The Translator [DOCX]
- Reading Questions for Writing About Culture [DOCX]
Course Documents, Sundry
Documents
- How to Access Material Posted on the Library Website [DOCX]
- Turnitin.com: How to Get Set Up [DOCX]
- Grading Rubric [DOCX]
- From Interview Transcript to Outline [DOCX]
- Book Reviews for book clubs [DOCX]
- How to Post Something on the Book Club Wiki [DOCX]
- Final Exam Tips [DOC]
- Sample 1A Final Exam Prompts [DOCX]
- Sample excellent 1A final exam response to Postman [DOCX]