Last Updated on Dec. 5, 2009
Instructor: Dr. Leslie Bai
Office: HM 217C Tel.: 718-314-0076
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday, 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm or by appointment
Email: lesliebai@yahoo.com, hbai@liu.edu
Course webpage: http://wotan.liu.edu/~lbai
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 (Diagnosis: A to D)
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 - Literary Criticism & Creative Writing (1) (3-4 pages) (10%)
Weekly blog and comments posting (20%)
Class Participation (Subtract 5 points/per absense from total)
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: (9/9)
Introduction to Class
In-class diagnostic writing:
ESSAY I: DESCRIPTION & NARRATION (Topic: Race & Class)
Reading materials:
Weekly blog-posting: Week 3 & 4 (Blog: I Write, I Blog)
Essay I due on 9/30. (Submit before class begins)
ESSAY II: ARGUMENTATION (Education, Gender, Culture)
Reading materials:
Weekly blog-posting: Week 5, 6 & 7 (Blog: I Write, I Blog)
Essay II due on 10/21 (Turn in before class begins)
ESSAY III: RESEARCH PAPER (Topic: Social Issues)
Reading Materials:
Weekly blog-posting: Topic and abstract of research paper (Blog: I Write, I Blog)
Annotated Bibliography Sample
Research paper due on 11/23
ESSAY IV: LITERARY Analysis & CREATIVE WRITING (Topic: Identity)
Reading Materials:
Weekly Blog-posting: My Literary analysis or my creative writing (Blog: I Write, I Blog)
FINAL EXAM
"Read a LOT of Chekhov. Then re-read it. Read Raymond Carver, Earnest Hemingway, Alice Munro, and Tobias Wolff. If you don't have time to read all of these authors, stick to Chekhov. He will teach you more than any writing teacher or workshop ever could." ------Allyson Goldin, UWEC Asst. Professor of Creative Writing
