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Yuanqing Wang([email protected]), Adjunct Assistant Professor, he/him/his
Section E2, 22845
Synchronous sessions (2021): Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:15 pm EST/EDT
Office hours:
I will stay for another 10 minutes after each synchronous class.
Contact me ([email protected]) if you want to chat (about anything).
In this class, we will explore the connections among writing, reading, rhetoric, and critical thinking. We will practice writing for different purposes and audiences, and as a community, give, and receive feedbacks for each others' writing.
All notes of this class will be published in on this website under Creative Commons CC0 License. Should you wish to improve the course materials, submit issues or pull requests to this GitHub repo. This is a ZERO Textbook Cost course. Links to all mateirals will be accesible on this GitHub repo and website.
| Project | Due Dates | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Source-Based Essay | W4D1: Peer Review; W5D1: Final Draft | 15 |
| Inquiry-Based Research Essay | W7D1: Proposal; W8D2: First Draft; W9D1: Peer Review; W11D1: Final Draft | 30 |
| Composition in Two Genres | ||
| Presentations | ||
| Letter of Introduction and Portfolio |
Or click on first column for recordings on YouTube.
Click on contents for links to notes.
Boldfaced are primary readings / materials to be discussed in class.
- Explore and analyze, in writing and reading, a variety of genres and rhetorical situations.
- Develop strategies for reading, drafting, collaborating, revising, and editing.
- Recognize and practice key rhetorical terms and strategies when engaged in writing situations.
- Engage in the collaborative and social aspects of writing processes.
- Understand and use print and digital technologies to address a range of audiences.
- Locate research sources (including academic journal articles, magazine and newspaper articles) in the library’s databases or archives and on the Internet and evaluate them for credibility, accuracy, timeliness, and bias.
- Compose texts that integrate your stance with appropriate sources using strategies such as summary, critical analysis, interpretation, synthesis, and argumentation.
- Practice systematic application of citation conventions.
First-year composition courses at CCNY teach writing as a recursive and frequently collaborative process of invention, drafting, and revising. Writing is both personal and social, and students should learn how to write for different purposes and audiences. Since writing is a process of making meaning and communicating, FYC teachers respond mainly to the content of students’ writing as well as to recurring surface errors. Students should expect frequent written and oral responses on the content of their writing from their teachers and peers. Classes rely heavily on a workshop format. Instruction emphasizes the connection between writing, reading, and critical thinking; students should give thoughtful, reasoned responses to the readings. Both reading and writing are the subjects of class discussions and workshops, and students are expected to be active participants in the classroom community. Learning from each other will be a large part of the classroom experience.
- https://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/write/fieldguide/index.asp
- https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp1v2xmaster/
- https://writingcommons.org/
- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
- https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/
You will be graded based on the frequency and quality of attendance and submission of assignements. (You will get an A or A+ if you want to. 🤫)
Plagiarism is copying and using other people’s words without proper acknowledgment or citation as it is indicated in the CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity. All writing submitted for this course is understood to be your original work. Plagiarism is unacceptable and has serious consequences that can include a failing grade. In cases where I detect academic dishonesty (the fraudulent submission of another’s work, in whole or part, as your own), you may be subject to a failing grade for the project or the course, and, in the worst case, to academic probation or expulsion. You are expected to read, understand, and adhere to CCNY’s Policy on Academic Integrity, which is available here: http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/current/upload/Academic-Integrity-Policy.pdf .