C164 T-TH: 2:25-3:40
Dr. Janet M. LaBrie Office Hours:
Office W134 T: 12:00-2:00, 4:00-5:30
O: 262-521-5521 TH: 12-2:00, 4:00-5:30
H: 608-758-3351 - or by appointment
O: jlabrie@uwc.edu
H: jlbrie@sbcglobal.net
ENGLISH 102 IS A RHETORIC COURSE that focuses on writing techniques to enable the writer to present information, ideas, and arguments clearly and effectively. Class emphasis will be on academic writing in several kinds of researched essays, an analysis paper, techniques of documentation, and analysis of their own and the writings of others. We will learn to read critically and analytically to understand the arguments that others make, how they are constructed, and where they are faulty. We will also do collaborative work, peer reviews, and many revisions. This class meets in a computer lab; thus, students will often use the computers in class. This means that students must save all their work to computer discs or flash drives and have it with them for every class.
Our semester focus will be two-fold: first, we will combine our developing understanding of argumentation with current problems; then we will link the last section of the class, our last two papers, to the campus read theme for the 2005-2006 school year. The topic for the campus read is War and the two works chosen to be read are Tim O’Brien’s The Things that They Carried (about Vietnam) and War Is A Force that Gives Us Meaning (mostly focused on wars since the 1990s) by Chris Hedges. We will, therefore, also attend some of the on- campus film festival sponsored by the United Nations Association (Waukesha Chapter) and Plowshare Center on Tuesday, March 21.
We will be using D2L as a learning platform for this class, so information and assignments can be posted there, and we can communicate through it.
REQUIRED:
Hacker, Diana. Rules for Writers, 5th Ed. Boston/New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003.
Fahnestock, Jeanne and Marie Sector. A Rhetoric of Argument, 3rd Edition. McGraw Hill,
2004.
Hedges, Chris. War Is A Force that Gives Us Meaning. NY: PublicAffairs, 2002.
Attendance at the UW-Waukesha Theater evening event, In their Own Words: A
Vietnam Chronicle, and the UN Film series (more about these later)
Two floppy discs or a flash drive which you must always have in class and to which you
always save all your class work.
COURSE PROFICIENCIES to be developed in this class:
· analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and interpret information and ideas.
· construct and support hypotheses and arguments
· integrate knowledge and experience to arrive at creative solutions
· read and listen with comprehension and critical perception
· write clearly, precisely, and in a well-organized manner
· gather information from printed sources, electronic sources, and observation
· share information and ideas through writing and speaking