ENC 1101
Current Syllabus
ENC 1101: Composition 1
Fall 2019
Instructor: Allison Duque
Course Day/Time: M/W 9:30-10:45
Email: allisonduque@mail.usf.edu
Course Location: CPR 252
Office Location: CPR 289
Office Hours: M/W 8:30-9:15
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Overview
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Welcome to First Year Composition (FYC)! We are excited to have you join our community.
ENC 1101 is a required prerequisite for courses across USF and provides the foundation for the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes leading to advanced writing, critical reading, effective speaking, and rhetorical listening. ENC 1101 serves the important role of giving students the opportunity to practice college-level reading and writing within the University setting where they will advance into disciplines and departments. With an emphasis on transfer, ENC 1101 prepares students for success in their academic, civic, and personal lives.
Our goal is to advance opportunity to learn for all students by refining and mastering enduring knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Our focus is on the intellectual ability, self-determination, and collaborative competencies connected to success within and beyond USF. Our strategy is to help students build community, create connections, and form identities through language.
Students come to USF from across the state, the country, and the world and bring with them a wide variety of languages, literacy practices, and experiences from within and beyond the classroom. Our program recognizes and celebrates the linguistic diversity of our students and promotes translingual practices in our classrooms. ENC 1101 is designed to meet each student where she/he/they is/are and to give every student the chance to work directly with an Instructor in a small class setting in order to practice the skills that will enable success at USF and beyond.
The syllabus will provide an overview of the course content and construction and serve as your reference for program policies. Your Instructor will serve as your main point of contact. Additional classroom policies may be provided by your Instructor within the Course Overview module.
Catalog Description: ENC 1101 Composition I (3 Credit Hours). This course (Links to an external site.) helps prepare students for academic work by emphasizing expository writing, the basics of library research, and the conventions of academic discourse.
Course Prerequisites: The prerequisites (Links to an external site.) for enrollment in ENC 1101 mirror the USF entrance requirements. A student admitted to USF is a student qualified for work in ENC 1101.
Course Objectives: The writing program in the Department of English aligns USF institutional mission and vision (Links to an external site.), the mission of the College of Arts and Sciences (Links to an external site.), and the mission (Links to an external site.), vision (Links to an external site.), and values (Links to an external site.) of the Department of English. The writing program aims to provide experiences language arts that can contribute substantially to knowledge generation, intellectual development, civic engagement, and lifelong learning. To identify the ways the writing program can add to such contributions, the program has adopted the writing, reading, and critical analysis experiences and habits of mind outcomes identified in the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing (Links to an external site.). By adopting these situated approaches to language, the writing program is able to provide specific and meaningful student learning outcomes.
Student Learning Outcomes: By the end of this course, students will be able to:
Write in expository forms using varied genres to express ideas for academic, civic, and personal audiences;
Demonstrate confidence and expertise in collaborative planning, writing, peer reviewing, and finalizing documents in print, multimodal, and mixed genres;
Locate information (Links to an external site.) relevant to specific tasks from valid sources and use that information to write in expository forms;
Employ language arts approaches to writing through an integrated (Links to an external site.) system of critical reading, effective speaking, and rhetorical listening;
Demonstrate knowledge of conventions (Links to an external site.) across various audiences, settings, and genres; and
Apply translingual (Links to an external site.) perspectives of difference to language practices in order to facilitate empathy for language learning and the types of communication this empathy can facilitate across time and circumstance.
Required Course Material and Resources: The course content for ENC 1101 is embedded within the Canvas (Links to an external site.) course management system and makes use of external software such as Google Suite (Links to an external site.), Persuall (Links to an external site.), and Flipgrid (Links to an external site.) to create a digital ecology that allows students to communicate and collaborate. No additional texts need to be purchased. Students will be required to access and navigate digital spaces, which requires students to have access to software and hardware, to take responsibility for seeking support from University partners as needed, and to communicate with Instructors and peers. Students are invited to preview and review course content located in the tasks.
Students will be required to purchase access to USF Writes (Links to an external site.)at the beginning of the course. USF Writes is a digital, instructional tool that enhances writing pedagogy by providing a robust formative feedback platform that works in tandem with other tools and technologies. USF Writes facilitates student learning by promoting formative feedback, enhancing the revision process, supporting Instructor responsiveness, and gathering actionable data for program management.
General Education Fulfillment: ENC 1101 is part of the USF’s foundation of knowledge and learning (FLK) Core Curriculum (Links to an external site.). A minimum grade of C- is required to fulfill this FLK core requirement.
Class Format: All sections of ENC 1101 share a distributed syllabus that has been designed as a face-to-face course. Students are required to have regular access to Canvas (Links to an external site.), USF Writes (Links to an external site.), and related platforms and to work independently and collaboratively in digital and F2F spaces. Students are required to prepare for class, attend class, arrive on time, and participate in class activities and discussions. Participation is a graded component of the class, and students who are distracted or disruptive in class risk losing participation points.
The design of ENC 1101 is intended to provide students with all the required and supplemental material before class so that students can work independently to absorb content and so that class interactions can serve to deepen student understanding of the content through guided collaboration and practice. ENC 1101 is designed to be distributed across all course sections and formats. While all sections share student learning outcomes, modules, formative assessment, and grading processes, Instructors are encouraged to individualize classroom practices and approaches to fit the needs of students within individual sections.
ENC 1101 is structured around three major projects that are broken into activities and tasks. Without completing and submitting all required work on time and attending class regularly, earning the required C- in ENC 1101 will be not be possible. Students are encouraged to make use of all associated resources and support structures, including your Instructor. Office hours are available for one-on-one questions and support as needed.
ENC 1101 requires communication and collaboration with peers. Canvas (Links to an external site.), USF Gmail (Links to an external site.), USF Writes, and Google Docs will serve as the main location for communication and collaboration. Many students also share contact information to expand communication options and platforms. All official communication must occur in and on an official USF channel and will be public in accordance Florida’s broad Public Records Law (Links to an external site.). Students are expected to demonstrate the interpersonal skills required to work effectively with peers, which requires critical listening and respectful responding.
Participation, Project Descriptions, and Schedule: The table below provides an overview of the details of ENC 1101. Note that the course requires participation and the successful completion of three major projects. Activities and tasks related to each project are posted in Canvas, and assignments will be uploaded to Canvas or USF Writes as designated in the directions for each task.
Participation, Project Description, Schedule
Participation: Attendance/participation is recorded in Canvas, where the total percentage is displayed. Any absence or classroom disruption, including tardiness, will result in the loss of participation points.10%
Project 1 (Weeks 1-5) Literacy Narrative: Project 1 invites students to reflect on their personal experiences with literacy and construct a Literacy Narrative.30%
Project 2 (Weeks 5-11) Expository Overview: Project 2 invites students to explore local discourse communities and examine literary practices to construct an Expository Overview.30%
Project 3 (Week 12-15) Textual Evaluation: Project 3 invites students to study their own rhetorical moves as identified through the textual and contextual evaluation of writing across multiple and varied spaces and as presented in the Textual Evaluation and an accompanying Contextual Presentation.30%
Feedback: The FYC program uses formative assessment (Links to an external site.) to provide actionable feedback to students. Formative assessment takes place in both Canvas and USF Writes. The FYC program uses task-specific rubrics to enhance accuracy and consistency in grading. Rubrics are embedded within the tasks in Canvas and USF Writes. Feedback, in the form of scores (Links to an external site.), is provided in USF Writes. All grading takes place in Canvas.
Self Review, Peer Review, and Instructor Review take place in USF Writes, but no grades are assigned because the purpose of USF Writes is to provide feedback. Grades for the assignments are all given through tasks in Canvas that stem from the interactions in USF Writes.
Grading: Writing projects, homework, in-class assignments, and attendance may be graded on a percentage scale, point scale, and/or a letter-grade scale, but all translate to points. The FYC grading system accords with the USF grading scale. See grading table below:
A+ (97-100) 4.00A (94-96.9) 4.00A- (90-93.9) 3.67
B+ (87-89.9) 3.33B (84-86.9) 3.00B- (80-83.9) 2.67
C+ (77-79.9) 2.33C (74-76.9) 2.00C- (70-73.9) 1.67
D+ (67-69.9) 1.33D (64-66.9) 1.00D- (60-63.9) 0.67
F (59.99 or below) 0.00
Grades will be determined through application on a 1000-point scale:
A+ 1000-970 pointsA 969-940 pointsA- 939-900 points
B+ 899-870 pointsB 869-840 pointsB- 839-800 points
C+ 799-770 pointsC 769-740 pointsC- 739-700 points
D+ 699-670 pointsD 669-640 pointsD- 641-600 points
F 599 points or fewer
Grade Access & Distribution: Grades can be accessed in Canvas throughout the semester. Final grades for this course are posted in OASIS (Links to an external site.) at the end of the semester. Check the USF Academic Calendar (Links to an external site.), available from the USF Registrar’s Office, for the posting date for final grades.