The City College of New York

Fall 2019

Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar – World Cultures and Global Issues

FIQWS 10105-HA6

Fairy Tales and Re-Writings: Section 1 Hybrid

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00-3:15

Room NA 1/301Z

 

 

Instructor:         Kyle Hoehne

Email:                 khoehne@ccny.cuny.edu

Office:                 NAC 6/333B

Office Hours:    Tuesday and Thursday 1:00-2:00 and by appointment

 

Course Description

The goal of this course aims to enhance students’ analytic ability, critical thinking, and writing skills.  The composition section will work on basic writing skills that will serve students throughout their academic career and beyond, using The Norton Field Guide to Writing as reference, as well as working in tandem with Mrs. Voisard’s topic section, Fairy Tales and Re-writings to further understand these skills in a specific context. Between both the topic and composition course, students will complete a variety of written assignments throughout the semester including a narrative, an exploratory essay, a critical research analysis, and a final portfolio and self-assessment.

Hybrid Course

As a hybrid course, we will also be engaging in thorough online learning and conversation. Think of our online meetings not as a separate entity, but as an extension and enhancement of our in-person meetings. I will be facilitating all online interaction through Blackboard and will do my best to access the course on a daily basis. See Introduction Announcement on Bb for more details.

First-Year Composition Mission Statement

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.

 

Course Learning Outcomes

• 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.

 

Required Texts

 

Bullock, Richard. The Norton Field Guide to Writing. 4^th Ed. New York. Norton: 2016.

 

College Blackboard:

Reading and writing materials, PowerPoint slideshows and videos will be posted online on BB during the semester. We will make extensive use of Blackboard’s discussion tools, group areas, and content areas throughout the semester. I will also occasionally be linking to outside informational areas and quizzes.

Please Note: You must use your CCNY email address in Bb (log in to the CCNY Portal, click Blackboard, then Update Email in the Tools menu). If you add a non-CCNY domain email address in this window, you will not receive important course announcements.

 

Writing Assignments

1. Literacy Narrative: 10% Due: 9/12
2. Exploratory Essay: 20% Due: 10/10
3. Researched Critical Analysis: 20% Due: 11/12
4. Portfolio: 30% Due: 12/12

 

For guidelines and grade breakdowns for each assignment, please check the relevant Blackboard area.

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Other Assignments

 

Reflection Assignments:

A Reflection is assigned alongside every essay assignment, preparing you to write a Self-Reflection essay at the end of the semester. One goal of the course is for you to reflect on your writing in order to heighten your awareness of what you know about writing and to give you a vocabulary for discussing it. In these reflections, you should make use of the rhetorical terms we discuss throughout the semester to describe your own work. For each reflective assignment, you should describe your own essays in terms of its genre (what are its characteristic features), exigence (what need motivated the writer), purpose (what did the writer hope to accomplish), audience (who is the potential audience for the essay), context (what is the writer’s rhetorical situation? what is the relationship between the writer, the audience, and the medium?). You should also describe how each assignment has helped you to achieve the Course Learning Outcomes. These short reflections will prepare you to write the final Self-Reflection. Grade weights for essay Reflections factor into your overall grade for that assignment.

 

 

Blackboard Discussion Posts/Responses: (150-250 words) (10%)

 

There will be a number of Blackboard discussion posts in which you must respond to a prompt, usually based off of a reading during the week, and additionally respond to a classmate’s post, creating a dialogue. These posts will not be graded for grammar and structure, rather I want to see that you are engaging with the material and your classmates and making informed arguments based on our readings. I will announce in class and on Blackboard when the posts will be due.

 

You will need to check Blackboard frequently for Discussion Posts.

 

Journal/ Participation: (10%)

 

In order to improve as writers, we must write often. Once each week I will post a writing prompt that you must respond to. Your journal entries can be as formal or informal as you like, the goal is to get comfortable with writing and to write freely. The Journals will be hosted in their own section of Blackboard and will count alongside our f2f and online participation.

 

Course Policies

 

Academic Integrity

The City College Policy on academic integrity (plagiarism and cheating) is enforced in this course. The full policy is available on the City College website. Please review if unsure of what constitutes plagiarism. It is your duty to familiarize yourself with City College’s policy.

If you use other people’s work you must cite it. A good source for correct citation is available at:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/08/

 

CCNY’s Statement on Community Standards

https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/community-standards

Attendance

Students are expected to attend every class session of this course and to be on time. If you miss four classes, your final grade will be dropped by one-half of one letter (a 90 to an 85, for example). If you miss five classes, your final grade will be dropped one full letter. If you miss six classes, you will not be able to pass the course. Consistent late arrivals and early departures will have a negative impact on your grade. I will notify you by email if course absences are having an impact on your grade. If you have special circumstances, please see me. I’m happy to work with you to help you complete this course.

 

Hybrid Attendance

For online meeting sessions, you are expected to complete all work assigned for that day’s lesson before our next class meeting. If I assign a reading with attached discussion post for Tuesday, it should be completed by class time on Thursday. I will generally put up readings and discussion guidelines several days before the original class date; Sunday for a Tuesday online session, for instance. Once again, email me if anything comes up or there are any conflicts.

 

Late Policy on Major Assignments: I will still accept your paper and only 5% will be deducted from your grade as long as you submit it within 24 hours after the due date. I will deduct an additional 5% from your paper’s grade for each day that the paper is late. This policy applies regardless of you being absent or not, so you should still attend class even if you have not completed an assignment! And, again, if there are extenuating circumstances, please contact me immediately.

 

 

Student Support Services

 

Gateway Advising Center, NAC 1/220

http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/gateway/

Students without a declared major can receive academic advising, especially if you have questions about your course of study, core requirements, etc.

 

AccessAbility Center Tutoring Services, NAC 1/218

http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/accessability/

Provides one-on-one tutoring and workshops to all registered students with learning or physical disabilities.

 

SEEK Peer Academic Learning Center, NAC 4/224

Phone: 212-650-5786; email: seekpals@ccny.cuny.edu

Offers counseling and peer tutoring for students in need of academic and financial support who have registered for the SEEK Program.

 

Additional Policies

 

Food and Drink

There is no eating allowed in the classroom. Your food could be a distraction for other students. Drinks are fine. Please be sure to clean up after yourself when class is over.

 

Phones, Devices, and Other Electronics

Please refrain from using devices during class in any way that can prove distracting to you or your classmates. It is important that you are fully present during the class period. Laptops and tablets may be used for taking notes if you prefer that to pen and paper, but I reserve the right to revoke this privilege if laptops and tablets are used for purposes outside the realm of this course.

 

 

 

Weekly Schedule

Online Class sessions marked in BOLD

*Assignment due dates marked with asterisks*

 

 

Date	Due/Before Class	In Class
Week 1
Tuesday, 8/27		·       Introductions ·       Syllabus Review
Thursday, 8/29	·       Purchase Norton Textbook and bring to class	·       Assign and discuss Essay #1: Literacy Narrative ·       Discuss Blackboard Posts ·       Journal
Week 2
Tuesday, 9/3	·       Read- Norton Chapter 10 (73-90)	·       Discuss readings and peer review. ·       Establish groups
Thursday, 9/5	NO CLASS	NO CLASS
Week 3
Tuesday, 9/10	·       Peer review (First draft due on BB by Friday 9/6, response posts due Tuesday 9/10 midnight)	·       Peer review
Thursday, 9/12**	·       Due-Final draft of Essay #1 Literacy Narrative.	·       Assign and discuss Essay #2 Exploratory Essay ·       Brainstorm topics. ·       Begin Self Reflection for LN
Week 4
Tuesday, 9/17	·       Library Day	·       Library Day
Thursday, 9/19	·       Read selections from TSIS on Bb.	·       Instruction of CUNY Academic Commons and Portfolio creation
Week 5
Tuesday, 9/24	·       Read- Norton Chapter 12 (145-149) ·       Write essay introductions	·       Discuss essay topics ·       Discuss thesis writing ·       Peer review intro
Thursday, 9/26	·       Prepare list of sources for Essay #2	·       Peer discussion of sources and ·       Journal
Week 6
Tuesday, 10/1	NO CLASS *Optional online peer review*	NO CLASS
Thursday, 10/3**	·       Due- Final Draft of Essay #2 Exploratory Essay	·       Assign and Discuss Essay #3 Researched Critical Analysis
Week 7
Tuesday, 10/8	NO CLASS	NO CLASS
Thursday, 10/10	·       Read- Norton Chapter 13 (169-182)	·       Discussion of reading ·       Writing activity
Week 8
Tuesday, 10/15	·       Conferences
Thursday, 10/17	·       Conferences
Week 9
Tuesday, 10/22	·       Read- Norton Chapters 17 and 36 (206-215, 355-372)	·       Discuss Norton readings ·       Group Presentations on Readings
Thursday, 10/24	·       Read- Selections from TSIS on Bb	·       Discuss TSIS readings ·       Journal
Week 10
Tuesday, 10/29	·       Read- Selected Norton Chapters	·       Discuss Norton readings ·       Journal
Thursday, 10/31	·       Read- Selected Norton Chapters	·       Discuss Norton readings ·       Group Presentation on Readings
Week 11
Tuesday, 11/5	·       Read- Selection from Jennifer Egan’s “Great Rock and Roll Pauses” on Bb	·       Discuss WordPress and use of Media in Literature
Thursday, 11/7	·       Post copies of 1st draft to BB for peer review	·       Peer review ·       Journal ·       Set up conferences.
Week 12
Tuesday, 11/12**	Due- Final draft of Essay #3 Researched Critical Analysis	·       Discuss Self-Assessment and Portfolio ·       Write Reflections for RCA
Thursday, 11/14	·       Read- Selections from Norton Textbook	·       Discussion of readings
Week 13
Tuesday, 11/19	·       Research examples of portfolios	·       Workshop Day
Thursday, 11/21	·       Read- Grammar material posted online	·       Blackboard Grammar Quiz ·       Discuss grammar reading
Week 14
Tuesday, 11/26	·       Post copies of 1st draft of Self-Assessment to BB for peer review	·       Peer review ·       Journal
Thursday, 11/28	·       Read- Norton Chapter 29 (301-305)	·       Discuss Norton reading
Week 15
Tuesday, 12/3	·       Post all writing assignments to portfolios	·       In class workshop for portfolios
Thursday, 12/5	·       Read- Selection from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird	·       Discuss Lamott reading
Week 16
Tuesday, 12/10	·       Critique group portfolios and reflections.	·       Final review/workshop on WordPress, Portfolio, Self-Assessment ·       Post questions for each portfolio.
Thursday 12/12*** Final Day	·       Due- Portfolio and Self Reflection

 

NOTE: This syllabus is subject to change throughout the semester.  Any changes made to assignments, due dates, etc. will be communicated through Blackboard.