Essay on George Washington

Required Texts: Unless otherwise noted, always bring all books to class.

▪ Ensor, Lavina, Sally Smits, and Courtney Wooten, eds. Rhetorical Approaches To College Writing. Plymouth, MI: Hayden McNeil, 2013. Print ISBN: 9780738046693

▪ Cohen, Samuel. 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology ISBN-13: 978-0312609658

▪ Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings ISBN-13: 978-0393912753

▪ Blackboard Readings – These can be found on Blackboard under Course Documents.

All electronic course documents must be printed and brought to class for use during our discussion exercises or you may be asked to leave class and result in an absence. Budget time and resources accordingly.

Online/Technology Requirements:

▪ Active I-Spartan Email Address

▪ Blackboard Account

▪ Daily Internet access for E-mail and Blogging purposes

▪ Printing Access. Please make sure you budget enough money to print documents and drafts for peer editing and other assignments. I will not accept “my card ran out of money/my printer ran out of ink/etc” as an excuse for not having documents.

Course Description:

“In art there should be interpenetration and metamorphosis.” ~T.S. Eliot, London Letters, September 1921

Blogs, Facebook, twitter, and other social media utilize writing extensively. In an increasingly connected world, the use of words becomes not only a daily mode of communication but also as a factor in social influence. This English 101 is meant to empower you to build a broader foundation in your writing and argumentation skills, and to equip you with the tools that will allow you to dissect the completeness of what you are reading, writing, and analyzing as you interact with a series of different types of texts, in terms of speaker, audience, and subject.

English 101 satisfies three of the six hours of the Reasoning and Discourse (GRD) requirement at UNCG, which asserts that students “gain...