INSTRUCTOR

Mrs. Mildred Fuentes-Chung

ENGLISH 114 B
Fall 2015

Office hours: _____For other meeting times

Please Email
Location: SN 406
Email: mildred.fuentes.42@my.csun.edu

Section 14157
Tuesdays and Thursdays: 11:00am-12:15
Location: Jr 247

MATERIALS

Back to the Lake by Thomas Cooley

Wings
The Year She Left Us by Kathryn Ma
Spiral Notebook (this will help keep group work
organized)
Recommended Materials
The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises 2nd
Ed.
Avatar 2009 Film Directed by James
Cameron

Welcome to English 114B !

This class will be based on individual work, group work and discussion.
Together we will learn to research, analyze and write effectively so that we can better
communicate ideas and learn to look at the world, literature and social issues through
different lenses. Furthermore, You will learn to take advantage of the writing process
and gain critical thinking skills that will help develop your own ideas and perspectives.
Projects:
A project is the final assignment in a series of interconnected reading and
writing exercises that link to class discussions. As each project is completed, the
combined drafting builds the foundation and process of an essay. This
movement grows out of the specific assignments and collaborative nature of
the progression and leads to essays that bear marks of distinction, direction,
and development. The Projects are completed in all of CSUNs Composition
Programs and are therefore a requirement for the course. There will be three
projects:

Project Web: Understanding Perspectives

Project Space: Spatiality and its existence in Media
Project Text: Analysis of text through a specific lens.
COURSE OBJECTIVES for English Composition

Demonstrate competence in university writing

Demonstrate the ability to use rhetorical strategies that include the appeal to audience, logic, and
emotion
Understand writing as a recursive process and demonstrate its use through invention, drafting and
revision (creating, shaping, and completing)
Demonstrate the ability to use conventions of format, structure, style, and language appropriate to the
purpose of a written text
Demonstrate the ability to use library and online resources effectively and to document their sources
their sources.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students will gain the ability to read critically.

Students will gain the ability to write effectively.
Students will gain knowledge of the cultural diversity of literatures.

Analytic Reading and Expository Writing

Goal: Students will analyze and reflect on complex topics and appropriately synthesize their own and
others ideas in clearly written and well organized edited American English.
Students will:
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Analyze and compare perspective, meaning, and style in different texts, including those that
reflect multicultural images and voices;
Construct a theme or thesis and organize and develop a substantial, balanced and convincing
defense of it in a voice, tone, language, and format (e.g., essay autobiography, report, editorial,
case study, inquiry, and research) appropriate to the purpose of the writing;
Use logical support, including informed opinion and fact, as well as their interpretations, to
develop ideas, avoiding fallacies, biased language, and inappropriate tone;
Demonstrate satisfactory competence in the conventions of Edited American English and the
elements of presentation (including layout, format, and printing);
Select and incorporate ideas derived from a variety of sources, such as library electronic and print
resources, books, journals, the Internet, and interviews, and document them responsibly and
correctly;
Apply a variety of strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, revising and editing written work.

MISSED OR LATE ASSIGNMENTS

As freshman in college, I expect
promptness on all assignments. Unless youre
dying, have a crucial emergency, or some other
excusable reason like the ones Ive mentioned, you
will receive No credit for any late or missing
assignments. Please let me know if you know you
will not be able to make a deadline.
INCOMPLETE ASSIGNMENTS
Incomplete assignments are inexcusable. If
you are having trouble with an assignment you can
contact me during office hours or through emails,

which means there are no excuses. If an incomplete assignment is turned in I will not
look at the work and instead will automatically give it a zero.
INCOMPLETE PORTFOLIO
At the end of the semester you will need to turn in a portfolio of your overall
essays. There is no reason why you should be missing assignments, thus if you are
missing any assignments you will not get credit for the class. I suggest you keep a
folder where you can put in all the assignments that get handed back to you. This way
there isnt a loss of work.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY and PLAGIARISM
The maintenance of academic integrity and quality education is the responsibility of each
student within this university and the California State University system. Cheating or plagiarism
in connection with an academic program at a campus is listed in Section 41301, Title 5, California
Code of Regulations, as an offense for which a student may be expelled, suspended, or given a
less severe disciplinary sanction. Academic dishonesty is an especially serious offense and
diminishes the quality of scholarship and defrauds those who depend upon the integrity of the
campus programs. Such dishonesty includes:
A.

CHEATING (see catalog for details)

B.

FABRICATION (see catalog for details)

C.

FACILITATING ACADEMIC DISHONESTY (see catalog for details)

D.

PLAGIARISM Intentionally or knowingly representing the words, ideas, or work of another as ones own in any
academic exercise.

GRADING
Portfolio 20 Points 5 Letter Grade Essays
H.W. & Assignments:

Credit/ No Credit Assignments

Journal 10 Points
Participation 10 points
Presentations 10 Points
Total:

Weekly Class Schedule

Note: Syllabus and Class Schedule are subject to change at my discretion.
Week 1
1/26
1/28

Week2 Project Web

2/2
2/4
week 3
2/9
2/11
week 4
2/16
2/18
week 5
2/23
2/25
week 6 Project Space
3/1
3/3
week7
3/8
3/10
week8
3/15
3/17
week 9
3/22Spring break
3/24spring break
week 10
3/29
3/31 Cesar Chavez Day
week 11
4/5
4/7
week 12 Project text
4/11
4/14
week 13
4/19
4/21
week 14
4/26
4/28
week15
5/3
5/5
week 16Finals week

5/10
5/12 Reflective essay Due and Portfolio Due