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    This example syllabus outlines an upper-level writing course called English 300: Writing in the Disciplines. The course aims to teach advanced academic writing within a specific field or discipline. Students will learn about writing and reading conventions within their own fields through investigations and assignments like summaries, an annotated bibliography, a literature review synthesis essay, and a lengthy researched argument paper. The goal is for students to improve their critical thinking, reading, writing, and research skills to produce effective written work appropriate for their academic or professional careers.

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    This example syllabus outlines an upper-level writing course called English 300: Writing in the Disciplines. The course aims to teach advanced academic writing within a specific field or discipline. Students will learn about writing and reading conventions within their own fields through investigations and assignments like summaries, an annotated bibliography, a literature review synthesis essay, and a lengthy researched argument paper. The goal is for students to improve their critical thinking, reading, writing, and research skills to produce effective written work appropriate for their academic or professional careers.

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    EXAMPLE SYLLABUS: ENGLISH 300

    ENGLISH 300– Writing in the Disciplines (3 credit hours)

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    English 300 gives students advanced instruction and practice in writing and reading essays
    within an academic discipline and make students aware of how disciplinary conventions and
    rhetorical situations call for different choices in language, structure, format, tone, citation, and
    documentation. Students conduct investigations into writing and reading conventions in their
    fields and receive advanced instruction in planning, drafting, arranging, revising, and editing
    discipline-specific essays.

    Texts: Behrens, Laurence, and Leonard J. Rosen. Writing and Reading across the Curriculum.
    8th edition. NY: Longman, 2003.
    Troyka and Hesse. Quick Access Compact. Pearson, 2010.

    Catalog Description: An interdisciplinary writing course to be taken in the junior year.


    Students will read and write about challenging essays in a number of fields. Each student will
    produce a substantial research project appropriate to his or her chosen field. Prerequisite:
    English 200 or equivalent.

    Goals and Objectives: This course fulfills the A.1. (Organization and Communication of Ideas)
    general education requirement at WKU. The course will help you attain these general education
    goals and objectives: 1. The capacity for critical and logical thinking, and 2. Proficiency in
    reading, writing, speaking

    Learning Outcomes

    Upon completion of this course, students will demonstrate the ability to:

    1. Write clear and effective prose in several forms, using conventions appropriate to audience
    (including academic audiences), purpose, and genre.
    2. Find, analyze, evaluate, and cite pertinent primary and secondary sources, including
    academic databases, to prepare written texts.
    3. Identify, analyze, and evaluate statements, assumptions, and conclusions representing
    diverse points of view, and construct informed, sustained, and ethical arguments in response.
    4. Plan, organize, revise, practice, edit, and proofread to improve the development and clarity of
    ideas.
    5. Distinguish among various kinds of evidence by identifying reliable sources and valid
    arguments.

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    Assignments: You will write several assignments that build a foundation for your final 3000+
    word argumentative essay. Those assignments are listed below. Additionally, students will write
    frequent response or informal writings and will conduct a rhetorical analysis of the professional
    scholarship in their discipline. Reading assignments must be completed on time so that
    students can engage constructively in class discussion. There may be quizzes on the reading
    assignments.
    Summaries (150-250 words each X 3) 100 points (15, 35, and 50 points)
    Proposal + Annotated Bibliography 150 points
    Synthesis/Literature Review (1200+ words) 150 points
    Researched Argument (3000+ words) 300 points
    Response Journals, Quizzes, and Part. 150 points
    Rhetorical Analysis of Disciplinary Scholarship 150 points

    Assignment Descriptions

    Summaries: To read actively and identify the main points of selected scholarly sources
    (articles, chapters of books, entire books, or credible electronic/web sources); to summarize the
    sources concisely; to write a correct bibliographic entry for each source. The summaries will be
    due on different dates, not all at once. You will write three of them: The first will be for a source
    read by the entire class. The second and third will be on sources that are related to a debatable
    topic in your discipline.

    Proposal + Annotated Bibliography: The purpose of this essay proposal plus annotated
    bibliography is to propose a topic, research question(s), focus, and tentative annotated
    bibliography of source material that will guide you as you draft and revise your researched
    argumentative essay. The annotated bibliography section of this assignment will identify and
    annotate (summarize) a sufficient number of credible scholarly and professional sources
    (articles, books, and occasional government documents or credible websites) that will provide a
    context and background for your research related to a current effort/issue in or related to your
    major/discipline/future profession. This assignment will facilitate your final researched argument
    essay for this course. Minimum sources to be used: 20 for annotated bibliography, most of
    which must be scholarly or appropriate professional alternatives.

    Synthesis Essay/Literature Review: The purpose of this assignment is to synthesize twenty or


    more sources about a specific debatable issue related to the subject of your larger
    argumentative essay (written in the second half of the semester). The broad purpose of a
    literature review, or synthesis essay is to identify trends and commonalities in a body of
    literature (journal articles, books, and other scholarship) on a particular subject. In a synthesis
    essay, according to Behrens and Rosen, the writer “infer[s] relationships among sources” (87).
    Synthesis essays usually survey a large number of scholarly texts—fifty, a hundred, or more. In
    this synthesis essay, you will survey a much smaller sample—twenty sources.

    Researched Argument Essay: The purpose of this assignment is to advance an argument,


    evidenced by credible, current, relevant scholarly research, about a topic relevant to your
    major/discipline/future profession. This is a standard research-based academic argument.

    Grading: All formal written essays and exams will receive numerical grades and comments
    from the teacher. Journal assignments will receive either full credit, half credit, or no credit.
    Students must complete all major assignments (all formal essays) in the course to
    receive a passing grade. Final grades are non-negotiable and are based strictly on the
    student’s earned points. 900-1000=A, 800-899=B, 700-799=C, 600-699=D, 000=599=F. Do
    not throw away returned, graded assignments or first drafts because you will need all these
    papers to construct your portfolio.

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