ENGL 1100 Syllabi
Sample Statements some have added to their syllabus
Fall 2023
Fall 2022 (rev. 7-20-22)
Fall 2021 (revised July 2021)
Spring 2021
Fall 2020-revised July 2020
Fall 2019–Revised 8-8-19
Fall 2018
Fall 2017
Fall 2016
Weekly Schedule
Fall 2024 Weeks 1-4
Fall 2024 Weeks 5-8
Fall 2024 Weeks 9-Finals
Fall 2023 Weeks 1-4
Fall 2023 Weeks 5-8
Fall 2023 Weeks 9-Finals
Fall 2022 Weeks 1-4
Fall 2022 Weeks 5-8
Fall 2022 Weeks 9-Finals
Fall 2022 Weeks 1-4
Fall 2022 Weeks 5-8
Fall 2022 Weeks 9-Finals
Fall 2021 Weeks 1-4-revised July 2020
Fall 2021 Weeks 5-8
Fall 2021 Weeks 9-Finals
Spring 2021
Fall 2020 Block 1
Fall 2020 Block 2
Fall 2020 Block 1 MWF Dates
Fall 2020 Block 1 TR Dates
Fall 2020 Block 2 MWF Dates
Fall 2020 Block 2 TR Dates
Rubrics
Writing to Reflect
Writing to Analyze
Writing to Persuade
ENGL 1100 Portfolio
Self-Analytical Writing
Copies of Readings
Samples of Published Reflective Essays
Gerald Graff, “Hidden Intellectualism“
This was published in The Say, I Say, 5th ed. Graff provides a bit of his own educational autobiography, so, this piece works well for classes using literacy or educational biographies.
Student writer, Pasqualin’s “Don’t Panic: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to My Literacy” is an example of a literacy narrative.
The New Yorker Personal History Section
After reading a dozen articles on The New Yorker site, a subscription is required to read through all the articles, but users can browse through brief descriptions of all the articles before clicking on any one of them. A good, relatively short example is Sarah M. Broom’s “The Yellow House.” Another good example is Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Teach Yourself Italian.“
The New York Times Magazine’s Life Section
Katherine Friedman’s “Live Without Me. I’ll Understand” is available as an alphabetic essay and as an audio podcast.
Salon.com’s Life Stories Section
A strong example is Bernadette Murphy’s “Calling all “chicks with picks”: How I climbed my way out of fear, one icy step at a time.”
Other Examples
David Quanmen’s “The Same River Twice.”
David Foster Wallace’s “Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood” in Harper’s Magazine.
Possible questions to ask students (or student groups) to consider while reviewing published reflective essays:
-What is the writer’s purpose for writing this essay? What is the focus of the essay?
-Who (do you think) is the intended audience?
-Does it have a thesis? Or something that resembles a thesis?
-Does the essay show the significance of the writer’s experience?
-What do you, the reader, get from this essay? (What connection, if any, do you make with the essay?)
Everyone’s an Author, 4th ed
pp. 1-17 (Ch 1)
pp. 30-37 (Ch 3)
The Little Seagull Handbook, 4th ed
pp 2-5
pp 6-8
pp 17-26
pp 27-39
pp 80-83
Pirate Read Material
2022-2023
The Pirate Read program has been stopped for this academic year.
2021-2022
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
Foreword-Preface
Introduction
Ch. 1
Pirate Read Website
On-Campus Events
The Person You Mean to Be Discussion Guide for Instructors
Past
2021-2022: Dolly Chugh: The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
2020-2021: Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
2019-2020: Richard Louv, The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
2018-2019: Wiley Cash, The Last Ballad
2017-2018: Matthew Desmond, Evicted
2016-2017: Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
2015-2016: Sonia Nazario, Enrique’s Journey
2014-2015: Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore
2013-2014: Rye Barcott, It Happened on the Way to War
2012-2013: Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2011-2012: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo, Picking Cotton
Archived Material
The Little Seagull Handbook, 3rd ed.
pp 2-5
pp 6-8
pp 9-16
pp 17-29
pp 58-61
Pocket Keys
Becoming Rhetorical
The Norton Field Guide to Writing
Faigley PDFs
Backpack Writing Chapter 1
Backpack Writing Chapter 3
Banks “Preparing Your Portfolio”
Banks, “Preparing your Portfolio”