FACULTY CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Jill Fennell Office Hours
jfennel3 @ vols.utk.edu localization : Dunford Hall 2344 ( Third Floor )
Days/Times : T 3:45-5:15pm, Th 11:00-11:45am

Britt DiBartolo Writing Center Hours
T 3:00-5:00pm & Th 4:00-6:00pm

The best way to contact me is through electronic mail. Please make sure that you put the course number ( ENG 101 ) in the national line and that you send from your UTK e-mail account. Please allow a reception meter of two business days to all emails. If you would like to meet with me but can not make it to my office hours, I am felicitous to arrange a time that works for both of us .

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Welcome to English 101, Composition I. together, we will explore the art of effective communication. How people communicate is empowering to both readers and creators of text. In this class, we will examine the ways in which others communicate and will critically analyze the methods they use so we can judge the effectiveness of their arguments. As you learn what works and what doesn ’ thyroxine solve in creating an effective argument, you will focus on applying those lessons within your own write so that you may become an effective manufacturer of text yourself .

COURSE GOALS

These are the skills that the English Department wants you to develop this semester. indeed, by the end of English 101, you should demonstrate the ability to :

• Read texts critically and analyze the varied situations that motivate writers, the choices that writers make, and the effects of those choices on readers;
• Analyze how writers employ content, structure, style, tone, and conventions appropriate to the demands of a particular audience, purpose, context, or culture;
• Write persuasive arguments that articulate a clear, thoughtful position, deploy support and evidence appropriate to audience and purpose, and consider counterclaims and multiple points of view, including international and intercultural perspectives;
• Respond constructively to drafts-in-progress, applying rhetorical concepts to revisions of their own and peers’ writing;
• Analyze multiple modes of communication and the ways in which a wide range of rhetorical elements (both written and visual) and cultural elements operate in the act of persuasion;
• Evaluate sources and integrate the ideas of others into their own writing (through paraphrase, summary, analysis, and evaluation); and
• Write clearly and correctly, employing the conventions of Standard American English.

REQUIRED TEXTS & MATERIALS
The surveil books are required :

• Glenn, Cheryl, and Loretta Gray. The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook. 6th, Cengage, 2017.
• Ringer, Jeff, et al., editors. Rhetorical Choices: Analyzing and Writing Arguments. 2nd, Pearson, 2018.
• Topic readings (See Course Blog)

extra readings will be posted on Canvas. I require you to print PDFs out and bring them to class with you on the days they are assigned, so you ’ ll need printing capability ( VolPrint account ) for printing assigned readings and papers. You ’ ll besides need access to the Internet, a UT e-mail account, and Canvas .

Inclusive access course fee for textbooks

Purchasing the textbooks for this class works on a course fee model. The fee will be added automatically to your student account. By paying that fee, you get copies of Rhetorical Choices and The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook. Once you pay the fee, you can request a free hardcopy of The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook direct from the publisher through a link and code that will be provided to you after the add/drop period ends. You can also pick up a free hardcopy of Rhetorical Choices at the UT bookstore. You also get access to the eBook versions of both texts via Canvas. If you are enrolled in ENGL 101 at UT for the first time, then you should leave the course fee on your account and collect your books from the publisher/bookstore as soon as possible. If you paid the course fee in an earlier semester, you’ll want to opt out of the fee on your student account by August 30, 2019. You can opt out at shop.utk.edu. You’ll continue to have eBook access to The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook. You’ll also get eBook access to the second edition of Rhetorical Choices, which is new as of Fall 2018. You can pick up a hardcopy of the second edition of Rhetorical Choices after the add/drop deadline.

major ASSIGNMENTS, GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS, & DUE DATES

UNIVERSITY CIVILITY STATEMENT
civility is genuine respect and see for others : politeness, consideration, tact, good manners, benignity, amity, affability, good humor and courteousness. Civility enhances academic exemption and integrity, and is a prerequisite to the exempt rally of ideas and cognition in the learn residential district. Our community consists of students, faculty, staff, alumnus, and campus visitors. Community members affect each other ’ south wellbeing and have a shared sake in creating and sustaining an environment where all community members and their points of scene are valued and respected. Affirming the value of each member of the university community, the campus asks that all its members adhere to the principles of politeness and community adopted by the campus : hypertext transfer protocol : //civility.utk.edu/ .
attendance
This class has an attendance policy. I will take attendance at every class meet .

Your role in the class

I expect you to attend every course on time, having completed all assigned readings and homework, and to participate actively and respectfully in all class activities. You should be respectful and heedful in class. If you are aweless you may be asked to leave .

Absences

Missed classes will lower your grade, and after a certain number of absences you will not pass the class. Please read the follow cautiously :

• You may miss up to 3 class meetings without any reduction in your final grade; you should reserve those for true emergencies or university-sanctioned activities (see below).
• Each absence after 3 will reduce your final course grade by 1/3 of a letter grade (for example, from B+ to a B or from a B- to a C+).
• If you miss 7 or more classes (which is about 3½ weeks, 25% of the course) for any reason, including documented emergencies, serious illness, or university-sanctioned activities,you will receive the grade of “No Credit” (NC) and will need to re-take the course. The English Department takes seriously the value of in-class instruction, and so again, missing more than 25% of the course, even for documented medical reasons,means that you will need to re-take the course.
• Two late arrivals (10 min.) or early departures count as 1 absence.
• Missing a scheduled conference with the instructor counts as 1 absence.

If you miss a class:

• If you miss a class, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed; contact me or a classmate before the next class. All work is due on time or in advance, even if you miss class, and work completed in class cannot be made up unless there is documentation of a serious illness or emergency (see “Late Work” below).
• For university-sanctioned activities that cause you to miss class, you must provide me official documentation within the first week of each semester. You will still be required to submit required work on time (or in advance). We will work together to create an agreement about attendance and make-up of in-class work. Please be aware that the 7-absence = “NC” policy still applies to these situations—in other words, that total does not change based on your participation in university-sanctioned activities.
• If you have a documentableemergency or serious illness that keeps you out of class and prevents you from handing in required work, contact me as soon as possible; I willask for your documentation. (See “Submitting Work/Late Work” below.)

You need to be heedful in class. While you are allowed to use your laptop, you should alone use it for what we are working on in classify. If you are not heedful in class, you may be counted as “ absent. ”
GRADES & REVISIONS
I will provide a detail assignment sheet for each major assignment this semester, plus a sheet describing the grade criteria for each grant .

Grades

• I do not discuss grades over email; if you want to discuss your grade with me, visit me during office hours or make an appointment.
• Grading Scale: A (93-100), A- (90-92.9), B+ (87-89.9), B (83-86.9), B- (80-82.9), C+ (77-79.9), C (73-76.9), NC (0-72.9)*

*The minimal passing rate in English 101 is “ C. ” A final course grade of C- ( 72.9 ) or less will result in the degree of “ NC ” ( No Credit ) for the course. The NC will not affect your GPA, but you will need to retake the course for credit.

CANVAS provides a gradebook with which to monitor your progress throughout the course; however, CANVAS may not provide an accurate calculation of your final course grade as some grades (such as attendance, any bonus or extra credit, and revision grades) are incorporated after the last class meeting.

Revisions

You can revise one of the papers ; the grade may be wholly replaced. Revisions are due one the last day of class. If you wish to revise you must :

• attend the in class revision workshops, and
• resubmit you’re a revised and annotated assignment with a Revision Memo (this will be discussed in the revision workshops).

If you plagiarize and receive a NC as the penalty, you will not be allowed to revise the paper. late penalties will hush apply to revised work ( For more information about plagiarism, see “ Academic Integrity & Plagiarism ” section ) .

Written Homework & In Class Writing Grades

Homework grades are either 100 or 0 .

• “Complete” indicates that you successfully completed the assignment in a thoughtful and thorough manner.
• “Incomplete” suggests that while you attempted the homework, your response was either too brief or superficial to demonstrate the learning I am looking for or that your response indicates confusion or an incomplete understanding of the concepts the class is learning.I’ll assign homework a zero if the submission doesn’t really respond to the prompt, shows evidence of not reading, or is otherwise too hasty or brief.
• Your homework will be turned in electronically on Canvas; some I will take up as a hardcopy in class.
• Your in class writing and activities grade depends on your active participation. You may lose points if you do not engage, or if you are distracted by your electronics.

SUBMITTING WORK & LATE oeuvre
belated workplace will be marked down one wax letter grade ( that is, from a B to a C or from a “ crack ” to a zero ) for each actual day late. late homework is not accepted. If you have a documentable hand brake or dangerous illness that keeps you out of class and prevents you from handing in ask ferment in advance, contact me angstrom soon as possible ; I will require documentation of the serioussituation in order to give you credit for work you could not complete on fourth dimension due to such a circumstance .
I am much more likely to give you an extension on an assignment than I am to revoke a deep penalty. If you need an reference you need to ask for it 3+ days/ 72+ hours in advance. This shows me that you have been thinking about your ability to complete/understand the assignment, so that if you are having trouble I can help get you back on track .
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & PLAGIARISM
You are expected to abide by UTK ’ s Honor Statement :
An essential feature of the University of Tennessee is a commitment to maintaining an atmosphere of cerebral integrity and academic honesty. As a scholar of the university, I pledge that I will neither wittingly give nor receive any inappropriate aid in academic work, frankincense affirming my own personal commitment to honor and integrity .
~From Hilltopics
All sour you turn in must be your own ; appropriating others ’ employment, cutting and pasting from the internet, failing to by rights acknowledge sources, turning in shape that was well written or rewritten by a ally, class member, or tutor, providing false attributions of source material, falsifying data, or other forms of plagiarism or academician dishonesty will result in failing the assignment and other penalties, up to and including failure of the course and possible extra university action.All plagiarism and academician dishonesty is reported to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards and the Dean ’ mho Office of your College. Plagiarism is serious ; we ’ ll talk about what it is and how to avoid it throughout the semester .

UTK’s Policy on Plagiarism as Stated inHilltopics

plagiarism is using the intellectual property or product of person else without giving proper credit. The undocumented manipulation of person else ’ sulfur words or ideas in any medium of communication ( unless such data is recognized as common cognition ) is a serious offense, discipline to disciplinary action that may include failure in a course and/or dismissal from the University .
Some specific examples of plagiarism are :

• copying without proper documentation (quotation marks and a citation) written or spoken words, phrases, or sentences from any source;
• summarizing or paraphrasing without proper documentation (citation) ideas and phrases from another source (unless such information is recognized as common knowledge);
• borrowing facts, statistics, graphs, pictorial representations, or phrases without acknowledging the source (unless such information is recognized as common knowledge);
• collaborating on a graded assignment without the instructor’s approval;
• submitting work, either in whole or in part, created by a professional service and used without attribution (e.g., paper, speech, bibliography, or photograph).

In addition to the types of plagiarism listed above, I consider recycling work from another course to be academician dishonesty and doing sol will result in failing the assignment .
As a UTK student, you are held to all the standards and regulations stated in Hilltopics, and I recommend that you read it ( hypertext transfer protocol : //dos.utk.edu/hilltopics/ ) .
THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
The University Libraries are staffed by knowledgeable and helpful professionals and should be one of your first research resources throughout your time at UTK. hera are the two tips for letting the Library make your life comfortable : you can chat with a address librarian to ask a flying interrogate ( about about anything ) and you can request a bible for pickup at Hodges preferably than weeding through the stacks ( see hypertext transfer protocol : //www.lib.utk.edu/ ) .
THE WRITING CENTER & ENGLISH 103
The Writing Center provides detached, one-to-one help to all writers. The prepare tutors offer constructive feedback during any stage of the compose process and will talk with you about getting started on a newspaper, organizing, finding and citing sources, polishing final drafts, grammar, and more. No appointment is needed—just walk in, anytime during the semester .
Locations and Hours
HSS 212: Monday – Thursday 9:00 – 6:30 / Friday 9:00 – 3:00
Hodges Library, Commons North, Room 220G: Sunday 5:00 – 7:00 phase modulation
Contact Information
Website: hypertext transfer protocol : //writingcenter.utk.edu Email: writingcenter @ utk.edu
Phone: 865/974-2611 Twitter: @ UTKWritingCtr
Instagram: utkwritingctr
All English 101, 131, or 198 students are encouraged to enroll in English 103, a 1-credit elective course open to any scholar who would like one-to-one help oneself with writing assignments. Enroll via MyUTK anytime during the regular drop/add period. ( If you are unable to register on-line during the regular drop/add time period, please visit 311 McClung Tower for serve. )
DISABILITIES ACCOMODATIONS
student Disability Services wants you to know : “ If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a attested disability or if you have emergency information to parcel, please contact Student Disability Services at 100 Dunford Hall, 974-6087. This will ensure that you are properly registered for services. ” hypertext transfer protocol : //sds.utk.edu
THE COUNSELING CENTER
The Counseling Center ’ sulfur mission is to promote students ’ psychological, educational, and sociable wellbeing. They provide a diverseness of services, including crisis intervention, individual rede, workshops, and more. If you or person you know could benefit from their aid, contact them anytime .
location : 1800 Volunteer Blvd ( in the Student Health Building )
phone : 865-974-2196
electronic mail : counselingcenter @ vols.utk.edu

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