Finally, because this is a composition course, plan on commiting an additional 3-5 hours per week to producing essay drafts, sharing them with me online, and revising them accordingly.
You'll likely require another 2-4 hours per week to learn the words for your vocabulary quizzes. Also, set aside an additional 3-5 hours per week to read the essays and stories in our textbook and to complete the Exercises and the 5x8 card assignments. Make sure to stay focused on our class by visiting the Announcements page each day.
There are also screenplays and articles that are posted on this website, and you'll be expected to read them. Additionally, please plan to allocate much time to this website, for it is where you will find the prompts for each of our essays, and it is also where you will examine the expectations for each essay. Your time will also go toward library research groups, study sessions, review sessions, Writing Center workshops, and office hours. Expect that the time you save by spending 50% less time in the classroom will be wholly reassigned to our weekly online activities/exercises/assignments/discussions.
Students of Hybrid English 1A are not expected to view this extra time as "free" time but, rather, time that is simply reallocated to specific, course-related, online activities/exercises/assignments/discussions/online-chats that will take place each week. The extra time outside of the classroom is intended to stimulate and liberate the self-motivated, driven, purposeful student. Students in Hybrid English 1A enjoy 50% less classroom time than students enrolled in a traditional English 1A. SLO 2: Students will apply MLA format for citing and documenting sources. SLO 1: Students will write an essay in which they synthesize information from multiple texts. This semester I will ask you to engage in two different “ways” of writing: formal take-home essays and formal in-class essays. Writing gives you an opportunity to present your critical thinking abilities in a tangible form. One of the best ways of “claiming an education,” I would argue, is through writing. You will do much better to think of yourselves as being here to claim one.” “You cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education. Of course, if we can accept that we are defined by the words we use, then critical thinking-as represented in our writing-plays an essential role in our ability to undergo mental growth. That is, in this course you will not so much learn about critical thinking as learn to apply critical thinking in several environments: in class discussion, in your written responses, and in “the real world.” My main role in class will be to prod, to provoke, and to keep your learning as active as possible.Ĭritical thinking consists in thinking about your thinking while you’re thinking in order to make your thinking better. I am here to help you construct a serious course of study that will enable you to become a more careful user of language, a better thinker, and a better writer.Ĭritical thinking, as I like to understand the phrase, is not so much a subject as it is a verb. I say that I teach this course, but that is not how I would most carefully define my role. Above all, in the sections that I teach, it is a course about the relationship between thinking and writing. "The function of a great university is to ask right questions, not to give right answers.”Įnglish 1A is a university-level course in critical thinking and writing.
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