The student will master the writing process, including strategies for invention, organization, revision, and editing. The student will develop critical skills in reading, thinking and writing. Writing assignments will emphasize analysis and argument and the student will master research writing and documentation. All formal essays will require research. AAS: Communications elective. IAI: C1 900.
Appropriate assessment score or ENGL 1422 with a grade of C or better - Must be taken either prior to or at the same time as this course.
Course Alignment
General Education Outcomes are the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and behaviors that students are expected to develop as a result of their overall experiences with any aspect of the college, including courses, programs, and student services, both inside and outside of the classroom. The General Education Outcomes specifically learned in this course are:
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Responsibility
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Faculty Contact Information
By Appointment Only... please email jkirchner@kcc.edu
Jan Kirchner is a multi-genre indie author whose writing explores the emotional
terrain between light and shadow. She is the author of several poetry collections,
including Holes in Your Umbrella and Borderline, as well as novellas such as A Love
Stolen in Time and A Book Club Survivor’s Guide. Her work often centers on themes
of mental health, identity, longing, and the quiet power of everyday survival.
A lifelong writer and storyteller, Jan holds a Master’s degree in English and Creative
Writing and teaches college writing courses as an adjunct professor. She also runs a
personal blog, Ghosts in the Glass, where she shares reflections on writing, life, and
the ever-changing weather of the mind.
Whether she’s crafting poetry that speaks to emotional truth or suspenseful fiction
with a twist, Jan is passionate about creating stories that resonate—and helping
others feel a little less alone in the process.
Course Information
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Use invention, drafting, revising, and editing strategies to write academic papers
- Write claims that are appropriate for assignment requirements
- Effectively organize paragraphs to suit the rhetorical situation
- Support claims and generalizations with adequate and relevant details, examples, explanation, and evidence
- Analyze and evaluate the use of rhetorical appeals in a variety of nonfiction texts
- Apply the principles of rhetoric in student writing assignments
- Correctly integrate and document outside sources through signal phrases, parenthetical citations, and a works cited page
- Apply self- and peer- review strategies for revision and improvement
- Create and share a multimodal project
- Utilize standard grammar, spelling, and mechanics for clarity, tone, and style
- Rhetoric: Style, strategies, devices, tools, and appeals; relationship to audience
- Research: Credibility, integration, citation and documentation, research as inquiry, types of sources, role of research librarian
- Composition: Focus, coherence, development, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions
- Reading: Engagement with texts: annotation, outlining, vocabulary; critical analysis of texts including non-fiction, academic writing
- Criticality: Intellectual empathy, originality in thought, context of social and cultural contexts, diverse viewpoints
- Multimodality: Integration of visual, textual, and oral elements; methods of engaging audience; rhetorical awareness
Access to a computer and reliable internet.
- Rhetorical Analysis: 2-4 sources, 4+ pages
- Argument: 4-6 sources, 6+ pages
- Synthesis-based Annotated Bibliography: 6-8 sources, 5+ pages
- A multimodal project
Course Writing Assignments for English I: ENGL 1613
Students will complete, at minimum, 3 major writing assignments and a multimodal project. This will help hone skills of observing, reflecting, making and supporting claims, and finding research for evidence/support. Source material should not overwhelm the student’s own voice.
- Rhetorical Analysis: 2-4 sources, 4+ pages
- Argument: 4-6 sources, 6+ pages
- Synthesis-based Annotated Bibliography: 6-8 sources, 5+ pages
- A multimodal project
Assignments may be given in any order.
Liberal Arts & Sciences
Dean, Jennifer Huggins; 815-802-8484; R310; jhuggins@kcc.edu; Division Office- W102; 815-802-8700
Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty:
All assignments submitted must be the student’s
own work with research properly cited in MLA 2019 style.
Plagiarism is defined as representing the words or ideas of another writer as one’s own. Plagiarism will result in an immediate final grade of F in the course without exception with no chance for withdrawal. Submitting work or statistical information from internet sites and databases as your own original work constitutes both cheating and plagiarism and will result in an immediate final grade of F in the course without exception.
Academic Dishonesty
In addition, work written for other courses or submission of work that has been acquired from other students or written by family members, classmates, or friends will result in a final grade of F in the course without exception. Other instances of academic dishonesty, such as changing fonts, margins, line spacing, or type sizes on punctuation to lengthen papers will result in an immediate grade of F in the course
without exception and with no chance for withdrawal. Any incidence of plagiarism or academic dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of Student Services and may result in additional academic discipline and possible academic suspension at the instructor’s discretion. (See College Catalog 16.2b)
Technology
Issues like computer crashes, internet problems, faulty email, etc. are not valid reasons for turning in homework or papers late. Problems such as those mentioned can be eliminated if you save assignments to multiple locations and work on assignments in advance to minimize last minute problems. Also, have a backup plan for computer access in the case that your system does go down. Taking these precautions will potentially prevent you from failing class due to bad luck or circumstance.
Please direct your login, password, and tech problems to the ITS department.
Preparing for the Rhetorical Analysis
Week 1 – Getting “woke” to what college expects of you; managing time; the
expectations of this class; your responsibilities..
Week 2 – focus and thesis statements; rhetorical appeals; rhetorical analysis of ads.
Week 3 – audience, tone, diction.
Week 4– logical fallacy and source credibility
Week 5 – Navigating research for MLA; detecting plagiarism.
Week 6 Annotated Bibliography for Argument Paper
Preparing for the Annotated Bibliography
Week 7 – Learning the Annotated Bibliography + practice synthesizing sources
Week 8 – Midterm Check
Week 9 – student examples of Annotated Bibliography.
Week 10 Practice and workshop for the Annotated Bibliography.
Preparing for the Academic Argument
Week 11 Academic argumentation, choosing an arguable topic
Week 12 – Multimodal Presentations
Week 13 – TBD, if applicable.
College Policies, Resources and Supports
For information related to the Student Code of Conduct Policy, Withdrawal Policy, Email Policy, and Non- Attendance/Non-Participation Policy, please review the college’s Code of Campus Affairs and Regulations webpage, which can be found at catalog.kcc.edu under the Academic Regulations & Conduct Guide.
KCC offers various academic and personal resources for all students. Many services are offered virtually, as well as in person. Please visit Student Resources - Kankakee Community College to access student resources services such as:
- Clubs and organizations
- Counseling and referral services
- Office of disability services
- Student complaint policy
- Transfer services
- Tutoring services, etc.
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