Mondays 10 am -12:30 pm
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.
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
Faculty Contact Information
Before midnight as agreed upon
Lauri Zumwalt
BA-English
MEd-Education Administration
MA-English
MA-Speech/Communication
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
No Textbook for this class. All supplemental readings will be provided.
Grades will consist of the following:
Rough Drafts 10 pts each
Peer Review 10 pts each
Final drafts varying values
Outlines 10 pts each
other grammar and worksheets as needed: usually 10 pts each
90-100% A
80-89% B
70-70% C
60-69% D
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
No use of AI for completing papers, assignments or editing will be allowed in this course. All instances will be treated as plagiarism.
Plagiarism may result in any or all of the following: receiving a zero for the assignment/essay, a zero for the course (without option of withdrawal), meeting with the Dean, expulsion from the college.
Students are expected to arrive on time or early to class and be seated and have necessary materials , laptop, etc. ready by the time class starts. Excessive tardiness or extended breaks during class may result being considered absent for the class period.
Only one class may be missed during the entire 8 weeks of class.
Students missing a rough draft/peer review day will receive a zero for the peer review, and will only receive the rough draft points if it was submitted to the rough draft drop box by the start of class that day.
Schedule of assignments Eng 1613.h41
Sun May 31, 2026 | calendar Event Week 1 | 12am |
| Mon Jun 1, 2026 | Calendar Event First day of class | 12am |
| Fri Jun 5, 2026 | Assignment Outline Rhet Analysis | due by 11:59pm |
| Sun Jun 7, 2026 | Calendar Event Week 2 | 12am |
| Mon Jun 8, 2026 | Assignment Peer Review Rhet Analysis | due by 11:59pm |
| Assignment Rough Draft Rhet Analysis due first thing in class | due by 11:59pm | |
| Wed Jun 10, 2026 | Assignment Final Draft Rhet Analysis | due by 11:59pm |
| Sun Jun 14, 2026 | Calendar Event Week 3 | 12am |
| Mon Jun 15, 2026 | Assignment Class work and lecture | due by 11:59pm |
| Sun Jun 21, 2026 | Calendar Event Week 4 | 12am |
| Mon Jun 22, 2026 | Assignment ROugh Draft Annobibs due at the start of class | due by 10am |
| Assignment Peer Review of annobibs | due by 11:59pm | |
| Sun Jun 28, 2026 | Calendar Event Week 5 | 12am |
| Mon Jun 29, 2026 | Calendar Event Class work and lecture | 12am |
| Thu Jul 2, 2026 | Assignment Final Draft of Annobib | due by 11:59pm |
| Sun Jul 5, 2026 | Calendar Event Week 6 | 12am |
| Mon Jul 6, 2026 | Assignment Submit Citations for Argumentation/Works Cited page | due by 11:59pm |
| Fri Jul 10, 2026 | Discussion Topic Argumentation | due by 11:59pm |
| Assignment Outline for argumentative paper is due | due by 11:59pm | |
| Sun Jul 12, 2026 | Calendar Event Week 7 | 12am |
| Mon Jul 13, 2026 | Assignment Peer review of research paper | due by 10am |
| Assignment Rough Draft of Research Paper | due by 10am | |
| Assignment Coordination Subordination worksheets | due by 11:59pm | |
| Wed Jul 15, 2026 | Assignment Paraphrasing practice | due by 11:59pm |
| Fri Jul 17, 2026 | Assignment Final draft of research paper | due by 11:59pm |
| Sun Jul 19, 2026 | Calendar Event week 8 | 12am |
| Mon Jul 20, 2026 | Assignment presentations of Research Papers | due by 10am |
| Calendar Event begin Argumentation |
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| Calendar Event Course Evaluation |
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| Assignment Fragments, Run-ons, and comma Splices worksheets |
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| Assignment parallelism worksheets |
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| Assignment Roll Call Attendance |
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| Calendar Event work day |
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|Course syllabus/calendar is subject to change.