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ENG 312 SYLLABUS: English in its Social Setting (Spring, 2007): MW 9:40-10:30: in BAC 215 (Business Building): 

ENG 312 SYLLABUS: English in its Social Setting (Spring, 2007): MW 9:40-10:30: in BAC 215 (Business Building) INSTRUCTOR Don L. F. Nilsen OFFICE HOURS: MW 10:40-11:40 TTh: 1:40-2:40 in LL 208

FRIDAY BREAKOUT SECTIONS:: 

FRIDAY BREAKOUT SECTIONS: SECTION A (Line Number 18781) BA 396 (Business Building) TA: Ebru Erdem SECTION B (Line Number 60402) ECG G224 (Engineering Building) TA: Olena Tsurska

REQUIRED TEXTS:: 

REQUIRED TEXTS: Eschholz, Paul, Alfred Rosa, and Virginia Clark. Language Awareness, Ninth Edition. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. PowerPoints: Available from your TAs on Blackboard and on Nilsen Web Site: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dnilsen my e-mail is don.nilsen@asu.edu

GRADES: 

GRADES There are three grades in the course The Midsemester Exam The Research Paper (with the Research-Paper Checklist attached) The Final Exam NOTE: I allow rewrites of the research papers.

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1). The midsemester examination covering the first half of Escholz, Rosa and Clark’s Language Awareness. 2a). The Research-Paper Check List must be attached to the final draft of your research paper when it is turned in. You are encourged to work closely with your TA and with the English Department Writing Center on early drafts of your research paper. 2b). The final research paper on English in its Social Setting, or a particular English Irish or American author (7 pages); (NOTE: Papers received late will be reduced by one grade). 3). The midsemester examination covering the second half of Escholz, Rosa and Clark’s Language Awareness. FINAL GRADES: PLUS AND MINUS FINAL GRADES WILL BE GIVEN.

RESEARCH PAPER REWRITES: 

RESEARCH PAPER REWRITES Research paper rewrites are optional, and must be accompanied by the original marked copy and original research paper checklist. Rewrites will not be accepted after the last regular day of class.

HONORS CREDIT: 

HONORS CREDIT If you are taking this course for honors credit you are required to write revise and resubmit your research paper. You are also required to make a 10-15 minute PowerPoint Presentation to the class.

RESEARCH PAPER ON SOME ASPECT OF ENGLISH IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING.: 

RESEARCH PAPER ON SOME ASPECT OF ENGLISH IN ITS SOCIAL SETTING. Your research paper should contain about 7 pages of content. All pages should be numbered and should have one-inch margins. All paragraphs of your research paper should contain proper development, and most of your paragraphs should contain an in-text citation. The research paper must be done according to the format of the Modern Language Association; your instructor will provide you with a 'Documentation' page which will give you information about that format. Your instructor also may have information about your topic which will also use this MLA format. Please double space everything and indent long quotes (5 lines or more) 10 apaces from the left.

SOURCES: 

SOURCES Your Works Cited page must contain at least three scholarly sources (articles, chapters or books). Your WORKS CITED should include only works you have paraphrased, quoted, or alluded to in the body of your paper. Since I will be evaluating your ability to synthesize and integrate other people's opinions, you must cite at least three experts. Be sure to indent or put quotation marks around all quoted materials, and be sure to indicate sources and page numbers. Otherwise a grade of E will be awarded.

GOOD SOURCES AND BAD SOURCES: 

GOOD SOURCES AND BAD SOURCES Professional journals, anthologies, and books are good sources. Audiotapes, CDs, magazines, movies, newspapers, newsletters, videotapes, and snippets (as opposed to extended discussion by a single author) are bad sources. Because web-sites usually don't have peer review, they tend to be very uneven, so be very critical of web sites.

FIRST WEEK: 

FIRST WEEK ENG 312 POWERPOINT: 'Overview of ENG 312' Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Research Paper Checklist Language Awareness 'From Reading to Writing' (1-34)

SECOND WEEK: 

SECOND WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Literary Genres Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Urban Legends Language Awareness 'Coming to an Awareness of Language' (35-76)

THIRD WEEK: 

THIRD WEEK Wed, Sept 6 Language Awareness, ENG 312 POWERPOINT: History of English (esp quotes at end from Roberts) Language Awareness 'Writers on Writing' (77-120)

FOURTH WEEK: 

FOURTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus 312 POWERPOINT: Regional and Social Dialects Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Literary Genres Language Awareness 'Politics, Propaganda, and Doublespeak' (121-214)

FIFTH WEEK: 

FIFTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Usage Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Prose Styles Language Awareness 'Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotypes' (215-290)

SIXTH WEEK: 

SIXTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Humor--Features, Functions, and Subjects Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Semantic Gaps and Sources of New Words Language Awareness 'Men and Women Talking' (291-348)

SEVENTH WEEK: 

SEVENTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: VARIES: Language Variation Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Foreign Words in English Review for the Midsemester Exam

EIGHTH WEEK: 

EIGHTH WEEK MIDSEMESTER EXAM: Covering the first half of Language Awareness Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Syntax Language Awareness 'The Power of the Media' (349-420) RESEARCH PAPERS ARE DUE VERY SOON.

NINTH WEEK: 

NINTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Errors vs. Rhetorical Devices; RESEARCH PAPERS ARE DUE TODAY Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Spanish vs. English Language Awareness 'I Can Sell You Anything (421-492)

TENTH WEEK: 

TENTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Business andamp; Advertising Language Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Body Language Language Awareness 'America Wired' (493-534)

ELEVENTH WEEK: 

ELEVENTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Obscenity Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Parody Language Awareness 'Cultural Diversity' (535-602)

TWELFTH WEEK: 

TWELFTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Cultural Diversity Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Phonology and Spelling

THIRTEENTH WEEK: 

THIRTEENTH WEEK Language Awareness 'Names and Identity' (603-642) Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Names in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unpopular Events Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: American Pop Language

!FOURTEENTH WEEK: 

!FOURTEENTH WEEK Language Awareness 'Glossary of Rhetorical and Linguistic Terms' 643-680) Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Similarity Theory

!!FIFTEENTH WEEK: 

!!FIFTEENTH WEEK Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Gender Variations in English Speech (Men vs. Women vs. gays, etc.) Language Awareness, plus ENG 312 POWERPOINT: Names First Review of the last half of Eschholz, Rosa and Clark’s Language Awareness for final exam

!!!SIXTEENTH WEEK: 

!!!SIXTEENTH WEEK Second Review of the last half of Eschholz, Rosa and Clark’s Language Awareness for final exam Final Exam Covering second half of Language Awareness, ENG 312 Course Packet, and PowerPoints