ENGLISH 101: FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION

Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding Writing Processes and Purposes
First-Year Composition at CMU
Writing Processes
Exercise 1
Writing Situation: Purposes, Audiences, and Claims
Purposes
Audiences
Thesis or Claim
Analyzing Purpose, Audience, and Thesis
Robert Zoellner, I'm O.K., but You're Not Amy Tan, Lost Lives of Women Exercise 2
Final Thoughts

Chapter 2 Writing Assignment One: Reading and Responding to Texts
The Skills of Close Reading and Response
Why Write a Reflective Response Triggered by a Text?
The Writing Assignment
Annotation and Summary
Annotation
Summary
Exercise 1
Jenny Hung, Surviving a Year of Sleepless Nights
Ways of Responding
Exercise 2
Getting Started with Your Essay
Drafting: Ways of Developing the Reflections
Sample Reflective Essays
Alice Walker, Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self Andrea Devenney, When the Other Dancers Are, at First, My Sisters and Why I
Don't Join Them Until Much Later Barbara Ehrenreich, Teach Diversity-with a Smile Jonathan Edwards, Renouncing the Victims
Revision and Peer Response
Peer Response Sheet
Final Thoughts

Chapter 3 Writing Assignment Two: Evaluating the Rhetoric of Editorials

Why Analyze Rhetoric?
What Do We Mean by Evaluation?
The Writing Assignment
Initial Argument Analysis
Emily Lesk, My 60-Second Protest from the HallwayArgument Analysis Worksheet Part I
Rhetorical Strategies and Criteria for Evaluation
The Classical Rhetorical Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Five Rhetorical Strategies: The Five As
Argument Analysis Worksheet Part II
Sample Rhetorical Analyses
Rick Reilly, Sis! Boom! Bah! Humbug! Mary Rosalez, Like Asking Scrooge about Christmas Richard Estrada, Sticks and Stones and Sports Team Names Angie Fenton Friedman, The Right Idea, the Wrong Argument
Drafting the Rhetorical Analysis
Introduction
Thesis
Body
Conclusion
Revision and Peer Response
Final Thoughts

Chapter 4 Writing Assignment Three: A Synthesis

Why Write a Synthesis?
The Writing Assignment
Getting Started
Watching/Reading Bowling for Columbine
Sample Texts for Assignment Four
Ruth Sidel, Introduction to Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor
Women in Affluent America David Hilfiker, The Limits of Charity Ellen Goodman, Where's the Political Will for Help on Child Care?
School Lunch: Erase Stigma, Offer Same Menus for All Students
Parents Wanted: Challenge Your Heart; Consider Adopting Child or Teen
Poetic Crime? Student's Violent Poem Should Be Protected SpeechSample Syntheses
Excerpt #1
Excerpt #2
Excerpt #3
Final Thoughts

Chapter 5 Writing Assignment Four: An Autobiographical Essay about Literacy
Why Write an Autobiographical Essay about Literacy?
The Writing Assignment
Getting Started
Writing the Rough Draft