English 1302 Rhetoric & Composition II Fall 2023

Tim Morris

Section 006, 0900-0950 MWF, 300 Preston Hall

Section 008, 1000-1050 MWF, 300 Preston Hall

Tim Morris office hours: 0800-0850 weekdays, 420 Carlisle Hall

tmorris@uta.edu

office mailbox 203 Carlisle Hall

mailing address Box 19035, UTA 76019

Available textbook:

They Say / I Say (Fifth, UTA edition), 978-1-324-02225-1
or electronic at https://digital.wwnorton.com/theysay5utarlington

EXCEPT AS INDICATED, DO NOT USE PHONES, LAPTOPS, TABLETS, OR SIMILAR DEVICES IN OUR CLASSROOM

When a reading is indicated, please do the reading before class, and come prepared on that day to write about and discuss that reading

Mon 21 Aug: Introductions (1)

Wed 23 Aug: The 1302 Paper Sequence; Assigning Controversies (2)

Fri 25 Aug: Branches, Canons, and Appeals in Rhetoric. They Say / I Say; Who Cares? So What? (3)

Mon 28 Aug: What is writing? (4)

Wed 30 Aug: Writing and AI (5)

Fri 1 Sept: experiments with ChatGPT (DEVICES ARE OK TODAY) (6)

Mon 4 Sept: LABOR DAY; NO CLASS MEETING

Wed 6 Sept: (We will not meet in the classroom today.) Instead bring a printed copy of a (500-word maximum) ChatGPT treatment of your controversy to me in 420 Carlisle Hall, during class time. (Save a copy for yourself; don't bring me the only copy you have.) You should generate this treatment simply by asking ChatGPT to write 500 words maximum on the exact text of your controversy. Include a simple citation: ChatGPT as author, plus the date the treatment was generated. Make sure that the printout includes your name, the text of the controversy you've been assigned, the citation, and your section number (006 for 9am; 008 for 10am) (7)

Fri 8 Sept: in-class writing: Critique of the Controversy. For today, read, study, and think critically about ChatGPT's treatment of your controversy. Come to class prepared to write a closed-book analysis of how you would improve ChatGPT's treatment. What are the limitations of ChatGPT's approach? What more do you need to know about your controversy? What kinds of additional views and arguments do you want to hear? How would you incorporate your own experience and informed opinions into an essay about the controversy? You will not be able to refer to any text in class, so learn your material well.

Mon 11 Sept: going over Critique of the Controversy; scheduling presentations (8)

Wed 13 Sept: For today read Souvankham Thammavongsa's story "How to Pronounce Knife" (in Modules/Readings on Canvas) and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (9)

Fri 15 Sept: How to do the Annotated Bibliography and write citations (10)

Mon 18 Sept: For today read the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel (in Modules/Readings on Canvas) and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (11)

Wed 20 Sept: What do we know when we know a language? For today read William Bright's "Difference between Speech and Writing" (in Modules/Readings on Canvas) and come prepared to write about the piece and discuss it (12)

Fri 22 Sept: Prescription, description, standardization. For today read "Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules" (in Modules/Readings on Canvas) and come prepared to write about the piece and discuss it (13)

Mon 25 Sept: Presentations (14)

Wed 27 Sept: IPA consonants (15)

Fri 29 Sept: IPA vowels (16)

Sun 1 Oct: Annotated Bibliography due by 1159pm in Canvas

Mon 2 Oct: Accents and dialects (17)

Wed 4 Oct: English syntax: noun phrases & verb phrases (18)

Fri 6 Oct: English syntax: canonical sentence types (19)

Mon 9 Oct: Presentations (20)

Wed 11 Oct: English syntax: subordination (21)

Fri 13 Oct: Punctuation & mechanics (22)

Mon 16 Oct: preparation for Mapping the Controversy due by 1100am in Canvas; NO CLASS MEETING (23)

Wed 18 Oct: History of the English language (24)

Fri 20 Oct: Logical fallacies (25)

Mon 23 Oct: Presentations (26)

Wed 25 Oct: Literature: the Western tradition (27)

Fri 27 Oct: Literature: genres (28)

Mon 30 Oct: Children's literature (29)

Wed 1 Nov: in-class preparation for Mapping the Controversy (DEVICES ARE OK TODAY) (30)

Fri 3 Nov: in-class essay: Mapping the Controversy. By today, you will have been studying, researching, and thinking critically about your controversy for a couple of months. Come to class prepared to write an essay-exam style analysis of the different arguments on all sides of your controversy. Identify each major position. Explain who holds that position, why it matters to them, and what reasons they bring to their side of the argument. You will not be able to refer to any text in class, so learn your material well.

Mon 6 Nov: Fall Back (31)

Wed 8 Nov: Presentations (32)

Fri 10 Nov: Medieval literature. For today read Marie de France's "lai" (narrative poem) "Bisclavret" (in Modules/Readings on Canvas), and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (33)

Mon 13 Nov: drafts of Researched Position Paper due by 1100am in Canvas; NO CLASS MEETING (34)

Wed 15 Nov: Early modern literature. For today read Shakespeare's sonnets 64 & 65 (in Modules/Readings on Canvas), and come prepared to write about the poems and discuss them (35)

Fri 17 Nov: Romantic literature. For today read H.C. Andersen's story "The Red Shoes" (linked there and from Modules/Readings on Canvas), and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (36)

Mon 20 Nov: Presentations (37)

Wed 22 & Fri 24 Nov: THANKSGIVING; NO CLASS MEETING

Mon 27 Nov: Realist literature. For today read Giovanni Verga's story "Rustic Chivalry" (linked there and from Modules/Readings on Canvas), and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (38)

Wed 29 Nov: Modernist literature. For today read Edna Millay's poem "Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies" (linked there and from Modules/Readings on Canvas), and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (39)

Fri 1 Dec: Contemporary literature. For today read Farah Ali's story "Foreigners" (in Modules/Readings on Canvas), and come prepared to write about the story and discuss it (40)

Mon 4 Dec: Presentations (41)

Tues 5 Dec: Researched Position Paper due by 1159pm in Canvas

syllabus: The effective version of the syllabus is always at https://tmorris.utasites.cloud/courses/1302f23/1302mainf23.html. If you are looking at a print or .pdf version, please make sure to consult the online version for updates.

grading: Your final grade for this course will consist of the following:

For the Annotated Bibliography and Researched Position Paper, you have 24 hours after the paper is due to correct mistakes (wrong draft posted, deadline barely missed, etc.) E-mail corrected versions directly to me at tmorris@uta.edu (the Canvas assignment will have closed).

Failing credit (50% or less) will be the maximum you can earn after that 24-hour grace period. After 11/3 for the Annotated Bibliography and 12/6 for the Researched Position Paper, no credit can be earned and you will get a zero. You may not revise or resubmit any graded paper (by contrast, sketches & drafts are of course meant to be revised). No work will be accepted after 1159pm Wed. 6 Dec., because I face strict deadlines for submitting my grades.

The two in-class writing assignments (Fri. 8 Sept. and Fri. 3 Nov.) may not be attempted after the due dates. If you have a University-excused absence for either day, please contact me well in advance for arrangements.

Final grades in ENGL 1302 are A, B, C, F, and Z. Final grades will be calculated as follows: A=90-100%, B=80-89.99%, C=70-79.99%, F=69.99%-and below; Z=see the Z grade policy directly below.

The Z grade is reserved for students who attend class regularly, participate actively, and complete all the assigned work on time but simply fail to write well enough to earn a passing grade. This judgment is made by the instructor and not necessarily based upon a number average. The Z grade is intended to reward students for good effort. While students who receive a Z will not get credit for the course, the Z grade will not affect their grade point average. They may repeat the course for credit until they do earn a passing grade. The F grade, which does negatively affect GPA, goes to failing students who do not participate actively in class, and/or do not complete assigned work.

attendance: At The University of Texas at Arlington, taking attendance is not required but attendance is a critical indicator in student success. Each faculty member is free to develop his or her own methods of evaluating students' academic performance, which includes establishing course-specific policies on attendance. As the instructor of this section, I require regular attendance and participation. Absence will severely lower your grade. University-excused absences will not count against your grade. The U.S. Department of Education requires that the University have a mechanism in place to mark when Federal Student Aid recipients "begin attendance in a course." UT Arlington instructors will report when students begin attendance in a course as part of the final grading process. Specifically, when assigning a student a grade of F, faculty report the last date a student attended their class based on evidence such as a test, participation in a class project or presentation, or an engagement online via Blackboard. This date is reported to the Department of Education for federal financial aid recipients.

This course satisfies the University of Texas at Arlington core curriculum requirement in communication. Continues ENGL 1301, but with an emphasis on advanced techniques of academic argument. Includes issue identification, independent library research, analysis and evaluation of sources, and synthesis of sources with students' own claims, reasons, and evidence. This course focuses on critical engagement with ethical and social issues and the development of academic arguments that communicate a specific point of view. Prerequisite: Grade of C or better in ENGL 1301.

Students must pass ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 with a grade of C or higher in order to move on to the next course. This policy is in place because of the key role that First-Year English courses play in students' educational experiences at UTA.

Core Objectives:
Critical Thinking Skills: To include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
Communication Skills: To include effective development and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication.
Teamwork: To include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.
Personal Responsibility: To include the ability to connect choices, actions and consequences to ethical decision-making.

ENGL 1302 Expected Learning Outcomes
In ENGL 1302, students build on the knowledge and information that they learned in ENGL 1301. By the end of ENGL 1302, students should be able to:
Rhetorical Knowledge
Identify and analyze the components and complexities of a rhetorical situation
Use knowledge of audience, exigence, constraints, genre, tone, diction, syntax, and structure to produce situation-appropriate argumentative texts, including texts that move beyond formulaic structures
Know and use special terminology for analyzing and producing arguments
Practice and analyze informal logic as used in argumentative texts
Critical Reading, Thinking, and Writing
Understand the interactions among critical thinking, critical reading, and writing
Integrate personal experiences, values, and beliefs into larger social conversations and contexts
Find, evaluate, and analyze primary and secondary sources for appropriateness, timeliness, and validity
Produce situation-appropriate argumentative texts that synthesize sources with their own ideas and advance the conversation on an important issue
Provide valid, reliable, and appropriate support for claims, and analyze evidentiary support in others' texts
Processes
Practice flexible strategies for generating, revising, and editing complex argumentative texts
Engage in all stages of advanced, independent library research
Practice writing as a recursive process that can lead to substantive changes in ideas, structure, and supporting evidence through multiple revisions
Use the collaborative and social aspects of writing to critique their own and others' arguments
Conventions
Apply and develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics, and be aware of the field-specific nature of these conventions
Summarize, paraphrase, and quote from sources using appropriate documentation style
Revise for style and edit for features such as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling
Employ technologies to format texts according to appropriate stylistic conventions
Paper Reuse Policy: You are not allowed, under any circumstances, to reuse papers from prior classes in this course or any other course that you have taken at any institution. Reusing papers does not demonstrate any advance in knowledge or skill, and so would not be helpful for you either in terms of your learning this semester, or for me in terms of assessing this learning. If you feel your situation constitutes a clear or significant exception to this rule, you must discuss this with me prior to the due date of the first draft.
Grade Grievances: First Year English has a specific procedure that must be followed in order for a student to appeal a grade or any other matter related to their 1301/02 class. First, the student must communicate with the instructor in an attempt to resolve any matter in question. The next step is for students to communicate with the Director of First Year English. The Director will then advise students on the next official steps in any appeal process. Any appeal of a grade in this course must follow the procedures and deadlines for grade-related grievances as published in the current undergraduate / graduate catalog. See http://catalog.uta.edu/academicregulations/grades/#undergraduatetext and follow the tabs to the right.

drop policy: Students may drop or swap (adding and dropping a class concurrently) classes through self-service in MyMav from the beginning of the registration period through the late registration period. After the late registration period, students must see their academic advisor to drop a class or withdraw. Undeclared students must see an advisor in the University Advising Center. Drops can continue through a point two-thirds of the way through the term or session. It is the student's responsibility to officially withdraw if they do not plan to attend after registering. Students will not be automatically dropped for non-attendance. Repayment of certain types of financial aid administered through the University may be required as the result of dropping classes or withdrawing. For more information, contact the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships (http://wweb.uta.edu/aao/fao/).

academic integrity: Students enrolled in this course are expected to adhere to the UT Arlington Honor Code:

I pledge, on my honor, to uphold UT Arlington's tradition of academic integrity, a tradition that values hard work and honest effort in the pursuit of academic excellence.
I promise that I will submit only work that I personally create or contribute to group collaborations, and I will appropriately reference any work from other sources. I will follow the highest standards of integrity and uphold the spirit of the Honor Code.
UT Arlington faculty members may employ the Honor Code as they see fit in their courses, including (but not limited to) having students acknowledge the honor code as part of an examination or requiring students to incorporate the honor code into any work submitted. Per UT System Regents' Rule 50101, 2.2, suspected violations of university's standards for academic integrity (including the Honor Code) will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct. Violators will be disciplined in accordance with University policy, which may result in the student's suspension or expulsion from the University.

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Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) www.uta.edu/caps/ or calling 817-272-3671 is also available to all students to help increase their understanding of personal issues, address mental and behavioral health problems and make positive changes in their lives.

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Academic Integrity: Students enrolled all UT Arlington courses are expected to adhere to the UT Arlington Honor Code:

I pledge, on my honor, to uphold UT Arlington's tradition of academic integrity, a tradition that values hard work and honest effort in the pursuit of academic excellence. I promise that I will submit only work that I personally create or contribute to group collaborations, and I will appropriately reference any work from other sources. I will follow the highest standards of integrity and uphold the spirit of the Honor Code.

UT Arlington faculty members may employ the Honor Code in their courses by having students acknowledge the honor code as part of an examination or requiring students to incorporate the honor code into any work submitted. Per UT System Regents' Rule 50101, ยง2.2, suspected violations of university's standards for academic integrity (including the Honor Code) will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct. Violators will be disciplined in accordance with University policy, which may result in the student's suspension or expulsion from the University. Additional information is available at https://www.uta.edu/conduct/. Faculty are encouraged to discuss plagiarism and share the following library tutorials http://libguides.uta.edu/copyright/plagiarism and http://library.uta.edu/plagiarism/

Electronic Communication: UT Arlington has adopted MavMail as its official means to communicate with students about important deadlines and events, as well as to transact university-related business regarding financial aid, tuition, grades, graduation, etc. All students are assigned a MavMail account and are responsible for checking the inbox regularly. There is no additional charge to students for using this account, which remains active even after graduation. Information about activating and using MavMail is available at http://www.uta.edu/oit/cs/email/mavmail.php.

Campus Carry: Effective August 1, 2016, the Campus Carry law (Senate Bill 11) allows those licensed individuals to carry a concealed handgun in buildings on public university campuses, except in locations the University establishes as prohibited. Under the new law, openly carrying handguns is not allowed on college campuses. For more information, visit http://www.uta.edu/news/info/campus-carry/

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Final Review Week: for semester-long courses, a period of five class days prior to the first day of final examinations in the long sessions shall be designated as Final Review Week. The purpose of this week is to allow students sufficient time to prepare for final examinations. During this week, there shall be no scheduled activities such as required field trips or performances; and no instructor shall assign any themes, research problems or exercises of similar scope that have a completion date during or following this week unless specified in the class syllabus. During Final Review Week, an instructor shall not give any examinations constituting 10% or more of the final grade, except makeup tests and laboratory examinations. In addition, no instructor shall give any portion of the final examination during Final Review Week. During this week, classes are held as scheduled. In addition, instructors are not required to limit content to topics that have been previously covered; they may introduce new concepts as appropriate.

Emergency Exit Procedures: Should we experience an emergency event that requires us to vacate the building, students should exit the room and move toward the nearest exit, which is located outside the classroom door. When exiting the building during an emergency, one should never take an elevator but should use the stairwells. Faculty members and instructional staff will assist students in selecting the safest route for evacuation and will make arrangements to assist individuals with disabilities.

Student Support Services: UT Arlington provides a variety of resources and programs designed to help students develop academic skills, deal with personal situations, and better understand concepts and information related to their courses. Resources include tutoring, major-based learning centers, developmental education, advising and mentoring, personal counseling, and federally funded programs. For individualized referrals, students may visit the reception desk at University College (Ransom Hall), call the Maverick Resource Hotline at 817-272-6107, send a message to resources@uta.edu, or view the information at http://www.uta.edu/studentsuccess/success-programs/programs/resource-hotline.php