ENGLISH 2010
Fall 2006 TR 1:00-2:15 p.m. / 3 credit hours / MC 207
Professor: Dr. Ace G. Pilkington
Office: MC 207 Phone: 652-7809 E-mail: pilkingt@dixie.edu
Office Hours: MWF 2:00-3:00 p.m., TR noon-1:00 p.m., and by appointment
TEXT:
English 2010: The Text
, Ace G. Pilkington (required)
GOALS: English 2010 is meant to help you learn to write clear, logical prose that gets your message across
quickly and easily. It should also help you to think, organize, and speak more effectively. In addition,
English 2010 should increase your awareness of the uses and abuses of language and help you to develop
your personal writing style. Students are expected to master material which includes punctuation and
mechanics, logic fallacies, expository and persuasive prose strategies, and research materials.
DEPARTMENTAL COURSE OBJECTIVES:
Students completing ENGL 2010 will be able to:
1. Understand the importance of correctly assessing the relationship of you to your audience and
purpose.
2. Understand the value of undertaking the writing process in early and in stages, including planning,
brainstorming, organizing, rough draft writing, revising, and proofreading.
3. Recognize the importance of carefully choosing and restricting the subject and creating a precise
thesis statement that will control the selection, arrangement, and presentation of material.
4. Use strategies for creating effective overall structure, including the use of repeated key words,
pronouns, synonyms, topic sentences, transitions, and parallel structure.
5. Know and use organizational and developmental strategies necessary to write individual paragraphs
and the paper as a whole.
6. Write unified, coherent, and developed paragraphs that effectively use topic sentences, repeated key
terms, synonyms, pronouns, and transitions.
7. Compose introductory paragraphs that get the reader's attention, state the thesis, suggest a plan of
development, make positive first impressions, and set the tone.
8. Compose concluding paragraphs that give a sense of closing.
9. Recognize and avoid fragments, run-ons, faulty modifiers, subject/verb and pronoun agreement
problems.
10. Demonstrate mastery of conventional punctuation; and mechanics used in standard written English.
11. Demonstrate a reasonable awareness of style, emphasis, and sentence variety.
12. Recognize and avoid logical fallacies, emotional arguments, and misleading ambiguities.
13. Synthesize research, in a balanced manner, with students' own ideas and writing.
14. Correctly paraphrase, summarize, quote, and cite source material.
15. Recognize and avoid forms of plagiarism.
16. Effectively argue in writing (i.e., persuade readers by using effective rhetorical strategies, such as
sound reasoning and the respectful acknowledgement of opposing viewpoints).
GRADES are based on the following:
GRADED PAPERS—the research paper will be 1000 to 1500 words; all other papers will be approximately 500
words. Papers more than 50 words under or 100 words over the length limits are unacceptable. All papers must
be persuasive essays based on films currently available on video cassette. All papers must be typed on white paper
(double spaced) and stapled in the upper left-hand corner. I strongly recommend that you learn to use a word
processor and produce your papers in that fashion
♦ printing them out, of course, on a letter-quality printer and separating the sheets). Students should be
extremely careful to identify all sources used in papers since plagiarism means an automatic failure in the
