Fall 2014
How to contact your teacher
Dr. Dawn Jackson Bradford
Office N1050
Phone: (713) 221-2706
Fax: 713-226-5205
E-Mail: bradfordda@uhd.edu
M/W 10-11:15 CRN 10370 Rm S822
M/W 1-2:15 CRN 10381 Rm N930
T/R 11:30-12:15 CRN 10535 Rm S816
T/R 2:30-3:45 CRN 10538 Rm N621
Office Hours:
M/W 11:30-1 pm and 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Textbook Information
Everything’s An Argument
Article: The Role of Advertisement
About This Course (3 Credit hours)
Catalog Description
Prerequisite: A grade of C or better in ENG 1300 or placement by examination.
English 1301 is an introduction to college-level communication with an emphasis on argumentation, which is the kind of writing/communication required most frequently in university coursework and the public sphere. This course focuses on writing as a recursive process that includes audience analysis, invention, organization, drafting, revising, and editing; oral presentation and visual analysis skills are used to reinforce composition processes.
Course Description and Educational Goals
After successfully completing English 1301, a student will be able to do the following:
Analyze Texts take useful notes on a variety of texts identify, understand, and evaluate a text’s argument, including claims, reasons, and evidence write accurate summaries and paraphrases of readings, films, and oral presentations
Create Written and Oral Arguments for an Academic Audience produce a clear thesis; an engaging introduction; multiple, focused supporting paragraphs; a logical and effective organization of ideas; and a conclusion that brings the essay to a satisfactory close develop well-qualified claims with reasons and evidence that are appropriate to an academic audience respond to arguments of others with rebuttals and strategic concessions practice invention, planning, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading essays produce clearly worded, concise, purposely