ENG 125.004N— Introduction to Literature Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:10 pm Spring 2010 Instructor: Nicole Foreman Tong Daytime Phone: (703) 323-2142 Email: nforeman@nvcc.edu Office: CN 128 E Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays- 7:20-7:50 am, 4:30-5:00 pm*; Tuesdays, Thursdays- 1:00-2:30 *I will also be available by appointment with 24 hours notice. Required Texts: Literature: Reading Reacting, Writing Required Materials: • Loose leaf paper • Folder or 3-ring notebook for class and reading notes • A composition or spiral-bound notebook (one subject only, please) for a journal • Writing Utensils (pens, pencils, and highlighters) • Disk or USB port • A good pocket dictionary Method of Instruction: Your participation in this class is essential to your success. You will be asked to engage the text, your peers' ideas, and the writing of others in this class. Does the conclusion of the writer you are reading necessarily correlate with the evidence presented? Be aware that when you present your own evidence you must be logical, as well. Course Description: English 125 is an introduction to literature. Students will be responsible for reading the texts critically and offer contributions based on textual evidence of patterns using proper literary terms. This is a writing intensive course; therefore, you will be responsible for inventing, drafting, and revising multiple papers varying in length from short reader responses to longer essays. I expect that because you have already taken English 111 you will know how to devise a formal argument based on evidence, so you will not be allowed to leave behind what you already know about college-level writing and discourse. This section of English 125 will comingle genres. That is, we will take a thematic look at texts and begin our discussion with what these texts have in common in terms of subject matter and move from there.