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ENGL 100-055:
University Writing
Times: Mondays and Wednesdays, 11:00 AM-12:20 PM
Room: PEA09, Sunoka
Instructor: Jeremy Beaulne, MA (he, him, his)
E-mail: jbeaulne@okanagan.bc.ca
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30 PM-3:00 PM;
Fridays, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM; or by appointment
Office: PEC12B, Sunoka Sonny, the NS-5 robot in the 2004
film I, Robot.
I respectfully acknowledge that the Penticton campus of Okanagan College is located on the
traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan People.

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
This course is for students who have demonstrated at the high school level competence in the
reading and essay writing skills required by most university disciplines. Reading and writing
assignments will concentrate on non-fictional prose, and will emphasize the processes of reading,
analysis, reasoning, documentation and the stages of the writing process.

PREREQUISITES:
A minimum grade of 60% in one of the following courses: ABE ENGL 012 or English 12, or
English 12 First Peoples or AP English Language and Composition 12 or Technical and
Professional Communications 12; or a pass in one of these courses and a score of 24/40 (level 4)
or better on the LPI; or mature student status and a score of 24/40 (level 4) or better on the LPI.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The intention of ENGL 100 is to provide students with the composition, critical thinking, and
research skills needed to write university-level essays. Students will be encouraged to adopt an
effective, rigorous writing style: They will learn how to develop theses, organize supporting
evidence, avoid logical fallacies, and revise their work. In addition, they will be exposed to
academic writing from a wide range of disciplines, and they will be introduced to the
fundamentals of formal research and documentation. Upon successful completion of ENGL 100,
students should be able to write clear, convincing academic essays.

COURSE TRANSFERABILITY:
For the most up-to-date information about this course’s transferability, students should consult
the BC Transfer Guide at www.bctransferguide.ca.

RESEARCH PROJECT:
This semester students in ENGL 100 will be participating in a research project titled “Rise of the
Machines: Technology, Transformation, and Transhumanism.” Each student will be
required to write a well-documented research paper examining how recent technological
developments have changed who we are and how we interact with the world around us. Students
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will have an opportunity to write about a wide variety of research sites, ranging from cinematic
cyborgs to online gaming to smart phones. Potential prestige abstractions include identity,
sexuality, culture, gender, class, race, addiction, and globalization. In addition to producing a
unified body of research, this project will provide students with an introduction to the world of
academic discourse.

COURSE-INTEGRATED LIBRARY RESEARCH INSTRUCTION:

A fundamental aspect of critical writing and reading is learning how to do research. Information
literacy, the ability to “recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate and
effectively use information” (American Library Association), is crucial to excellent research. To
assist you with the development of information literacy skills, a librarian will provide relevant
in-class library research instruction in conjunction with your research assignment.

PERFORMANCE TASKS:
Students will be asked to complete the following tasks:
• read a wide range of peer-reviewed academic articles
• discuss these articles with their classmates and their instructor
• research academic topics using library and online sources
• distinguish between credible sources and dubious sources
• write summaries, proposals, and research papers
• revise compositions to ensure that they are clear, logical, and convincing
• proofread compositions to ensure that they are free of grammatical, stylistic, and
formatting errors
• document primary and secondary sources so that they conform with the guidelines of
either the MLA (Modern Language Association) or the APA (American Psychological
Association).

COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:
• identify the rhetorical features in academic articles
• evaluate academic articles in order to ascertain their strengths and weaknesses
• develop original arguments by conducting primary and secondary research
• articulate original arguments in focused academic prose
• contribute to the knowledge in their discipline.

TEXTBOOKS:
Bullock, Richard, Michal Brody, and Francine Weinberg. The Little Seagull Handbook with
Exercises. 4th ed., W. W. Norton, 2021.

Roe, Steven C., and Pamela H. den Ouden. Academic Writing: The Complete Guide. 3rd ed.,
Canadian Scholars, 2018.

*** Various handouts will be used to supplement the textbooks. These handouts will be posted
on our Moodle site.
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*** Students can access a digital version of Academic Writing: The Complete Guide through the
Okanagan College Library. They can purchase a digital version of the text at
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/academic-writing/.

*** Students can purchase a digital version of The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises at
https://digital.wwnorton.com/littleseagull4.

*** Academic Writing: The Complete Guide was previously published under the title Designs for
Disciplines: A Guide to Academic Writing.

GRADING:
Student Info Practice Assignment (due September 13th) 1%
InQuizitive Exercises (10 x 0.50%) 5%
Punctuation and Grammar Quiz (September 27th) 5%
Topic and Thesis Statement (due October 11th) 2%
In-Class Essay (350-500 words; October 18th) 5%
Midterm Exam (October 25th) 15%
Summary (350-500 words; due November 1st) 5%
Documentation Exercise (due November 6th) 1%
Research Notebook (four sources; due November 15th) 2%
Proposal with Bibliography (350-500 words; due November 22nd) 10%
Outline (due November 29th) 1%
Rough Draft (1750-2000 words; due December 4th) 3%
Research Paper (1750-2000 words; due December 6th) 30%
Final Exam (date TBA; December 11th to 20th) 15%

*** Students with more than five unexcused absences will not pass the course.

*** Students who receive a failing grade on the research paper will not pass the course.

*** The final exam period is from December 11th to 20th. Students should not make travel plans
for the final exam period until the exam schedule has been posted.

INVIGILATED ASSESSMENT:
A minimum of thirty percent of the assessment for ENGL 100 will take place under exam-like
conditions. Students must receive a passing grade in this portion of the course in order to pass the
course as a whole.

GRADE EQUIVALENCY:
90-100% A+ 64-67% C+
85-89% A Grades = First Class 60-63% C Grades = Pass
80-84% A- 55-59% C-
76-79% B+ 50-54% D Grade = Marginal Pass
72-75% B Grades = Second Class 0-49% F Grade = Fail
68-71% B-
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CATEGORIES FOR ESSAY EVALUATION:
1.) Content: thesis/argument, insight, grasp of concepts, originality
2.) Organization: logical structure, coherent paragraphs, transitions, introduction, conclusion
3.) Development: relevant evidence, sufficient detail and quotation, integration of secondary
sources
4.) Mechanics: diction, sentence structure, grammar, spelling, punctuation
5.) Format: MLA manuscript format, documentation, Works Cited

LETTER GRADE PROFILES:

A range (80-100%): Outstanding essay displays excellence in all (or almost all) five Evaluative
Categories: a spark of individuality or originality in the argument; an interesting discussion well
supported with evidence from the text; effective integration of secondary sources; a fluid,
sophisticated style. Any technical errors must be minor.

B range (68-79%): Good essay reveals strengths in all of the Evaluative Categories but does not
always succeed in all areas. It demonstrates an ability to develop an argument with relevant
details and integrate secondary sources appropriately. It may have minor mechanical or format
errors but not enough to distract the reader from the content.

C range (55-67%): Satisfactory essay meets university standards in most Evaluative Categories.
It reveals an effort to structure an argument, but its thesis may be tentative and insufficiently
developed. There is a tendency towards vagueness, generalization, and repetition of class
material. Support from secondary sources may be awkwardly handled. Mechanical and format
problems are sometimes distracting.

D range (50-54%): Marginal essay reveals problems in many of the Evaluative Categories.
Although it attempts an argument or focus, discussion of the topic is vague, incomplete, and
lacking supportive detail; it displays more summary or paraphrase than analysis; the handling of
secondary sources may not adhere completely to the rules of MLA referencing; mechanical and
format errors impede readability.

F range (0-49%): Unacceptable essay lacks an argument or focus; it may fail to address the
topic or draw evidence from required sources; it may reveal a serious misunderstanding of the
text or be of insufficient length. Such a paper may contain too many writing errors to be
acceptable at the university level, or it may receive a failing grade due to plagiarism.

For more information, see the “Grading Practices” section of the Okanagan College 2023-2024
Calendar, which is located at https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/calendar#/policies.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS:
In the interest of fairness to other members of the class, students will be penalized 5% for every
day that their assignments are late. Assignments will not be accepted if seven days have passed
since their due date. Exceptions will be made for students who are ill or experiencing personal
emergencies—provided they contact me before their assignments are due.
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ACADEMIC INTERGRITY:
The Okanagan College 2023-2024 Calendar warns students to avoid plagiarism and cheating,
practices that compromise their academic integrity. According to the calendar, plagiarism occurs
“when a student:
• submits or presents work of another person, in whole or part, as that of the student's own
work;
• fails to provide adequate attribution (author/creator must be acknowledged in the text, in
footnotes, in endnotes, or in another accepted form of academic citation) to an author or
creator whose work is incorporated into the student’s work, including another person's
words, ideas, or entire works;
• paraphrases material from a source without sufficient acknowledgement;
• does not ensure the work is the student's own after the student has sought assistance from
a tutor or other scholastic aids.”

In order to avoid committing plagiarism, students should do the following:

• use direct referencing, quotation marks, and in-text citations to indicate any material that
is quoted from another source;
• use direct referencing and in-text citations to indicate any material that is paraphrased
from another source;
• prepare thorough, properly-formatted bibliographies;
• consult with their instructor if they have any questions or concerns.

Another form of academic dishonesty discussed in the Okanagan College 2023-2024 Calendar is
cheating, which “may include, but is not limited to:
• using or attempting to use another person's answers/work;
• purposely exposing or providing answers to another student(s), or failing to take
reasonable measures to protect answers from use by another student(s);
• unless permitted by the Instructor, a student submitting identical or virtually identical
assignments/materials for evaluation, in the case of students who study/work together, or
otherwise, as the student’s own work;
• unless permitted by the Instructor, a student using artificial intelligence tools for
coursework submitted for evaluation;
• sharing information or answers when doing take-home or take-away assignments, tests or
examinations except where the Instructor has authorized collaborative work;
• consulting with another person or unauthorized use or possession of materials or
equipment in a lab, test or examination, including, concealing and accessing such aids
outside the evaluation room during the evaluation period (e.g. emergency evacuation,
washroom break, etc.);
• resubmitting altered test or examination work after it has already been evaluated;
• students communicating with one another in any way during a test or examination;
• accessing or attempting to access examinations or tests before the student is authorized to
do so;
• impersonating another student on a lab, examination or test, facilitating the impersonation
of a student, unauthorized use of another person's signature or identification in order to
impersonate someone else, or benefiting from the results of such impersonation.
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Impersonation includes both the impersonator and the person initiating the
impersonation.”

Okanagan College takes plagiarism and cheating very seriously. Students found guilty of
plagiarism or cheating face consequences ranging from a formal warning to expulsion. In most
instances, students will not receive credit for plagiarized assignments.

For more information, see the updated “Academic Integrity” section of the Okanagan College
2023-2024 Calendar, which is located at https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/calendar#/policies.

AI-GENERATED CONTENT:
When students employ AI language models like ChatGPT to generate ideas, text, and/or
citations, they are defeating the purpose of the course, which is to give students the skills they
need to research, write, and document academic compositions. What is more, they are
disadvantaging classmates who choose not to use AI tools. Therefore, in this section of ENGL
100, students will not receive credit for assignments created in whole or part using AI.

CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE:
Here are some of the things that you can do to ensure that our class is a productive learning
environment:
• Avoid being late for class
• Let me know ahead of time if you have to miss a class or leave early
• Treat your classmates with respect—do not talk while other people are talking
• Restrict your laptop and cell phone usage to class-related activities
• Do not eat during class.

EXTRA HELP:
I encourage you to drop by my office during my office hours if you have any questions or
concerns regarding the course material. I am also happy to chat with you via Zoom—you will
find a link to my “virtual office” on our Moodle page. If you are not free during my office hours,
we can arrange to meet some other time.

Another option is to consult with our campus English tutor, Brittany Rust. She is based in the
Student Success Centre, PEC13A in the Sunoka Building. To schedule an appointment with
Brittany, go to https://okanagan.libcal.com/appointments?u=36840.

If you are a student with a documented disability, you may be eligible for academic
accommodations. To register for accessibility services, please contact our campus accessibility
services coordinator, Gitan Rakhra, at GRakhra@okanagan.bc.ca or (250) 492-4305 (ext. 3242).
For more information, visit https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/accessibility-services.

For assistance with time management, study skills, or personal problems, consider talking to one
of our campus counsellors. Appointments are available in-person or by video or phone. You can
make an appointment with a counsellor at https://www.okanagan.bc.ca/counselling-
services#book. If you need immediate listening and support, you can access www.here2talk.ca, a
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free 24-hr support for B.C. post-secondary students. If you are in crisis, please contact the B.C.
Crisis Line at 1-888-353-2273 or call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433).

COURSE CONTENT (Fall 2023):

The majority of the assigned readings are excerpts from either Academic Writing (AW) or The
Little Seagull Handbook (LSH), our two course textbooks. Additional readings are posted on the
ENGL 100-005 Moodle site, which can be accessed through MyOkanagan.

Our course schedule and readings are subject to change. Please complete the assigned readings
before we discuss them in class.

Students can access the digital version of The Little Seagull Handbook, the InQuizitive exercises,
and other online resources at https://digital.wwnorton.com/littleseagull4. Our Student Set ID # is
759671.

September 6th -Introductions

-Course overview and expectations
-Online resources (Moodle, The Little Seagull Handbook eBook, InQuizitive,
Dropbox)
September 11th -Apostrophes and commas
-P-5: “Apostrophes” (LSH, pp. 441-444)
-P-1: “Commas” (LSH, pp. 426-432)
September 13th -Colons and semicolons
-Sentence fragments
-P-6a: “Colons” (LSH, pp. 444-445)
-P-2: “Semicolons” (LSH, pp. 433-434)
-S-1: “Elements of a Sentence” (LSH, pp. 347-350)
-S-2: “Sentence Fragments” (LSH, pp. 350-353)
-STUDENT INFO PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT DUE (1%)
-INQUIZITIVE EXERCISES DUE: “Apostrophe Errors” (0.5%),
“Omitted Commas” (0.5%), “Unnecessary Commas” (0.5%)
September 18th -Comma splices and fused sentences
-S-3: “Comma Splices, Fused Sentences” (LSH, pp. 353-354)
-INQUIZITIVE EXERCISE DUE: “Sentence Fragments” (0.5%)
September 20th -Punctuation and grammar review
-Research project
-Gladstone and Neufeld, “The Influencing Machines” (Moodle)
-INQUIZITIVE EXERCISES DUE: “Comma Splices” (0.5%), “Fused
(Run-On) Sentences” (0.5%)
September 25th -Genre theory
-Chapter 1: “What’s the Occasion? Genre and Voice” (AW, pp. 1-10)
-Kelly, “Better than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs”
(Moodle)
-INQUIZITIVE EXERCISE DUE: “Subject-Verb Agreement Errors”
(0.5%)
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September 27th -Aristotle’s argumentative appeals: ethos, logos, pathos
-Induction and deduction
-Syllogisms
-Calls for papers
-Research Site + Prestige Abstraction = Topic
-Chapter 2: “Hitting the Books: Research and Topic” (AW, pp. 11-30)
-R-1: “Doing Research” (LSH, pp. 116-129)
-Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (Moodle)
-PUNCTUATION AND GRAMMAR QUIZ (5%)
-INQUIZITIVE EXERCISES DUE: “Editing the Errors That Matter (A
Comprehensive Activity)” (0.5%)
October 2nd -TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION DAY (no lecture)
October 4th -Thesis statements
-Quoting sources
-Avoiding plagiarism
-Chapter 6: “Hills and Valleys: The Big Country of Core Paragraphs” (AW,
pp. 230-241)
-R-4: “Integrating Sources, Avoiding Plagiarism” (LSH, pp. 138-149)
-Thompson, “Smarter than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our
Minds for the Better” (Moodle)
October 9th -THANKSGIVING (no lecture)
October 11th -Developing a research plan
-Evaluating sources
-Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources
-Chapter 2: “Hitting the Books: Research and Topic” (AW, pp. 31-40)
-R-2: “Evaluating Sources” (LSH, pp. 129-136)
-TOPIC AND THESIS STATEMENT DUE (2%)
-INQUIZITIVE EXERCISE DUE: “Incorporating Quotations” (0.5%),
“Punctuating Quotations” (0.5%)
October 16th -Presentation by Eva Gavaris, Penticton Campus Library
-Research as a process
-Scholarly sources
-OCtopus searching
October 18th -IN-CLASS ESSAY (5%)
October 23rd -Research notebooks
-Summaries
-Chapter 3: “Moving Forward: Compiling a Research Notebook” (AW, pp.
41-69)
-R-3: “Synthesizing Ideas” (LSH, pp. 136-138)
-Wagner, “When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How
Social Media Alters Human Relationships” (Moodle)
October 25th -MIDTERM EXAM (15%)
October 30th -MLA and APA documentation and formatting
-MLA: “MLA Style” (LSH, pp. 150-200)
-APA: “APA Style” (LSH, pp. 201-238)
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November 1st -Proposals
-Annotated bibliographies
-Chapter 4: “A Trial Run: Proposals as Research Bids” (AW, pp. 70-97)
-W-16: “Annotated Bibliographies” (LSH, pp. 106-110)
-SUMMARY DUE (5%)
November 6th -Scholarly style: Jargon, euphemisms, clichés, slang, objectivity
-Chapter 4: “A Trial Run: Proposals as Research Bids” (AW, pp. 98-108)
-L-1: “Appropriate Words” (LSH, pp. 384-386)
-L-9: “Respectful and Inclusive Language” (LSH, 409-412)
-L-10: “Pronouns and Gender” (LSH, 412-417)
-DOCUMENTATION EXERCISE DUE (1%)
November 8th -Introductions
-Self-disclosure
-Chapter 5: “Hello, Reader! Rhetorical Moves in Scholarly Introductions”
(AW, pp. 109-150)
November 13th -REMEMBRANCE DAY (no lecture)
November 15th -Theoretical frameworks: historical, new critical, feminist, Marxist,
psychoanalytical, archetypal
-Chapter 5: “Hello, Reader! Rhetorical Moves in Scholarly Introductions”
(AW, pp. 150-178)
-Grimm and Grimm, “Little Red Cap” (Moodle)
-RESEARCH NOTEBOOK DUE (2%)
November 20th -Methods of development
-Core paragraphs: guiding sentences, low-level details, retrospective
sentences, transitional sentences
-Chapter 6: “Hills and Valleys: The Big Country of Core Paragraphs” (AW,
pp. 179-199)
November 22nd -Guiding sentence outlines
-Integrated and non-integrated references
-Attributive frames
-Chapter 6: “Hills and Valleys: The Big Country of Core Paragraphs” (AW,
pp. 200-230)
-PROPOSAL WITH BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE (10%)
November 27th -Logical fallacies: either-or; post hoc, ergo propter hoc; slippery slope;
strawman; argumentum ad hominem; bandwagon; non sequitur
November 29th -Conclusions
-Revising and proofreading
-Chapter 7: “Crossing the Finish Line: Rhetorical Moves in Scholarly
Conclusions” (AW, pp. 242-266)
-Chapter 9: “A Last Review: Revising and Proofreading” (AW, pp. 291-295)
-Sin, “‘That Dead Girl’: Cyberbullying and Suicide among Teenage Girls”
(AW, pp. 295-303)
-OUTLINE DUE (1%)
December 4th -Research paper workshop
-ROUGH DRAFT DUE (3%)
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December 6th -Review for final exam
-RESEARCH PAPER DUE (30%)
TBA -FINAL EXAM (15%)