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COURSE TEACHING MATERIALS


To teach your courses, you will need textbooks, a grade book, and keys to computer classrooms (if you are assigned to teach in one). You can collect these items from the English Department. Students at SIUE rent their textbooks, rather than purchase them. Textbooks for each course are adopted by individual departments for a minimum of three years. You can ask students to purchase supplemental texts in ENG 101 and ENG 102 for a ‘special focus’ course.

You should have prepared by the first day of class a syllabus or schedule of assignments for your students. The course assignments themselves do not have to be distributed with the syllabus, although you might want to briefly describe the kind of assignments that your students will undertake. Your syllabus should also include information on how students can contact you and when they can visit you in your office (remember to post your office hours outside of your office door the first week of class). If you are going to require additional purchase texts or materials, include those on the syllabus. Students like to know how much they have to spend in each of their courses. If you require particular types of folders, binders, pens, floppy disks, and so forth, you should list them on the syllabus. The titles of English 101 and English 102 textbooks and sample syllabi for the two courses follow.


Textbooks:

English 101

Bloom and White, Inquiry: Questioning, Reading, Writing
Ramage & Bean, Allyn and Bacon Guide to Writing (Brief Edition)
McQuade & McQuade, Seeing and Writing 2nd edition
Hairston, Ruszkiewicz and Friend, Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers


English 102

Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters, Everything’s an Argument
Selzer, Argument in America: Essential Issues, Essential Texts
Spatt, Writing From Sources 6th edition
Palmquist, Bedford Researcher
Hairston, Ruszkiewicz and Friend, Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers


You may order supplemental texts for student purchase. See one of the secretaries in the English Department office for more information.


For sample syllabi and sample student papers, viewable both with and without instructor comment, please see the "Portfolios" page of the English Composition Pilot Assessment Project website.


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