Southern Utah University

Course Syllabus

Back to Syllabus Search | Browse by Department
Southern Utah University
Southern Utah University
Fall Semester 2025

Introduction to Academic Writing, Extended (Face-to-Face)

ENGL 1010E-10

Course: ENGL 1010E-10
Credits: 4
Term: Fall Semester 2025
Department: ENGL
CRN: 33014

Course Description

ENGL 1010: Introduction to Academic Writing, the first of the required writing courses, introduces students to rhetorical skills and strategies for becoming successful academic writers. Students will engage in writing as a process through pre-drafting strategies, multiple drafts, peer review, and large and small-scale revisions. ENGL 1010E, the extended version of 1010, provides extended writing practice for students.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Genre Awareness: Demonstrate critical and conceptual awareness of genre in reading and writing — including organization, content, presentation, formatting, and stylistic choices.
  2. Context and Purpose: Analyze rhetorical situations and adapt to the audience, purpose, modalities, and the circumstances surrounding a range of reading and writing tasks.
  3. Language Awareness and Usage: Recognize and make intentional, critical, and contextually-informed language choices across a range of rhetorical contexts/situations.
  4. Recursive Writing Processes: Develop flexible, iterative, and reflective processes for invention, drafting, workshopping, and revision.

Required Texts

  • The Little Seagull Handbook, 5th edition (Bullock et al.)
  • Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (OER textbook available in Canvas)

Course Outline

This course will cover the following major components of effective academic writing:

  • Introduction to Academic Writing: basic principles and misconceptions
  • Introduction to Rhetoric: rhetorical situation; rhetorical appeals; rhetorical stylistic choices
  • The Writing Process: stages and strategies
  • Argument: basic principles and selected types; thesis statements; argument development and support
  • Organization: essay structure; paragraph structure
  • MLA Format: MLA style (paper formatting and citation style)

Course Requirements

Assignments & Grading

Major Assignments (60%)
  • Paper 1: Review/Evaluation, a short essay that reviews (evaluates) a product or place based on specific criteria (15%)
  • Paper 2: Problem + Proposal, a persuasive essay that identifies a specific problem and proposes a solution (25%)
  • Paper 3: Repurposing Project, a substantial revision of a previous major assignment that repurposes it into a different genre or medium for a different audience (20%)
Working Drafts (20%), rough drafts of major assignments
Other Assignments (20%), homework, in-class writing exercises, quizzes, etc.

Note: As students and writers, you are responsible for submitting your own work, and you are responsible for the content of that work. Students who engage in Academic Misconduct (see sections on Academic Integrity & AI Usage Policy and Academic Misconduct) on any assignment and who submit any work containing fabricated quotes, fabricated sources, and/or fabricated or erroneous information (including obvious factual errors) will receive a zero (0) for that assignment (and possibly for the class) and will not have an opportunity to resubmit. Any further instances of Academic Misconduct and/or fabricated or erroneous content in subsequent work may result in failure to pass the course.

Attendance Policy

Regular attendance and participation in class is crucial to your success in this course. To allow for sick days and emergencies, you may miss up to six (6) class periods as "free" unexcused absences. If you have seven (7) or more unexcused absences, your final grade will be reduced by 10 points (one full letter grade). Students who come to class unprepared or who do not participate in in-class activities may be marked absent. Students who do not attend class but continue submitting assignments will receive a zero on those assignments until they meet with the professor to discuss the situation and find a solution.

If you miss class due to an SUU-recognized excused absence (official university events, sports competitions, jury duty, mandatory military or law enforcement activities), you must notify the professor by email at least 24 hours before the absence and must make a plan to submit any assignments due either prior to or during that absence.

You are responsible for learning the material covered during missed classes, submitting assignments when due, or requesting an extension for eligible assignments, even when absent. Class sessions will not be recorded, so you will need to ask a classmate for notes and ask your professor if you need clarification.

Instructor's policies on late assignments and/or makeup work

Late Work, Extensions, & Missed Work
Any assignments submitted late will incur a late work penalty: Canvas will automatically reduce the total possible points by 10% per day late, including weekends and holidays. In Canvas, assignments submitted between one minute and 24 hours late count as one day late, submitted between 24-48 hours late count as two days late, and so on.

To avoid a late work penalty, you may request a 48-hour extension for all major assignments and for some eligible homework assignments (as noted in Canvas). To be considered for an extension, you must email the professor to request an extension before the assignment is due, and you must be attending class regularly. In-class writing exercises and peer reviews are not eligible for extensions; these must be completed and submitted on the days they are due.

Assignments submitted late or with an extension will be graded after the professor has finished grading on-time submissions and will receive limited feedback.

Most assignments in Canvas will automatically lock a few days after the due date/time. Once Canvas assignments are locked, late work and make-up work will not be accepted.

Academic Integrity & AI Usage Policy


As students and writers, you are expected to practice and demonstrate academic integrity in all of your writing and work in this course.
 
Students are prohibited from engaging in Academic Misconduct (behavior that has the effect of causing readers, evaluators, or consumers of a work, data, or information to incorrectly believe the Student is the authentic source of the work, data, or information), including but not limited to Cheating, Complicity, Fabrication or Falsification, Misconduct in Scholarship, Multiple Submissions of an assignment, obstruction, Plagiarism, unauthorized use of translation devices or Artificial Intelligence, and/or uploading course content. Students are responsible for knowing what constitutes Academic Misconduct per this Policy and seeking clarification about what they are authorized to use in completing academic work. It is the responsibility of Students to consult with their Faculty for clarification in any situation in which the need for documentation is an issue.

Students who engage in Academic Misconduct will receive a zero (0) for that assignment and possibly for the course.

Effective writing is a skill that anyone can learn and can improve with practice. Please use this course as an opportunity to practice and strengthen your skills as a writer instead of relying on Generative AI like ChatGPT-5 to produce writing for you. However, should you choose to use Generative AI as a tool for your writing, you must specifically state and document your use of it, including the prompts you used, and submit these statements along with the assignment. Note: If you use Generative AI to avoid learning and practicing the essential skills for those assignments, you may receive a zero (0) for those assignments, even with the required documentation of AI usage.

As a student and a writer, you are responsible for the content of any assignment whether you use Generative AI or not, but especially of any AI-generated content. Since Generative AI is prone to writing factually incorrect statements, inventing fake quotations from real sources, and inventing entirely fake sources and authors, you are responsible for making sure that any AI-assisted work you submit is error-free. Any work containing fabricated quotes, fabricated sources, and/or fabricated or erroneous information (including obvious factual errors) will receive a zero (0) whether AI was used or not, and you will not be allowed to resubmit. Any such fabricated content in subsequent assignments may result in failure to pass the course.

ADA Statement

Students with medical, psychological, learning, or other disabilities desiring academic adjustments, accommodations, or auxiliary aids will need to contact the Disability Resource Center, located in Room 206F of the Sharwan Smith Center or by phone at (435) 865-8042. The Disability Resource Center determines eligibility for and authorizes the provision of services.

If your instructor requires attendance, you may need to seek an ADA accommodation to request an exception to this attendance policy. Please contact the Disability Resource Center to determine what, if any, ADA accommodations are reasonable and appropriate.

Academic Credit

According to the federal definition of a Carnegie credit hour: A credit hour of work is the equivalent of approximately 60 minutes of class time or independent study work. A minimum of 45 hours of work by each student is required for each unit of credit. Credit is earned only when course requirements are met. One (1) credit hour is equivalent to 15 contact hours of lecture, discussion, testing, evaluation, or seminar, as well as 30 hours of student homework. An equivalent amount of work is expected for laboratory work, internships, practica, studio, and other academic work leading to the awarding of credit hours. Credit granted for individual courses, labs, or studio classes ranges from 0.5 to 15 credit hours per semester.

Academic Freedom

SUU is operated for the common good of the greater community it serves. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition. Academic Freedom is the right of faculty to study, discuss, investigate, teach, and publish. Academic Freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research.

Academic Freedom in the realm of teaching is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the faculty member and of you, the student, with respect to the free pursuit of learning and discovery. Faculty members possess the right to full freedom in the classroom in discussing their subjects. They may present any controversial material relevant to their courses and their intended learning outcomes, but they shall take care not to introduce into their teaching controversial materials which have no relation to the subject being taught or the intended learning outcomes for the course.

As such, students enrolled in any course at SUU may encounter topics, perspectives, and ideas that are unfamiliar or controversial, with the educational intent of providing a meaningful learning environment that fosters your growth and development. These parameters related to Academic Freedom are included in SUU Policy 6.6.

Academic Misconduct

Scholastic honesty is expected of all students. Dishonesty will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent (see SUU Policy 6.33). You are expected to have read and understood the current SUU student conduct code (SUU Policy 11.2) regarding student responsibilities and rights, the intellectual property policy (SUU Policy 5.52), information about procedures, and what constitutes acceptable behavior.

Please Note: The use of websites or services that sell essays is a violation of these policies; likewise, the use of websites or services that provide answers to assignments, quizzes, or tests is also a violation of these policies. Regarding the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), you should check with your individual course instructor.

Emergency Management Statement

In case of an emergency, the University's Emergency Notification System (ENS) will be activated. Students are encouraged to maintain updated contact information using the link on the homepage of the mySUU portal. In addition, students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the Emergency Response Protocols posted in each classroom. Detailed information about the University's emergency management plan can be found at https://www.suu.edu/emergency.

HEOA Compliance Statement

For a full set of Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) compliance statements, please visit https://www.suu.edu/heoa. The sharing of copyrighted material through peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, except as provided under U.S. copyright law, is prohibited by law; additional information can be found at https://my.suu.edu/help/article/1096/heoa-compliance-plan.

You are also expected to comply with policies regarding intellectual property (SUU Policy 5.52) and copyright (SUU Policy 5.54).

Mandatory Reporting

University policy (SUU Policy 5.60) requires instructors to report disclosures received from students that indicate they have been subjected to sexual misconduct/harassment. The University defines sexual harassment consistent with Federal Regulations (34 C.F.R. Part 106, Subpart D) to include quid pro quo, hostile environment harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence, and stalking. When students communicate this information to an instructor in-person, by email, or within writing assignments, the instructor will report that to the Title IX Coordinator to ensure students receive support from the Title IX Office. A reporting form is available at https://cm.maxient.com/reportingform.php?SouthernUtahUniv

Non-Discrimination Statement

SUU is committed to fostering an inclusive community of lifelong learners and believes our university's encompassing of different views, beliefs, and identities makes us stronger, more innovative, and better prepared for the global society.

SUU does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex (including sex discrimination and sexual harassment), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, ancestry, disability status, pregnancy, pregnancy-related conditions, genetic information, military status, veteran status, or other bases protected by applicable law in employment, treatment, admission, access to educational programs and activities, or other University benefits or services.

SUU strives to cultivate a campus environment that encourages freedom of expression from diverse viewpoints. We encourage all to dialogue within a spirit of respect, civility, and decency.

For additional information on non-discrimination, please see SUU Policy 5.27 and/or visit https://www.suu.edu/nondiscrimination.

Pregnancy

Students who are or become pregnant during this course may receive reasonable modifications to facilitate continued access and participation in the course. Pregnancy and related conditions are broadly defined to include pregnancy, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, lactation, related medical conditions, and recovery. To obtain reasonable modifications, please make a request to title9@suu.edu. To learn more visit: https://www.suu.edu/titleix/pregnancy.html.

Disclaimer Statement

Information contained in this syllabus, other than the grading, late assignments, makeup work, and attendance policies, may be subject to change with advance notice, as deemed appropriate by the instructor.