English 132.01 and .05 Winter 2009 Amy Zicafoose Section 1 meeting times 8:00-9:25 Monday/Wednesday WA 219 Section 5 meeting times 9:30-11:00 Monday/Wednesday WA 219 Office hours: BW 230 by appointment only. I am on campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-2:00 pm but can meet you on other days if needed. Email: [email protected] Phone: 787-0800 extension 8371 call me at home only if absolutely necessary. Textbook: The Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond, a brief edition Lester Faigley, and The Brief Penguin Handbook Course Structure and Purpose: This course is a continuation of English 131. Completing this course successfully ensures that you will be ready to face the writing challenges which await you in upper level undergraduate and graduate work. University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, and Michigan Sate University accept successful completion of Eng. 132 in their transfer programs. This is a rigorous course. The writing in this course emphasizes writing for academic purposes. We will be writing three major papers, among other shorter papers and in class group projects and individual in class writing. You will be challenged by the writing assignments and intellectually stretched in revising the papers. You will work hard in this class, and it will pay off. Thank you for taking this course and for taking writing skill building seriously. In order to successfully complete this course you must demonstrate the following skills: You must have an effective plan in your essays including a thesis statement for each essay. You must revise each paper assignment at least once, preferably twice. You must demonstrate that you understand each writing assignment, can identify writing strategies in your own work as well as the work of your classmates. You must participate in at least 3 in class writing assignments. You must pass the portfolio component of this class with a 2.0 or better. Your writing must reflect college level syntax and vocabulary. Pay special attention to grammar punctuation and paragraph structure. Course Policy: Attendance: It is important you are here for class and prepared for each class. If you miss more than 3 classes it will negatively affect your final grade. Missing any class is not desirable, but at times unavoidable, if you need to miss a class, please let me know via email. Inattention in class: If you are physically in class but mentally engaged elsewhere you are not truly present. By inattention I mean that you are surfing the net, checking your mail, talking online, or other such activities. If you have spent most of the time in classdisengaged, you will be counted absent. Please turn off your cell phone at the beginning of class. Tardiness: Students who consistently come to class late will receive a point reduction for attendance. Late Papers: I will accept late papers for review and comments, but if a paper is late without a prior arrangement with me you will forfeit all of your points for meeting the paper deadline. If you are having difficulty with an assignment I expect you to inform me during the early stages of the writing assignment, not the night before. Paper format: all papers must be word processed. Use New Times Roman, 12 size font for all writing assignments. All papers must be at least 4 pages long. All papers will be double spaced with your name and section number in the upper right hand corner of the first page. Each paper needs to be at least 6 pages. You must submit 12 pages of text for your final portfolio. You need to submit writings that show a variety of topics, and treatments. You will be including at least two formal essays in your final portfolio. Three major writing assignments will be required of you this semester. You must meet the assignment’s due date to receive all the points for that assignment. You will not receive a letter grade on the paper until you feel that the paper is portfolio ready, at that time I will give the paper a grade based on a 4.0 scale. Due dates are as follows below: January 28 first draft of paper #1 due February 25 first draft of paper #2 is due March 25 first draft of paper #3 is due Grading procedure: Possible points: 400 Meeting paper deadlines 100 Revisions of writings 100 GPAW hours 20 Portfolio 180 Students will need to meet all paper due dates to receive the maximum number of points per paper. For example, each paper will be worth 33.33 points. In order to receive all 33.33 points for a paper, the student will have to meet the page requirements, formatting requirements, and content development rubric requirements. Listed below are the grading rubric I use for each first draft.Format Papers are to be word processed using a size 12 font, New Times Roman font. One inch margins all around, using a title page with an audience statement and a purpose statement and a working title. Each paper is to be at least four full pages long. Content The first draft is to have a central idea clearly stated in a thesis statement. Ideas should be easily identified and developed to the student’s best ability for a first draft level. Paragraphs are to be delineated in conventional format. Each paragraph needs to have a topic sentence which is developed within the paragraph itself. All papers need to be proofread before you submit them to me—including the first draft I see. Don’t confuse proofreading with spell check. Yes, I do want you to use spell check, but do not rely on spell check alone. You need to read your papers aloud and/or have someone else proofread your papers. Yes, even your first drafts. I will be looking at your paper’s purpose and audience as they are central to every piece of writing you do. If you don’t know why you are writing or to whom you are writing, you will not be successful in your written communication attempts. Purpose and Audience statements are not something we add to a portfolio piece, they are Integral to each piece of writing you will do in this class and beyond. A grading rubric is the standard used in judging your work. Rubrics help students clarify intended learning outcomes. Reveal the standards of the discipline and involve the student in recognizing expectations. JCC has specific Associate Degree Outcomes that have been agreed upon with the faculty at large. English 132 is one class that emphasizes the basic Associate Degree Outcome of students being able to write