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English 131.73, page 1 Stowell, Winter 2009 English 131.73 Instructor: Dr. Theresa Stowell Office and Office Hours: TBA Email Addresses: [email protected]; [email protected] Course Information: Credit Hours: 3 Days/Time: TR 11:00 – 12:27 Location: LEN 225 Course Description: This is an intensive writing course designed to help students improve, strengthen and refine writing skills. Research methods are introduced. An end of the semester portfolio of narrative and informative writings and an additional 16 hours of writing activities and workshops are required. (Prerequisites: English 080 and English 090.) Required Textbook: Faigley, Lester. Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond. Brief Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2007. You should also receive the following supplements with your text: The Brief Penguin Handbook (2nd edition), Practicing Peer Review, and Researching Online. JCC Website: www.jccmi.edu Login to JCC Accounts: first seven letters of last name first seven letters of first name middle initial. Use no spaces, for example, Jennifer Ann Smith would login as: smithjennifea Password for JCC Accounts: Your password is your first and last initials, the two digit date of your birth, the last two digits of your birth year, and the last four digits of your student ID Moodle Online Course Site: Click “Online Classes” on the JCC website; login as above. JCC E-mail: Click on “Student E-mail Login;” login as above. Purdue Online Writing Lab: owl.english.purdue.edu. This is an excellent resource for grammar and structure concerns as well as for up-to-date Modern Language Association documentation and citation guidelines. There is a quick link to this site in your Educator site under External Links. Necessary Materials: CDs or a jump drive disk, access to a computer and printer outside of class, pencils/pens, and loose-leaf pocket folders.English 131.73, page 2 Stowell, Winter 2009 Specific Course Design and Objectives: Our Class Objectives: 1. The students will review and be graded on proper grammatical structure of sentences and paragraphs. 2. The students will learn to write precisely and concretely. 3. The students will experience a variety of essay developments. 4. The students will be introduced to MLA formatting for research papers. 5. The students will work on basic college level library research. Basics: You will write four polished essays this semester, including two researched essays following MLA (Modern Language Association) documentation. We will discuss MLA documentation as necessary prior to writing those papers. We will follow a process approach to writing these essays; you will revise drafts and participate in workshops critiquing other students’ work. We will spend the term working on writing as a process – a set of skills that any student can learn. We will begin the process with a review of sentence structure and skills. Then, we will progress through prewriting, thesis statements, support, organization and connections, and editing and revising. We will also learn the basics of college research and documentation. In- class assignments, papers and quizzes will reflect these skills. The course work will culminate in a portfolio of your best work –revised versions of the papers we have written through the term. Daily class periods will vary in format – some days will be lecture followed by an activity; some days will be independent prewriting and drafting with instructor advice; and some days will be peer group collaboration toward revisions. This variety of activity should keep the class interesting and involved. To be successful in the course, we all need to be prepared when we come to class – bringing questions, comments, analysis, assignments, etc. At the end of this document, you will find a class calendar which provides information on what we will be doing from class period to class period. The fourth column of the calendar details assignments, including reading, GPAW activities, some of the in-class assignments (these will vary from class to class, so most will not be listed), due dates for rough drafts, and due dates for final drafts. Reading assignments listed in this column should be completed by the date they accompany. Additional Course Specific Information: 1. All four formal papers must be typed in their final forms. These must be at least three full pages in length (up to five pages is acceptable). 2. Two substantial prewriting exercises and one rough draft that is substantially different from the final draft must be turned in with each paper. These count for points, so don’t forget them! 3. Final drafts of papers must be submitted with prewriting, rough drafts, and peer editing comments. Please submit these items in a simple two-pocket paper folder. Please do NOT put papers in three ring binders or in plastic report covers – just an inexpensive two-pocket folder with the process on one side and the final draft on the other. 4. Late work will not be accepted on either the papers or the in-class assignments unless prior permission is granted in the case of an extreme, documented emergency. If late work is accepted, even in the case of an approved emergency, it will lose ten points per class period it is late.English 131.73, page 3 Stowell, Winter 2009 5. Peer editing points will only be earned if you are in the class scheduled for workshopping and have a completed rough draft in hand. The participation grade may also be lowered if you are not prepared during these scheduled class periods. You must also demonstrate constructive criticism through both verbal and written forms to collect these points. If your rough draft is bad, and your group fails to give you constructive criticism for improvement, full credit for peer response will not be awarded. Two copies of your draft are required on peer response days – one for the instructor and one for the peer group. 6. The four papers will be graded on the following criteria: sentence development, paragraph development, content, form and mechanics. 7. Plagiarism will result in a failure of the assignment on the first offense and a failure of the course on a second offense. You must document any time you paraphrase, summarize or quote from outside sources. Also, if you use outside sources, a Works Cited page is required for a passing grade. See the Academic Honesty


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