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English 1010: Expository WritingFINAL EXAM PERIOD (DUE: PORTFOLIO): ______________________English 1010: Expository WritingTheme this semester: journeys, quests, and obsessionsDr. Allison Smith/Fall 2003 Office: PH 328B Office phone: 904-8266Office hours: MWF: 9-11 and 1-3; T: 9-11; Th: by appt.Email: [email protected] (answered only during office hours)Course Objectives: English 1010 is the first course in your two-semester freshman writing sequence. We will be concerned with both the process of writing and the actual text that you will produce. This means that you will not only be graded on the paper assignments themselves but also on the process you use in order to complete your assignments. We will focus on improving your knowledge of what makes an effective college-level essay and will spend time looking at strategies that will improve your papers on the levels of content, organization, word choice, grammar, and mechanics. We will be treating revision and editing as two separate processes, using peer review workshops for both revision and editing, and preparinga final portfolio that showcases writing improvement across the semester. In order to generate ideas for ourclass discussions and writing assignments, we will view films, read models of non-fiction writing in The St.Martin’s Guide to Writing, and do supplemental reading as needed.Required Textbooks:USE THE CURRENT REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS HERE!Required Materials:Dictionary (for personal use and to bring to in-class workshops)File folders: to hold journal entries, to hold papers to turn in, to be organizedE-mail address (note: you must e-mail me your address by the second day of class)Access to the internet and word processing software (MS Word preferred)Two floppy disks (one for you to save all your work and one to turn in to me with assignments)Evaluation and Grading Scale:To pass the course and earn three credit hours, you must achieve an overall class average of C- or better. Although I will use the grade of D in grading papers and assignments, anyone receiving an overall D grade will not pass the class.Essay One (in-class diagnostic) 0%Essay Two (revised and edited draft) 10%Essay Three (revised and edited draft) 15%Essay Four (revised and edited draft) 15%Essay Five (revised and edited draft) 15%Essay Six (revised and edited draft) 15%Final Portfolio (all completed essays with 2 presented as best work) 20%Class Participation: attendance, homework, class work, workshops,quizzes, tests, journals 10%Note: I will use an evaluation form when I grade your papers. Each essay’s evaluation form will focus particularly on writing strategies discussed in class prior to the writing assignment. When calculating your grade, I will take the percentage of the points you earn on the essay to the total possible points on the evaluation form. Use the following scale to convert these percentage grades to letter grades: 100%=A+, 95%=A, 92%=A-, 88%=B+, 85%=B, 82%=B-, 78%=C+, 75%=C, 72%=C-, 68%=D+, 65%=D, 62%=D-, 59.45% and below=F.General guidelines:*Be sure to visit the English Department’s website at http://www.middleenglish.org for more information on MTSU’s policies on civility in the classroom, academic dishonesty, disabled services, and absences/tardies. Also available are the English Department’s standards, goals, writing requirements and grading procedures for English 1010.*Tutoring services: The Writing Center is located in PH 325 for students to receive valuable one-on-one assistance with their writing. Tutoring is available by appointment only; don’t wait for the last minute to seek our help!Paper guidelines: *The theme for this semester’s writing assignments is journeys, quests, and obsessions. Per the English Department guidelines, you will be writing at least five essays of at least 550-750 words each. All essays must be turned in to me in a packet that includes all invention exercises, all drafts of the essay, all revision workshop copies and materials, and all editing workshop copies and materials. Forgetting to include any ofthese parts of the essay packets will reduce your essay grade by 5% for each missing component of the essay packet.*All papers and assignments are due when they are due. However, life happens! You have one and only one exception to this late paper policy; you can turn one paper in up to 24 hours late (but absolutely not the final portfolio) without a grade penalty. Any other late papers after that will not be accepted.*All papers (in-class and out-of-class) will be typed, double-spaced, and printed in dark readable print. In addition, all papers will use a 10 or 12-point font size and will have a title and the appropriate assignment block in the right-hand top corner of the first page. You need to follow these presentation guidelines whenever you turn in a paper to me; not following them will reduce your essay grade.*Be sure to keep all materials in an organized folder. At the end of the semester, you will be turning in all class work, homework, journals, invention exercises, all drafts of essays, and graded essays.Class guidelines:* Attendance and class participation are both mandatory if you want to pass this course. At MTSU, the instructor sets the policy for attendance; be sure to understand my attendance policy before deciding to stay in this class. All absences negatively impact your grade in one way or another because each day of class prepares you for the next. In my class, absences are neither excused nor unexcused; you are allowed four absences for the semester. For each absence after the fourth, your final grade for the class will drop one full letter grade (10 points). The only exception to this rule is for university-sanctioned absences—if you will be missing class for university games, speech trips, livestock judging or some official university activity, please provide your absence schedule to me by the second week of classes. Only by giving me this notification prior to your absence will you be allowed to make up assignments.*If you miss class and do not turn in assigned work before the missed class, you will not receive credit for the work. No exceptions. You will not receive credit for any in-class work that you miss; this is the price of being absent. Even so, missing a few in-class exercises (other than writing workshops) will not lower your grade significantly, unless you miss writing workshops or more than four days of


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