Syllabus English 132 Writing Experience Section 16 Room WA 216 Instructor: Gloria M. Shirey Winter Semester M 6:00-8:54 pm Atkinson Email: [email protected] Office hours: By appointment through email Prerequisites: ENG 131 Textbooks: Writing: A Guide for College and Beyond-Brief Edition by Lester Faigley The Brief Penguin Handbook, 2nd edition by Lester Faigley Course Description: This course is a continuation of the writing instruction and practice begun in English 131, with an emphasis on critical thinking, information gathering and those forms of witting useful to academic and professional life. Research wiring is emphasized. An end of the semester portfolio of informative and research writings and additional 16 hours of writing activities and workshops are required. Course Design: This course is designed as a writing workshop, where you will be required to work on your writing, work in peer editing groups and have scheduled conferences with the instructor. You will get the most out of this class when you bring in carefully prepared drafts of your writing, when you request and accept feedback both from me and the other classmates and when you critically re read and revise your original drafts. Clearly, the workshop setting is the focus and highlight of this course. In addition, this course offers Guided Practice Writing opportunities. Performance Objectives: “The Board of Trustees has determined that all JCC graduates should develop or enhance certain essential skills while enrolled in college.” ENG 132 assesses the following Associate Degree Outcomes: - The student uses parts of the recursive process in writing, which may include pre-writing, drafting, and revising, editing, and evaluating sources when writing. - Students demonstrate some awareness of purpose, style and tone in writings.- Students demonstrate functional organizational structure; examples and details generally - Students will research and write for further understanding and additional knowledge. - Students demonstrate documentation of sources when appropriate. - Students attempt and practice correct grammar and mechanics; writing is clear. - There is a clear definition of member roles and tasks to be accomplished. All members take an active role. Task are defined by the group and assigned to all members. - Reaches consensus for decisions and solutions. - Every team member is treated with respect. All members listen to all ideas. The work of each person is acknowledged. Members seek assistance for each other and ask questions. - Conflicts are consistently resolved through open discussion and compromise by students. - Group members assess and evaluate self, individual, and group contributions. GPAW Information The JCC writing faculty has devised a variety of activities to complete a 16 hour requirement for guided writing and practice. It is your responsibility to complete these hours, sure the appropriate signatures, and turn in the appropriate form to me by the deadline. I will give you a handout with suggestions and a time line within the first two weeks of class. All GPAW must be turned in before the last week of class. The Workshop Environment This course will proceed as a workshop. A workshop is a cooperative venture which I will guide, but you and your work will drive the course. This course will require you to be active ely engaged. You cannot simply show up waiting to be filled with information about writing. You will learn the process of writing by fully participating in the process. This will require your full and complete participation. We will work on activities, collect evidence, practice writing strategies, discuss topics, and analyze readings. You will work in groups and individually. It is a standard expectation that college students study two hours outside of class for every hour they are in class, which means for this course you will spend at least 6 hours outside of class each week. When you work this way you will have plenty of time to develop your papers and submit quality work in your portfolio. College Classroom Etiquette Part of learning how to be an effective e professional is learning how to be an active listener. With that in mind, it is essential that students demonstrate courteous class etiquette by following these rules: 1. Actively listen to the person who has the speaking floor(that includes making eye contact, letting him/her know that you are listening) 2. If you would like to contribute to a discussion, wait until there is appropriate break and share your contribution with the entire class rather than whispering and talking to your neighbor. 3. Active listening means that you are engaged in the subject, not reading or wiring on another subject.4. Turn all cell phones and pagers to vibrate or off during class time. Emergency class only should be taken outside the classroom. 5. Actively participate in all group assignments. 6. During class, students will use the computers for class writing and research. Students may not use the computers for other activities including emailing, playing games and other non academic websites. I will warn individuals who participate in such activities during class. After the initial warning, I will deduct in –class participation points. 7. While I’m giving a mini-lesson, all computers are down unless otherwise directed. Grading Procedures All papers and homework must be turned in on time and all late work will be deducted 10% every day it is late. It is the responsibility of the student to read the appropriate section of the text prior to class and complete assignments. If an assignment is missed, please contact the instructor to make arrangements for make-up. Instructions for specific assignments will be given throughout the semester. Papers = 40% Portfolio = 40% Participation = 10% GPAW = 5% Journal = 5% Grading Scale 95-100% =4.0 89-94% = 3.5 84-88% = 3.0 78-83% = 2.5 72-77% = 2.0 66-71% = 1.5 60-65% = 1.0 55-59% =0.5 54% = 0.0 Academic Honesty Academic Honesty is expected by all JCC students. JCC has an academic honesty policy, which will be adhered to in this course. Basically you must do your own work. Plagiarism is submitting another’s work as your own. It is cheating, or helping someone else cheat. Clear plagiarism will be reported to the academic dean for disciplinary action, which can include expulsion from the college.