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Writing Experience: English 131, Section 10Instructor: Josh Webster (you may call me Josh)Class Location and Times: Tuesday and Thursday, (9:30 a.m. to 10:57 a.m.Office: Adjunct Faculty Office, Bert Walker Hall, Room 231 English Department: (517) 796-8582Email: [email protected] Hours: Thursday 11:00 to 12:30, Friday 12:05 to 1:00 and by appointmentCourse Description:“This is an intensive writing course designed to help students improve, strengthenand refine writing skills. Research methods are introduced. An end of the semester portfolio of narrative and informative writings and an addition 16 hours of writing activities and workshops are required.” (Prerequisites: English 080 andEnglish 090)Required Materials: Writing: A Guide For College and Beyond (Brief Edition) by Lester Faigley, The Brief Penguin Handbook, 2nd Ed. By Lester Faigley, Practicing Peer Review and Researching Online Supplements. Texts are available in the campus bookstore. In addition, take note that four years of MYCOMPLAB access are included in thepurchase price of your textbook. A 3.5’’ HD disk, zip disk or jump drive disk for file transfers (while files can be moved by e-mail, it is not the most reliable method) A computer with word processing software and internet access you can use outside of class Writing implements and a notebook of some sort Six two-pocket folders (one for each paper, one for the portfolio and one for GPAWs).Course Purpose: Why We Write“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what itmeans. What I want and what I fear.”Joan DidionAs a form of communication, the media that fall under the heading of writing serve various public, private, practical and creative purposes. Writing, which includes any sort of communicative medium that uses printed language, is:- Public in the sense that written documents are employed by public institutions such as corporations, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies to communicate policies, influence individual opinions and conduct day to day affairs. Legal documents, corporate and scientific reports, newspapers and press releases are all forms of public writing.-1-- Private in the sense that individuals use writing in their daily lives to express theirideas, explore their emotions and communicate with one another. Personal journals, blogs, e-mails and letters are all examples of private writing.- Practical in the sense that writing is a privileged form of communication that individuals use to advance themselves in workplace, social and academic settings.Letters of application (for jobs or admission to educational institutions), reports and papers written for academic institutions, corporations and other organizations are all examples of writing’s practical applications.- Creative in the sense that writing allows us to explore our individual minds, emotions and ideas as well as the potential inherent in the world around us. Writing even allows us to create new worlds woven from nothing but the fabric ofour own imaginations. The producers of autobiographies, novels, short stories, poetry, screenplays, comic books and video games all rely on the creative potential of writing.The boundaries between these applications of writing are often blurred and, in many cases, a single piece of writing can be applied in a variety of circumstances and ways. Thomas Paine’s essay “Common Sense”, a creative vision of a democratic society in which personal freedom and human rights reign supreme, became the practical inspiration for The U.S. Constitution. Martin Luther King’s private dream of a world in which all people are considered equal became a public mission embodied by the Civil Rights Movement. All types of writing, to some extent, possess the power to alter the society and world in which they are created.Writing is also a cognitive process, a way that we, as individuals, explore ourselves; our thoughts, our ideas, our beliefs, our emotions, our dreams. When we write we define and refine our thinking as the process of writing calls upon us to put our ideas into words we can reflect on and share with the rest of the world. It is when we reflect on the things we and others have written, the things we and they have thought, that we learn to question our own beliefs and, by extension, how to examine and question the ideas and beliefs that drive our world. Ultimately, however, this process must start with you.In this class we will focus just as much (if not more) on the cognitive process of writing as we will on writing’s applications, or, to phrase it another way, the purpose of this class is to explore how you write as well as what you write. To this end, you will be required to produce papers that effectively communicate your ideas but you will also be required to reflect on the thinking that produced those papers and ideas that they embody.By reflecting on your own writing process you will grow as a writer, learn how to approach a number of different types of writing and prepare yourself for future writing endeavors. Writing effectively, like performing a magic trick, is a matter of understanding how it’s done and practice.In addition to the purpose stated above, this course is designed to fulfill specific Associate Degree Outcomes established by Jackson Community College for its students.These goals are set to ensure students meet the standards of their chosen profession and/or the requirements for future endeavors in higher education. The ADO’s addressed in this course include:- Writing Clearly, Concisely, and Intelligibly (Developing Level), ADO #1-2-o To meet this objective, we will: study and practice writing as a multi-staged process; explore how audience and purpose affect the form and content of writing; improve upon existing, and discover new methods of organizing ideas in written communications; give greater depth to our writing through research and elaboration; explore methods of integrating and documenting the use of outside sources in our writing; develop a greater fluency in the rules of grammar and mechanics.- Working in Small Groups (Developing Level), ADO #9o To meet this objective, we will: share our writing with other members of the class; comment on the writings of fellow classmates; demonstrate our ability to function cohesively in peer writing groups; display our respect for fellow classmates and the differences


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