Spring 2005TEXTS & MATERIALSCOURSE ACTIVITIESGRADESCOURSE POLICIESCell phones—Make sure that cell phones and beepers are turned off before coming to class. As stated in “Guidelines and Standards for General Education Courses,” receiving calls or playing with your cell phone during class time constitutes “disruptive behavior.” If you choose to engage in those activities, you will be marked absent.WeekDateClass ActivityHomework DueAssignment #1, Narrative essayIntroductionRead & take notes on “Delivery” sections 38-39, 44-48, 92-93, and 143-45 in CELJan. 31: LAST DAY TO DROP without a grade. If you are a Lottery Scholarship recipient, review information included above on page 3.Read and discuss student sample essayPrepare for peer groupDiscuss Relationship essayCONFERENCESMini lesson pronoun useEnglish 1010 fall 2004ENGLISH 1010: Expository WritingSpring 20051010-20 MWF 11:30-12:25 KOM 163Instructor: Karine Gavand e-mail: [email protected]: AMG 305 Office hours: W 8-11 Phone #: 904-8262THIS IS A CONTRACTThis syllabus is a contract between you (as the student) and me (as the instructor). By staying in this class you are agreeing to follow all following guidelines and to be responsible for your own actions.TEXTS & MATERIALS Mauk, John, and John Metz. The Composition of Everyday Life; A Guide to Writing. Brief Ed (2004) Hodges, John C. Hodges, et al. Harbrace College Handbook. 15th edition Smith, Allison D., and Trixie G. Smith. Surviving Freshman Composition. 2nd edition A dictionary of your choice Working MTSU e-mail account (your instructor will use the address automatically created by MTSU to communicate with students. If you have not yet activated your MTSU e-mail account, go to MTSU Homepage and follow the links to do so). WebCT will also be used for various postings, such as class announcements, assignments, handouts, etc.COURSE OBJECTIVES--English 1010 will introduce you to the writing process and give you practice in writing, an activity in which you will have to engage regularly in college and everyday life. The skills you acquire will benefit you in college and throughout your life. More specifically, youwill learn To become a critical reader of your own writing To become a critical reader of the writing of others, including your classmates' writing To use vocabulary associated with writing for the purpose of communicating about the writing process and writing genres To demonstrate an awareness of purpose and audience in your writing  To generate ideas for writing and to explore and limit subjects for writing To draw content for your writing from your imagination and experience and from written, electronic and interview sources and to summarize, paraphrase, analyze, quote from, and document these sources in your writing To adapt the structures of sentences and paragraphs to the purposes of a given piece of writing To become familiar with the revision techniques necessary to create interesting, unified, coherent essays that are adequately developed To edit your writing (a) to ensure that you have used specific, appropriate language and varied sentence types and (b) to eliminate serious grammatical and mechanical errors.COURSE ACTIVITIESReading—The more you know about the composing process, the more effective your writing. For this purpose, you will read (1) chapters from The Composition Of Everyday Life and Surviving Freshman Composition that will introduce you to strategies for writing and reading, (2) sections from The Harbrace Handbook, and (3) essays written by others, including the writing of your classmates.Writing—In addition to an in-class introductory writing, you will submit five essays (550-750 words each) and 1English 1010 fall 2004 REVISE—Effective writing is a matter of rewriting. You will thus complete multiple drafts for the same assignment. During Peer Group or Revision workshops, your peers will respond to your writing with suggestions for revisions which will ask you to rethink and reshape content and organization, thus targeting global issues. We will also address local issues described in Surviving Freshman Composition as grammar, sentence variety, mechanics, spelling, formatting (59) when editing. Conferencing— You will regularly present your writing to your peers and discuss it during Peer Group Response days (see above). However, because discussing one's writing with others tremendously helps to clarify one's ideas and isolate potential problems, we will have two mandatory conferences. Failing to attend these two conferences will result in course failure. GRADES Final Course Grade—To pass the course and earn three credit hours, you must achieve a course grade of C- or better. Also, to be eligible to earn course credit, you must (1) complete all in-class writings, (2) complete at least three drafts of all five essays, (3) meet writing assignment deadlines, and (4) meet all attendancerequirements for classes, conferences, and peer groups. Your course grade will then be determined as follows: 80% average of 5 Essays10% Homework, in-class journaling, in-class quizzes10% Participation (progress reports, peer group work, journaling assignments, etc.)Grading Scale: 90-100 = A; 80-82 = B-, 83-86 = B, 87-89 = B+; 70-72 = C-, 73-76 = C, 77-79 = C+; below 70 = F orN if applicableFinal grades will be reported as A, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, F, N. Students who fulfill all course requirements but fail to achieve C- or better and who are attempting the course for the first time may receive a course grade of N (not passing), which gives them another opportunity to pass the course without lowering their GPAs. COURSE POLICIESAttendance—Because class attendance is extremely important to you and your classmates’ success inEnglish 1010, you will be allowed only three unexcused absences. Only university-sponsored functions (e.g., trips relating to sports, chorus events, livestock judging) are excused. In such cases, you are responsible for notifying me of the absence well in advance, and you are responsible for getting your work in early—before you have to be absent. Absences due to illness, death in the family, and the like must thus be covered by the three allowed absences. Each additional absence will incur a two-point penalty on your final grade. Missing more than 7 classes will result in automatic failure.If missing, it is your responsibility to check the syllabus for homework and