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A Sense of Community: Exposition and ArgumentationEnglish 1000:64Fall 2014 Middlebush 206MWF 10-10:50INSTRUCTOR: Bethany PetrikOFFICE: 325 TateOFFICE HOURS:1:30-3 on M & F, and by appt.EMAIL: [email protected] AND MATERIALS- Rammage, Bean, and Johnson. The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing, 6thEdition- Copies of additional readings, available on the web or as handouts- Folder & USB drive to hold all work for the class: save everything!COURSE DESCRIPTIONEnglish 1000 provides students with the rhetorical foundations that prepare them for the demands of academic writing, especially the kinds of assignments encountered in writing-intensive classes. In general, you’ll be working with sources of various kinds to make claims about issues that are up for debate and to design documents that will appeal to readers. You’ll alsopractice different ways of approaching writing assignments, including ways of gathering sources, taking notes and finding patterns, and producing documents that meet different goals. This course will also teach students to develop rhetorical sensitivity by responding to the writing of others and by using the suggestions of their teacher and their peers to improve their own writing.In our readings and research, this class will focus on the concept of community, specifically the sense of unity that community affords our daily life, our larger knowledge of the world, and how we relate to others. Each student will choose a community that interests them, whether they are a part of it or not. We’ll take time as a class to identify the ways in which we are impressed or affected by communities, and how we take away new insight or ideas. We’ll also build upon our initial reaction by doing research2on certain areas or questions that are related, which we’ll then use to shape arguments in our later formal research assignments.READING ASSIGNMENTSYou will have two kinds of reading assignments in this course: instructional reading assignments from the textbook, and more analytical reading assignments of both popular and scholarly texts. Careful reading—in which you consider what a person is saying, why s/he is saying it, and how s/he is saying it—is an essential prerequisite to effective writing. Please read all assignments carefully, marking passages that seem particularly important and writing questions and comments in the margins. You’ll get the most fromyour reading if you read each analytical reading assignment at least twice—quickly the first time, then more slowly the second time. I’ll often ask you to write short responses and summaries to reading assignments (see “Informal writing assignments,” below); careful reading and annotation will enable you to do these short writing assignments well.WRITING ASSIGNMENTSInformal Writing: As you can see in the Unit I schedule, I’ll ask you to write something for almost every class period (though you will have a few writing-free days.) These short (usually 300 word) assignments are meant to provide you with opportunities for thinking about what you have read and developing ideas forfuture writing assignments. I am not concerned with how “polished” these assignments are: they need not be focused or grammatically perfect. What I will be looking for instead is evidence that you have thought carefully and responsibly about the reading.For these assignments, I’ll ask you to bring a typed hard copy of your informal writing to class. I’ll write a brief response and tell you whether the assignment will get full credit, half credit, or no credit. In order to receive full credit for the assignment, you will need to:- submit the assignment on time (by the beginning of class)- be in class on the day the assignment is due- demonstrate, through the quality of your response, that you have read and thought about the assignmentIf you miss an informal assignment, you may submit it one class period after the initial due date for partial credit. Please note that you’ll receive only partial credit if you submit an assignment via email but miss class that day, unless you have cleared it with me. Any writing done in class cannot be made up.Be sure to save all informal writing assignments on a USB drive and/or print a3hard copy for yourself; you will often use these informal assignments as you compose your formal writing assignments. There will be a total of 12 Informal Writing Assignments, with the lowest two dropped for a total of ten. Each informal assignment will be graded accordingto this formula:Full credit = 10 pointsPartial credit = 5 pointsNo credit = 0 points These grades will then be added together and that total will serve as your final Informal Writing grade.Reflective Writing: After you complete each Formal Writing Assignment, I will ask that you write about your own writing. These reflective writing assignments are meant to enable you to gain facility in self-evaluation and to help you develop confidence as a writer and thinker. The three informal pieces of Reflective Writing will also be assessed on a credit, half credit, no credit basis, with the total serving as your final Reflective Writing grade.Peer Review: Each Formal Writing Assignment will go through at least two drafts before being submitted. The first draft of each assignment will be read and commented on by a group of peers. In turn, each of you will be responsible for writing comments in response to the drafts of your peers. Youwill need to type up your comments and give a copy to me and to the writer. As for the other Informal Writing assignments, you’ll receive credit (or half credit, no credit) for each set of comments, and your grade will be determined in the same way as for the Reflective Writing Assignments. Because we’ll be workshopping papers, it will be impossible to keep your writing anonymous. Keep in mind that everything you write in this class will likely be read by other members of class.Formal Writing Assignments: You will write a total of three Formal Assignments, each of which will be assigned a letter grade. The assignments are sequenced to build upon each other. As mentioned above, each assignment will need to go through at least two drafts. If I haven’t seen your previous draft, you won’t be able to submit the final version for a grade. You’ll find more information about these assignments in the Course Outline at the end of this syllabus. Late Formal Assignments will be accepted one class day


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