English 1010/Expository Writing:Love - Shakespeare StyleF Conclusion of film/HWK: Journal # 2: “A ‘Second Look’ at your character”W Open: I will be available for questions concerning your essays.English 1010/Expository Writing: Love - Shakespeare Style Ms. Marcia Beene / Fall 2003 Office: AMG 305 Office phone: 904-8262Office hours: W& F: 2:00-3:30 and by appointmentEmail: [email protected] (answered only during office hours) Course Goals: 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 and using peer review workshops for both revision and editing. In order to generate ideas for our class discussions and writing assignments, we will use Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as our primary text. Additionally, we will view films and do supplemental reading as needed. Required Textbooks:SCW: Strategies for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader 2nd Edition, by Funk, Coleman, & DayHHH: Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook, 15th edition, by Webb, Miller, and Horner SFC: Surviving Freshman Composition by Smith, Smith, Klein, et al. R & J: Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library Series) 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 organized Recommended: 3-ring notebook or something that will hold a lot of paper because I believe in handouts and for your research material E-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 only) Money for photocopyingEvaluation 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.Essays (1 Diagnostic + 4 others-all to be revised & edited = 100 pts each) 500 points totalClass Participation (i.e., DSIRs* = 20 pts ea., Quizzes = 20 pts ea., Journals** = 20 pts ea., & Writing Center, Attendance = 20 pts ea.***) 400 points totalPresentation**** = 100 pts. 100 points total TOTAL POSSIBLE SEMESTER POINTS: 1000 points totalSCALE:Essay # 1 ____/100 Essay #5 ____/100 900-1000 = AEssay # 2 ____/100 Class Participation ____/400 799 - 899 = B2Essay # 3 ____/100 Presentation ____/100 698 - 798 = CEssay #4 ____/100 697 & Below = FTOTAL POINTS EARNED FOR SEMESTER: ______***ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE DONE IN ORDER TO PASS THIS CLASS!****Double-Sided Illuminated Readings or DSIRs: You will be required to submit five close readings (or brief analyses)for select class meetings. The close readings will be a critical analysis of some aspect of that day’s reading assignment. The DSIRs will be two pages, double-spaced,and typed. DSIRs cannot be made up or turned in after class. If you know you will not be in class, make arrangements to either turn it in early or have someone elseturn it in for you. Note: You should consider these open, free, and informal. This is the place to muse freely!**Journals: As people in the Middle Ages and Renaissance did (and today as well), you will be required to keep a journal (often called a “Commonplace Book”). Because we will be reading and viewing films based on Romeo and Juliet, your journal will actually be a “Character Study Journal.” This type of journal “allows students to make personal connections with literary characters by encouraging students to react in writing to the characters’ actions as the work progresses.” (Source: Winifred Montgomery. “Journal Writing: Connecting Reading and Writing in Mainstream Educational Settings.” Reading & Writing Quarterly 17 (2001): 93-98.). Note: Aswith the DSIRs, you should consider these open, free, and informal. You will do this informal journal writing both in and out of class on loose-leaf notebook paper and will organize these pages in a folder that will be collected at various times in the semester.Your journal grade will be based on the ratio of journal entries you complete to the total journalentries assigned. Journal entries should be around one page of a sheet of notebook paper (both sides) in length and must have the date and topic written at the top of the page for you to receive full credit (please write legibly!!). These entries are for your own benefit to help you gather ideas. They will not be graded for grammar or spelling; however, the more you practice editing your writing, the better your writing will be.***Writing Center Attendance: The Writing Center is located in PH 325 and on the web at www.mtsu.edu/~uwcenter for students to receive valuable one-on-one assistance with theirwriting. As part of your Class Participation grade, you will be required to attend five (one visit for each paper) tutoring sessions spread out during the semester (deadlines noted on syllabus). Tutoring is available by appointment only (904-8237); don’t wait until the last minute to seek their help!****Presentation: You will be divided into teams, and each team will lead discussions of Romeo and Juliet. Additionally, each team will make a presentation to the class. More information will be given concerning this in class. 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 points you earn on the essay against the total possible points on the evaluation form. Use the following scale to convert these 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 and below=F (NOTE: These grades are for essays only as a grade of D+ or below is considered failing for the course).General guidelines:Be