English
101
Written Expression
Summer Quarter 2008
Catalog Description: English 101 Item numbers 1144-1145
Instructor:
Denise Vaughan
Class Times: Online
Email: dvaughan@bcc.ctc.edu
Course
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Required Texts:
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WRITER'S
COMPANION,
SATRAPI |
LOLITA HANDMAID'S
TALE |
AFFIRMATION OF INCLUSION:
All
students are welcome and respected here. No discrimination or harassment based
on race, sexual orientation, religious persuasion, gender or disability will be
tolerated. I welcome your feedback.
Students
with disabilities who have accommodation needs are required to meet with the
Disability Support Services (DSS) office, room B233-G (telephone 425.564.2498
or TTY 425.564.4110), to establish their eligibility for accommodation.
The DSS office will provide each eligible student with an accommodation letter.
Students who require accommodation in class must review the DSS accommodation
letter with each instructor during the first week of the quarter.
ASSIGNMENTS: Your assignments for this class
follow the writing process. For each paper you will:
Pre-writing/Idea Generation
1. Read the texts assigned in our class deeply and thoroughly. If you do not come away from these texts with a new awareness or insight of some sort, you have not engaged with them.
2. 2. Use seminar discussion as a pre-writing, idea generation
activity. Your purpose is to engage with me and your peers in a
conversation about our texts that helps further everyone's understanding in
some fundamental way.
Three week long seminar discussions,
worth 20 points each, are required.
Seminar discussions must show evidence of intense engagement with the texts
assigned and an ability to use discussion to further everyone's
understanding. Because the purpose of an academic seminar is to
further understanding, you will write a seminar response paper for each seminar
paraphrasing or summarizing the part of the discussion you found most
interesting and then describing to me what you learned or how your the
discussion furthered your understanding. Each seminar response is
worth 30 points.
Draft
an Argument/Essay
3. Develop your own insight, message or
understanding and teach us that new insight, message or understanding
in a formal academic essay.
Drafts are graded as follows: 20 points for a committed,
engaged, developed piece of work (paper explores the topic thoughtfully and
struggles to communicate something interesting and worthwhile). 10 points
for something that looks like it was scrawled out hours before the deadline
(sloppy formatting, obvious or ineffective thesis, incomplete rambling).
That said, it's better to submit something than
nothing. Not submitting a draft essentially sets you up to fail the class.
You cannot participate in peer review or get a grade on a final paper if you do
not submit a draft.
Solicit
Feedback/Provide Feedback
4. Share your essay and provide
feedback to your peers on their essays in a peer review
exercise. Write a critical summary of the feedback you provided to your
peers.� The act of reviewing your peers helps you
understand the academic genre and how it is supposed to impact readers.
What you learn from reviewing your peers you can then apply to your own essay
draft.
Three critical summaries are required, each worth 50 points.
Students who do not participate in Peer Review may not submit a Critical
Summary.
Revise
and Edit
5. Revise and edit your essay.
Use the writing lab. Find additional readers who can give you feedback.
Remember that revise comes from the word revision (re-vision). If you
are to become a good academic writing, you cannot be afraid to completely re-veiw (re-see) your whole argument and write the paper over
basically from scratch. If you simply move a few paragraphs or ideas
around and change a few words here and there, you are editing, not revising.
6. Submit a final essay for a
grade.
Final essays will only be accepted for a
grade if drafts of those essays are provided for the Peer Review. There are
three final essays each worth 100 points. In addition, you will
submit a final portfolio with the very best version you can create of each of
your three essays. The portfolio is worth 100 points.
In
addition to practicing the writing process outlined above, you will use a
writing textbook to help you improve your writing skills. Five
assignments linked to our textbook A Writer's Companion by Richard
Marius are to be completed. Each
assignment is worth 50 points.
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GRADING |
Points
per Assignment |
Number of
Assignments |
Total
Points |
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Seminar
Discussion |
20 |
3 |
60 |
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Seminar Response |
30 |
3 |
90 |
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Critical
Summaries |
50 |
3 |
150 |
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Marius
Assignments |
50 |
5 |
250 |
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Final
Papers |
100 |
4 |
400 |
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Drafts |
20 |
3 |
60 |
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Total |
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1010 |
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Basically, if you engage authentically with the content and
activities of this course and you approach the work in this class with
discipline and good organization, there is no reason why you should not be
able to earn an 'A'. My genuine desire is to see each person succeed in this
course and in their academic career. I can be a good ally and coach. Contact
me as soon as possible if you are nervous or unsure about how to proceed in
this course or if you have questions about how well you are approaching the
course. |
Scoring Guide: 900-1010 pts = A- or A |
LATE PAPERS AND
ASSIGNMENTS: No
late papers or assignments will be accepted. Should you not be able turn in an
assignment for any reason, you will be allowed to submit a letter describing
the circumstances preventing you from successfully handing in the assignment. I
will not read these letters until the end of the quarter. At which point I will
review your letter in light of your overall performance in the course and
adjust your grade as I see fit.
CHEATING/PLAGIARISM: Academic writing is about the disciplined search
for truth. Your writing should reflect your own struggle with arriving at a new
'truth' and authentically strive to contribute to the spirit of academic
inquiry. We will spend a lot of class time exploring definitions of plagiarism
and learning to participate in an academic community responsibly. Some mistakes
are to be expected. However if I even remotely suspect that any part of the
writing you submit is not your own I will submit it to the college�s online
service, which can identify plagiarized text down to the sentence level. If you
plagiarize or cheat, two things will happen:
You have
the right to contest any accusation of cheating made against you through the
Dean of Student Services' office.
CALENDAR
Notice that each module or unit goes the the same activities in the same order:
1. Read
2. Discuss
3. Post Draft
4. Peer Review Draft
5. Write Critical Summary of the papers you reviewed
6. Revise draft/submit final revision of essay
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Sunday |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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June 23 Lolita Chapters 1-6 |
June 24 |
June 25 Lolita Chapters 7-13 |
June 26 |
June 27 Lolita Chapters 14-21 Marius 1 Due |
June 28 |
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June 29
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June 30 Lolita Chapters 22-27 |
July 1
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July 2 Lolita Chapters 28-33 |
July 3
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July 4
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July 5 |
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July 6 Essay 1 Draft Due to COMMENT |
July 7 Peer Review |
July 8
Peer Review |
July 9
Peer Review |
July 10
Peer Review |
July 11 Marius 3 Due |
July 12 |
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July 13 Essay 1 Final Due |
July 14
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July 15 |
July 16 |
July 17 |
July 18 Marius 4 Due |
July 19 |
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July 20 Essay 2 Draft Due to COMMENT |
July 21 Peer Review |
July 22 Peer Review |
July 23 Peer Review |
July 24 Peer Review |
July 25 Critical Summary 2 Due |
July 26 |
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July 27
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July 28 The Handmaid's Tale chapters 1-27 |
July 29 |
July 30 |
July 31 |
August 1 Marius 5 Due |
August 2 |
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August 3 Essay 3 Draft Due to COMMENT |
August 4
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August 5 Final Portfolio Due |
August 6
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