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.......................Skyline
College
..........English
800: Developmental Writing 4 -- Spring
1999
Useful Information:
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English Office and Faculty Mailboxes:
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Room 5130
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Phone #650-738-4202
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Learning Resource Center
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Building 5
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Phone #650-738-4241--EAL Lab
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Course Meetings: T Th 9:35am-10:50am
Rooms: Tues in Microlab--Bldg 2, Thurs in 7306
Schedule #30338 - Engl 800AD, Units 3.0
.................................."Get
it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the
....................................only
way you can do anything really good."
..........................................................................................--
William Faulkner
Course Prerequisites:
Completion of English 801 or English 874/864 with
a letter grade of "C" or better OR appropriate skill level
indicated by English/Reading placement tests.
Course
Classification: Credit course applicable to the
Associate Degree
Course Objectives:
The objective of this course is to guide
students toward becoming more critical readers, writers, and
thinkers through recognizing the effective writing
strategies of other writers, through becoming aware of their
own processes of writing, and through learning to discern
logical relationships between words, ideas, and arguments.
In this class we will look closely at the writing process
and the movement from writing unified paragraphs to creating
essays focused on a central argument and supported with
specific and appropriate detail.
Required Materials:
William Faulkner said,
"The tools I need for my work are
paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky." This is
what you will need for your work:
The Bedford Reader, 6th edition, by Kennedy,
Kennedy and Aaron
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
Skill Builders: A Sentence Writing Workout by Dianna
Campbell
A Computer Usage card-can be purchased at the Bookstore for
$5
Lined paper for daily in-class writing: freewriting and
quizzes
Course Policies:
(1) Attendance-- Your active participation
is necessary for you and your classmates to realize the
objectives of this course. Therefore your attendance is
crucial. A maximum of 4 (four) absences is permitted; each
absence after the fourth will significantly lower your
grade.
(2) Late Assignments--No late work will be
accepted. All due dates are given well in advance; therefore
I feel that it is unfair to the students who complete their
work on time to accept the work from those who do not.
However, because "life happens," each student will be
allowed two "late tickets" during the semester; twice
students may choose to turn an assignment in the following
class period after the due date. Late assignments beyond
this will not be accepted.
(3) Plagiarism-- Paraphrasing or directly copying
any text and using it as your own without proper
attribution, whether you've done it intentionally or not, is
plagiarism and is unacceptable and can result in
failure.
(4) Class participation--- Remember that
participation counts--both for your grade and in your life.
It is essential that you become consciously involved in
class by participating in discussions and contributing
thoughtful comments, questions, and answers.
..... ..............
"I don't write easily or rapidly. My
first draft usually only has a few elements worth
keeping.
........I
have to find what those are and build from them and throw
out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive."
..............................................................................................................................................................--Susan
Sontag
Papers:
In addition to in-class writing, quizzes, and
reading responses, five major papers will be written for
this class. The requirements are as follows:
(1) Due Dates-- Paper #1 (2-3 pages, 500-750
words) Draft due 2/18, Revised 2/25
...........................Paper
#2 (3-5 pages, 750-1250 words) Draft due 3/18, Revised
3/25
...........................Paper
#3 In class Midterm essay exam on 4/13, Tuesday
...........................Paper
#4 (4-6 pages, 1000-1500 words)
.....Draft due 5/18, Revised 5/25
............................Paper
#5 In class 2-hour written final exam on 5/25, Tues,
8:10-10:40am
(2) Revision-- E.B. White said,
"The best writing is
rewriting." Because revising or "re-seeing" a piece
of writing is such an important aspect of the writing
process, each of the papers has two due dates. Each student
will receive feedback and suggestions on each of his/her
papers through class workshop/discussion groups; then each
student will be asked to revise each paper based on peer
feedback. Please note: if the first due date for a paper is
missed, the paper cannot be turned in at all.
(3) Workshopping-- This class will serve as a sort
of a writing community in which each student can draw, as
well as contribute, valuable ideas, insight, and advise on
writing and presenting arguments. Each paper will be read,
discussed, and commented upon by student workshop groups of
three. Workshop days are very important, and therefore a
missed workshop day will count as two (2) absences and a
late paper will not be accepted. Students without a
completed paper (meeting page and format requirements) will
not be allowed to participate in the workshop. Below are the
workshop dates--students must bring a copy of their paper
for themselves as well as for the other members of their
group:
.................Workshop
for Paper #1: February 18th, Thurs Workshop for Paper #2:
March 18th, Thurs
............................................................Workshop
for Paper #4: May 18th, Thurs
(4) Format--Papers must meet the required minimum
length or run the risk of not being accepted. All papers
must be typed, double-spaced, have 1" margins, and have a
font of 12.
........................"It
never stopped, this running. We were constant prey, and the
hunters soon
............................became
big blurs: the police, the gangs, the junkies, the dudes on
Garvey Boulevard who
.....................took
our money, all smudged into one. Sometimes they were
teachers who jumped on us Mexicans
............................as
if we were born with a hideous stain. We were always afraid.
Always running" (36).
................................................................................................................................-
Luis Rodriguez from Always Running
Course
Grade:......................................
Record Your Own Grades:
Paper 1
..............................10%...........................................Score
for Paper 1 ______ x .10 = ______
Paper 2
..............................10%
..........................................Score
for Paper 2 ______ x .10 = ______
Paper 3-In Class
................10%
..........................................Score
for Paper 3 ______ x .10 = _____
Paper 4
.............................
20%
..........................................Score
for Paper 4 ______ x .20 = _____
Paper 5-Final Exam 5/25. ..
15%
..........................................Score
for Paper 5 ______ x .15 = _____
Quizzes
..............................15%
.......................................Average
Quiz Score ______ x .15 = _____
Homework
....................... 10%
.......................................%
of HM completed ______ x .10 = _____
* Participation
.................. 10%
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..........................................Participation
______ x .10 = ______
.................................................................................................*TOTAL:
(convert total to %) ________
* Participation includes being prepared each day,
meeting
with me at least once during the course of the semester,
...............* Deduct 1% for
each absence over allowed 4.
adding to daily discussion, and giving your classmates
......................Scoring
as follows: 100-90=A, 89-80=B
thoughtful responses to their writing in workshops.
...............................79-70=C, 69-60=D,
59-0=F
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