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Spring 2004
English 101.10 -- Language and Composition I
Materials
2 IBM formated disks
Mercury Reader
RedBird Reader
Language and Composition I Course Guide
Course Components
Six Papers
Class Bulletin Board Postings
Numerous Short Writings
Final Portfolio
Class Workshops
Six
Papers
These 5-7 page papers will be developed from your interests, from readings,
and from a list of topics that you will create during the first weeks
of class. The final paper for the course is a reflective analysis of your
writing during the semester and of yourself as a writer.
All of your writing
in English 101 is public writing, and you should be aware that it will
be read and responded to by other classmembers.
For each paper, you
will include:
- A Final Unit draft
(5-7 pages)
- Rough drafts or discovery
writing,
- A set of 2-3 questions
written to class members about your paper,
- Peer responses both
to and from (approximately three) other class members,
- A 1-2 page analytical
reflection about your work on the paper.
- Single Unit Submission
Form (there are a bunch of these in the back of the course guide)
- Single Unit Grading
Standards sheet (also in the back of the Course Guide.)
A paper is not considered
complete unless all of these items accompany it when it is turned in.
You are expected to
make substantial changes between drafts of the same paper. It is expected
that your revisions will include adding, deleting, and rearranging the
content of your drafts. You will turn in Unit materials both by giving
me a printed copy and saving the files electronically to your STV250 Instructor
Folder.
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Class
Bulletin Board Postings
WebBoard will be our collective journal for the course. I will sometimes
provide you with prompts or questions to discuss, but I will often encourage
you to generate your
own topics to share with each other. I also encourage you to share
portions of your papers with each other on the bulletin board and respond
to them.
You are required to
submit at least 3 thoughtful post per week, but you may contribute more
if you wish, and on some occasions I will assign additional posts. Your
3 posts may be responses to class discussions and readings, your own thoughts
and reflections, or responses to posts written by other class members.
The purposes of the
bulletin board are that you are 1) conversing with others, 2) thinking
critically and reflectivly, 3) becoming more comfortable with writing
and 4) familiarizing yourself with electronic communications technology.
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Numerous
Short Writings
These will usually range from a paragraph to a few pages in length and
will focus on exploring ideas, reflecting on drafts, and responding to
readings. These may be homework assignments, Posts to WebCT, or writings
done during class.
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Final
Portfolio
Your grade for English 101 depends on sucessful completion of all parts
of the required portfolio for the course. (See portfolio
grading standards.)
These parts include:
- Five completed papers
and drafts
- All questions/responses
to and from peer group readers
- All analytical writings
(process writings) for each paper
- The Baseline Writing
Assessment essay and revision plan (I will collect this seperately from
the portfolio, probably early in the semester, but it needs to be completed
in order for the portfolio to be complete)
- An analytical essay
and its revisions (6th Paper)
- A signed Portfolio
Submission Form (last page of course guide)
- All materials in
the portfolio must be wordprocessed and turned in to my STV250 Instructor
Folder. You do not need to turn a printed version of the portfolio.
The portfolio is an
important document and constitutes the final course grade. Students must
complete all the work for the course in a timely fashion if they expect
to do well. Unexcused late work or falure to meet teh deadlines for the
unit drafts constitues a failure to meet these requirements.
Advisory grades for
each unit are advisory and are only an indication of how well the instructor
thinks a student will do on the final portfolio based on the work completed
for each individual paper. The final course grade is based on the portolfio
only and is not an average of the advisory grades. The portfolio is graded
as a complete document according to the English 101 grading standards,
and the advisory grades, provided they are satisfactory, are not calculated
into the final course grade in any way.
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Class
Workshops
Generally, there will be time each day for working on your papers. This
is to be regarded as workshop time during which you should give and receive
peer responses, discuss your work with me, or work on various aspects
your papers. You are expected to use this time for writing and/or responding.
This time may also include in-class writing and other activities as needed.
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