English
1101 Honors
Syllabus – Fall 2007
MWF 1:00 – 1:50
Conger 317
Professor: Erin E. Campbell Office: Conger 311
E-mail: ecampbell@abac.edu Office Hours: MWF 7:00 – 8:00 AM,
Office Phone: 391- 4953 MWF 9:00 – 10:00 AM,
MWF Noon – 1:00 PM, and
by appointment
Required Texts:
Axelrod, Rise B. and Charles R.
Cooper. The
Hacker, Diana. A
Writer’s Reference. 6th ed.
Your WebCT (ENGL110) and your ABAC e-mail address
A college-level dictionary of your choice
Additional Materials: One 2" minimum three-ring binder
Looseleaf paper
Portable electronic storage (USB drive)
Manila folder
Stapler
Highlighters
Sticky notes
Course Description: English 0099 with a grade of C or better or placing into ENGL 1101 by examination is a prerequisite for this course. This course develops your proficiency in writing and as well as heightening your awareness of culture. The exit grade for this course is a C or better.
Course Methods: You will continue to develop critical thinking, reading and writing skills throughout this course. Class discussions of the assigned material will facilitate these skills. Response papers will be written based upon your reactions to all out-of-class readings to hone your critical thinking skills. You are responsible for the assigned material on the due date listed in the course calendar. In addition, you will offer feedback on your classmates’ essays through peer responses. Writing is a process and thus you will keep all of the materials pertaining to that process in a notebook that comprises a part of your Final Portfolio submitted at the end of the term. This includes any pre-writing (notes, napkins, scraps of paper), outlines, drafts, source material (when required) and revisions. Timed, in-class essays will allow you to synthesize your responses to the reading or discussion material. Electronic discussion board journals will further your ability to analyze and evaluate issues raised in class as well as increase your ability to manipulate both the language and the computer.
ABAC ATTENDANCE POLICY
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Instructors will keep accurate attendance records and must report the individual number of absences with midterm and final grades. Students whose number of unexcused absences is more than twice the number of class meetings per week (the equivalent of two weeks of instruction) will receive a grade of “F” for the course. Fewer absences than twice the number of class meetings per week may result in grade penalties at the discretion of the instructor. Specific attendance requirements applying to labs, clinics, accelerated classes or Learning Support will be adapted to the unique situation by the appropriate division. Final determination of what constitutes an excused absence rests with the classroom instructor. In implementing this Policy, faculty will not include in a student’s unexcused absences those absences incurred due to authorized and approved College sponsored events (or in the case of joint-enrollment students high-school sponsored events) in which the student represents the institution as part of a group or under the direct supervision of a faculty or staff member.
Whenever a student is
absent, whether for official or personal reasons, the
student must assume responsibility and provide notice
to the instructor, preferably in advance, for making arrangements for
any assignments and class work missed because of the absence. However, final
approval for make up work remains with the individual instructor.
A student who stops attending class without officially withdrawing from the course is subject to this attendance policy and will receive a grade of “F” for the course.
At the beginning of each semester, instructors will explain clearly to their students specific attendance requirements (including possible penalties). Additionally, they will publish the attendance policy on their syllabi and web-sites.
A student penalized for excessive absences may appeal through the grade appeal process, as stated in ABAC’s college catalog and student handbook.
SPECIFIC TO THIS CLASS: Attendance is mandatory. Missing more than six classes will result in failure of the course. Arriving after roll is called or leaving before class is dismissed (regardless of reason) will be weighted as a tardy. Three tardy arrivals and/or early departures will be count as an absence. If you arrive more than fifteen minutes late or leave more than ten minutes early, you will be counted as absent for the class. An absence on a day of peer response will result in two absences. Failure to have a draft on peer response day will result in one absence. Late final drafts will be penalized by one letter grade per calendar day. If you must be absent, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed on the day you return to class. The ONLY excused absences will consist of the following and require documentation: hospitalization of yourself or your minor child, or institution sanctioned events.
Manuscripts: All out-of-class writings, both essays and response papers, will be typed in a standard 12-point font and typeface, double-spaced, with one-inch margins, including drafts for peer response. Take advantage of the computer labs on campus to produce your drafts. Be sure to save your work on a disk, as well as making extra copies for your protection. Do NOT wait until the last minute to type or print your drafts. Computer difficulties such as “my disk crashed” is the 21st century’s equivalent to the clichéd excuse “the three legged dog ran off with my book bag with all of my English work in it.”
You do not need a title page. Rather, your heading should appear, single-spaced, in the top left-hand margin as follows:
Your Name
ENGL 1101 – MWF 8AM
Dr. E. Campbell
Date
Assignment Name
Each essay must have a title that will be centered below your heading, prior to the first sentence of your essay. Important words of titles are capitalized. The only appropriate punctuation for the title is to bold it unless I instruct you otherwise. Example:
Brother
Will of
Each subsequent page should include your last name, a shortened form of your title and the page number in the upper right hand corner.
Example Your Last Name: “Short Form of Essay Title”/2
Please staple all essays before coming to class. You will submit your out-of-class, multi-draft essays in a file folder with your name on the tab. I will give you explicit information on what supporting materials I want you to include (generally all parts of the process). Essays will be a minimum of 3-5 pages long, unless otherwise specified.
Tips for successful manuscripts: Follow the format I have provided exactly. Avoid inserting more than 1 line between your heading and your title. Avoid inserting more than one line between your title and the first line of your essay. Avoid inserting extra lines between paragraphs. Pay attention to the details of formatting your essay as well as the details necessary to support your claims within the content of your essay. In addition, I am stickler for the minimum page length. Failing to meet that minimum will result in lowering your grade for that assignment. Thus, when I ask for 3 pages, you may wish to make sure that you have a line on the 4th page to absolutely ensure that you met the minimum requirement. Start your writing projects early and often. Procrastination is the number one cause of plagiarism – down with procrastination!
Diligently avoid plagiarism in all of its insidious forms, which include failure to document direct quotes and paraphrases within your text and on a works cited page, as well as outright theft of another’s writing, published or not. All papers will be submitted using TurnItIn. This service is a tool to help you identify potential documentation errors and inadvertent plagiarism The minimum consequence for plagiarism is failure of the assignment. The maximum consequence is expulsion.
Response Papers: You will write a one-page minimum, typed, double-spaced response paper for each reading assignment you are given. These short writings are not summaries of the articles, but rather your reaction to the ideas, issues, and/or arguments raised by the author. Response papers will allow you to investigate your thoughts about the content of the assigned articles in writing in order to shape them logically. E. M. Forster writes, “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” (qtd. in Capossela 17). Figuring out what you think about things by writing about them is your goal as well. You should practice the conventions of writing in your response papers in order to reinforce your writing skills. On occasion, as noted on your course calendar, response papers will require you to address a question posed by your book, The St. Martin’s Guide (abbreviated on course calendar as GTW), or I will provide the topic of the response paper.
Portfolios:
You will write four essays out of class. Toward the end of the term, you will compile these essays into a portfolio that you will submit at the end of the term for collective quantitative evaluation. This will comprise 5% of your final grade.
All of the writing you do this semester, including all parts of the writing process that demonstrate how you arrived at your final product (notes, outlines, peer responses, etc.) will appear in the appropriate sections of your portfolio, evidencing the vastness and excellence of the work you have done throughout the term. This encourages you to be a packrat. Throw nothing away. Failure to submit a portfolio will result in failure of the course.
GRADES:
100 - 90 = A; 89 - 80 = B; 79 - 70 = C; 69 - 60 = D; 59 and below = F
Grades will be posted on WebCT and will include a Midterm advisory
grade and the final grade. The midterm advisory grade will reflect the course
grade as of the midterm break. If the midterm advisory grade is a “C,” “D,” or
“F,” it will also be recorded on Banner. This grade is intended to guide your
performance, should it need improvement, in the second half of the semester. If
you receive one of these grades, I encourage you to meet with me to develop a
plan for success for the rest of the course.
Participation (Response papers, quizzes, drafts, journals, etc.) 30%
Final Portfolio 5%
4 out-of-class essays 50%
In-class timed writings 10%
Final Exam Essay 5%
Classroom
Etiquette (A Reminder):
( Remember to set your cell phones to silent while you are in class.
o If you have a valid reason for making/receiving a call, notify me before the class period. Anyone using a communication device in any other manner will be asked to leave the classroom and assessed an absence for the day.
: Use
of a lap-top, desk-top computer, or other electronic device including, but not
limited to, cellphones, iPods, MP3 players, PDAs, etc. (except when part of the
assigned work for the class) is not acceptable.
o
Do not check email; “surf” the
internet; use MySpace, Face Book, weblogs, or use other personal accounts
during class time unless part of the class assignment. Do not play music or
video games. After one warning (per semester), anyone using a computer in
violation of this policy will be asked to leave the classroom and will receive
an “absent” grade for the day. DO NOT turn on classroom computer monitors until
directed to do so.
F Personal grooming is inappropriate in a
public place.
Q Personal business should be conducted before
or after class.
% Sleeping in class will result in an
absence.
M Missing class for any reason is your
choice and thus it is your responsibility to weigh the consequences of that choice.
My philosophy: Writing is purposeful. Writing is problem solving. Writing is thinking, reveals thinking, and
produces more thinking. Writing is
social. Writing is personal. Writing requires time to achieve the results
you want. Writing is revision. Clear, specific, thoughtful writing is one of
the most important things you will do, not only in this class, not only in
other college courses, but also in your life beyond college.
English 1101 – MWF 1:00 – 1:50
Tentative Course Calendar*
August 20: Course Introduction
22: Diagnostic Writing
24: GTW,
Introduction, pgs. 1 – 14;Response
paper: Complete exercise 1.4 on page
14; CONVOCATION 11:15 AM [Response paper due Monday] What was your perception of the event?
27: GTW, Invention
Strategies, pgs. 570 – 83; Response paper: What methods
covered
in the section do you use and why do you use those methods?
29: GTW,
Remembering an Event, pgs. 16 – 28; 33 – 37;
Response paper: Which
of
the three articles effected you most profoundly? Why?
Pay attention to the
craft
of the article as well as the content of the article. Bring in essay #1
Assignment
sheet
31:
September 3: NO CLASS ( LABOR
DAY)
5: WebCT
Respond to the issues of raised by the
article
7: Essay #1, Peer review
draft due
10:
12: GTW, Thesis
Statements, pgs. 670 –3; GTW,
Justifying an Evaluation; pgs. 394
-
407 Response paper: Does Scott’s
review make you want to see the film?
Why or why not?
14: GTW, Guide to
Writing (Evaluation), pgs 421 – 445
17: Essay #1, Revision
due
19: Plain Song pgs. 1- 71;
WebCT Vista article, TBA
21: Essay #2, Peer review
draft due
24:
26:
28:
October 1: Essay #2, Revision due
3: GTW,
Arguing a Position, pgs. 272-75; 294-310
5: Plain Song pgs. 72 -151
8:
10: Essay
#3, peer review draft due FYI: OCT 11
(Midterm withdrawal deadline)
12:
15 -
16: FALL BREAK
17: GTW,
Library Search Strategies, pgs. 702-709, 712 – 733, 736-7; Response
paper: What did you learn about research strategies from the
reading? What
information was new to you? What
information was a review?
19: GTW,
Using and Acknowledging Sources, pgs.
738 – 748
22:
24: Plain Song pgs. 152 - 213
26:
29:
31: Plain Song pgs. 214 - 301
November 2:
5:
7:
9:
12:
14: Essay
#4, Peer review draft due
16:
19:
21: RESEARCH
DAY
22
– 23: THANKSGIVING
26:
28:
30:
December 3:
5:
7: Portfolio
Due
10: Final Exam – 8:00 –
10:00
* I reserve the right to add, subtract, multiply and divide the course calendar as necessary
PLEASE NOTE: Consult your student handbook for any policies not covered in this syllabus. You are responsible for knowing campus rules and regulations regarding academic procedures.
Monday – Thursday 8AM – 8PM
Friday 8 AM – 1 PM
Logging in to WebCT Vista:
- From
ABAC’s home page http://www.abac.edu
- If
you do not know your ID (Username) for WebCT Vista,
- Banner Web [link] from ABAC’s home page
- Look up your New Student ID [link]
- Enter your information (First name, Last name, birth date, social
security number)
- Continue [button]
- Your WebCT Vista ID (username) will be provided.
- Return to ABAC’s home page
- WebCT
Vista (link)
- Login
(link)
- Enter
your WebCT ID (username) and Password
- ID/Username (NOT your 918xxxx ID – see instructions above for
obtaining WebCT Vista ID from Banner web) – examples: awillis1, awilli22
- Password: PIN (from Banner Web -- NOT your 918xxxx ID) – examples
010187, 121288
- OK
(button)
- Selected
Course (course link) (e.g. ENGL 1101, ABAC 1000)