Instructor: Arline Davis
E-mail: adavis@bcc.ctc.edu
Item # 1126B daily 7:30-8:20 AM Item #1146U T/H 12:30-2:40PM
Room R106B Room L215
Office hours: by appointment in room R230L
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Welcome to English 101 where you will be reading interesting inquiries, writing even more exciting inquiries, and participating in some invigorating discussions. So let’s get started.
Textbooks: The Curious Writer, by Bruce Ballenger
The Worst Hard Time, by Tim Egan
Supplies: college ruled notebook paper, a binder or folder, a notebook for your journal and homework assignments, pens (blue or black), highlighters, a small portable stapler, access to a three-hole punch, two soft folders for your portfolios, a college dictionary, thesaurus, and any grammar book of your choice. I will give an overview of the assignments during the first week of class.
English 101 is designed to prepare you for any and all future writing you will do for any other college courses you choose. The approach of Inquiry and Revision is time consuming, but there will be less anxious time avoiding the writing and more time questioning, thinking, pre-writing, and actually writing. Since we will work on only a minimal amount of actual grammar, you will need your own grammar handbook for reference.
STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Students with disabilities who have accommodation needs are required to meet with the Director of Disability Support Services room B132 (telephone 425-564-2498 or TTY 425-564-4110) to establish your eligibility for accommodation. Students who require accommodations then must speak with me during the first week.
This class is a Safe Space for all students. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer-identified, and Trans gendered students are welcome in this classroom and encouraged to speak out and be an integral part of this class. A critical understanding and the embracing of alternative genders and sexualities in this classroom are encouraged. Any questions about what this means should be brought to me immediately. All are welcome.
Refer to http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/about/goals/inclusion.asp
CLASSROOM DECORUM
Please come to class on time and ready to work. We only have eleven weeks and we have a lot to cover. Feel free to bring water; we all get thirsty. Please do not eat or drink anything else during class. It becomes distracting, not only to you, but to the rest of us.
Before you walk into the classroom, please turn off your cell phone and/or anything else that beeps or buzzes or could distract us in any way, including laptop computers. Please do not text message during class.
Class participation is important. Be respectful when others are talking. We all have different experiences and backgrounds, so we may not agree with everything that is expressed. Wait, listen, and bravely take your turn.
If you are having a problem with another student or with me, talk to me privately after class or set an appointment for a more convenient time for both of us.
PLAGIARISM
Although students will be working together on some assignments, I expect each student to do his/her best and turn in his/her own work. Plagiarism is using someone else’s work, whether it is a published work, or work written by another student, and turning it in as if it were your own. This is cheating and it will not be accepted. Refer to http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/writinglab
ATTENDANCE
I will take attendance at the beginning of each hour. Be here. Be prepared and ready to work. If you are tardy, see me after class so you can get credit for attending. Sleeping in class counts as an absence. If you do miss a class, it is your responsibility to get assignments and notes from another student or from me.
Moreover, if you are absent from this class for more than ten class hours, you may receive a failing grade. If you come late or leave early three times, it will be considered one absence. http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/artshum/
BCC’s Student Policies Course Outcomes:
By the end of this quarter, you will be able to…
· Use all stages of the writing process.
· Address a specific topic or prompt.
· Use a variety of rhetorical genres.
· Address a variety of audiences.
· Analyze your own as well as other work for structural elements, content, style, grammar, and mechanics.
· Evaluate and interpret other writers.
· Differentiate your personal opinions from the author’s.
· Provide a realistic sense of your own writing performance.
Assignments: You will be writing six out-of class inquiries. I will give your inquiries comments and feedback. Each will be graded at this time and returned. This will give you a chance to revise and re-think your inquiry. A complete assignment worth 100 points will contain the following:
§ A Pre-write worth 15 points
§ A Rough draft that has been reviewed during our peer review session worth 15 points
§ Use the Writing Lab to help you work on grammar.
§ The correct heading including type of inquiry and Word Count single- spaced on the top left side of your paper worth 5 points
§ The final copy including MLA standards, clarity, fluidity, corrected grammar and mechanics, and especially original content is worth 65points.
Paper Format: Use the MLA style and format for all work produced for this class. .
The general guidelines are as follows:
Typed double-spaced, 12-point font
One-inch margins, indented paragraphs
Page numbers ( Last name page number) beginning with page 2
Center the title (no underlining, italics, or quotation marks)
Heading on the left top corner- single space
Your name
English 101(AM or PM)
The date
Type of Inquiry
A significant aspect of college writing includes proper format and documentation.
Mid-term Portfolio Include the following:
Revised clean copies of Inquiries 1-3, with everything you turned in the first time attached.
Portfolio Reflection Cover Letter worth 100 points
Each Final revised and edited copy with everything else attached is worth 100 points.
Final Portfolio Include the following:
Revised clean copies of Inquiries 4-6 with everything you turned in the first time attached.
Portfolio Reflection Cover Letter worth 100 points
Each Final revised and edited copy with everything else attached worth is 100 points.
Due Dates
I will give you some opportunity to work on out of class assignments during class time. In return, I expect work turned in on the due dates. Have your paper ready as a hard copy on the due date stapled on top of rough drafts, peer editing, your pre-write(s), and any notes you used to write your paper. Do not use class time to print your paper. If you are absent on the day a paper is due, please get it to me either via e-mail, or have some one else turn it in to me. If you e-mail a paper, bring the hard copy, the pre-write, and the rough draft the next day. It has been my experience that once you fall behind, it becomes harder and harder to catch up.
ATTENDANCE
I will take attendance at the beginning of each hour. Be here. Be prepared and ready to work. If you are tardy, see me after class so you can get credit for attending. Sleeping in class counts as an absence. If you do miss a class, it is your responsibility to get assignments and notes from another student or from me.
Moreover, if you are absent from this class for more than ten class hours, you may receive a failing grade. If you come late or leave early three times, it will be considered one absence.
If you come to class to visit friends, be disruptive, talk and joke, I will count that hour as an absence.
Attendance including ten (50 minute) absences or less is worth 100 points. For each absence after the first ten, you will not only loose the 100 points, but you will earn (-10) points for each hour missed.
GRADING SCALE
Tests: There will be a chapter test on each of ten chapters from The Curious Writer.
There will be two tests from The Worst Hard Time. Each test is worth 25 points.
Journals: You will be keeping all your journal writing including the work from The Curious Writer in your journals. I will collect your journals twice. Each time I collect your journal, it will be worth 125 points.
Papers: There will be six papers. Each paper is worth 100 points.
Portfolios: Each portfolio is worth 400 points. Each includes three revised and edited papers, with correct heading, along with all the pre-writes, rough drafts and previous final copies. Each revised packet is worth 100 points.
The portfolio letter is worth 100 points.
Attendance: Ten absences or less is worth 100 points. Each absence after that is worth negative 10 points without the 100 points for reasonable attendance.
Final: This assignment is worth 100 points.
OTHER POINTS: Any time you work at the writing lab to go over your grammar, ask the tutor to clearly sign your rough draft. Each time is worth 25 points. Any time you go to an on campus activity, event, lecture, town meeting, or play and write it up in a summary response format which I will go over in class, it is worth 25 points. You need to achieve 150 extra points to reach our total points.
Total 2250 points
Purchase The Curious Writer as soon as possible and begin reading the first three chapters.
I am looking forward to working with you. You will be doing a great deal of reading, writing, and thinking in this class. This can be a great quarter for all of us.