English 101 Written Expression Fall 2006

Instructor: Arline Davis

Item # 1206C Classroom R201 Daily 6:30-7:20AM

Office hours: 7:30-8:20AM daily, 3:00-4:00PM daily, or by appointment, in room R230L

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Item #1219N Classroom R209 Daily 11:30-12:20

Office hours: 7:30-8:20AM daily, 3:00-4:00PM daily, or by appointment, in room R230L

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.

Textbook: The Curious Writer by, Bruce Ballenger

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, any grammar book of your choice, and a novel, essay, article, book, poem, or other piece of writing which you and I agree upon for one of your assignments. We will talk about this the first week.

English 101 is designed to prepare you for any and all future writing you will do for English literature, and any other college subjects 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 and thinking. Since we will work on only a minimal amount of actual grammar, you will need your own grammar handbook for reference.

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 and assumptions 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. They will be graded at this time and returned. This will give you a chance to revise and re-think your inquiry. They will be graded again when you revise and turn them in as part of your portfolio. A complete assignment will contain the following:

· A Pre-write worth 15 points

· A Rough draft that has been reviewed by an outside source worth 15 points

· The final copy including the correct heading, MLA standards, clarity, fluidity, corrected grammar and mechanics, and especially original content worth 70 points.

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 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 100 points

Paper Format: Use the MLA style and format for all work produced for this class. Please refer to your textbook or look it up on the Internet for more information.

The general guidelines are as follows:

· Typed double-spaced, 12 point font

· One-inch margins, indented paragraphs

· Page numbers

· Center the title (no underlining, italics, or quotation marks)

· Heading on the left top corner- Your name

English 101

The date

Type of Inquiry

Word count

A significant aspect of college writing includes proper format and documentation.

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.

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. 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 ten 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 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.

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 their eligibility for accommodation. Then review those requirements with me during the first week of the quarter.

BCC’s Student Policies

Refer to the Student Procedures and Expectations section. http://www.bcc.ctc.edu/artshum/policy.html

CLASSROOM DECORUM

Please come to class 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.

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 being 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.

GRADING SCALE

Tests: There will be four grammar tests on work that we will cover in class during the first two weeks. There will also be a chapter test on each of ten chapters from The Curious Writer.

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.

Total 2200 points

Purchase The Curious Writer as soon as possible and begin reading the first three chapters.

I am looking forward to working with you. This will be a great quarter for all of us.