ENGLISH 1510: COMPOSITION I
Winter, 2006
INSTRUCTOR:
Leslie Roberts
INSTRUCTOR’S G222; 248-522-3433
OFFICE/PHONE:
Your call will be answered by voice mail
if I am on the phone (or not there)
To leave a
message with the department secretary, call 522-3576. TEMPORARY DEPT.
OFFICE: F215/mailboxes at end of hall
EMAIL:
ljrobert@oaklandcc.edu (no “S”).
Contact
information and some handouts are posted at the department web site,
http://www.oaklandcc.edu/or-eng.
Winter, 2006
OFFICE
HOURS: Thursday 12-1; 2:30 to 3 (except college senate
Thursdays); Wednesday 5:30-6. I am also available by appointment at other
times on Tuesday-Friday.
MEETING T/TH, 1-2:25 G208*
TIMES and ROOMS:
*At times that
will be announced in class (sometimes
on
short notice), we may relocate to another room
on
the second floor of G building to allow another class
to
use the G208 smart classroom equipment
SUPPLIES
A storage device for computer
files: a USB drive, writable CD, or 3 ¼ DS/HD (Doubled sided, High
Density) IBM formatted personal computer disk
Two 8 ½ x 11 light weight cardboard/paper
folders for turning in work
An email account
is highly recommended (you can get internet access in the IIC and free
account from yahoo and other providers). You will need access to a
computer outside of class meeting times. If you do not own a computer,
become familiar with the services of the IIC in K100.
REQUIRED TEXT:
We will be testing a copy of
Writing in the Works, preview edition, by Blau
and Burak, published and provided FREE of
CHARGE by the Houghton Mifflin Company. You must however sign an
agreement form to use the book. Save all materials all semester; bring
all handouts, essay drafts past and present, your text book, and your
file storage device to all class sessions.
FERPA – Family Education Rights and
Privacy Act
Federal law protects the privacy of
student educational information. No information about your grade or
standing in the course can be disclosed by telephone or email unless you
have given prior consent in writing. Final grades are posted to the Web
Advisor internet site in a timely fashion. Please provide me, in person,
with a self addressed, stamped envelope if you would like final work
returned.
Roberts 1510
(W06)
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CATALOG COURSE
DESCRIPTION
3 credits
Prerequisite:
Satisfactory score on placement test
Or
passing English 1060 portfolio
Focusing on the multi-stage writing
process, students will read, analyze, and write expository essays.
Course/lab fees.
GENERAL EDUCATION AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Goals for this general education course
include to learn independently and collaboratively and to communicate
effectively.
To reach the goals and objectives, we
will:
·
Read, annotate and take
notes on the reading, and discuss our readings
·
Generate ideas for writing
·
Narrow ideas and develop
theses
·
Analyze and synthesize data
from multiple sources; select and develop ideas to support a thesis
·
Assess our work and the
work of others, and revise in response to feedback from peers and
instructor
·
Develop awareness of
various genres and their basic conventions
·
Develop awareness of
academic writing audience demands (including whole essay organization, the
basics of summarizing, basic quoting, & paraphrasing secondary sources, a
beginning understanding of academic citation methods, and other stylistic
issues when time allows)
·
When necessary, review
editing written work following conventions of standard
English (grammar, mechanics, usage, punctuation, sentence boundaries).
Students should learn to recognize and respond to their own patterns of
error.
·
Develop some awareness of
visually effective documents
ASSIGNMENTS
We do quite a bit of work in class, which
makes attendance important, but you must also carefully schedule an
average of three hours per week to work on your assignments outside of
class. You are asked to
produce multiple drafts of several pieces of writing, mostly academic
essays. Your grade is also based on completing essay pre-writing,
compile reading notes and completing written in class reading quizzes,
writing an essay length in-class piece at midterm and for a final. Grades
are also based on participation in peer reviews, and compilation of a
personal log of editing rules and errors. Detailed monthly
schedules of assignments will be distributed in class and updated as
necessary.
Roberts 1510
(W06)
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GRADES
(1)
You must write all required essays and complete the final project,
and pass the midterm or the final in-class writing (pass with a “D”) to
receive a D or higher final letter grade. These essays, and the final
project grade, are averaged and will make up 65% of the final grade.
Usually, the essay grades are:
Essay 1 5%
Essay 2, 3, 4
30%( 10% each)
Project 20%
Midterm or final 15%
All other points 30%
If you fail to produce at least one draft
of any essay assignment within a week of the due date, fail to take the
midterm, or fail to meet the minimum requirements of the final project, I
recommend that you discuss a WP or WF with me.
(2)
The in-class writing (midterm/final) will be worth 10% of your
final grade. Most students take both, because I count whichever grade is
higher. However, if you have a B or better or the midterm, you may elect
for that grade to count as your highest, and not take the final.
(3)
All of the weekly quizzes, peer review sessions, and all other
assignments in the class (which are scored in a points earned fashion),
and any attendance deductions, make up the remaining 30% of the grade.
Students will be assigned final grades
using the college's letter grading system
of A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C- D+, D, F.
A 94-100 percent of
the final number of total points
Final grades also include WP (withdraw
passing) and WF (withdraw failing) for students who stop attending.
“I” grades (incompletes) are reserved for students who have completed
70% of the course work and experience a late semester emergency or
illness. All grades are given at the instructor’s discretion after
conference with the student. Instructors must turn in grades 24 hours
after the last scheduled class meeting.
Roberts 1510
(W06)
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Plagiarism: The Orchard Ridge English
Department at Oakland Community College has a policy explaining its
penalties for plagiarism. Be sure to read your copy; you are responsible
for knowing and adhering to the policy. Students should seek assistance
when they need it, but work with one’s name on it should be one’s own and
not the ideas, writing, editing or proofreading of a
relative, friend, or tutor. Turning in another person’s work with your
name on it is plagiarism; I cannot give you a passing grade on any such
work. Be sure to ask first if you are not clear if you may “work
together” with another person on an assignment.
ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION, DEADLINES
Regular attendance and participation in classroom
discussions, writing workshops and peer reviews, and in-class activities
is expected. Deductions are made for late work (the number of points
depends on the number of days and the reason the work is late); points are
also deducted for lack of participation during
class activities (being “off task,” arriving late, leaving early, not
showing up at all are all examples of lack of participation). Please
don’t miss class, but if you must (due to illness or genuine emergency),
it is up to you to come prepared for the next session. Please email if you
want me to discuss what you missed. Failure to participate in
more than six hours of assigned in class activities will result in point
deductions for each activity in which the student does not participate.
The number of points deducted depends on what activity is missed and
what part, if any, can be made up. It is not always possible to
make up all the points for missed class work. If you can't reach me with
an email message, call the department secretary at 248-522-3576 and ask
her to call me or leave me a note, as some email is blocked by the college
server; I seldom remember to check campus phone messages between Friday
and Tuesday morning, so please use email during this period in
particular).
ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE
Students requiring special assistance
(including those affected by the Americans with Disabilities Act) should
contact the PASS office at 248-522-3480, room K111. They will inform the
instructor of any special conditions pertaining to students’ learning.
If you are having problems completing a
specific assignment, email me for help BEFORE it is due. The IIC
(Individualized Instruction Center-K100) has tutors with experience
and credentials available at no cost to students. The have both an open
writing lab (first come, first served). If you don't have access to a
computer, you will need to use the IIC computers during the hours they are
open. These service hours are posted each semester on the internet at
http://www.oaklandcc.edu/iic/iicor/iicor.htm
