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kevin eric depew
calendar The principal objective of 110C is to prepare you to be an effective writer of the kinds of writing you will be called on to produce during your college careers, professional careers, civic actions, and personal and social lives. By the end of the course, you should be more mature in your understanding and use of language, should develop efficient writing processes, should know the qualities of effective composition in a given rhetorical situation, and should be able to demonstrate those qualities in your own writing. The criteria for successful college writing include the following:
In short, you, before receiving a passing grade in English 110C, should be able to state clearly what you have to say; to support adequately your stated or implied thesis or purpose; to write papers that are coherent, showing an orderly progression of sentences and paragraphs; and to write sentences that are clear, concise, specific, and appropriate for the audience. Prerequisites To be enrolled in English 110C you must pass the Writing Sample Placement Test.
Readings will be retrieved from... Each assignment will be submitted in a portfolio (i.e., the manila folder) which includes the final draft of the assignment and any minor assignments (i.e., class work or homework) that contributed to this assignment. Marks and feedback on these minor assignments will factored into your grade for that assignment. Discourse Community Analysis (50 points): As a way to reflect on the writing that you have done in your life and understand the writing you will be doing in college and beyond, you will be given the opportunity to examine the skills you have learn from previous discourse communities and speculate how they will influence your participation in future discourse communities. Prep Blog Entries (50 points): Throughout the semester you will be asked to do writing to apply concepts from the subject matter we are discussing or do preparation work for an upcoming assignment. These are opportunities for you to get feedback on material that might end up in your essays. Proposal (100 points): After you have chosen a writing-related problem or issue that you want to research and address, you will explain your current knowledge, your positions, and detail the primary and secondary research methods you will use to learn more about this issue for the IMRAD Research Essay. Research Blog Entries (100 points): To learn about the writing-related subject you are studying, you will conduct textual research. You will be required to first examine three popular articles (i.e., newspaper, magazines) and then two academic journal articles. IMRAD Research Essay (150 points): Using the IMRAD format, you will write an essay reporting the writing-related issue you studied, what you learned from other sources about this writing, how you conducted research, what you learned from this research, and what you think the data means. Research Remix with Rhetorical Reflection (150 points): Because IMRAD is not the most appropriate genre for all audiences and purposes, you will be asked to remix or re-present your IMRAD Research Essay for specific non-academic audience for a specific purpose. The final product can be, but is not limited to, a magazine article, a workshop script, a YouTube video. Three Means of Failing the Course related to Major Assignments
Minor Assignments There are a lot of smaller assignments that you will do for homework or in-class that will help you prepare and prewrite for the larger assignments. These assignments include peer reviews, group activities and exercises, required email postings, group work evaluations, and other short in- and out-of-class assignments. You will submit these with your assignment portfolios. Use these writing opportunities to your advantage instead of treating them as "busy work." A lot of the work that you do for these smaller assignments can be used directly in the major assignments; therefore, you will want to take these assignments seriously. This also gives you an opportunity to get serious feedback from the instructor on your work-in-progress. So, just fulfilling these assignments will often result in twice as much work for you. The instructor reserves the right to add additional minor assignments when it seems necessary for and beneficial to the students. Major Assignments I will be looking for evidence of each student's progress towards coherent and effective work. More specifically I will be looking for evidence of...
Portfolio Grades In addition to reviewing and evaluating the final product, the instructor will also review the minor assignments, the previous feedback made on those documents, and how you responded to that feedback on the final document you submitted. If you want to draw the instructor's attention to certain choices that you have made, you can submit a memo (no more than one-page) within your portfolio that explains these choices; the instructor will consider the memo when evaluating your overall work. Grade Scale Your final grade (600 points) and assignments will be graded on the following point scale* :
*= The instructor reserves the right to adjust this scale based on the
students' performance throughout the semester. Any adjustments will 1)
apply to the entire class and 2) never deny a student the grade that she/he
earns based upon this posted scale. Students are required to attend every class. If you miss a class, for whatever reason, you are responsible for making up any missed work. In this class, you will do a lot of work and discussion of ideas in the classroom. Therefore the attendance policies are:
As a general rule, a student missing a class assignment because of observance of a religious holiday or participating in any official extracurricular activity shall have the opportunity to make up missed work by following the guidelines above. Electronica refers to technology-related issues. E.mail
Accounts It is recommended that you work with your ODU gmail account. At the very least, you are required to forward your ODU mail to the account you use most. To get an ODU account go to ITS. You are responsible for making sure that files and messages are successfully received by the instructor and your peers; other email providers cannot provide this security. Also you will want to be aware that some evaluated coursework will be returned via email; if you are concerned about other parties reading these messages, please make alternate arrangements with the instructor. E.mail
Protocols Also use the priority setting rhetorically; in other words, make your email message stand out when you really need to draw the recipient's attention to your message. Do not use the priority setting on your standard assignment submissions or for simple requests. LAN
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Ethics and Respect As per the University's Honor Code, you must do your own original work in this classand appropriately identify that portion of your work which is...
The university defines plagiarism as follows:
If you have doubts about whether or not you are using your own or others' writing ethically, legally, or correctly, ask the instructor. Follow this primary principle: If in doubt, ask. Be up front and honest about what you are doing and about what you have contributed to an assignment. If you have a documented disability, make sure you register with Disability Services (757. 683.4655). Once you do so, feel free to talk to the instructor about any special accommodations that you may need to fulfill the requirements of this course. At the end of the semester, you will have an opportunity to evaluate the instructor and the course. This is very important for helping the instructor and the department assess the course. Please take the time at the end of the semester to do these online evaluations.
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