Fall 2018 Course Syllabi

Explanatory Strategies Cueing Techniques Prewriting Drafting Revision Editing General Education Objectives The information in this section is quoted from the ND University System website at the link below that ends the quoted material of this section. The following competencies reflect the contribution of College Composition I to the General Education Objectives and thus are assessed as part of the course as well as part of the assessment of learning outcomes of the General Education Curriculum.  Students will be able to write in different essay types or genres (such as memoir, letter, proposal, exam essay) for a variety of audiences and in a variety of contexts. Students will be aware of and will practice inventing, planning, drafting, and revising.  Students will read closely and analyze what is read.  Students will begin to learn to find and evaluate information resources, then integrate and acknowledge sources in their writing.  Students will learn to work collaboratively with others and will apply a variety of invention and review techniques to their own and each other’s writings. http://www.ndus.edu/uploads%5Cresources%5C1730%5Cenglish-competencies.pdf Relationship to Campus Theme: For one of the assignments, students will define a concept or explain a process relevant to the campus theme: nature, technology, and beyond. Academic Integrity: Academic integrity is introduced and discussed the first two weeks of the class. Any student work submitted that meets the definition of plagiarism below will fail this class. The discussion of plagiarism that follows comes from the Council of Writing Program Administrators. “In instructional settings, plagiarism is a multifaceted and ethically complex problem. However, if any definition of plagiarism is to be helpful to administrators, faculty, and students, it needs to be as simple and direct as possible within the context for which it is intended. Definition: In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.