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Students should post or email responses to all discussion topics, read the assignments, submit all the
essays and revisions, and take the daily quizzes given during class sessions. Late work earns no credit.
Work submitted to this class should be written for this class this semester. Plagiarized work of the sort
described in the section below “Academic Integrity” will earn zero points, and the student will be
required to do additional work to demonstrate understanding of plagiarism.
Policy on Devices and Class Participation
So that everyone enrolled in the course may learn, students should attend class, on time, and focus on the
topic of each class period. Class meetings will use active learning to meet the class learning objectives.
Active learning means interaction between students and the instructor but also interaction among students.
Most class periods, classroom assessment techniques will be used to gauge student understanding of daily
learning. This means brief in-class quizzes of different types: multiple choice, true/false, written response,
or graded notes.
If a student misses class for any reason and does not earn points for in-class work, this work can be
made up by writing a paper of one hundred words for each in-class assignment missed. The final draft
should meet the instructor’s criteria for the paper written to replace the in-class work missed. The paper to
earn replacement credit for the first eight weeks should be submitted before midterm grades are due. The
paper to earn replacement credit for the second eight weeks should be submitted before the last day of
final examinations.
Course Requirements:
Students will read assignments in the
St Martins Guide, Rhetorical Grammar, Sentence Combining,
and
Writing about Writing,
will write on reading assignments and discussion topics from the textbook, and
will write paragraphs and essays on assigned topics.
Tentative Course Outline
Reading Academic Writing
Plagiarism
Explanatory Strategies
Cueing Techniques
Prewriting
Revision
Editing
General Education Objectives
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.
Competency:
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.
Sub-competencies:
• Use the stages of the writing process to develop, organize, and present ideas in writing.