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Students should come to every scheduled class on time and prepared to participate in the class
session’s activities. Most class sessions will include a brief quiz on the day’s lesson. Students
should post responses to all online discussion topics, read the assignments, and submit all the
process work for the essays as well as the essays, both draft and final. Late work earns half credit
and earns nothing if seven or more days late. 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 be failed.
If a student misses class, or a significant portion of any 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 ten points of in-class assignment that earned a zero. 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 course’s textbooks and in articles to be assigned in the
library’s Online Library Resources, will write weekly on reading assignments and discussion
topics based on the readings mentioned above, and will write paragraphs and essays on assigned
topics. Weekly work on syntax and word choice will be given, and issues in punctuation will be
analyzed and illustrated from the readings for the course.
Tentative Course Outline
Week 1-2 writing for college: argumentation and writing with sources
Week 3-7 essay summarizing first brown bag presentation
Week 8-12 essay summarizing second brown bag presentation; paper categorizing sources in a
research report
Week 13-16 essay summarizing third brown bag presentation; paper reporting antithetical
writing
Week 17 Final essay synthesizing Hamilton’s
Deeply Rooted
and the three presentations
Students’ final grades will be calculated on the total points earned for class participation
activities, process work, first drafts, final drafts, midterm, and final examination. These points
are listed below
400 – quizzes in class to assess development of reading and writing
200 – an essay reporting
the pros and cons of factory farming