Spring 2019 Course Syllabi

Axelrod and Cooper. Sticks and Stones and other student essays . 9th ed. Bedford St. Martin’s, 2016 Wardle and Downs. Writing about Writing . 3 st ed. Bedford St. Martin’s, 2011 Kolln and Gray. Rhetorical Grammar . 8 th ed. Pearson, 2010. (recommended) Classroom Policies: 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 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 be failed. 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 Weeks 1-2 writing for college: writing with sources; using and misusing sources Weeks 3-4 Summarizing sources about a problem or question Weeks 5-7 writing an annotated bibliography on a problem or question; categorizing sources in a research report Weeks 8-9 report explaining a problem or question Weeks 10-11 analyzing and synthesizing opposing arguments Weeks 12-13 Remix Weeks 14-16 Revision; Replacement credit; final preparation Final grades will be calculated on the total points earned for class participation activities, process work, first drafts, final drafts, and final examination. Course Objectives/Competencies