Spring 2019 Course Syllabi

 Read a diverse range of texts, attending especially to relationships between assertion and evidence, to patterns of organization, to the interplay between verbal and nonverbal elements, and to how these features function for different audiences and situations  Locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources  Use strategies--such as interpretation, synthesis, response, critique, and design/redesign-- to compose texts that integrate the writer's ideas with those from appropriate sources http://wpacouncil.org/positions/outcomes.html Relationship to Campus Theme: Explore the DCB campus theme—nature, technology, and beyond—by identifying and annotating multicultural and international children’s books as well as biography and informational books Classroom Policies: Students succeed in this class by attending class and participating. Students should be prepared for unscheduled quizzes on any reading assignment or lecture. Late work earns no credit. Work submitted anywhere other than the designated assignment space in Blackboard earns no credit. Work submitted in any format other than MS Word .doc or .docx earns no credit. Academic Integrity: The discussion of plagiarism below 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. This definition applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers. Most current discussions of plagiarism fail to distinguish between: submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source. Such discussions conflate plagiarism with the misuse of sources.