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Salt Lake Community College English 1010, Intro to Writing Syllabus: Policies and Tentative Schedule Professor Allison

Fernley Fall 2013 (August 21 - December 12) Professor: Email: Office: Phone: Office Hrs: Writing Center: Required Textbook Allison Fernley Allison.Fernley@slcc.edu Please use this email to get the quickest response Redwood-Taylorsville Campus, Business Building, Room 207 E 801-957-4376

M 4:00 - 4:30; T 1:15 2:45; Online: M/W 9:30 - 11:00 (use email or Canvas Chat), and by appointment.
W 2:30 4:30; Th 1:30 2:30 (AD 218) (Starting August 28)

They Say / I Say with Readings by Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russel Durst, 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton: 2011. 2012. (ISBN# 978-0-393-91275-3 pbk). Make sure to purchase the edition with readings and bring the book with you to class. Course Description English 1010 emphasizes that academic writing (and much other writing and discourse) is fundamentally about entering ongoing conversations and understanding the rhetorical choices (choices of effective expression) people use to communicate their ideas to a specific audience. To this end, as writers, you must attend to what they say before answering with I say. It is only by connecting your ideas to others ideas that you can write effectively, making an impact on readers and issues. To help you write with an impact, to connect what you want to say with what others have said, the course breaks the writing process into a series of moves, or habits of mind, you will learn to deploy for your own purposes. These include attending to the complexity of issues by

learning the contexts within which writing/reading/talking about issues takes place; reading critically, summarizing others writing, and synthesizing several threads of a larger
written conversation about an issue; writing;

examining your own ideas in response by analyzing and evaluating the persuasiveness of others

doing research to expand your knowledge and take a position on an issue; revising your ideas and responses through drafts and conversations with class members.
Through this process, you will strengthen your ability to make thought-provoking contributions to written conversations both assigned and of your choice. Course Outcomes Following are the English Department's outcomes for English 1010. By the end of English 1010, you should be able to write using various

Rhetorical strategies, including adapting to differences in purpose, audience and genre; Critical thinking and reading processes, including summary, analysis, synthesis, and argument; Composing processes, such as invention, drafting, revision, editing, peer feedback, and selfassessment;

Conventions of writing, especially the conventions of correctly citing multiple texts and
incorporating them into your own writing Additionally, this class and our classroom interactions invite you to develop several habits of mind. As defined by national organizations devoted to postsecondary writing, "Habits of mind refers to ways of approaching learning that are both intellectual and practical and that will support students success in a variety of fields and disciplines":

Curiosity the desire to know more about the world. Openness the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world. Engagement a sense of investment and involvement in learning. Creativity the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing
ideas.

Persistence the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects. Responsibility the ability to take ownership of ones actions and understand the consequences
of those actions for oneself and others.

Flexibility the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands. Metacognition the ability to reflect on ones own thinking as well as on the individual and
cultural processes used to structure knowledge. ("Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing," NCTE Framework) Grading and Late Work Your major papers must be done in MS Word or PDF formats and follow the conventions of MLA style: 12pt font (Times New Roman or Garamond), 1-inch margins, double-spaced, no title page. In a header flush right, you put your last name and a page numbering code. In the top left corner put your name, my name (Allison Fernley), the class and section #, and the date. Then double-space and center the title of the assignment. (To see examples of how to prepare your documents in MLA style, go to http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/1/ or http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/RES5e_ch08_o.html. You can also go to www.easybib.com for help in generating your Works Cited page).

Your final grade is determined thus: 30 %: Daily Work, Discussions, Participation, Attendance: As we work towards graded writing assignments, we will do much preparation work including online discussions, drafting, responding to others, and various other exercises/assignments that will earn you points. This will include posting drafts of your paper on time for your group to review and making thoughtful comments on classmates drafts. All this work earns credit if it is done thoroughly and on time. You will also earn points for attendance and participation in each class session. +70% Major Assignments broken down as follows: 15 % 15 % 20 % 20 % 100% Response Paper Rhetorical Analysis Final Project, part 1: Annotated Bibliography (goes in ePortfolio) Final Project, part 2: Position Synthesis (goes in ePortfolio)

All your work is due as indicated on the calendar (and in Assignments). See the Assignments tab (on the left-side Canvas menu) for descriptions of your papers. To earn at least a C in this course, you must complete all major assignments on time. See Grading Contract for further details. While I do not accept late work in this course, I recognize we all have crises we cannot foresee. For that reason, you can turn in 2 assignments with no questions asked ( NQA--type NQA at the top of the assignment). You can also request a 48-hour extension for major papers if you can justify your request with good reasoning. Please let me know of any issues before assignments are due so we can try to resolve them. An incomplete can only be given in extreme circumstances and only if you have satisfactorily completed 70% of the semester's work. OTHER COURSE POLICIES Plagiarism You commit plagiarism when you submit another authors work as your own. Plagiarism also includes the failure to attribute unique phrases, passages, or ideas to their original source. If you commit plagiarism you will receive an automatic E for that assignment or an E for the course, depending upon the severity of the infraction. If you have questions about effectively using and citing sources, please let me know. Plagiarism is a violation of the SLCC Student Code (see Student Code of Conduct under the Support tab at top Canvas menu). From the Student Code of Conduct The College is committed to equitable, civil, and concerned treatment for all individuals regardless of age, gender, race, color, national origin, disabling conditions, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status." I will ask that we follow these policies in our interactions with each other, our discussions, and our writings. General Education ePortfolio Each student in General Education courses at SLCC maintains a General Education ePortfolio. Instructors in every Gen Ed course will ask you to put at least one assignment from the course into your ePortfolio, and accompany it with reflective writing. It is a requirement in this class for you to add to your ePortfolio, and this syllabus details the assignments and reflections you are to include. Your ePortfolio will allow you to include your educational goals, describe your extracurricular activities, and post your resume. When you finish your time at SLCC, your ePortfolio will then be a multi-media showcase of your educational experience. For detailed information visit http://www.slcc.edu/gened/eportfolio.

After you have picked an ePortfolio platform, go to the corresponding help site to watch the tutorials and look at the examples so you can get started on your own: https://sites.google.com/site/slcceport http://slcceportfolio.wordpress.com http://slcceportfolio.weebly.com ePortfolio Lab Hours for Fall. If you would like to start your ePortfolio in a computer lab with a person there to help you, sign up online for one of the free workshops at the Taylorsville-Redwood library: http://libweb.slcc.edu/services/forms/eportfolio. Writing Center and Technology SLCC has a Writing Center at each large campus (AD 218 at Redwood, N316 at South City Campus, and HTC 102 at Jordan Campus). SLCCs Student Writing Center offers an advising program in which you have the opportunity to discuss your work with a peer tutor or faculty writing advisor. Advisors are able to help you with any writing assignment for any class. To make an appointment at Redwood, sign up in AD 218 or call 801.957.4893. You may also send a draft to an advisor through e-mail by going to http://www.slccswc.org/onlinetut.php. Be sure to include questions and concerns you may have and a copy of the writing assignment, and leave plenty of time for turnaround.

Email: You can easily forward your Canvas email to one you use more commonly, your

BruinMail SLCC account, to a cell phone, etc (see Settings in the upper right corner). I will also make announcements for any changes through Canvas, so be sure to check there frequently.

SLCC Library homepage: http://libweb.slcc.edu/ (Support tab)


Accommodation for Disabilities - ADA Statement Students with medical, psychological, learning or other disabilities desiring accommodations or services under ADA must contact the Disability Resource Center (DRC). The DRC determines eligibility for and authorizes the provision of these accommodations and services for the college. Please contact the DRC at the Student Center, Suite 244, Redwood Campus, 4600 So. Redwood Rd, 84123. Phone: (801) 9574659, TTY: 957-4646, Fax: 957- 4947 or by email: linda.bennett@slcc.edu

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