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.................................Skyline
College
........................English
100: College Composition -- Exploring California
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Fall
2001
Course
Meetings: T Th 12:35-1:50pm
Room 2104, Units 3.0
Schedule #85832 - Engl 100AL
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"As I read
more deeply into the literature and history of California, I
began to see that no issue has shaped life there more
powerfully than the mix of peoples. TheGold Rush produced,
for instance, the most multicultural society the United
States had ever seen." -- David Wyatt Five Fires: Race,
Catastrophe, and the Shaping of
California
Course
Prerequisites: Writing Prereq: Completion of
ENG 800 or 400 with a grade C or higher or appropriate
scores on approved college placement tests. Reading Prereq:
READ 802 with credit or a grade of C or higher, or
eligibility for 400-level Reading courses on approved
Reading placement test.
Course
Classification: Applicable to AA. Meets A2
& A3 for CSU GE and Area 1, Group A for IGETC.
Course Objectives: The
purpose of this course is to help students develop their
ability to write thoughtfully and effectively. The premise
of this course is that writing is an integral part of the
thinking process and that successful essay writing depends
on a mixture of creative thinking and an awareness of
writing styles and forms. The objective of this course is to
guide students toward becoming critical readers, writers,
and thinkers through recognizing the effective writing
strategies of other writers, through becoming aware of their
own processes of writing, and through learning to discern
logical relationships between words, ideas, and
arguments.
Required Materials:
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Toward the Setting Sun by Mary Barmeyer
O'Brien
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California Time by Ernest J. Finney
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Forever Foreigners or Honory Whites? by
Mia Tuan
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Five Fires by David Wyatt
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Macho! by Victor Villasenor
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$5 Materials Fee Computer Card
Course Policies:
(1) Attendance-- Your
active participation is necessary for you and your
classmates to realize the objectives of this course.
Therefore your attendance is crucial. A maximum of 4 (four)
absences is permitted; each absence after the fourth will
significantly lower your grade.
(2) Late Assignments--No
late work will be accepted. All due dates are given well in
advance; therefore I feel that it is unfair to the students
who complete their work on time to accept the work from
those who do not. However, because "life happens," each
student will be allowed two "late tickets" during the
semester; twice students may choose to turn an assignment in
the following class period after the due date. Late
assignments beyond this will not be accepted.
(3)
Plagiarism--
Paraphrasing or directly copying any text and using
it as your own without proper attribution, done
intentionally or not, is plagiarism and is unacceptable and
can result in failure.
(4) Class
participation-- Remember that participation
counts--both for your grade and in your life. It is
essential that you become consciously involved in class by
participating in discussions and contributing thoughtful
comments, questions, and answers.
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"The best
reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may
then change it." -- Bernard De Voto
Papers:
Six major papers will be written for this class. The
requirements are as follows:
(1) Due Dates--- Paper
#1 (2-4 pages, 500-1000
words)..........Draft
due 9/4, Revised 9/11 (on O'Brien)
...................Paper
#2 (3-5 pages, 750-1250
words)..........Draft
due 10/2, Revised 10/9 (on Finney)
...................Paper
#3 Midterm essay exam on Tuesday 10/30 (on Villasenor)
.....Collaborative
Paper #4 (4-6 pages, 1000-1500
words)........Draft
due 11/20, Revised 11/27 (on Tuan)
.........Research
Paper #5 (5-7 pages, 1250-1750
words)........Draft
due 12/11, Revised 12/18 (on Wyatt)
...................Paper
#6 Final essay exam-2 ½ hours on Tuesday, Dec 18th
11:10am-1:40pm (on Wyatt)
(2) Revision-- E.B.
White said, "The best writing is rewriting." Because
revising or "re-seeing" a piece of writing is such an
important aspect of the writing process, each of the papers
has two due dates. Each student will receive feedback and
suggestions on each of his/her papers through class
workshop/discussion groups; then each student will be asked
to revise each paper based on peer feedback. Please note: if
the first due date for a paper is missed, the paper cannot
be turned in at all.
(3) Workshopping-- This
class will serve as a sort of a writing community in which
each student can draw, as well as contribute, valuable
ideas, insight, and advise on writing and presenting
arguments. Each paper will be read, discussed, and commented
upon by student workshop groups. Workshop days are very
important, and therefore a missed workshop day will count as
two (2) absences and a late paper will not be accepted.
Students without a completed paper (meeting page and format
requirements) will not be allowed to participate in the
workshop. Below are the workshop dates--students must bring
a copy of their paper for themselves as well as for the
other members of their group:
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Workshop for Paper #1: Tues
9/4............Workshop
for Paper #4: Tues 11/20
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Workshop for Paper #2: Tues
10/2...........Workshop
for Paper #5: Tues 12/11
(4) Format--Papers must
meet the required minimum length or run the risk of not
being accepted. All papers must be typed, double-spaced,
have 1" margins, and have a font of 12.
......................."The
Valley had no calendar. Time in California wasn't measured
out in months;
..........
it was by
crops. Spring meant strawberries, then the apricots,
cherries, peaches, and it was summer,
.......hot
as fire; tomatoes, squash, plums, Thompson seedless, figs.
Fall, still blazing hot, was cotton, persimmons,
..........pomegranates,
walnuts, almonds. Winter was oranges, tangerines, and
lemons. Then the dead time
....................
arrived,
tule fog like a thick spread of moonwash hiding the sun, and
you couldn't be sure
..............................
if you were
awake or alive, everyone laying low, waiting for the first
almond
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blossoms in
February, when time started up again.
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Clocks were
just ornaments here."
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-Ernest J.
Finney California Time
Course
Grade:................................Record
Your Own Grades:
Paper
1................................10%...........Score
for Paper
1......______
x .10 = _____
Paper
2................................10%...........Score
for Paper
2......______
x .10 = _____
Paper 3--In
Class10/30...............10%...........Score
for Paper
3......______
x .10 = _____
Paper
4................................15%...........Score
for Paper
4......______
x .15 = _____
Paper
5................................20%...........Score
for Paper
5......______
x .20 = _____
Paper 6-In Class
12/18................15%...........Score
for Paper
6......______
x .15 = _____
Quizzes &
Homework.................10%...........Avg.
Quiz/HM score ______ x .10 = _____
*
Participation.........................10%............Participation.............______
x .10 = _____
* Participation includes being prepared each day,
meeting......*TOTAL:
(convert total to %) ________
with me at least once during the course of the
semester,.......*
Deduct 1% for each absence over allowed 4.
adding to daily discussion, and giving your
classmates............Scoring
as follows: A=100-90, B=89-80,
thoughtful responses to their writing in
workshops..........................C=79-70,
D=69-60, F=59-0
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