Skyline College
English 100:
College Composition —Fall 2017
Course
Theme—Environment and Sustainability
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Professor: Rachel Bell |
Class Meetings:
Tues/Thurs 11:10-12:25pm, room 8224 |
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Office Location: 7306 and Office
Phone: 738-4349 |
Course Number 91408, 3.0 units |
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Web Address: http://accounts.smccd.edu/bellr/ |
Office
hours: Tues/Thurs 1-3pm |
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E-mail: bellr@smccd.edu |
Course dates: 8/16/17 to
12/12/17 |
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Course
Description: 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. SMCCD
EMAIL ACCOUNT: I
will occasionally be sending important updates and assignment reminders
through email, so be sure to activate your smccd.edu email account by logging
in at http://my.smccd.edu/. Check it
regularly throughout the semester. If
you would rather use your own email, you will need to forward your
my.smccd.edu email to your regular email account: 1.
Go to Websmart at https://websmart.smccd.edu/
2.
In your student account area, click on the link that says "New! Student
Email" 3.
Here, you may view your email address and password, and you may reset your
password. 4.
IMPORTANT: Open your my.smccd.edu email. 5.
Click “Settings” at the top of the page. 6.
Click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab. 7.
Under Forwarding, click the “Forward a copy of incoming mail” button. 8.
Enter the email address you want to forward your email to 9. Click “Save Changes.” Required Textbooks: (2) The Sustainability
Generation: The Politics of Change and Why Personal Accountability is (4) Department
Rhetoric--Optional: Unless you prefer a print version (which you can (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
over the course of the semester.
Exceeding these absences will adversely affect your participation
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. You cannot use late
tickets on in-class exams. (3) Class participation—Remember that participation counts--both for your
grade and in your life. It is
essential that you become consciously involved in class and online by
participating in discussions and contributing thoughtful comments, questions,
and answers. (4) Disabled Students— In coordination with the
Disability Resource Center office, reasonable accommodation will be provided
for eligible students with disabilities.
For more assistance, please contact the DRC Bldg 5, Room 5132, phone
650-738-4280, email skydrc@smccd.edu. (5) Plagiarism-- Paraphrasing or directly
copying any text and using it as your own without proper attribution, whether
you’ve done it intentionally or not, is plagiarism and is unacceptable and will
result in failure. We will
carefully look at how to integrate and properly document outside
sources. Students will also submit an
“Honesty Pledge” at the beginning of the semester, stating that all work
submitted will be their own: http://www.skylinecollege.edu/skyenglish/10Plagiarism.htm (6) Technology Policy—These policies are made with this idea in mind… Papers: (1) Due
Dates-- Paper #1 (2-4 pages, 500-1000 words) Draft due 9/19, Revised 9/26
Paper #3
Midterm 75-minute essay exam on 11/7 from 11:10-12:25pm Paper #5 Final
essay exam—2 ½ hours on 12/12 from 11:10-1:40pm (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. The first
draft is not graded and is used for class workshopping, so students can give and
receive advice to apply to the graded revision due a week later. If you would like instructor feedback on
your draft, make an office or phone appointment. On papers, you must meet the page
minimums. 5% deducted for half a page under and minus 10% for each full page
under the minimum. (3) Workshopping—Each draft will be read and commented upon by student workshop
groups. You do not want to come
unprepared to or miss a workshop day because: (1) students without a
completed paper on the day of the workshop will not be allowed to participate
and will be asked to leave; (2) workshop days count as double-absences; (3)
you won’t get any peer feedback on your draft; (4) you won’t be able to give
written feedback on your peers’ drafts so will receive zero scores and peer
review counts as 5% of your overall course grade; (5) if you do not submit a
draft, you cannot turn in a revision a week later for a grade and you cannot
pass this class if you fail to turn in one of the major papers. Below are the important workshop
dates: Paper 1 10% Score
for Paper 1 ______ x
.10 =
_____ Paper 2 10% Score
for Paper 2 ______ x
.10 =
_____ Paper 3—Midterm 10% Score for Paper 3 ______ x .10 =
_____ Paper 4 20% Score
for Paper 4 ______ x
.20 =
_____ Paper 5—Final 20% Score
for Paper 5 ______ x
.20 =
_____ Peer
Paper Review 5% Average
Peer Review ______ x .05 =
_____ TOTAL: (convert total to %) ________
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