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EWRT 1B SYLLABUSREADING, WRITING, and RESEARCH
I want to extend a warm hello to all of you who signed up for this section of EWRT 1B. My name is Rebecca Board Liljenstolpe, and I have been teaching at De Anza since 1997. I look forward to getting to know each of you and facilitating our online learning community.
You have signed up for a course called Reading, Writing, and Research. Our main objectives this quarter are to continue developing your critical reading, writing and thinking skills and to learn how to engage in academic research.
Reading: We will be discussing four novels this quarter. I chose these because they are entertaining, relatively quick reads about interesting subjects, and they will allow us to draw some connections and generate topics for your research projects. The books are best sellers available at any online or local bookstore. These books are also available at the De Anza Bookstore.
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Flight by Sherman Alexie
Writing: Each Tuesday I will collect your research journal. Please use loose leaf or printer paper that you can either keep in a folder or in a three-ring binder. Think of this journal as a place where we can have a three-way conversation about the ideas you encounter as you read. This is the place where your research project topic will emerge, and the more thoughtful your explorations of the reading, the more observations you make and the more questions you ask, the closer you come to discovering the topic you want to write about this quarter. You can expand upon things you post to the dicussion forum, and you can even cut and paste your forum comments and elaborate on them. Plan on turning in about two pages or more each Tuesday class meeting. If you miss one week, you will be expected to turn in the late pages along with the next week's assignment.
Research: Many college courses require you to conduct research and compile your work into either a paper, speech, or presentation, and this course will show you not only how to approach a research project from start to finish but how to locate, evaluate, integrate and document research material into your assignments. By learning how to research a question or problem and to compile your information into a coherent report, you are also developing life-long skills that will enable you to problem solve at home and in your profession.
You will be turning in a total of 9 Research Assignments to the CATALYST Assignment drop box (the companion website for the course). These assignments were designed by De Anza librarian Pauline Yeckley as part of a one unit distance learning course called LCEN 50. As you complete them, please remember that the work needs to be posted to the CATALYST assignment drop box and NOT to the librarian. We have her permission to use the assignments, but she will get confused if you email her your work instead of me. The weekly research assignment will be due no later than Saturday each week, with a one point per day penalty for each day they are late.
Reading/Quizzes We will have weekly reading quizzes (7 total) to motivate you and to help you assess how well you are comprehending the reading material. Questions will come from the reading assignments, so please be sure to keep up with the reading as quiz scores quickly add up. These quizzes/skills checks are each worth 10 points and will be given at the start of class each week (Tuesdays).
Online Discussion: Each week there will be a discussion topic posted to our CATALYST classroom (our companion website for this class). You will be expected to post your thoughts and read the comments of others. You should plan on posting two comments each week. There will also be a discussion forum devoted to The Research Process, so if you have any questions or comments related to this work or about research in general, post them here.
Contacting the Instructor
You should feel comfortable contacting me via email or through yahoo instant messenger. My IM name is r_stolpe, and I will be available for IM discussion Wednesdays after 8:30 PM. My scheduled office hours for fall quarter are Tuesdays fand Thursdays from 10-11 in F61-f.
Plagiarism Policy
Because I respect the opinions and ideas of others, I am strongly against cheating and stealing and will uphold a strict plagiarism policy. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT VERY CAREFULLY:
1. Students who submit the work of others in whole or in part will receive a zero and may fail the course if the plagiarism continues.
2. Incidents of cheating will be reported to the Dean of Language Arts and the Dean of Student Development.
3. Plagiarized assignments may not be revised or resubmitted.
It is the student's responsibility to cite sources and avoid sloppy research. Be sure that any phrases, sentences, or paragraphs that you did not create get placed in quotation marks and be sure to attribute them to their author. Plagiarism is easy to spot, especially for a writing teacher, so ask for help before you throw your grade away.
If you feel you need to do some research but are not sure how to quote an author or document your sources, ASK FOR HELP. There are also several useful resources on the web. You can start by checking out Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing from The Online Writing Lab at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_quotprsum.html).
Grading
These are the graded requirements:
Participation (Attendance and Online Discussion) (100 pts)
7 Reading Quizzes (70 pts)
9 Online Research Assignments (90 pts)
Research Journal (70 pts)
Paper a/Draft of Research Project with primary sources (25 pts)
Paper b/Research Project with at least 5 secondary sources (25 pts)
Paper c/Final Draft (60 pts)
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