EWRT 100BTexts and materials
LART 100 and EWRT 100B Reader and Materials. Chow, Helfman, Hubbard, Sartwell, editors (available for purchase from De Anza Printing Services ).
A good English dictionary
A binder with dividers to keep all papers, notes, handouts, as well as outlines and drafts of essays.
Description and
requirements
EWRT 100B is designed to help you develop the abilities necessary
for college-level
reading and essay writing. As you strengthen your reading and writing
skills in this class, you will increase your likelihood of success in
all your other classes.
Course Objectives:
- Learn to read and analyze a variety of college-level texts
- Learn a variety of composing strategies for reading and writing
- Develop topics and ideas for essays
- Write and support thesis statements
- Organize ideas in essays
- Identify and practice writing for different audiences and purposes
- Practice a variety of rhetorical strategies to develop a foundation for handling many writing tasks
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Practice writing as a multi-step process with particular attention to planning and revision
- Compose organized, developed essays that increase in complexity
- Proofread for recurrent usage and sentence-level errors
To achieve these goals and objectives you can expect to:
- Complete 5 essay assignments (includes 2 in-class essays and a final reflective essay)
- Write several short paragraphs, numerous pre-writing assignments, and various writing skills exercises
- Read and discuss a number of essays and short articles
- Join the online class Discussion list
- Post assignments and respond to classmates' posts on the class discussion list
- Discuss your work with classmates in peer-review sessions
- Meet with me for a conference to discuss your work at least once
- Participate actively in group discussions and presentations
- Submit a final portfolio of selected assignments and a reflective essay
- Stay up-to-date on reading and assignments
- Attend class regularly and on time
You must also enroll in the EWRT 160 lab, ideally the same quarter
you take EWRT 100B. To take EWRT 1A you must successfully complete 100B and 160.
ATTENDANCE:
You are required to attend class every
day. If you must miss any class,
please call or email to let me know. Because we will be learning
new skills and discussing ideas for your essays each class session, if you miss as many as four
classes for any reason, you will have missed too much instruction and I
may drop you. You may be dropped from the course on the fourth absence
even if that absence is late in the quarter. Students who are dropped
after the eighth week will receive a grade of NO PASS.
Arriving
late is disruptive. I will count three instances of arriving late or leaving early as an absence.
Quizzes, in-class assignments, and peer-review sessions cannot be made
up. However, you may makeup one in-class essay if you contact me to
make arrangements within 24-hours of the in-class writing day.
If
you do miss a class, it is your responsibility to obtain any handout or
assignment I gave out in class and to come to the next session fully
prepared. When you return to class, you may turn in homework that was
due the day you missed, but you will receive reduced points for it and
I won’t accept it more than one class late. I suggest you exchange
phone numbers with a few classmates so you won't miss any assignments.
Grades
This is a pass/no pass class.
Your
first paper will be an ungraded, Sample Essay. I'll give you feedback
on this first essay to let you know some of the areas you'll need to
work on this quarter. The next essays will each be worth 25 points and
I will let you know if the writing is strong, adequate, or not yet
adequate : 100B Essay Evaluation Criteria . If I evaluate one of your take-home essays as not yet
adequate, you must revise it and turn it in again before the next essay
is due if you’d like me to score it again. (If you miss this deadline,
you may still choose to revise take-home essays for the portfolio.)
Ideally, you should first meet with me in a conference to discuss your
plans for revision.
The final for this class will be a portfolio of your writing which will include
one in-class essay,
one essay written out of class,
(at least one of these first two essays must be an analytical essay)
and a third essay reflecting on your growth as a writer this quarter.
Your portfolio will be evaluated by a team of English department
readers who will determine if the writing demonstrates that you are
ready for EWRT 1A. If two members of the portfolio evaluation team
determine you are ready for EWRT 1A, you will receive the grade of PASS
for 100B. If two evaluators determine your writing does not yet
indicate readiness for EWRT 100B, you will receive a NO PASS grade for
EWRT 100B.In order to submit a portfolio for evaluation, you
must first satisfactorily complete the other work of this class.
That
will require
turning in all the essays and
earning at least 75 out of a possible 100 points on the scored essays.
In addition, you must achieve a 75% or better on all the other
required work: homework, posting online, class participation, peer
review, quizzes, other in-class assignments, and participation in the
required conference with me.
Essay format
Type
all take-home essays, double-spaced on one side of the page. Please
staple your pages together. Hand in all drafts and related materials
stapled or clipped to the final draft.
Late papers
Essays
should be handed in at the beginning of class on the day they are due.
I will, however, accept take-home essays up to a week late if you make
an arrangement with me before the due date. The portfolio cannot be
submitted late.
Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
Any time you use
writing or ideas that are not your own in an essay, you must cite
your source.
We will be going over how to do this in class, and I'll be happy to
answer any questions about the hows and whys. Using others' words or
ideas in
part or whole without acknowledgment is plagiarism, will certainly
result in a failing essay and could result in failing the course. And,
while it's always fine to seek help with your writing in the Writing and Reading Center or from me, it is not acceptable to have anyone else correct
your errors for you. If you receive a NO PASS on an essay due
to plagiarism, you will not
be able to rewrite it. Repeated plagiarism will result in failing the course. I take these issues very seriously and fully
expect that you will not copy other people's work and pretend it is
your own, have someone else write your essays for you, nor will you
have someone else correct your writing errors for you. If you feel
stuck, or need help at anytime, please come talk to me.
Writing is a time consuming, often confusing, messy process. Please let
me know anytime you have a problem or a question about our work, or
want to discuss ideas for one of your essays. Feel free to stop by
during my office hours or make an appointment for a time that works
better for you. I look forward to working with you this quarter.
Contact Information:
Office: F31G (Building F3 near Parking Lot B: Campus map)
Phone: 408/864-8201
Email: helfmansuzanne@fhda.edu
Website: http://faculty.deanza.edu/helfmansuzanne/
Office Hours:
For counseling questions, please email or call Renee McGinley,
Academic Advisor, for an appointment: mcginleyrenee@fhda.edu - 864-5856
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