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EWRT2EWRT2--Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking -- Winter 2012
EWRT002-02 meets MW from 7:30AM-9:45 AM in AT202
CRN 00807
INSTRUCTOR: Wallis Leslie
OFFICE: F11M Wednesdays, 10:00-11:00 AM
PHONE : 408-864-8999 ex 3740
EMAIL: lesliewallis@fhda.edu
FACULTY WEB PAGE: http://faculty.deanza.edu/lesliewallis
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and then go on to calm everyone down and explain the advantages of your position, chances are you will have taken EWRT2. Daily we are besieged by competing, conflicting claims for our attention, for our money, and for our time. We can deal effectively with these noisy, urgent claims by developing the skills we learn in this course: how to sort out arguments, how to question propositions, how to consider alternative views, how to examine and evaluate evidence, how to recognize errors in reasoning, how to spot assumptions that need to be examined instead of ignored, how to assess the media's credibility, and, finally, how to put all our discoveries into clear, cogent prose.
Success in this class is based upon satisfactory achievement in the following areas:
ATTENDANCE: EWRT2 is a fast-paced, intense learning experience. Successful students arrive on time for each class and attend every class.
PAPERS: Four essays (4-6 typed, double-spaced pages, not counting the title page and the WORKS CITED page). On the title page will be a copy of the thesis in addition to wherever it appears in the body of the paper. Staple an early draft to the back of the final draft. Be sure to keep a copy of your submitted work and to retain all returned work until after you have received your final grade.
CLASS PARTICIPATION: Informed, detailed, and responsive answers to class discussion questions and energetic participation in group activities will earn top credit here.
QUIZZES: Short questions about assigned reading. No make-ups.
TESTS: There will be a midterm and a final exam consisting of short answer and essay questions covering class work and assigned reading.
INTEGRITY ALERT: Plagiarism (presenting other people's words or ideas as one's own without documentation) will not be tolerated in this class.
GRADES: Grades are based on points. Keep a record of the points you have earned as well as the points that are possible to earn for all the class activities so that you will always know your current grade. Points are earned for papers (100 each), midterm (100), final (200), class participation (100), quizzes (10 each), and class projects (10-20 each). Points are subtracted for late papers and for excessive absences (you will be marked absent if you arrive late or leave early). Of total possible points, 94-100%= A; 90-93%=A-; 87-89%=B+; 84-86%=B; 80-83%=B-; 77-79%=C+;70-76%=C; 60-69%=D; less than 60% of total possible points = F
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Writing Logically, Thinking Critically, 6th ed., Sheila Cooper and Rosemary Patton
Exploring Language, 12th ed., Gary Goshgarian
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
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