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SYLLABUS
COLLEGE WRITING I
ENG 111-MH (SPRING
2016)
M-W 10:00AM – 11:15
AM
Malden High (room TBA)
THE MOST UP-TO-DATE
VERSION OF THIS SYLLABUS, ALONG WITH ANY LAST MINUTE CHANGES TO
ASSIGNMENTS, WILL ALWAYS BE ONLINE AT THE CLASS BLOG: http://eng-111-mh.blogspot.com/
Please check the blog every Friday morning, at 11:00 AM, and leave a comment on the latest entry so that I know that you have done so.
REQUIRED MATERIALS &
TEXTS
- Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. A Pocket Style Manual. Boston and New York: Bedford St. Martin's Press, 2015.
- Axelrod, Rise and Charles Cooper. The Concise St. Martin's Guide to Writing.
- Other materials, via email / handouts / class blog.
- A notebook, for in-class writing exercises.
COURSE
DESCRIPTION
This
course emphasizes writing as a process, from planning and drafting
through revising and editing. Using personal experience, readings,
and other sources, students write unified, coherent, well-developed
essays and practice paraphrasing, summarizing, and using sources
responsibly. To be eligible to take College Writing II (ENG112),
students must pass the College Writing Exam and earn a grade of C or
better for this course. The course meets General Education College
Writing Requirement Area 1.
COURSE
REQUIREMENTS & EVALUATION
Attendance
& Participation: 35%
Come to class: 2 unexcused
absences = one letter grade off of your final grade. If you have 4 or
more unexcused absences, you risk failing the course.
Come to class on time: More
than 10 minutes late = tardy. 2 tardies = 1 absence.
Come to class on time, prepared. You won't get anything out of this class unless you: i) know what the reading is, ii) are fully informed of any changes to the assignment (check the blog!), and iii) have done the reading.
Come to class on time, prepared, with at least one
thing to say about the reading: Say what you have to say, listen
to what your classmates have to say, and respond to what they say.
The goal is to say something that will help other people learn.
Phones must be turned off, unless I ask you to turn them on.
Writing:
65%
Weekly Journal (Pass/Fail):
10%
You can't become a better writer
without reading. Also, you can't become a better writer without
writing. To this end, each week you will choose
and read an article, an essay, a story, or a poem.
In 100-200 words: i)
summarize what you read (i.e.,
“tl;dr,” except you will have
read). ii)
Say something about your
response to what you
read: did you like it? Agree with it? And iii) give
a reason for your
response.
Your journal entry must do all
three things in order for you to receive a “Pass” for that week.
Weekly Paper (Pass/Fail): 15%
500 words. Usually this will
take the form of responses to the week's reading; I will occasionally
give you more specific assignments.
Three 5-6 page papers: 30%
Final portfolio: 10%
Everything above collected + your chance to revise 2 of the 3
longer papers for a better grade.
Plagiarism
& Academic Honesty: If you
plagiarize, you fail.
1.Tell me one thing about yourself that isn't readily apparent to others.
ReplyDelete-I'm Brazilian,so English is my second language.
2.Favorites and why they're your favorites:
..movie? -Titanic
..musical genre/ artist? Adele
Because I kind of like drama.
3.What are your long-term goals?(career/life) Where do you want to be in..
5 years? In five years I want to be in U Mass Boston studying Biology which is my major.
10 years? In 10 years I pretend to become a doctor.
4.What are your goals for this class?
-My goals for this class is to improve my writing skills, so that I can be more successful in my major.
1.What do you think you did best as a writer in high school?conversely, based on your experiences in high school,what aspect of your writing do you feel needs most work?
ReplyDelete-In high the aspect that i felt more confident with was finding words definition by that understanding the most important facts.And the aspect I need to work on is organize and put thoughts in order.
2.Reflect on what you know about college writing. How do you expect college writing to differ from high school writing? What do you see as key characteristics of successful college writing? Given that (most likely) you've never actually experienced a college writing course, where do these ideas come from?Trace your assumptions about college writing back down to their source(s).
-I don't know much about college writing, but I believe it must be professional like. High school writing in my opinion is just to increase the vocabulary,in the other hand college writing is to be more specific.The key characteristics of writing is the format.That's how I believe it should be.
1.In High school as a writer I think I did best when I got to write story about myself.I feel like when I get to write a story about the past or things that I've been through I could write more on it.i would have to say the aspect of my writing that needs more work would have to be having better grammar and going more into details.
ReplyDelete2.i don' know a lot about college writing besides that it would be more work. The difference between high school and college writing to me would be that in college your expected to be able to write more and be able to revise and make your paragraphs better.the key to college writing would be how u format your work.i think these assumptions about college come from tv shows and friends talking about there college experience
3.Essay should like introduction first.then the body paragraphs were most of the essay should be. Then at the end you have a closing paragraph to finish it.
1. As a writer in high school, I believe I was great at restating the question asked and answering all parts of a prompt. Although restating a question can be simple, responding to all parts of the prompt can be difficult, especially when I don't understand what I'm being asked to do. Something I could work on is being able to stretch out my ideas into multiple detailed sentences instead of one, few word sentences.
ReplyDelete2. Given that I have taken college writing classes in the past, when I started in my first class I was sure I was going to be overwhelmed with the amount of writing I would have to complete and how often I would have to write insane amounts of pages each night for homework. I now see that high school writing and college writing do not have that many differences. College writing is more strict on plagiarism and citing your sources while high school was a bit more lenient. Previous ideas about college writing came from family members or friends that always talked about how much they hated writing long research papers and giving presentations.
3. An essay should be composed with an introduction paragraph containing what the essay will be about as well as thesis statement at the end. As many body paragraphs as you need to explain the main idea and your arguments. Finally an essay should end with a conclusion, closing the arguments and ideas and bringing your entire essay together.
1. What I think I did best as a writer in high school was writing persuasive essays. I had to write a lot of persuasive essays in high school so that's where I have the most experience with writing. Something I've always struggled with in my writing is not giving enough detail. Truthfully, I'm dreading those upcoming 5-6 page papers.
ReplyDelete2. I have take a college writing course before and in my experience college writing put a greater focus on syntax and the draft process, whereas high school writing focused more on format. Knowledge of all of those things including grammar, punctuation, how to make citations, and how to manage your time for the writing process are definitely key characteristics foe success in college writing.
3. I was first taught to write an essay in middle school using a hamburger. The top bun was your introduction, where you have your thesis stating what your essay will be about. Then you have your meat and condiments. The meat is the talking points for the paragraphs making up the middle of your essay and the condiments are the supporting statements of those paragraphs. Last is your bottom bun or your conclusion, referring back to your top/intro and bringing together your whole hamburger/essay.
I know there was not much writing from me in English class. As I recall, freshman English was a practically non event. Ms G... and I disagreed on my first book report. From that day forward every book report, paper or test that was turned in was blank except for my name and date. I did pay attention and participated in class but there was not a written word that I passed in. I failed every quarter.
ReplyDeleteFalling that far behind it was a struggle just trying to keep up the next couple years, don't remember anything good or bad about it.
I am not sure what to expect from college writing but look forward to finding out.
1. In high school I did best in both informational and responsive writing leading me to good at putting together pieces of information into an essay. Based on my high school experience in writing i struggled a little in sentence structure and extending my vocabulary to make my essays sound more professional.
ReplyDelete2. College writing definitely seems to be a lot more strict in grading and length. Where as high school i felt like i concentrated more on what i was writing instead of how i wrote it. One of the Key characteristics in successful writing is structure. In the high school research paper i wrote due to its length structure played a huge role in how well the paper was put together. My research paper is what lead to my assumption that college writing is the beginning to long tedious papers.
3. In high school i learned that an essay MUST consist of An introduction with a captivating hook and thesis , the body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph or closing statement. The essential rules were to make sure you answered all parts of the question and always look back to check off that you followed the rubric.