Spring 2019 ENGL 100: Introductory College Writing, 3 credits Class Time: Section 10 9:10-10:00 am Section 08 10:10-11:00 am Section 09 12:10-1:00 pm Instructor: David Martin, Ph.D Phone: 335-1331 Class Location: Section 08 Thompson 105 Section 10 Thompson 105 Section 09 Murrow 229 Office: Avery 221 Email: drmartin@wsu.edu Regular Office Hours: MWF 11:00 – 12:00, others available by appointment Course Information Catalog Description: Prereq: Writing placement exam. This course is designed to introduce students to writing and reading in the university. Pass/Fail grading. Course Description: This course is meant to prepare you for the critical reading and writing skills you’ll need in English 101 and your other college classes. We’ll emphasize close reading, note-taking, summarizing, evaluating sources, explaining cause and effects, and analyzing texts. The class readings, group work, and writing exercises are all designed to help you understand writing as not only product, but a process which you’ll use, refine, and perfect as you continue your education. Course Goals 1. Adapt reading strategies for a diverse range of texts to support critical understanding and integrative use of texts. 2. Understand that written texts have a range of purposes related to their rhetorical situations, which may include academic, professional or civic contexts. 3. Compose in multiple genres to participate in contexts calling for purposeful shifts in elements such as content, evidence, structure, medium, design, formality, or voice. 4. Engage in argumentation and apply organization strategies. 5. Use a range of composing strategies. 6. Develop projects through multiple drafts, including giving, receiving, and responding to feedback. 7. Understand that all Englishes are governed by conventions and writers make choices about conventions influenced by purpose, audience, and genre Required Texts and Materials: -Blackboard access -Access to your WSU email -A Writer’s Notebook (could be a 3-ring binder specifically for the class or a normal sized (not the tiny compact ones) Composition book available at Walmart or the Bookie (possibly at the Dollartree as well) Portfolio: English 100 is portfolio-based; it is not possible to pass the course without submitting one. The portfolio is the primary means for evaluating student work in the composition program at WSU because it honors both the processes and products of writing. Your portfolio will consist of a significantly revised cover letter as well as drafts and revisions of all major writing assignments from the semester. Your Portfolio is due Monday, April 29 to Avery 221 in a manila folder. Save All Drafts!! I cannot accept any final projects for which you have no preliminary drafts, as it ignores the writing process. You will be required to revise drafts throughout the semester for additional points (i.e. you don’t revise, you lose the points). You will also be required to reflect upon your writing at three stages throughout the semester in your writer’s notebook. Therefore, it is essential for you to keep track of your work consistently. Portfolio Evaluation Criteria: All students in ENGL 100 will be assessed on the degree to which you are ready for English 101; therefore, I will look at the following English 101 standards/goals: Critical thinking, reading, and writing (Meets Goals 1, 4, 5, & 6) Rhetorical knowledge and awareness (Meets Goals 1, 4, 5, 6) Information literacy (Meets Goals 1,4,5, & 6 ) Processes of writing (Meets Goals 1, 4, 5, & 6) Knowledge of conventions (Meets Goals 1,4, & 5) *Indicates which of the Seven Learning Goals of the Baccalaureate are met by ENGL 101. Writing Assignments: Papers are submitted a minimum of three times: Once for peer review, then the revised version to me via Blackboard, and the third time in your final portfolio. Assignment 1: Summary/Response Initial Draft Due: 2/1/19 Revised Draft Due: 2/15/19 Assignment 2: Movie Review Initial Draft Due: 3/1/19 Revised Draft Due: 3/22/19 In this assignment, you will read two articles and write in-class summaries of each. Both articles will be provided to you and will relate to the semester theme of Science Fiction Literature & Film. Once both summaries are written, you will select one of them to continue with writing a careful and thoughtful response to some point made in the article. Your response to the article can draw from personal experience and/or outside sources but all sources beyond yourself must be carefully cited using APA documentation style and thoughtfully chosen attributive language. You will also be asked to include an introduction and conclusion to your essay for a total of 4 well-developed paragraphs. (50 points) For this assignment, you will write a 3-4 page movie review for a movie in the genre of science fiction. You will work with partners to watch and discuss an important sci-fi movie of your choosing after we have done this process as a class and established the criteria for which to evaluate movies in this genre. Remember that the movie you choose needs to have some significance to what was happening in the world at the time the story was written (e.g. some movies are based on stories written in earlier time periods), making a direct connection to kairos (as discussed in class). You must also incorporate an outside review in your paper, correctly attributing the source of your outside review in APA format. Your group members will be your insider essay reviewers. You will also need to visit the Writing Center for a peer evaluation from an outside reader prior to submission for my comments. Include an entry for this WC visit in your tutoring log that you will turn in at the end of the semester. (50 points) Assignment 3 CCE Activity Narrative Initial Draft Due: 4/5/19 Revised Draft Due: In Final Portfolio 4/29/19 Assignment 4: Research Topic Analysis Presentation Presentations: Week of 4/15-4/19 Writing & Reflective Notebook/Journal Due: Friday, 4/26/19 By 3:00 pm Writing Center Log Required Due: Friday, 4/26/19 This assignment will consist of two parts: the final report and evidence of writing as part of your project. You will be partnering with the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) and will do a service-learning project. The project will include writing for a real audience and, therefore, will require that your writing be drafted and revised prior to submission for the project. At the end of your CCE project, you will submit a written report in which you explain the Who, What, When, Where, Why, & How of your project. In other words, you will explain who you served, what you did, what you learned, when you fulfilled your project commitment, how you accomplished the tasks, etc. You will receive CCE credit (i.e. it counts as service for various campus organizations, majors, etc.) and get the added benefit of something you can put on your resume. However, more importantly it will give you an opportunity to write for a real audience beyond the classroom. Your final report should, therefore, be a thoughtful analysis not just of what you did but what you learned through the process as well. (see assignment sheet for more details) 4-5 pages. (50 points) In this assignment, you and a partner will conduct preliminary research on a topic related to either Science Fiction & Social Change or your Center for Civic Engagement project. Your goal is to determine the extent to which your chosen topic is researchable and worthy of further consideration and whether the sources you find on the topic would lead to a high quality argument. You will determine this by finding and evaluating five sources on the topic that you have deemed as reliable, relatable, and extensive. You will determine common subtopics that could be used as a basis for further research and/or argument building, and then give an overall assessment of what you would need to do further to write a research-based argument on this topic. You will then present your results to the class during the week prior to finals. (50 points) Throughout the semester, you will be required to maintain a writing and reflective journal in which you engage in and detail the process of writing, beginning with brainstorming activities, followed by drafting and reflection. You will turn this journal in during the final week of regular classes (prior to finals); however, you need to keep up on this so that you don’t have to do the whole journal at the end of the semester from memory (it will be blatantly obvious if you do that). Please bring your journal to class each day. You will tape/staple your typed drafts in the journal. Remember that quality of thought (for reflections) and effort are key to the success of this assignment (50 points) Throughout the semester, you may earn 50 additional points by going to and maintaining a log for visits to the writing center. If you go to the WC for each major assignment and the portfolio, you will earn a full 50 points. This is not extra credit, however. If you do not visit the WC at all, you will get 0/50 for the semester. (50 points possible) Final Portfolio Due: Monday, April 28, 2019 By 3:00 pm The final portfolio will include all three major writing assignments with final revisions and both previously submitted drafts (except for WA3, as noted). Your portfolio will also include a cover letter that explains the process you engaged in to go from initial brainstorming and drafting to a final, revised draft. You may include other evidence of engaging in the process to help with a final determination of passing or not passing. However, most other process-related items should be in your Writer’s Notebook. (425 points) *There will be an additional 100 points for attendance and 25 points for other daily activities. Grade Distribution Summary: English 100 is pass/fail, and so are all of your assignments. In order to pass this class, you must pass 70% of the homework, AND submit a significantly revised, passing (70%) portfolio to demonstrate your readiness for English 101. Points Available: 50% Portfolio 50% Attendance, Class Activities, Participation, & Homework Note: You must pass both the daily work (including attendance, participation, & homework) AND the Portfolio. A fail for either may result in failing the class. English Department & Class Policies Midterm Grades: Due to the nature of the portfolio system, which emphasizes process over product, students who are making satisfactory progress in the class (i.e., turning in assignments on time, meeting basic assignment requirements, attending class regularly, etc.) will receive a midterm grade of “X,” which indicates that coursework is in progress. Students who are not making satisfactory progress will receive a grade of C- or below as a warning and are strongly encouraged to meet with their instructor. Students who belong to an organization that requires proof of satisfactory progress (not a grade) in writing may request that their instructor sign a Progress Report Form. Project Submission Guidelines All projects are required to be submitted to me at my office (Avery 221) via hard copy in a sealable manila mailing envelope no later than 5:00 pm on the date they are due. The envelope must have the following information printed clearly/legibly on the front: Your Name, Class, Section, Assignment Name, Date of Submission. Attendance: Because of the collaborative nature of the course and the intensive in-class work required, regular attendance is crucial for student success. Roll will be taken daily. A maximum of four (4) absences are allowed during the semester for T/Th classes (and a maximum of six (6) absences for MWF classes). Students will fail the class upon the 5th absence for a T/Th class (or upon the 7th absence for a MWF class). All absences, including University Excused Absences, count toward the total number of absences. In English 100, as in any of your classes, if serious illness or emergencies prevent you from attending class, you should contact the Dean of Students. Late and Make-up Work: In general, late work will only be accepted up to one week after the due date for credit. All late work turned in within that week will receive an immediate 5% reduction in grade. It is imperative, as well, that you turn in all work for a passing grade in the class (you cannot include any work in the portfolio that does not have instructor feedback, so if you do not turn in a major assignment your portfolio will also fail). Homework: Much of the preliminary drafting for essays & projects will be done in class, which means you really need to be in class to receive and complete the work. Occasionally, you will have homework that will need to be completed for the next class in order to be prepared. Therefore, not completing the homework will be detrimental to your success in the class. If you must be gone, please contact me to find out if there is homework you need to complete prior to the next class. Cell Phones/Laptops We frequently use smartphones and laptops for in-class activities. Out of respect to those around you, please use it only when our class tasks require it. At all other times, keep your phones in your bags or pockets and either off or on vibrate. University Policies Academic Integrity: The Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) states that “In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledging its source.” The WSU Academic Honesty Policy (based on State of Washington Code) expands the CWPA definition of plagiarism as well as explaining other categories of academic misconduct. As a WSU student, you are bound by these policies and are responsible for being aware of and abiding by them. Students who commit intentional acts of plagiarism will be reported to the Assistant Director of Composition and the Office of the Dean of Students and will fail the class. Disability Accommodations: Students with Disabilities: Reasonable accommodations are available for students with documented disabilities or chronic medical conditions. If you have a disability and need accommodations to fully participate in this class, please visit the Access Center website to follow published procedures to request accommodations: http://www.accesscenter.wsu.edu. Students may also either call or visit the Access Center in person to schedule an appointment with an Access Advisor. Location: Washington Building 217; Phone: 509-335-3417. All disability related accommodations MUST be approved through the Access Center. Students with approved accommodations are strongly encouraged to visit with instructors early in the semester during office hours to discuss logistics. Class Communication: All official WSU communications are sent to students’ WSU email addresses, so check your email often for news and updates. Students should use their WSU email accounts when writing to instructors about attendance or grades; due to FERPA regulations, instructors will not respond to attendance or grade inquiries sent from non-WSU email accounts. WSU Safety Statement: Washington State University is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its faculty, staff, and students. Safety is the responsibility of every member of the campus community and individuals should know the appropriate actions to take when an emergency arises. In support of our commitment to the safety of the campus community the University has developed a Campus Safety Plan, http://safetyplan.wsu.edu. It is highly recommended that you visit this web site as well as the University emergency management web site at http://oem.wsu.edu/ to become familiar with the information provided. Office of Equal Opportunity Syllabus Statement Discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, sexual harassment, and sexual misconduct (including stalking, intimate partner violence, and sexual violence) is prohibited at WSU (See WSU Policy Prohibiting Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Misconduct (Executive Policy 15) and WSU Standards of Conduct for Students). Additional Resources: Avery Microcomputer Lab (AML) All ENGL 100/101 students have access to the services and facilities of the AML (Avery 101, 103, & 105), including free printing! Keep in mind that this is a fee-based service, and use is limited to your assignments for a fee-paying English class. Writing Center You are encouraged (required for this class) to visit the Writing Center, which provides free, walkin peer tutoring service. Tutors will work with you at any stage of the writing process and will even help with papers from non-English classes. The Writing Center is located in CUE 403. The ENGL 101 program strongly encourages use of the face-to-face Writing Center. Online tutoring is available through eTutoring. Note: As a way to motivate you to check out the Writing Center and take advantage of it as a service, I will give up to 50 extra points (approximately 10 points for each major assignment and the portfolio) for visitingthe WC, reflecting upon your visit, and turning in a Writing Center log (available in blackboard).
