Course Info:
ENG 3010
10:40am-11:35am MWF
127 State Hall
Crn 20112, Section 012
Contact Info:
Jill Morris
Az3068@wayne.edu, austerea@yahoo.com
9306 Maccabees
734-771-8371 (voicemail only)
Office Hours (in the Writing
Center):
Monday 12-5
Wednesday 12-6
http://englishweb.clas.wayne.edu/~jsajdyk
http://www.clas.wayne.edu/writing/
AIM: Belisama370
Yahoo: Austerea
Course Description
In this section of ENG3010, you will be spending an hour each week working in our University’s
Writing Center, while our class time is spent preparing you for that experience, working on your
own writing, and finding ways to connect your experiences with helping others to your own writing
ability. If that sounds scary—and it might—you should be relieved to know that nobody expects you
to be a grammar whiz and that there is more to tutoring (a lot more) than proofreading someone’s
paper (in fact we’re not really supposed to do that in most instances!) Your time spent tutoring will
count for one hour of classtime (Friday) each week beginning during week 3.
Required Course Texts (Additional readings will be found on Blackboard and online):
Raforth, Ben. Ed. A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One, 2nd Edition. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook Publishers. ISBN:
0-86709-587-3.
Lanham, Richard. Revising Prose 4th Edition. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN: 0-205-30945-3.
Williams, Robin. The Non-Designers Design Book. 2nd ed, Peachpit Press, 2003. ISBN: 0321193857
Recommended Course Handbook:
Hacker, Diana. Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age 4. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s. ISBN: 0-213-44339-0.
Grading:
Your grade will be based upon course participation, showing up for your tutoring sessions, 2 major essays, and response
papers to both readings and tutoring. You will also be asked to spend spare time in the Writing Center working on
documents for our website (about grammar, tutoring, etc.), which will count toward your participation grade. The
breakdown follows:
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Writing about Writing Essay: 5%
o
General Participation (including website): 10%
o
Tutoring Responses: 15%
o
Reading Responses: 10%
o
Tutoring: 25% (attendance, following writing center decorum, etc.)
o
Final Essay: 25%
o
Group Project 10%
Attendance:
Attendance at the date and time you are scheduled to tutor is absolutely 100% mandatory. If you must miss a session
because you are ill (and let’s face it, we’d all rather you stay home if you’ve got something catchy) or for some other
excusable reason, you must call both me and the Writing Center so that your appointments can be contacted and
rescheduled. You must also make up all absences in the Writing Center during a different hour later in the term.
You have two “freebie” absences from our class meetings—use them wisely. All other absences should be explained to
me, work made up, etc. in hopes of getting them excused.
Extra Credit:
Extra credit is always available by putting in more hours in the Writing Center than is demanded of you. No other extra
credit will be given.
Late or Missing Assignments:
Late assignments lose one letter grade (A becomes a B) no matter how late they actually are. All assignments must be
turned in before the last class meeting day—none will be accepted after.
Other Course Policies:
1. You must have completed ENG1020 (or equivalent) with a C or better to take ENG3010.
2. Students enrolled in English courses must come to one of the first week sessions in order to remain enrolled in
the course. Students are required to drop the class if they do not come to one of these class sessions.
3. You must buy the book. All books for this course are available at highly discounted rates used online. If I’ve
seen the book for 75 cents, you have no excuse not to buy it.
4. Students are required to come to class having read all course materials and ready to participate in class
discussion.
5. Cell phones should be off or on vibrate.
6. Plagiarism will result in failure of the assignment at the very least. Plagiarism is the act of stealing another
person’s words or ideas, so all ideas and words taken from another person or source must be cited in some
way. If you are unsure of the proper way of citing sources, there is information at owl.English.purdue.edu and I
also have several free handbooks available.
7. You are expected to make up any work that you miss during an excused or unexcused absence. First consult
the syllabus and Blackboard. Second consult other students. Only third should you e-mail or call the instructor
to find out what was done in a meeting that has already past. I will be happy to help you before the absence,
however.
8. Student papers may be uploaded to SafeAssignment to check for plagiarism.
9. I will not give extra credit to any student with many missing or late assignments.
10. I do not give out incomplete grades.
11. Please review the calendar on Wayne State’s website to note the last day to drop.
Writing Center Rules:
1. Undergraduate tutors from ENG3010 tutor 3000 level and lower courses in pairs.
2. Arrive a few minutes early.
3. We take walk-ins if an appointment is 15-20 minutes late.
4. No proofreading.
5. We are kind, courteous, and respectful of tutees at all times.
6. If you need help, ask. If you need grammar help, refer to a handbook or even another tutor.
7. Let the student write on their own paper.
8. Take complete notes about your session for our records.
9. Explain Writing Center policies to new tutees before the session begins.
10. Have fun! (Really, this should perhaps be rule number 1.) The students you are helping can tell when you’re
unhappy.
Course Schedule
I reserve all rights to make changes to this schedule as necessary throughout the term, however, all changes will be made
in the students’ favor except those outside my control.
Week 1
Course Introduction – Syllabus, Students, etc.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Continue Tutoring Discussion
Writing Center Visit
Homework
Read:
Assigned sections from The Bedford Guide, scanned and available in
Blackboard
Please purchase the course texts by next week
Friday, January 11, 2008
Writing about Writing Essay Assigned
Talking about Professionalism and Writing Center Policies
Homework:
Read Chapters 1 and 2 in A Tutor’s Guide
Reading Response
Week 2
Monday, January 14, 2008
Practice Essays as a large group
Planning a session based upon practice essays
How to keep from being too helpful
Homework:
Read Chapters 3 and 4 in A Tutor’s Guide
Reading Response
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Talking about reluctance
More Practice Essays as a large group
Discussion of Tutor’s Tools
Read Chapters 5, 10, and 11 in A Tutor’s Guide
Reading Response
Friday, January 18, 2008
Class Discussion about working with other 3000 level course students—
what is the difference between a 1020 essay and a 3010 essay?
Working with different paper organizations
Read Chapters 6 and 7 in A Tutor’s Guide
Week 3
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
This week, begin visiting the Writing Center and watch a tutor.
ESL Discussion
When to proofread—when to seek additional help
Homework:
Read Chapters 12 and 16 in A Tutor’s Guide
Reading Response
Week 4
Monday, January 28, 2008
This week, continue visiting the Writing Center. You will be watching a tutor,
but also will be asked to sit in on a session.
In Class: Talk about analytical essays and organization
In Class Project: Given essay prompts, write a brief outline
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Writing about Writing essay due
Short Discussions/Presentations
Homework:
Writing Center visitation response (1 page)
Week 5
Monday, February 4, 2008
Final Essay Assigned
Homework:
Read Chapter 17 in A Tutor’s Guide
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Talking about computers and plagiarism
Talking about different kinds of plagiarism
Homework:
Read Chapter 1 (Action) in Revising Prose
Week 6
Monday, February 11, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Paramedic Method Discussion
Full Class Practice
Paramedic Method in Small Groups
Homework:
Read Chapter 2 (Shape) and Chapter 3 (Voice) in Revising Prose
Week 7
Monday, February 18, 2008
Talking about the shape of sentences, sentence structure, and their
relationship to “Voice”
Homework:
Read http://www.etext.org/Zines/Critique/writing/elbow.html
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Talking about Teachers, Assignments, and the best way to deal with them.
Homework:
Read Chapters 13 and 14 in A Tutor’s Guide
Bring in your handbook (any handbook)
Week 8
Monday, February 25, 2008
Talking practically about tutoring stuff you don’t really know
Using Handbooks
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Decompress Day: How’s the Writing Center going?
Discussion. Attendance Mandatory.
Homework: Read Chapters 4 (Skotison) and 5 (Electronic Literacy) in
Revising Prose
Week 9
Monday, March 3, 2008
Discussion: How do computers affect writing? Should they? How can we
help them to do their job (so to speak)?
Homework:
Read: “Cyberspace and Identity” by Sherry Turkle
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
In class identity exercise
Homework:
Read “Virtual Students, Digital Classroom” by Neil Postman
Week 10
Monday, March 17, 2008
Talking about Online Tutoring
Read “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Discussion: What does school do to a person’s voice?
Week 11
Monday, March 24, 2008
Peer Editing of Final Papers
Read: “The Meanings of a Word” by Gloria Naylor
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Discussion: Words, How students use them, power, etc.
Week 12
Monday, March 31, 2008
Final Paper Presentations
Read first half of the Non-Designers Design Book
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Final Paper Presentations
Final Papers Due
Group Project Assigned
Discuss first half of the non-designers design book
Read second half of the Non-designers design book
Week 13
Monday, April 7, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
What does good graphic design and good text design have in common?
Homework: Bring in two documents, one that is a good example of the crap
principles and one that is bad—text or graphics
Week 14
Monday, April 14, 2008
Discussion: Class examples
Group Work Time
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Group Presentations
Week 15
Monday, April 21, 2008
Group Presentations
No assignments accepted after this course period.
Have a great summer!