7weekENC0001syllabus

ATTENDANCE POLICY: Class attendance is required. Do not schedule appointments that conflict with this class or require you to leave early. If a serious illness or emergency makes it truly necessary to be absent, e-mail the instructor the day of the absence and ask for the assignments and announcements. Later, when you return to class, make arrangements to make up missed work and receive any missed handouts. NO TESTS OR WORK CAN BE MADE UP UNLESS YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THE ABOVE PROCEDURE!! Frequent lateness (3 or more) is not acceptable and will result in a reduced grade due to missed assignments. Failure to attend class may result in failure of the course.
 * Please be advised: This syllabus is for ENC0002 (old course name ENC0001)***** ENC0002: Fall A 2009 (7-week)

WITHDRAWAL POLICY: If it is necessary to withdraw from this class, please adhere to the policy outlined in the Daytona State College Catalog and the deadlines printed on the academic calendar for the appropriate semester.

CLASS EXPECTATIONS- BE PREPARED-NECESSARY TEXTS, HOMEWORK, STUDY FOR TEST MUTUAL RESPECT-CELL PHONES OFF, NO TALKING ETC. POSITIVE ATTITUDE

Required Texts: Sims, Marcie. The Write Stuff. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2009. (WS) Levine-Brown, Patti, Suzanne Hughes, and Kathleen Ciez-Volz. The Prentice Hall Florida Exit Test Study Guide for Writing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2004. (SG) Copeland, Linda. The Pearson Lab Manual for Developing Writers. Volume A, Pearson-Longman (LM) A college level dictionary

MAJOR LEARNING OUTCOMES: The student will be able to: Develop self-esteem and confidence as a writer Express thoughts and feelings in writing as demonstrated by increasingly fluent writing samples. Write for a variety of purposes: narrate, inform, persuade. Use a computer and word processing to write, edit and publish class work. Understand composing and editing. Use, record, and understand at least five different prewriting strategies to begin the writing process, along with composing and editing (post writing). Understand basic grammatical skills, word order, and syntax in writing. Demonstrate the ability to write for a variety of audiences. Express thoughts, opinions, and judgments on a variety of subjects in clear and effective language. Apply concepts of number, space and time patterns, along with transitional words, in solving practical writing problems.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY ACT: Reasonable accommodations in accord with Section 504 of the ADA are welcome. If you are a student who has a disability, please inform the instructor as soon as possible. If you are registered with Student Disability Services, you will be given every accommodation you were granted. If you know you have a disability but have not registered with Student Disability Services, then you must do so before accommodations will be allowed. (Registering with Student Disability Services is mandatory for any accommodation).

PLAGIARISM is the borrowing of material from any source without documentation or acknowledging the source. Be sure that you document all ideas or information that you use in any of your papers (for all of your courses) that are from sources such as books, magazines, CDs, records, newspapers, internet, interviews, movies, radios, television, etc.

If you are not sure how to document the information you have selected to use, please ask your instructor. If you are not sure how to write the information in your own words (paraphrase), then ask your instructor how it should be written. Remember: EVEN IF YOU USE YOUR OWN WORDS, YOU MUST STILL DOCUMENT THE SOURCE OF THE IDEA. If you do not correctly document your paper, you must re-do it until it is correctly documented.

Copying another person’s work or turning in a paper that you did not write and submitting it as your own will be grounds for a failing grade in the course.

CHEATING ON ANY GIVEN TEST WILL RESULT IN RECEIVING A ZERO GRADE FOR THAT TEST!! READ THE “ACADEMIC INTEGRITY CODE”, “THE FORMS OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY”, AND “OTHER ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT” IN THE DAYTONA STATE COLLEGE STUDENT HANDBOOK. IN ADDITION TO MY CLASS SYLLABUS, THESE ARE THE GUIDELINES YOU MUST FOLLOW.

ACADEMIC SUPPORT CENTER (ASC): You are required to log 30 hours of work in the Learning Center. Use your time wisely and productively during the time you spend in the Learning Center. In the ASC, you will be working on web-based materials and other texts to develop your specific areas of deficiencies. Please concentrate and do your best to learn what you need to know while you are in the ASC. Do not waste your time or that of other students.

EXIT CRITERIA: In order to receive a grade of A or B or C, you must do the following: You must have the required number of hours for class and ASC attendance. You must complete a Portfolio (directions provided by instructor). THE PORTFOLIO MUST EARN A GRADE OF A or B or C. In order to receive a grade of A or B or C, you must take the state mandated Florida Developmental Writing Exit Exam and make the required score for exiting the course; this includes the state mandated essay exam.

The grade of F will be received if you fail the class because of non-attendance or if you do not develop a portfolio that receives a grade of A or B or C. Therefore, it is in your best interest to make sure to inform your instructor to “stop coming” to the class. If you have a serious problem that would prevent your completion of the semester, TALK TO ME; I MAY BE ABLE TO HELP FIND ALTERNATIVES.

The grade of SP will be received if your performance on class work, tests, and/or the portfolio reflects that you need more time-on-task to develop college-level writing skills. In that case, you will repeat the course.

ALL WRITING ASSIGNMENT GRADES WILL BE LOWERED BY 10 POINTS FOR EACH DAY LATE!!

EVALUATION: Assignments (essays) 35% Portfolio 25% Participation (class work and quizzes) 25% Learning Center 15%

*Writing is a developmental process. Therefore, assignments may vary from this outline.

CLASS ACTIVITIES

Week I Introduction Diagnostic Tests-SG-pp. 1-11 Academic Support Center Orientation Diagnostic Essay “Preface to the Student”- WS-pp. xxv-xxviii. Part I-“Critical Thinking in Reading and Writing”-WS-pp. 1-22

The Write Stuff: Chapter 28-“Spelling and Mechanics”-pp. 621-652. Chapter 29-“Tone, Style, Word Choice, and Usage”-pp. 653-672. Chapter 30-“Vocabulary in Context”-pp. 673-682. Study Guide chapters will be listed throughout that complement work in  The Write Stuff. These chapters are as follow: Chapters 20, 22, 23, and 24

Week II Response Journal #1 Test on Chapters 28-30 in WS Practice test-State Exit Exam The Write Stuff: Chapter 3-“Writing Expository Paragraphs”-pp. 41-58. Chapter 25-“Commas, Semicolons, and Colons”-pp. 557-577. Chapter 26-“Other Punctuation”-pp. 578-598. Chapter 27-“Common Shift and Construction Errors”-pp. 599-620. Study Guide: Chapters 7, 8, 15-19, 21

Week III Test on Chapters 25-27 in WS Response Journal #2 Practice test – State Exit Exam The Write Stuff: Chapter 4-“Essays: Building Blocks”-pp. 59-75 Chapter 5-“Essays: Process”-pp. 76-110. Chapter 22-“Sentence Parts”-pp. 503-530. Chapter 23-“Sentence Variety”-pp. 531-542. Chapter 24-“Correcting Major Sentence Errors”-pp. 543-556. Study Guide: Chapters 9-11

Week IV Test on Chapters 22-24 in WS  Practice test – State Exit Exam-SG-pp. 183-192. The Write Stuff: Chapter 6-“Essays: Order, Unity, and Coherence”-pp. 111-124. Chapter 7-“Narration”-pp. 128-150. Appendix B-pp. 702-723 NARRATIVE ESSAYS DUE Study Guide: Chapters 1-6, 12-14

Week V Narrative essay rewrites due. The Write Stuff: Chapter 8-“Description”-pp. 151-173. Chapter 16-“Timed In-Class Essays and Essay Exams-pp. 329-337. Prewriting and Introduction Handouts Additional notes on thesis statements Thesis statements due DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS DUE Timed Writing Study Guide: Paragraph and Essay Writing Skills-pp. 69-82

Week VI Additional notes on introductions Introductions due Descriptive essay rewrites due Practice Test-State Exit Exam Chapter 12-“Example and Illustration”-pp.239-260 WS ILLUSTRATIVE ESSAYS DUE

Week VII Illustrative essay rewrites due “Still Hungry, Still Homeless”-pp. 487-490 WS Study Guide: Part Two: “Testing and Study Tips”-pp. 13-16 Part Seven: “Appendix”-pp. 239-248 Timed Writing

Week VIII Portfolio (due) (Exercises/Essays) Personal Assessment Review for Exit Exams Final Exit Essay