1. Use of Blackboard: Essay handouts, syllabus, other class files, and discussion board assignments and other quizzes.
2. Texts: using handouts rather than departmental standards.
- You will hand in annotated work as part of Class Participation grade, as assigned each week
3. Student Behavior / Commitments:
- Make sure to know the Late Work policy and how I run the class. Read syllabus and listen to lectures.
4. Writing Expectations: This isn't high school.
- Fresh start for each of you
- This class is about learning new ways of approaching writing, including your reading and note-taking habits and your critical thinking.
- Make sure to read the syllabus description of what makes for C paper.
- A essays=virtually flawless grammar, strong supporting evidence and citation, strong language skills, clear and effective organization, strong thesis and topic sentences that clearly address prompt and develop individual views with solid logical claims.
- B essays= very few major or minor errors, solid supporting evidence and citation, vocabulary and syntax attempt variety, organization is consistent, and thesis and topic sentences attempt to develop individual and logical claims on prompt.
5. PROCESS. Each day you need to work on improving your approach to college. You are in competition with yourself to improve, in the end.
- How to read as a college student
- How to think about texts as a college student
- How to use different stages of writing to build essays
- How to manage time and accomplish small tasks
- Learn basic organizational behaviors to take to writing
- Learn editing techniques
- Learn revision techniques
- Become more and more self-reliant on your self. Become your hardest critic.
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