Course Information Instructor 2254 - English 99 M-F 8:00-8:50 Jennifer Juniper White 2244 - English 101 2264 - English 95 T/Th 9:00-9:50 Office: OLY184 5 Credits / 7 Credits with Eng 95 Office hours: M-W 9:00-10:00 a.m., by appt. Classroom: OLY164 Email: jjwhite@pierce.ctc.edu Phone: 253-912-2399 ext 5352 Accelerated English 99 and English 101 Note: I reserve the right to change course content and/or substitute assignments, as necessary in response to institutional, weather, or class needs or situations without notice. This is not always necessary, but it is important to pay attention and regularly check Canvas as required just in case. Academic Integrity. The Pierce College Student Handbook states that all students should maintain high standards of integrity and honesty. This expectation includes avoiding cheating and plagiarism. Plagiarism or to plagiarize means to use another person s words or ideas as if they were your own words and ideas. It is possible to plagiarize without meaning to. In our culture, it is the most serious crime you can commit in an academic setting. The consequences can be severe, so it is important that you learn the proper way to use others words. Whether it is intentional or unintentional, plagiarism will result in a failing assignment and may result in failing this course. A simple rule to follow that will help eliminate unintentional plagiarism problems is to either quote the selection exactly word for word in quotation marks, or rewrite the selection completely into your own words. Alway provide proper documentation to giving credit to the author when applicable. Don t cheat or plagiarize as it undermines your chances of learning. A full understanding of this important element is addressed in the separate required Academic Honesty Statement that is a mandatory assignment where you will read, sign, and upload a copy into Canvas. Academic Rigor. As a general rule you can expect at least two hours of work outside of class every week for each credit hour. So, depending on your personal study habits and needs you should expect to do approximately 10 or more hours of work outside of class each week. Engaging in academic discourse (written or spoken communication) requires that you learn a!1
new vocabulary, ideas, and further develop your critical thinking skills. All of these take time and effort. Acceleration. This is an Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) section of English 99/101. This class combines a cohort of students who placed into English 99 with a cohort of students who placed into English 101. This class will be taught as an English 101 class. This class is also supported by an English 95 Lab that is designed to help students complete their assignments by providing extra help as needed. At the seventh/eighth week of the quarter, it will be determined which English 99 students have qualified (per rubric and other measures) to accelerate. Students can accept or decline to accelerate Those who accept are officially registered as English 101 students. Those who decline remain registered in English 99. Please see Acceleration Rubric. Other measures to determine qualification for acceleration may include: attendance in both classes, class participation in both classes, grade point average, and completion of grammar work. Access & Disability Services. Pierce College values diversity and inclusion; we are committed to fostering mutual respect and full participation for all students. My goal is to create a learning environment that is equitable, inclusive, and welcoming. If you have or think you may have a disability that may affect your work in this class and feel you need accommodations, contact Access and Disability Services at ADS@pierce.ctc.edu or (253) 912-3606 (Ft. Steilacoom) or (253) 864-3383 (Puyallup and JBLM) to see if you are eligible to receive services. If you are already approved for accommodations through the ADS, have requested your accommodations for this quarter and would like to use your accommodations in my class please connect with me outside of class time to discuss your needs. (9.20.2018) Assignment Requirements. The first and final drafts of all writing assignments must be typed, double-spaced, and in 12 point Times New Roman font. When formatting your papers or citing source material, you must use MLA format. For Response Papers, your name should be the only item at the top of the first page. All essays submitted require, at a minimum, a first draft with substantial and visible edits and final essay. It is acceptable and encouraged to have several essay drafts before submitting the final essay. If you do not have at least one first draft essay and a final essay, your assignment will not be accepted Assignments or essays that do not meet the page length requirements will not be graded.!2
Attendance. You receive five participation points for each day you attend class and actively participate. You are required to attend class sessions at the scheduled times. If you exceed eight (8) absences of instruction for any reason, medical or otherwise, you will most likely be asked to drop this course. You will automatically fail the course if you miss nine or more classes, medical or otherwise. Also, if you are not fully present during class because you are using mobile devices for something unrelated to class, engaging in disruptive behavior, or sleeping, you will be marked absent and grades will be adjusted accordingly. If you take extended breaks or disappear from class after attendance is taken, your attendance for the day will be changed to absent. NOTE: If you miss class, it is your responsibility to check Canvas and contact a classmate to get notes and find out what was covered in class for the day. Cell Phones, i-pads, & Lap-tops. Please turn off your cell phone and other electronic devices and keep them in your bag during class. Texting, listening to music, and talking on the phone in the classroom is considered rude and disruptive, and not allowed in class. No calls, texts, Facebook messaging will be allowed during class time, by anyone. Points will be deducted from those who do not comply. You will receive a warning and after that, your participation points will be marked as a zero for that day. If there is any reason you need access to your phone during the class time, such as if your child is sick or you need to access handouts during group work, then you need to discuss it with the professor prior to class. Lap-tops and i-pads are not allowed in the class unless stated otherwise by the instructor. Class Cancelations: If class is canceled due to inclement weather or another emergency, I will do my best to let you know as soon as possible. If you have not yet signed up for text message notifications from Campus Safety, please do so immediately. Always prioritize your personal safety when deciding whether or not to come to school. If I cancel class due to illness or a personal emergency (which is unlikely), I will notify you via Canvas as soon as I can. Communication. You are required to check your student Canvas email account at least twice daily. If I need to contact you, I will send a message through Canvas. If you have a question or concern, please email me through Canvas. You should expect a reply within one day, except for over the weekend or holiday breaks. If you have problems connecting to Canvas or your student email, please let me know so that we can fix the issue. Communication with Instructor. Outside of class time, Canvas email is the preferred method of communication.!3
[This space intentionally left blank.] Core Abilities: You will notice that the syllabus below lists and defines the Core Abilities (the skills that Pierce College has determined are essential to students success) in the following box. These Core Abilities will also be featured in Unit Paper assignment sheets and rubrics (grading sheets). You will gain skills in all of the Core Abilities this quarter, but the abilities emphasized in this course are Communication, Critical Thinking, and Information Core Abilities. Pierce College believes all students should demonstrate competence in five Core Abilities: Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking This is the process of questioning and reasoning: a critical, creative, reflective thinker will question, search for answers and meaning, evaluate ideas and information, and develop beliefs that lead to positive action. Critical thinking includes the act of problem solving. Effective Communication - This is the effective exchange of messages in a variety of contexts, using multiple methods. (It is a successful exchange of messages between a sender and a receiver. The sender creates a message of ideas, information, and/or experience and shapes it into a coherent form, which can be sent or otherwise performed. The receiver accepts, interprets, and responds to a message. Messages may be presented in a variety of forms.) Information Competency The information competent student seeks, finds, evaluates, and uses information from a variety of sources and in a variety of contexts to engage in lifelong learning. This includes the ability to recognize a need for information, to persist in acquiring it, and to understand the value of information in personal and academic life. Multiculturalism - A student of multiculturalism values open-mindedness, inclusion, multicultural perspectives and multiple ways of knowing, thinking, and being. This is a set of abilities that includes multiple ways of understanding and living. These interdependent abilities are practiced in an ongoing examination of human perspectives, human experiences, and human voices, in an effort to create a diverse living environment that will ensure coexistence.!4
Course Outcomes English 99 1. Write a minimum of three academic essays that support, develop, and prove a thesis 2. Write one in-class essay 3. Read a variety of analytical, evaluative, persuasive, and argumentative texts 4. Summarize, analyze, synthesize, and respond to academic texts in writing 5. Use the writing process (prewriting, organizing, drafting, revising, and proofreading) 6. Write essays that demonstrate unity, coherence, focus and clarity 7. Integrate readings through effective paraphrasing, quoting, and citing in an essay 8. Use grammar, mechanics, syntax, and sentence variety appropriately Course Outcomes English 101 1. Compose work in a variety of genres, including but not limited to thesis-driven, collegelevel essays that synthesize researched sources (3,500 words minimum of formal writing, total, excluding revisions) by using the writing process. 2. Apply key rhetorical concepts (writer, audience, subject, purpose, and context) in order to analyze and compose a variety of texts. 3. Analyze texts as purposeful responses to a variety of situations and contexts as well as products of social identity (e.g., gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and social class). 4. Use rhetorically appropriate English language structures, including disciplinary conventions of syntax, grammar, punctuation, spelling voice, tone, and diction. 5. Demonstrate information competency by locating, reading, and evaluating a diverse range of primary and secondary research materials (both scholarly and popular) in order to synthesize original ideas with those from appropriate sources. 6. Quote, paraphrase, cite and document sources appropriately in a consistent documentation style to maintain academic honesty and intellectual integrity. Diversity/Respect. You are required to engage, participate and collaborate with your classmates in a productive and professional manner; it is fundamental to the class expectations and your success in this course. Each student is expected to exercise an open-mind and treat other people and their ideas with respect. Offensive and disruptive behavior, including cussing, crying, mumbling, shouting, banging on tables, among other behaviors, that prevent this learning community from participating in productive discourse will not be tolerated. You will be asked to leave class and not receive credit for participation in the class activity. Language or behavior that discriminates against any individual s gender, race, class, ethnicity, disability, religion, or sexual orientation is not tolerated in this class.!5
Participating in a college course costs time, energy and money. In this class, you are one member of a learning community and showing up unprepared is disruptive and disrespectful of the investment and sacrifices each person has made to attend and learn. It is expected that you show up on time and prepared for the activities. If you do not follow these rules, you will receive a verbal warning. Remember, this includes disruptive behavior, refusing to participate in class activities, discussions, peer work, and showing up unprepared. If you continue to disrupt class or not follow these rules, you may receive a 0 for participation for that day, and you may be marked absent. If your behavior continues or the rules are ignored, or it is an ongoing issue and you receive three verbal warnings, you will meet with me for a private discussion with or without the Dean of Arts and Humanities present, to discuss future participation in this class, as well as be required to meet with the college Student Conduct Representative and/or other campus resources prior to being able to return to class, as applicable. Depending on the severity or impact of the disruptions, I reserve the right to require you to meet with the Dean, Student Conduct Representative, and/or other campus resources, after the first warning. Emergency Procedures for Classrooms. Call 911 and then Campus Safety in response to an imminent threat to persons or property. In the event of an evacuation (intermittent horns & strobes), gather all personal belongings and leave the building using the nearest available safe exit. Be prepared to be outside for one hour and stay a minimum of 200 feet from any building or structure. So long as it is safe to do so students are expected to stay on campus and return to class after evacuations that last less then 15 minutes. Do not attempt to re-enter the building until instructed by an Evacuation Director (identified by orange vests) or by three horn blasts or bell rings. Please notify the nearest Campus Safety Officer or Evacuation Director of any one left in the building or in need of assistance. The Fort Steilacoom Campus Safety number is (253) 964-6751. Extra Credit. No extra credit points or assignments are planned. First Drafts. For an essay draft to count as a first draft, it must demonstrate substantial handwritten editing or revision work on the face of the document. Minimal or hasty edits will not be accepted as a first draft for essay submissions.!6
Fundamental Area of Knowledge. Communication: Graduates identify, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one s own and others' writing in order to communicate effectively. % in class Grade Point % in class* Grade Point* 95-100 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 80 4.0 3.9 3.8 3.7 3.6 3.5 3.4 3.3 3.2 3.1 3.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.6 2.5 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 64-0 2.4 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.0 * Please note that any grade point below 2.0 will result in you needing to repeat the class. Grading. All of the formal papers written in the class will receive one of the above number grades. Generally speaking, student who complete satisfactory homework (with a 2.0 or above) and in-class work on time, participate (and take notes) in class regularly, and who maintain a consistent homework schedule for assignments (at least 2 hours or more for each day this class meets) will probably be successful. More work might be required to excel. It is your responsibility to learn concepts and understand assignments, and you are always encouraged to ask questions to ensure that you do. Note that all assigned papers must be completed and accepted to qualify for a 2.0 or higher in this class. There are basically six elements and or assignments that will be graded: daily activities, Quill grammar online, essays and peer edits, in-class essay, reading and responses, and writing portfolio.!7
Assignments and Grading Weights (Content and Weight Subject to change.) Occurrence Value Total Attendance/Participation (50)/Daily Activities (Varies) 50-75 Varies Varies 2% (includes some take home work) Essays (4) and Peer Edits 5 100 = 500 65% (includes one in-class essay) Presentations 2 50 = 100 2% Reading and Responses 5-7 10 = 70~ 15% Writing Portfolio 1 50 = 50 1% Quill Grammar online 55+ 15% Grading Time. Please understand that grading essays thoroughly takes time. Usually, final drafts will be returned no earlier than one week after submission. All grades will be posted on Canvas after the graded essays are returned to students. Grammar. A paper with significant grammar errors cannot receive a passing grade, regardless of the quality of its other aspects. Completing Quill Grammar online is a required element of this class. Last Day. The last date of class is: Thursday, March 21, 2019. Late Assignments and Papers. All assignments are due on the due dates at the beginning of class, unless otherwise stated. Absence from class is not an allowance for late work. You are responsible for submitting all assignments on the due date even if you do not attend class. To receive credit for the assignment, you must attend class or make arrangements by Canvas email in advance with faculty permission. Always talk to me if you believe you will not meet a deadline to turn a paper in on time. Papers will not be accepted by email. Late papers will not be accepted. Late daily assignments will generally not be accepted. Canvas quizzes close at the time they are due, and in class quizzes cannot be made up.!8
I always consider possible alternatives plans for students with documented cases of personal hardship; however, the student must contact me in advance or within a reasonable period of time. Again, it is at my discretion. NC Grades. An NC Grade is given for students who have never attended the course or have a life emergency that does not allow them to continue. Students who have simply failed the class or have failed to drop the course before the deadline are not NC eligible. Participation. This class is a learning community. It is important that every student has the best opportunity to learn and be successful in the class. The environment of the classroom depends on the students in the class. Each student is responsible for their own behavior and how it contributes to or distracts from learning. Offensive and disruptive behavior, including belching, talking on the cell phone, cussing, crying, mumbling, shouting, banging on tables, among other behaviors, that prevent this learning community from participating in productive discourse will not be tolerated. Therefore, there are several classroom rules that all students are expected to follow every day. See also Diversity/Respect above. In this class you are expected to be an active learner and Be engaged - Prepare for class by completing homework, readings, and other various assignments - Keep your phone (and other electronic devices) in your bag with sound off - Participate fully in class activities - Treat every day as an opportunity to learn Be respectful - Be polite to your classmates and teacher - Don t make noises or swear in class - Don t sleep in class - Don t talk when others are talking - Raise your hand if you wish to speak or ask a question Be responsible - Attend all class sessions on time - Ask about what you missed if you are absent - Bring your books, homework and materials to class every day - Turn in all assignments when they are due!9
If you do not follow these rules, you will receive a verbal warning. Remember, this includes disruptive behavior, refusing to participate in class activities, discussions, peer work, and showing up unprepared. If you continue to disrupt class or not follow these rules, you may receive a 0 for participation for that day, and you may be marked absent. If your behavior continues or the rules are ignored, or it is an ongoing issue and you receive three verbal warnings, you will meet with me for a private discussion with or without the Dean of Arts and Humanities present, to discuss future participation in this class, as well as be required to meet with the college Student Conduct Representative and/or other campus resources prior to being able to return to class, as applicable. Depending on the severity or impact of the disruptions, I reserve the right to require you to meet with the Dean, Student Conduct Representative, and/or other campus resources, after the first warning. Portfolio. You should keep your work throughout the quarter in your Portfolio. Compiling your work systematically in a three-ring binder will help you stay organized and see your progress throughout the quarter. There will be a Portfolio evaluation later on in the quarter, which may include a written self evaluation based on the work compiled in your Portfolio. Problem or concern. Should you face any challenges or frustrations in this class, please contact me by Canvas email to schedule an individual appointment with me as soon as possible. It is my experience that nearly all problems can be resolved through an honest, oneon-one conversation between student and teacher. Texts and Materials. REQUIRED. 1. Online Educational Resources - Provided and Free! No textbook is required for this class; however, you are required to print off some assigned readings, with advance notice. 2. Paper, pens or pencils (other note taking tools, like sticky notes) to take notes (you may be asked to use CamScanner to take pictures of these annotations or other work, so these basic tools are important for your work). Colored pens and pencils might be useful. 3. Access to the internet for Canvas and Canvas Email 4. Standard, College Rule, 8 1/2 x 11 paper 5. One 3 - three-ring binder 6. One package of eight tabbed dividers 7. Pens, black or blue 8. A reliable USB device or Cloud access for saving your work. 9. Quill Grammar online (Free!)!10
NOTE: The 3 ring-binder and eight tabbed dividers are to use as a Portfolio. You are REQUIRED to save all graded work in your Portfolio. Texts. RECOMMENDED. 1. Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises, Richard Bullock 2. English Dictionary Please bring your materials and supplies to class with you each day! Typed Papers. All formal papers, rough and final drafts, must be word-processed. The only exception to this is the In-class Essay, which will be hand written. Daily and in-class assignments or informal writing do not have to be typed, unless you are asked to do so. Everything that is hand written should be done in blue or black pen. Rough drafts of formal papers will be peer edited on the due date. If you do not participate in the peer editing process on the due date, the final draft may not be accepted. Withdrawal: You are responsible for initiating the appropriate paperwork by the date Pierce College specifies the Academic Calendar. If you have questions, please check with your advisor. Writing Center. If you choose to earn a re-write opportunity, full appointments must be scheduled in advance of the due date at the Writing Center, and a Writing Center slip must be submitted with the essay packet on the date the essay is due. It is your responsibility to schedule the appointments in a timely manner. Writing Good Papers: The goal of the class is to write well. As you can see above in the Grading section, the majority of the course grade is based on formal writing assignments. Each writing assignment will have an assignment sheet, which lays out the expectations for the paper. (It is very important to write to the purpose and the audience of the assignment.) And all of the assignments will also have a rubric to assess the paper. The rubric lays out the grading criteria for each paper. Generally, however, the goal is to turn in a paper that is thoughtful and enjoyable to read. That means that the paper includes interesting ideas presented in a solid structure/organization. The content of the papers should be expressed clearly and thoughtfully, and each paper should!11
be revised and proofread carefully. (Papers that haven t been revised or proofread or have been revised carelessly will be returned ungraded.) Adhering to a solid writing process, which in this class includes peer editing, is a good way to help you write the best papers that you can. It is easy to tell if we are reading a paper that the student enjoyed writing, for each word is alive.!12