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1101 is the first semester of the two semester General Studies Composition requirement. This course uses frequent writing assignments and intensive class workshops to teach expository writing, including the basics of grammar, logical techniques of argument, and rhetorical considerations. You will also become familiar with research techniques, including the use of the library, the conventions and principles of documentation, the art of synthesis, and analysis of sources. This course should not only give you confidence in your own writing ability, but should also make you critically aware of the role writing and language play in shaping the world around us. There will be a total of 12 essays: Seven essays of 400-500 words (5% each), three essays of 700-1000 words (15% each), plus the mid-term and final , which consist of in-class essays (10 % each). Three of the essays will have the option of revision (two of the first seven papers and one of the last three). Grading: Since this is a composition course, the bulk of the grade (80%) will depend on your writing with the rest of the grade devoted to in-class participation (20%). Presentations and in-class exercises will be included in the latter. Attendance Policy: The student is allowed two absences after which any absence, excused or unexcused, detracts a third from the final grade. Two latenesses (after 6:25) constitute an absence. Academic Dishonesty: Because you are now working in an University environment, it is necessary to be aware of certain rules and codes of conduct. In a writing course, our foremost concern is plagiarism, the failure to acknowledge ideas or phrases used in any paper, exercise, or project submitted in a course but gained from another person. This can include: submitting as one’s own essays or portions of essays written by other people; failure to acknowledge through proper documentation the source of ideas essentially not one’s own; failing to indicate paraphrases or ideas or verbatim expressions not one’s own through proper documentation; submitting an essay written for one course without having sought prior permission from both instructors. If you plagiarize, the work in question will receive a grade of zero and you risk failing the course. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. |