Summary: Syllabus For First Year Composition

1 Spring 2013 - Syllabus for First Year Composition, English 114 (Section 10) Mark Schleunes/ HUM 429. Office hours: MW 3:35 – 4:25, Fri. 2:30 - 4:10 and by appt. Office phone: [phone]. Email: [e-mail] This syllabus is your contract with me. By continuing to attend this class, you agree to abide by the rules of this contract. If you think you may not be able to follow the rules in this contract, you should drop this class immediately. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES After completion of any one of SFSU’s three First-Year Composition options, students will be able to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. read actively and effectively and use information acquired from readings, research and other sources critically in their own writing; use writing processes
These are all explained in the reader on page 7. For each student, I will keep a list of the errors I find in your essays. I will post these on a homework assignment at the top of our ilearn website, so you know what errors you are responsible for. I will work individually with you in workshops or conferences to show you how to correct your most frequent error patterns. On the last three essays of the semester I will lower the grade on a particular essay in the following manner if you have an average of more than 13 proofreading errors per 1500 words on that particular essay (approx 3 per page): Essay Grade Reduction 1 1/3 grade off (A to A-) for errors on your list only Next-to-last 2/3 grade off (A to B+) for all errors listed above Final One full grade off (A to B) for all errors listed above Ethics and Attendance: Plagiarism can destroy your college career. DON'T PLAGIARIZE! Here is a relevant quotation from the "College of Humanities Plagiarism Resources": Plagiarism occurs when a student misrepresents the work of another as his or her own. Plagiarism may consist of using the ideas, sentences, paragraphs, or the whole text of another without appropriate
It is your responsibility to check on ilearn before every class to see what the homework is. If you do not have access to computer and/or Internet connection, you should use one of the computers in the many computer labs on campus. Browser Issues You may use either Mozilla Firefox browser (version 3.0 or above) or Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 7.0 or above). Apple Safari will work to some extent, but it won't give you all the ilearn functions. Basic Policies and Rules I will post all ilearn materials as .PDF documents which are easily accessible from Mac or PC. I will post all the various assignments and homework after I assign them. I will post the due dates for essays and assignments. I will occasionally send out a mass email if I have something really important to communicate to everyone. I will occasionally give you an assignment which requires you to access the ilearn website. The ilearn website is only a SUPPLEMENT to the class meetings. Every day I post on ilearn summaries of everything that happens in class and all the homework assigned. SO IF YOU HAVE TO MISS CLASS, CHECK THE ILEARN SITE BEFORE YOU SEND ME AN EMAIL ASKING ME WHAT WE DID IN CLASS. However, I am not designing it so that students can skip class meetings and use it as an