Syllabyus

1. TITLE: English 101 ww5 11946 ww6 13025

2. INSTRUCTOR CONTACT INFORMATION

Instructor: Amanda Hamlin
E-mail: [e-mail]
Work Phone [phone]
Office Hours 9:00-10:00am TWTh via Google voice (changes will be announced as needed)
Notes
In addition to my scheduled office hours, I will also have my phone line on at other times. I do not GUARANTEE that it will be turned on at any given time but I will keep it active whenever I am at home (usually most of the time before five on weekdays). Weekend phone calls to this number may be possible by appointment. Please inquire by email.

You must use City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) email. All faculty and students will use their City Colleges of Chicago email address in Blackboard. Any communication generated from the Blackboard course sites must be sent to your City Colleges of Chicago email address.

Blackboard (Bb) Course Communication:

Your instructor receives text communications only by email and has disabled the communications – messages feature for this course.

3. CDL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE HELP DESK You can obtain technical and computer help desk assistance by contacting CDL.

Center for Distance Learning
Dawson Technical Institute
3901 S. State Street, Room 103
Chicago, IL 60609

4. CATALOG DESCRIPTION

Development of critical and analytical skills in writing and reading of expository prose. Writing assignments, as appropriate to the discipline, are part of the course.

5. DELIVERY FORMAT

Web-Based Courses (WW): This course takes place completely on the Internet through the use of the Blackboard course management system ( ). You are required to purchase textbooks, workbooks, study guides, and/or software. Throughout the semester, you log on to the course website to gain access to course content, information, homework assignments, and communicate with me. Discussion forums and chat provide a high level of interaction between the class and me. You may be required to take exams online, in a proctored setting, at any one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. Please note that some WW courses may also include mandatory on-campus sessions. 6. SYNCHRONOUS SESSIONS 


On two separate days, minimum (e.g. once before the midterm and once after the midterm), we will meet as a class (i.e. all at the same time) using either Elluminate Live, Blackboard Collaborate, a face-to-face session in a CCC classroom, or something similar. Specific dates and times will be posted later, in the Announcements section of Blackboard. For those who are unable to participate, special arrangements will be made. 
 7. COURSE TERM 8 Weeks CREDIT 3 credit hours

Summer YEAR: 2013
All CDL courses are offered in a 16-week term in the fall and spring. CDL courses are offered in an 8-week term in the summer. Students register for these courses during the same period as regular term courses.

Class Schedule:
This course is scheduled for 8 weeks. The Summer Term, 2013 class dates are from Wednesday, June 5, 2013 through Saturday, July 27th, 2013. Please note the following exception:
NOTE: Thursday, July 4th ,2013, This is a holiday (No assignments due or required examinations are set for this date). 8. PREREQUISITES

Placement test, or grade of C or better in English 100, or consent of the department chairperson.

9. SKILLS & TECHNOLOGY RECOMMENDATIONS

See the syllabus addendum for skills and technology recommendations. 10. COURSE OBJECTIVES
11. The principal objective in this course is to improve and hone your writing skills, especially for academic writing. This includes developing good study habits, time management, the ability to read and formulate critical views on readings, and to demonstrate mastery of writing techniques, including proper grammar, idea development, coherence, and following academic conventions and expectations. Other important objectives are the cultivation of a conscious concern for using language accurately and aesthetically, and the recognition of various audiences and writing situations and skillfully addressing them.
12. In other words, after taking this class, you will be able to:
13. Write readable, coherent prose that demonstrates an awareness of college-level, academic conventions of writing.
14. Express ideas clearly and with well-structured sentences.
15. Use a variety of pre-writing strategies. Develop a writing process with attention to pre-writing strategies, drafting, revising, and editing, as appropriate to the purposes of specific writing tasks. Recognize the role of writing as essential to life-long learning, as a career skill, and as integral to learning and cognition.
Identify and eliminate errors in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar. 

11. EXPECTED STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES 
 In terms of organization and development, by the end of this course you will be able to: Make a point and concretely support it. Express ideas in clear, connected sentences. Write well-organized, fully developed, and coherent paragraphs. Limit an experience or a general topic to arrive at a focused topic. Properly plan a paragraph. Furnish supporting details in order to develop the controlling idea. Avoid unnecessary digressions from the central idea. Use transitions to show relationships between ideas. Maintain a consistent point of view. Correctly analyze your own writing. Apply the principles of organization to develop a full-length essay.
In terms of revision, by the end of this course you will be able to: Edit your own writing in standardized, academic English sentences. Apply and understand the conventions of manuscript form (e.g. indenting the first line of each paragraph, using margins properly, etc.) Distinguish singular and plural noun forms. Use correct pronoun forms. Understand and apply the conventions of punctuation. Write complete, coherent sentences; avoid run-ons and sentence fragments. Maintain consistency in verb tense. Correct grammatical errors. Avoid abbreviations. Spell words correctly.

12. REQUIRED TEXTS & MATERIALS TITLE: Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide
AUTHORS: Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell
ISBN: 9780312601522
EDITION: 11th
TITLE: Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers W/MLA Update
AUTHORS: Silverman, Hughes, and Wienbroer
ISBN: 9780073405964
EDITION: 9th 
 13. STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS/DISABILITIES

Any student with a special need or disability should contact the Disability Access Center Office (http://www.ccc.edu/departments/Pages/Disability-Access-Center.aspx ) at one of the seven City Colleges of Chicago. The link will provide you with contact information.

14. METHODS OF EVALUATION

Essays:
You will write four (4) formal academic essays in this class. Passing the final exit essay exam is required to pass the course, but is not included in your final grade. You will be provided with at least two different prompts to choose from for each essay; however, on every essay but the Exit Essay, you always have the option of coming up with your own topic, as long as it corresponds to the assigned theme.
Please check the Course Outline at the end of this syllabus for assignment due dates. You will receive feedback and a grade within 72 hours of when you submit assignments on time and via the Blackboard assignment link for that assignment. Any changes to this policy will be posted under Announcements. NOTE: any due dates that fall on a holiday are automatically pushed forward 24 hours (to the day after the holiday).
The two Major At-Home Essays will be graded with a detailed rubric you can find in the Course Resources folder on Blackboard, in the folder “Essay Grading Rubrics.”
The two Timed Computer Lab Essays will graded using the City Colleges of Chicago Writing Skills Assessment For Initial Placement and Exit, which you can find in the Course Resources folder on Blackboard, in the folder “Essay Grading Rubrics.”
Essay format guidelines
All typed assignments are to follow academic guidelines. Use the templates posted in Course Resources, and be sure to submit the correct paper in the Assignments folder. Document will have your name, class title (English 101 – CDL Section), and Date Document will have one-inch margins all around and be double-spaced Typeface should be no larger than 12pt

Citation and References:
You must cite your sources on any material that you choose to quote or reference. You must also cite your source on the articles that you present in your course papers. You can choose to use either MLA or APA style for citation and references, or you may use some other style. I have provided the following examples. The Owl at Purdue University: APA Formatting and Style Guide
 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/18/
The Owl at Purdue University: MLA Formatting and Style Guide

Plagiarism refers to the use of someone else’s ideas or words without correct documentation. It is the student’s responsibility to ask the faculty member to clarify any questions on correct use of documentation for the work submitted in the course. In other words, when in doubt, ask me before turning it in.
Cheating refers to the use of someone else’s knowledge or sharing course work in a way that is unauthorized by the faculty member. The faculty member may authorize the use of reference books for a paper, for example, but require that a test be done without such help.
Should a student be penalized and wish to contest the allegation, the academic integrity due process procedure will be followed.
Discussion Board Forums: Readings
Readings from the Textbook:
Reading well is part of writing well; therefore, there will be reading assignments every week, and you will be expected to comment on your reading in specific Discussion Board forums located on Blackboard by certain deadlines.
General Discussion Board Guidelines
You will be expected to contribute to the class discussion in a substantive way. My definition of substantive participation is reading the course materials and questions and comments of other students and:
Answering the questions in a thorough, thoughtful way.
Commenting and/or adding to the questions and messages of your classmates.
Or, giving your perspective or thoughts on the course material.
For more information on discussion board forums, as well as a discussion board forum rubric, please check the Course Resources folder in Blackboard.
Discussion Board Forums: Peer Review
Research (and my own experience) has shown that cooperative learning improves student performance; therefore, peer review is mandatory for everyone. It will provide you with feedback that will help improve your writing skills, and provide you with practice at editing and revising.
Course Evaluation Surveys
Please help me evaluate how effectively the course design is helping you learn the course material by taking a few minutes to complete these short surveys. They are graded on completion, i.e. if you complete them, you get full credit.
Assignment Feedback:
Generally, you will receive a grade and comments on your assignments within 72 hours after the deadline has passed. Any exceptions to this practice will be posted under “Announcements.” The major exception to this practice is late essays: the 72-hour turnaround time NEVER applies to late essays.
LATE WORK POLICY
No late assignments will be accepted.
However, if extenuating circumstances arise during the term that impact the quality of your work and/or inhibit you from submitting the assignments by the deadline, please notify the instructor by email. You must notify me before the assignment is due in order to recieve an extention. If you do so, I will send you a reply letting you know if the extention is granted and telling you when you need to have the assignment turned in by to receive credit. I only grant extentions for emergancies and repeated requests for extentions will only result in my refusal.

15. GRADING CRITERIA Percentage Scale:
A = 100-90%
B = 89-80%
C = 79-70%
D = 69-60%
F = 59% or below
Essays: 70 percent of final grade.
Essay 1 rough draft: 5 percent (120 points)
Essay 1 final draft: 10 percent (240 points)
Essay 2 (TCLE#1): 10 percent (240 points)
Essay 3 rough draft: 5 percent (120 points)
Essay 3 final draft: 20 percent (480 points)
Essay 4 (TCLE#2): 20 percent (480 points)
TOTAL: all essays are cumulatively worth 70 percent of the final grade (1680 points).

All other work: 30 percent of your final grade:
The Final Exit Essay
The Final Exit Essay is not considered in your final grade. The Final Exit Essay is a Pass/Fail final required by CCC and will be taken either in one of the CCC computer lab testing centers.

Dates, times, and locations for the Exit Exam will be posted at ccc.Blackboard.com under Announcements. It will most likely occur during the Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of Week 15. Please watch Announcements for confirmation of these dates.
To Pass the Class
A grade of C or better, and a passing grade on the exit exam, is required to advance to English 102. In other words:
You must pass both the class portion AND the Final Exit Exam in order to pass the class.

Grade
Percentage
points out of 2400 (whole course) points out of 40 (forums and surveys) points out of 120 (rough drafts) points out of 240 (Essay 1 Final Draft, TCLE#1) points out of 480 (Essay 3 Final Draft, TCLE#2)

A
100-90
2400-2148
40-36
120-108
240-215
480-430

B
89-80
2147-1908
35-32
107-96
214-191
429-382

C
79-70
1907-1668
31-28
95-84
190-167
381-334

D
69-60
1667-1428
27-24
83-72
166-143
333-286

F
59-0
1427-0
32-0
71-0
142-0
285-0

16. COURSE READINGS & ASSIGNMENTS OUTLINE:

Outline overview:
This course is divided into four modules, each of which will focus on a different theme. During two of the modules, we will workshop an essay that you will work on both at home and within various discussion board forums. During the other two modules, you will prepare to write a timed computer lab essay set up almost exactly the same way as the Exit Essay.
Each module concerned with workshopping an essay will consist of four mini-modules. Each module concerned with preparing you to write a timed computer lab essay will consist of three mini-modules.
The first and last weeks of the term are independent of any module. The first week will serve as an orientation. The final week will be concerned with making sure any loose ends are tied up before final grades are posted.
Readings are assigned by module. All assignments for a given module will be based on those readings, which you can find on Blackboard in the Assignments folder, in the folder that particular module (for example: AssignmentsModule 1Module 1 Readings).
See chart on the next page.

Assignments:

Important Dates
Orientation:

June 7--discussion
Elluminate session 1

June 7–2:00 pm
Module 1.1 and 1.2:

June 9—both discussions
Module 1.3:

June 12 – Essay 1 rough draft due submit to BOTH Iturn it In and the discussion board
Elluminate session 2

June –12 2:00pm
Module 1.4:

June 16 – Essay 1 final draft due – submit to BOTH Turn It In and the discussion board
Module 2.1 and 2.2:

June: 19—both discussions
Module 2.3:

June 20-22 Timed Practice Exam 1 June 22—Midterm reflection and survey
Module 3.1 and 3.2:

June 26—both discussions
Module 3.3:

June 30 – Essay 2 rough draft due submit to BOTH Turn It In and the discussion board
Module 3.4:

July 3 Essay 2 final draft due submit to BOTH Turn It In and the discussion board
Module 4.1 and 4.2:

July 7—both discussions
Module 4.3:

July 11-13Timed practice exam 2 July 13—end of course reflection and survey.

Exit Essay readings

July 16--discussion
EXIT ESSAY:

July—17-20 Exit Exam – you MUST pass the exam in order to pass the class.

References: TOTAL: all essays are cumulatively worth 70 percent of the final grade (1680 points).