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COURSE SYLLABUS Term: Fall 2015

Course: EWPC 106 H

Instructor Information: Instructor Name Jennifer Young Office Number: 179 Phone Number: 473-4285 Email: jyoung@ccsj.edu Hours Available: Monday-Friday 2:30-4:30 and whenever I am in my office Instructor Background: MA in English from Purdue Calumet and BA in English and Philosophy with a minor in History from Purdue Calumet

Course Information: Course Time: M/W 12-1:30 Classroom: 260 Prerequisites: Placement into EWPC 103 and acceptance into the St. Gaspar’s Honors

Learning Community Required Books and Materials:

The Concise Wadsworth Handbook by Kirszner and Mandell

Learning Outcomes/ Competencies: The student will:

• write a unified, coherent, well-developed familiar essay, expository essay, and persuasive essay.

• understand and gain greater control over all the phases of the writing process – prewriting, writing, re-writing, and editing.

• will apply various techniques for generating ideas. apply a variety of revision and editing strategies. understand the role of a writer in relation to academic audiences.

• organize a familiar, expository, and persuasive essay using traditional academic form. • write a clear and focused thesis for an expository essay. support that thesis with

paragraphs that express one, general main idea in a topic sentence, support those topic sentences with body paragraphs that develop the main idea through illustration, using an accumulation of specific details or one extended detail.

• write coherent body paragraphs with effective use of transitions and correct pronoun reference.

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• write effective introductory and concluding paragraphs. • write clear, grammatically correct sentences. • write complete sentences, avoiding fragments, comma splices, run-ons, and other common

errors. • write sentences with active verbs, eliminating wordiness, and correctly utilizing parallel

construction. • write a variety of sentence types: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex,

distinguish correctly between subordinating and coordinating conjunctions. • correctly use common punctuation marks, including period, comma, semi-colon, colon,

dash, parentheses, and quotation marks.

The student must also meet all requirements set forth by the St. Gaspar’s Honors Learning Community contract. Course Description: In this course students learn the concepts and skills needed to write an effective, college-level expository essay. Through both traditional and workshop methods, students gain greater control over the writing process, essay organization, paragraph construction, and sentence grammar. Before successfully completing the course, students must demonstrate basic competency in a portfolio of semester writing. Learning Strategies: Lecture, Group Discussion, Small Group Projects, Workshop Writing, Blackboard Experiential Learning Opportunities: This course will include writing that is designed to solve a real-world problem. It will also include a trip to the Art Institute. Linked Classes: RLST 110 H with Dr. Kevin Considine and HUM 112H with Dr. Chris Buczinsky Assessments:

Major Assignments:

Four Essays 400 Six Summaries 200 Many, many Assignments 200 800

Class Participation Your participation will be assessed by your engagement with the material and with your peers. You will do your best work when you are actively involved.

Signature Assignments

This General Education class will help you prepare for CCSJ's Signature Assignments, a common written and oral assignment that students complete in Introduction to Social Justice as freshmen, Religious Studies as sophomores, and Philosophy as juniors. Signature Assignments are assessed for written communications, oral communications, and critical thinking. You must meet required scores in Religious Studies to move ahead to Philosophy, and in Philosophy to complete your General

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Education program.

Course Schedule: To be tracked through Blackboard

I reserve the right to change plans as necessary to meet the needs of the class.

Responsibilities Attending Class

You cannot succeed in this class if you do not attend. We believe that intellectual growth and success in higher education occur through interaction in the classroom and laboratories. However, we do not want to penalize students for participating in college-sponsored events. When you miss class because of a college event, you must give notice of your absence in advance, and you are responsible for all missed work. Being absent doesn’t excuse you from doing class work; you have more responsibilities to keep up and meet the objectives of this course. The English Department has a standard rule: no student who misses more than 9 hours of class time can pass the course. There is no distinction between excused and unexcused absences. If you find that you are approaching the maximum number of absences, please see me so that we can get you back on track.

Turning In Your Work

You cannot succeed in this class if you do not turn in all your work on the day it is due. Late work will be accepted and evaluated, but a grade will not be recorded for it in the gradebook.

Using Electronic Devices

Electronic devices can only be used in class for course-related purposes. The computers are to be used for composition and research, not for socializing. If you are using technology in a way that is distracting to you, me, or your classmates, you will be asked to stop just once. On the second incident, you will be asked to leave and marked absent.

Participating in Class You must be on time, stay for the whole class and speak up in a way that shows you are an active participant in your own education. If you are not prepared for class, you may be asked to leave, in which case you will be marked absent.

Doing Your Own Work

If you turn in work that is not your own, you are subject to judicial review, and these procedures can be found in the College Catalog and the Student Planner. The maximum penalty for any form of academic dishonesty is dismissal from the College.

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Using standard citation guidelines, such as MLA or APA format, to document sources avoids plagiarism. The Library has reference copies of each of these manuals, and there are brief checklists in your Student Handbook and Planner. PLEASE NOTE: All papers may be electronically checked for plagiarism.

Withdrawing from Class

After the last day established for class changes has passed (see the College calendar), you may withdraw from a course by following the policy outlined in the CCSJ Course Catalog.

Resources Student Success Center:

The Student Success Center provides faculty tutors at all levels to help you master specific subjects and develop effective learning skills. It is open to all students at no charge. You can contact the Student Success Center at 219 473-4287 or stop by the Library.

Disability Services:

Disability Services strives to meet the needs of all students by providing academic services in accordance with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines. If you believe that you need a “reasonable accommodation” because of a disability, contact the Disability Services Coordinator at 219-473-4349.

CCSJ Alerts:

Calumet College of St. Joseph’s emergency communications system will tell you about emergencies, weather-related closings, or other incidents via text, email, or voice messages. Please sign up for this important service annually on the College’s website at: http://www.ccsj.edu/alerts/index.html. In addition, you can check other media for important information, such as school closings: Internet: http://www.ccsj.edu Radio: WAKE – 1500 AM, WGN – 720 AM, WIJE – 105.5 FM, WLS – 890 AM, WZVN – 107.1 FM, WBBM NEWS RADIO 78 TV Channels: 2, 5, 7, 9, 32