EN97

Section: 3649
Materials
Everyday Writing (textbook) Sentence-Combining (workbook) In addition to the texts, you should have: a folder, a flash drive, and a notebook for your journal. Always come to class ready to write, with paper and a pen(cil).

professor: Corinne Cozzaglio email: ccozzagl@grcc.edu phone: ___________________ office: 116 Sneden office hours: T/Th 10:45 11:15 am T/Th 1:15 1:45 pm Course Overview
The purpose of EN 097 is to review and develop the skills necessary for proficient college writing through classroom instruction and practicing the writing process, including prewriting, drafting, revising, & editing. Critical thinking and standard mechanics are stressed, but dont worrywell work together to become better writers.

Policies
Attendance
All writing classes are interactive and require participation. Therefore, attendance at ALL class periods is expected. While I know life sometimes gets in the way, it is your duty to contact me to tell me why youre absent and ask about work you miss. You must keep up. Anyone with more than 4 absences will be dropped from the class. Every 2 times youre tardy counts as an absence. But! See the benefit of having no absences on the next page

Objectives
After this class, the college expects that you will be able to do the following things: 1. integrate language arts including writing, reading, speaking, listening, and critical thinking in preparation for your freshman level writing course at GRCC. 2. demonstrate various writing skills, including narration, description, and thesis support primarily in essays, but also journals & letters. 3. use MLA standards to summarize and respond to an assigned reading, including 1-2 direct quotes (no more) and a works cited. 4. think critically about writing in varying forms, including: annotating texts; peer review, revision, and editing; evaluating sources; thinking critically about a topic by reading and writing on various aspects and different perspectives of it; and self-assessment 5. demonstrate the following qualities in your own writing: establish/maintain a focus; organize thoughts into unified, coherent paragraphs and essays, including an intro, body, and conclusion; develop support for a thesis; compose for a clear audience. 6. understand and produce varied sentence structure in your own writing.

Classroom Civility
Our classroom is a vital learning environment. It should be safe and comfortable for everyone. Treat others with respect and courtesy, and please remember to turn cell phones off unless youve talked to me. Use of electronics unrelated to class is unacceptable. Students who do not respect the shared environment by arriving late, not paying attention, being rude, or by other distracting or harmful behavior will be told to leave and marked as absent.

E-mail Communication
Always email me if you will miss class; also, feel free to email with any questions or concerns. Im here to help, and email is a main means of communication in our digital world, so it is important to use this tool. When you e-mail me, include a subject line and sign the message. Also, GRCCs spam filters are very strong, so please use your student email. Ill reply to e-mails within 48 hours; if you don't get a reply, resend it.

Academic Integrity
Plagiarism is the theft of someone elses words or ideas. You must do your OWN work. You may NOT copy from someone else or copy/paste from the internet. If you cheat, you will be dropped from the class with no credit and no refund OR you will receive and E whichever I deem appropriate. Please note: in this class, you CANNOT submit work previously submitted to another course.

Late Work
Each day an assignment is late, it will be marked down by ! step in grade. That means, if your paper would have gotten a B, it will now receive a B-. Remember, there are two days between classes, so that would be a full grade drop.

Major Assignments
Project #1: Narrative Due: Sept. 19
This first essay asks you to write a narrative, or descriptive story, of an experience in your life when you learned something. This should be a short moment to allow you to develop enough detail. The purpose here is to learn the basics of MLA formatting, practice the writing process, and use language to describe our own lives.

Journals
Practice makes perfect, as they say. Your journal is a place to practice your writing, play with new skills or ideas, and just get it out. You will need to write 20 journal pages by the end of the semester (about 1-2 pages/week). Well talk about this more in class.

Project #2: ArtPrize Evaluation

Due: Oct. 8

Objects carry culture. This essay asks you to evaluate a cultural artifact (a piece of art) by giving an in-depth description of it and evaluating its strengths, flaws, message, and the feelings it evokes. The purpose here is to think about the objects (or art) in the world around us and evaluate the messages they send.

Letters
At the beginning and end of the semester, youll be writing letters to me to describe your experience with writing, as well as its growth and change. The introduction letter is for me to get to know you better, and the exit letter counts as your final exam time.

Project #3: Summary/Analysis

Due: Oct. 31

This essay asks you to summarize a piece of writing and analyze it. This is a project that every English 097 class will share. The purpose of this project is to think critically about the writing of others and to further develop our understanding of the use of MLA for citations.

Grading Procedure
All grades are calculated out of 1000 points. Project #1: Narrative Project #2: ArtPrize Evaluation Project #3: Summary/Analysis Project #4: Informative Design Project #5: This I Believe Journals (20 pgs. x 5pts. each) Intro & Reflection Letters (50 pts. each) In-class participation Total Points . 100 pts. 100 pts. 100 pts. 100 pts. 100 pts. 100 pts. 100 pts. 300 pts. 1000 pts.

Project #4: Informative Design

Due: Nov. 26

This project asks you to offer information about something youre familiar with in a creative way. If you feel most comfortable with a traditional essay format, you may use it, but consider designing something more like a magazine article. The purpose is to grab your audiences attention and offer information as an expert.

Project #5: This I Believe

Due: Dec. 5
Students who miss only one or no classes in the semester will get a grade boost of ! step. That means if your grades average a B, your final grade would be a B+ if you have been absent (including tardy absences) no more than once.

This I Believe is a quick final project. Usually quite enjoyable, it is a more informal piece asking you to reflect on a personal belief and tell a story related to that belief. The purpose here is personal reflection and interaction with our interconnected online culture.

Fall 2013 - EN 097 Tentative Schedule

August
Monday 26 27
Introductions (Asset Inventory) HW: Journal

Tuesday

Wednesday 28

Thursday 29
Sentence Types Mapping a memory HW: Journal

Friday 30

September
Monday 2 3
Intro to Narrative HW: Finalize Essay Topic

Tuesday 4

Wednesday 5

Thursday 6
Annotating Example Invention HW: Finish Invention

Friday

10
Outlining & Drafting HW: First Draft

11

12
DUE: 1 Draft Peer Review HW: Continue Drafting
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13

16

17
DUE: Revision Plan Editing for Final Draft

18

19
DUE: Final Narrative Invention for Art Prize Essay (Protocol w/art)

20

23

24
Visit GRAM (as a class) to discover possible ArtPrize topics

25

26
reading / organizing HW: First Draft

27

October
Monday 1
DUE: 1st Draft Peer Review Workshop/Conferences

Tuesday 2

Wednesday 3

Thursday 4
DUE: Revision Plan Peer Review, round 2 Workshop/Conference

Friday

8
DUE: Final ArtPrize Paper Midterm Reflection

10
Move toward Summary & Analysis Paper

11

14

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18

October
Monday 21 22 Tuesday Wednesday 23 Thursday 24 25 Friday

28

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31
DUE: Summary/Analysis Start Inform

November
Monday 4 5 Tuesday 6 Wednesday 7 Thursday 8 Friday

11

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DUE: Inform Project Inventing "This I Believe"

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December
Monday 2 3
DUE: This I Believe Begin Relfecting

Tuesday 4

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Resources & Tutorial Support

Blackboard / IT Tech Support
This class uses Blackboard (http://bb.grcc.edu). You may use Blackboard to access assignments, download or print course materials, and check your grades. The IT Customer Support Team can assist with Blackboard, password resets, Novell and student e-mail accounts. Hours and other helpful information is at http://www.grcc.edu/itsupport/students.

Language Arts Lab

The Language Arts Lab in 501 Cook can help you at any stage of the writing process on any piece of writing. They do ask that you bring the assignment sheet, so they can help you meet the requirements Ive given you. Most tutoring sessions last between 30-40 minutes and occur on a drop-in basis, so you dont need to make an appointment. Be aware of busy times. Try to go first thing in the morning or in the late afternoon/evening.

The PLACE
The PLACE is located on the second floor of the library (room 234), and its a place where you can connect with fellow students and friendly tutors in order for you to focus on achieving your goals here at GRCC and beyond. It is a place dedicated to supporting students in the following classes: EN 097, CO 003, MA 095-097, PY 097, RD 097-098. No appointment is necessary, and they have coffee and computers available!

College Policies
GRCC Email and Course Communications
Students are responsible for all communications sent via Blackboard and to their GRCC email account. GRCC student email can be accessed via http://email.grcc.edu and through Blackboard at http://bb.grcc.edu.

Disability Support Services

Students with disabilities who wish to request accommodations must register with the Disability Support Services Office (DSS) in Room 368 of the Student Center. You may contact DSS at (616) 234-4140 for more information. Once youre registered with DSS, you will receive an Accommodations Agreement to present to me. Please see me as soon as possible so we may have a private conversation to discuss accommodations.

Student Code of Conduct

All GRCC students are held accountable to the Student Code of Conduct, which outlines expectations pertaining to academic honesty (including cheating and plagiarism), classroom conduct, and general conduct. The Code can be found in full at Student Code of Conduct.

Changes to the Syllabus

Instructors reserve the right to change the contents of their syllabus due to unforeseen circumstances. Students will be given notice of changes in class, through a Blackboard Announcement, or through GRCC e-mail.