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Dr. Christie L. Daniels 251 Bessey Hall 355-2400 (messages only) cdaniels@msu.edu Wednesday 1:00 5:00 P.M. and additionally by appointment.
In pursuit of these goals, Tier I Writing and Preparation for College Writing courses engage students in writing and reflection activities that make overt the ways that invention, arrangement, revision, style and delivery literacy activities: can be engaged across inquiry situations (scholarly, social, and professional) require the development of knowledge about the importance of contextual factors that affect the application of these methods of inquiry
Our shared learning outcomes support inquiry-based learning that transfers across writing situations in relation to three major issues: writing, reading, and researching.
Required Texts:
Aaron, Jane. The Little, Brown Compact Handbook. (MSU customized version) Boston: Pearson. 2010. Ballenger, Bruce. The Curious Researcher: A Guide to Writing Research Papers. 7 ed. Boston: Pearson. 2011.
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Craig, Collin, Nancy DeJoy, Steven Lessner and Bonnie Williams. Reading and Writing Literacies. Boston: Pearson. 2011.
Gane, Nicholas and David Beer. New Media: The Key Concepts. New York: Berg. 2008.
Please note: The Ballenger text is a new edition that includes the 2009 MLA updates. This is the version I have ordered for class. If you choose to get an older version, you will need to be responsible for using the latest versions of MLA style when you use sources. Also, be aware that if you get the older versions of these books the bookstores will not buy them back at the end of the semester.
Late Assignments:
Late assignments will be lowered one full letter grade for each day past the due date (the first reduction occurs at the start of the class in which the assignment is due).
Completion of Assignments:
The First-Year Writing Program requires that students produce a significant amount of writing to fulfill their requirement. You must complete all major assignments to fulfill this requirement and receive a passing grade in First-Year Writing courses.
Major Assignments:
There are five major projects in this course: three essays and two multimedia projects. The schedule at the end of this syllabus outlines the due dates for these major projects. Grade distribution occurs as follows: Lived Literacies Paper: Cultural Literacy Paper: Disciplinary Literacy Paper: Multimedia Remix Project: Revising Literacies Assignment: Reflection Blog Reading Responses Peer critique responses, participation and informal writing assignments: 10% 15% 20% 20% 20% 5% 5% 5%
Grading Scale:
90% - 100% 85% - 89.9% 80% - 84.9% 75% - 79.9% 70% - 74.9% 65% - 69.9% 60% - 64.9% 59.9% and below = 4.0 = 3.5 = 3.0 = 2.5 = 2.0 = 1.5 = 1.0 = 0.0
Academic Honesty
Michigan State University has adopted the following statement about academic policy: GENERAL STUDENT REGULATIONS 1.00 PROTECTION OF SCHOLARSHIP AND GRADES The principles of truth and honesty are fundamental to the educational process and the academic integrity of the University; therefore, no student shall: 1.01 claim or submit the academic work of another as ones own. 1.02 procure, provide, accept or use any materials containing questions or answers to any examination or assignment without proper authorization. 1.03 complete or attempt to complete any assignment or examination for another individual without proper authorization. 1.04 allow any examination or assignment to be completed for oneself, in part or in total, by another without proper authorization. 1.05 alter, tamper with, appropriate, destroy or otherwise interfere with the research, resources, or other academic work of another person. 1.06 fabricate or falsify data or results.
Procedures for responding to cases of academic honesty and possible repercussions are outlined in Spartan Life: Student Handbook and Resource Guide. They can also be found on the web at: http://www.msu.edu/unit/ombud/honestylinks.html. Note: the new procedures require that instances of academic dishonesty be reported through the registrars office and forwarded to the Dean of the College in which the students major resides.
Accommodations for Students with Disabilities Michigan State University is committed to providing equal opportunity for participation in all programs, services and activities. Requests for accommodations by persons with disabilities may be made by contacting the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities at 517-884RCPD or on the web at rcpd.msu.edu. Once your eligibility for an accommodation has been determined, you will be issued a verified individual services accommodation ("RISA") form. Please present this form to me at the start of the term and/or two weeks prior to the accommodation date (test, project, etc.). Requests received after this date will be honored whenever possible.
Course Schedule
RWL=Reading and Writing Literacies, NM=New Media, CR=Curious Researcher
Week
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Date
Assignments/Activities
Tues Introduction to course, RAIDS 1/10 Thurs Introduce Lived Literacies assignment 1/12 Reading assignment due: Mother Tongue (RWL 26-32),
Tues Continue work with Lived Literacies assignment 1/17 Reading assignment due: NM (Ch. 1) Thurs Continue work with Lived Literacies assignment 1/19 Reading assignment due: From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle
(RWL 41-55) Rough Draft of Lived Literacies assignment due at midnight.
Tues Continue work with Lived Literacies assignment 1/24 Reading assignment due: I Dont Wanna Be Average (RWL ONLINE) Thurs Finish Lived Literacies assignment, Introduce Cultural Literacies assignment 1/26 Reading assignment due: NM (Ch. 2)
Lived Literacies assignment due Monday, January 30 at midnight
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Tues Continue work with Cultural Literacies assignment 1/31 Reading assignment due: A Generations Vanity, Heard through Lyrics (RWL
ONLINE),
Thurs Continue work with Cultural Literacies assignment 2/2 Reading assignment due: NM (Ch. 3)
Tues Continue work with Cultural Literacies assignment 2/7 Reading assignment due: Children, Wired: For Better and For Worse (RWL
113-138),
Thurs Continue work with Cultural Literacies assignment, Introduce Disciplinary 2/9 Literacies assignment
Reading assignment due: Introduction (CR), NM (Ch. 4) Rough draft of Cultural Literacies assignment due at midnight
Tues Continue work with Cultural Literacies assignment 2/14 Reading Assignment: CR (Ch. 1-2)
INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES WITH INSTRUCTOR
Thurs Finish Cultural Literacies assignment, 2/16 INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCES WITH INSTRUCTOR
Tues Continue work with Disciplinary Literacies assignment 2/21 Reading assignment due: Three Meanings of Epistemic Rhetoric. (ONLINE) Thurs Continue work with Disciplinary Literacies assignment 2/23 Reading assignment due: Inquiry Paradigms and Writing, (ONLINE)
Tues Continue work with Disciplinary Literacies assignment 2/28 Reading assignment due: Learning to Read Biology: One Students Rhetorical
Development in College (RWL ONLINE), NM (Ch. 5)
Thurs Continue work with Disciplinary Literacies assignment 3/1 Reading assignment due: CR (Ch. 3), The Truth Wears Off: Is Something
Wrong with the Scientific Method? (RWL 216-227), Rough Draft of Disciplinary Literacies assignment due at midnight
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Tues Continue work with Disciplinary Literacies assignment 3/13 Reading assignment due: CR (Ch. 4), The Nature of Reading and Writing at
Work (RWL ONLINE)
Thurs Finish Disciplinary Literacies assignment 3/15 Reading assignment due: Reading assignment due: CR (Ch. 5), Winning
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Hearts and Minds in War on Plagiarism (RWL194-201) Disciplinary Literacies assignment due Monday, March 19 at midnight
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Tues Introduce Multimedia Remix Assignment 3/20 Reading assignment due: NM (Ch. 6) Thurs NO CLASS (INSTRUCTOR AT CONFERENCE) 3/22 Continue work with Multimedia Remix assignment
Formal Proposal for Remix Project due at midnight
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Tues Continue work with Multimedia Remix assignment 3/27 Reading assignment due: I Think, Therefore IM (RWL 237-241), NM (Ch. 7) Thurs Continue work with Multimedia Remix assignment 3/29 Reading assignment due: NM (Ch. 8)
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Tues Continue work with Multimedia Remix assignment 4/3 Reading assignment due: Teaching Visual Literacy in a Multimodal Age
(RWL ONLINE).
Thurs Finish work with Multimedia Remix assignment 4/5 Reading assignment due: Finding Ones Own Space in Cyberspace (RWL
242-252) Multimedia Remix project due on Monday, April 9 at midnight
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Tues Introduce Revising Literacies Project 4/10 Literacy in Three Metaphors (RWL ONLINE). Thurs NO CLASS (INSTRUCTOR AT CONFERENCE) 4/12 Continue work with Revising Literacies assignment
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Tues Continue work with Revising Literacies assignment 4/17 Reading assignment due: Reflection on My EFL Experiences (RWL 278280), Rough Draft of Revising Literacies Assignment due at midnight
Thurs Continue work with Revising Literacies assignment 4/19 Reading assignment due: Stories, Not Information: Transforming Information
Literacy (RWL ONLINE)
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Tues Continue work with Revising Literacies assignment 4/24 Reading assignment due: Writing Is my Passion (RWL 258-261) Thurs Finish Revising Literacies assignment 4/26 Reading assignment due: Being an Ally (RWL ONLINE).
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FINALS The Revising Literacies project is due at the day and time of the final exam
period for this course as determined by the University Registrars Official Final Exam Schedule. This classs final exam is: Tuesday, May 1 from 3:00-5:00 P.M.
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