WR 1: College Writing Fall 2024Python

Java Python WR 1: College Writing

Fall 2024

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Concentrating on analysis and interpretation, Writing 1 prepares students for the requirements and expectations of writing in other college courses, introduces students to critical reading, and emphasizes writing as a part of the thinking process. Through completing informal and formal assignments, students develop ideas, summarize and analyze content, and learn to form arguments and written responses in a clear, logical, and convincing manner.

Furthermore, teamwork is critical in our class. Students will collaborate with one another to analyze cultural texts and to articulate how they make meaning. Working together, students will gain the ability to interpret books, social media behaviors, and even product packaging within an overarching framework of cultural analysis. By analyzing a variety of texts and exploring the ways in which all texts comment upon  larger concerns in American society, students will build important critical thinking and communication skills.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Students will complete a course-appropriate writing assignment that demonstrates coherence and organization. Proficiency will be determined by a score of 4 or higher on the departmental essay rubric for SLOs. Criterion for success will be 75%.

Students will complete a course-appropriate writing assignment that demonstrates development of a thesis through support and elaboration. Proficiency will be determined by a score of 4 or higher on the departmental essay rubric for SLOs. Criterion for success will be 75%.

Students will complete a course-appropriate writing assignment that demonstrates mastery of style. Proficiency will be determined by a score of 4 or higher on the departmental essay rubric for SLOs.  Criterion for success will be 75%.

Students will complete a course-appropriate writing assignment that demonstrates mastery of the conventions of essay format. Proficiency will be determined by a score of 4 or higher on the departmental essay rubric for SLOs.

Students will complete a course-appropriate writing assignment that demonstrates mastery of the conventions of Standard Written English. Proficiency will be determined by a score of 4 or higher on the departmental essay rubric for SLOs. Criterion for success will be 75%.

Students will complete a course-appropriate writing assignment that demonstrates mastery of unity/focus through a controlling thesis or topic sentence claim. Proficiency will be determined by a score of 4 or higher on the departmental essay rubric for SLOs. Criterion for success will be 75%.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1.  Articulate and support a specific thesis that provides an essay’s conceptual and rhetorical center

2.  Recognize, assess, and match audience, purpose, tone, and essay form. to intended audience and purpose

3.  Develop a thesis by incorporating and analyzing textual evidence

4.  Read critically to analyze and evaluate the writer’s purpose, point of view, and methods of presentation

5.  Recognize and implement specific strategies for local and global revision

6.  Demonstrate sophistication in editing skills, mastery of Standard Written English, and the

conventions of standard manuscript. preparation and assigned citation conventions for secondary sources in research projects

RECOMMENDED COMPANION COURSE: The Writing Center is here to support you in your Writing 1 or Writing 1H course! Writing Conference (WR 181) is an open-entry/open-exit, pass/no-pass, .25 unit course offering one-on-one meetings with English instructors in-person and online.  Enrolling in the Writing Conference gives you access to the virtual Writing Center on Canvas, with writing resources and the opportunity to receive individualized feedback from IVC English instructors on brainstorming, drafts, and revision to help you be more successful in your WR 1 course. You’ll also get access to our beautiful   on-campus Center as a study space and a place to meet with our instructors in person. This is extremely valuable help, not available to this extent at many colleges. Students must complete 12 hours and 2 formal conferences in the Writing Center during the semester in order to receive credit for WR 181 (You can complete your time online on our Canvas homepage and/or in person in our Writing Center on campus).

TUTORING: Free tutoring for this course is offered both online and in-person at the Student Success

Center (BSTIC 110) at no cost, no minimum hours required. Let me know if you want an APC code to add the zero unit Tutoring 301 course, and then you can access online tutoring.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Signs of Life in the USA, 10thth  edition. Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon. Feed. MT Anderson

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

The Little Seagull Handbook, 3rd  ed. Eds. Bullock, Brody, and Weinberg

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

All in-class assignments will be written in dark blue or black ink and then, when required, submitted to Canvas in PDF or jpeg form, if you are writing by hand. Feel free to type assignments. You will need two green books, one for each in-class essay, which are available for purchase in the student store. All out-of-class assignments should be typed in black font and submitted through Canvas.

In terms of technology, since you will be asked to check Canvas and your official IVC email address for correspondence, announcements, and assignments, you will need steady and reliable internet service, and a laptop/computer, preferably with a working webcam and microphone. FYI, IVC has a laptop loan  program (make sure that you get one with a webcam and microphone). If you are interested, you can contact Erin Pollard ([email protected]) at the office of Student Life and Student Equity. You can also apply online: https://forms.gle/T6sTw29GLAhpYXH59 (Links to an external site.)

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1.  Four Formal Writing Projects (Essays)

To pass this course, completion of two out-of-class writing projects, two in-class essays, two high-stakes in-person group presentations, and numerous homework assignments and discussion board posts are    required. The in-class essays will be written by hand, in pen, and on green books. Be aware that laptop  usage is prohibited during the in-class essays. The out-of-class writing projects are due on the pre-specified date at 11:59 PM PST. To compose each out- of-class writing project, students will write a rough draft, perform. and obtain peer reviews, and complete a final draft. The final draft and rough draft will be submitted on Canvas, and these assignments will be conditionally released, meaning that students must submit a rough draft in order to submit a final draft that earns points. The peer response sheets will be completed in class or on Canvas. Make sure to submit the rough draft on time, since Canvas only assigns peer reviews to students who complete the rough draft. Every 24 hour period that the final draft of each essay is late on Canvas incurs a 10% penalty. This means that the minute it is late, it incurs a 10%    penalty, and after 24 hours, it incurs another 10% penalty. Failure to turn in the paper will result in receiving 0 points. Every out-of-class essay must be scanned through Turn it in to receive a grade. If an essay is submitted in a format that Turnitin cannot read, then the essay will earn 0 points. Departmental guidelines disallow students from turning in work written for other classes. Each paper submitted must be written specifically for this semester’s WR 1 course to earn points.

GOOGLEDOC POLICY: Because I will be using your individualized writing data to assist you with your writing process, all out-of-class essays must be written in and submitted through google docs, and the googledoc must document the student’s writing process from the absolute beginning to the end. In other words, please do not copy and paste an essay into googledocs, as doing so will incur a 30% penalty. In order to earn full credit, please provide complete transparency in terms of keystroke data by beginning and finishing your essay on the same googledoc. Essays that do not meet the stated googledoc requirements will lose 30% of the final essay grade.

All essays must include a Works Cited page, and this works cited page is not counted in the minimum page requirement for the essay. If an essay is missing a Works Cited page, it loses 10% of the essay grade. Out-of-class essays will include the Works Cited page at the end of the essay, and for the in-class essays, students will prepare them for submission beforehand, and I will collect them on the in-class essay date.

In order to be accepted, the final draft and rough draft of every project must be typed in 12 pt. Times New  Roman Font and double-spaced with one inch margins. Projects must also adhere to MLA format. Papers that do not adhere to MLA format will lose 3 percentage points.

2. PROJECT PRESENTATIONS: You will participate in two group in-class presentations. You must be present and participate on the day your group presents in order to earn credit for these assignments.

3. READINGS AND HOMEWORK: One of the main goals of this course is to help you become a better reader because strong reading skills lead to strong writing skills. All readings will help you to gain ideas for your writing assignments, allow you to view various writing techniques and styles, and deepen your  understanding of the writing process.

Most weeks, you will be assigned between three and six texts to read. Additionally, you will be asked to complete a written homework assignment (HW) for some of these texts to help you prepare for class

discussion. You will submit your homework assignments as either Microsoft Word, PDF documents or cut  and pasted text into Canvas. Please don’t use Apple’s “pages,” since Canvas is not compatible with pages. Readings and reading activities are due on the posted date on Canvas.

These assignments may involve:

●   Creating a double entry journal

●   Writing up a Q & A

●    Annotating a Text

●    Outlining an Article

These written out-of-class reading assignments and exercises comprise a large portion of your WR 1: College Writing Fall 2024Python  grade. The exercises are due at the posted date and time. Please note Canvas automatically assigns a 50% deduction the minute after the due time has elapsed. Email submissions of homework or essays will not earn credit until they are submitted to Canvas.

4.          Discussion Board posts

On occasion, students will post responses to course readings on the discussion board forums, which will count towards your participation credit. These discussion board posts will include one initial 300 word post, followed by two 100+ word paragraphs based upon your response to your colleagues’ initial post.

5.          Class Attendance and Meaningful Participation

In accordance with Irvine Valley College policies, students may be dropped from a course if they miss six or more instructional hours during the term before November 18, 2024. A student can be absent three  sessions before November 18 without penalty. If the student incurs four absences on or before November 18, the student may be dropped from the course.

Students who are still officially enrolled past the withdrawal deadline (65% point/Drop with a “W” Grade) and who have been excessively absent per the attendance policy may be assigned a Failing Withdrawal (FW) grade. The FW counts the same as a F grade in the grade point average, but denotes you stopped attending class and did not fail due to lack of mastery of the course material. The FW grade may impact   eligibility for some types of financial aid. See the Financial Aid Office for more information. If you are an international student, this may affect your status. See International Student Office.

If you choose to stop attending class, please complete the drop process on your own. If you accumulate more than three absences for the semester after the final drop date (11.18.24), you will not have earned enough participation credit, and your final grade will be affected. If you are absent, please contact another student to find out what you missed. I suggest you exchange phone numbers and/or email addresses with another reliable student in class for this purpose.

Since the completion of much of the writing projects hinges upon class activities, excessive absences will prevent you from passing the class. Additionally, please note that course announcements regarding class business or grades often happen at the top of the hour. Also, pop quizzes often take place immediately when class begins, and these quizzes cannot be made up if students are tardy, so missing the first few minutes of class can have large consequences. That being said, I would suggest striving to arrive on time, since it is one of the ways students demonstrate respect and consideration for each other and for me.

For clarity, the tardy policy will be enforced as follows. For example, if the class begins at 12:30, then 12:31 or anytime after is considered tardy.

As you can see, it’s best to come to class regularly and on time. If, however, you feel sick (especially if you test positive for Covid), the best thing to do is to stay home and get the notes from a colleague. If there is work due that day, please contact me, and we will figure out a make-up solution.

ZOOM PRACTICES: If we need to meet via Zoom for pandemic-related reasons, the cultural expectation in our course is to be visible via webcam to me and your colleagues. If our class meets via Zoom, we will be using the class.com software, which enhances the Zoom experience. I will let you know if and when this is necessary.  For clarification, I am requesting that you have your camera on because studies show that students are more successful when they are actively engaged and visibly present to their professors and colleagues. Therefore, you will need a webcam to show attendance. Additionally, my suggestion is to use the virtual background feature in Zoom. If you have psychological or physical reasons that make it difficult to meet this requirement, then it is necessary for you to schedule an individual appointment with me so that we can brainstorm solutions together.

Furthermore, students earn points by attending the zoom meetings and completing written class work that is submitted on Canvas, when assigned. As a policy, students cannot earn full credit for class work when they are absent from zoom sessions, since no make up class work will be accepted when students are absent, similar to policy in on-campus face-to-face classes. I recognize, however, that these are unusual times, so if circumstances are unusually dire, feel free to keep me in the loop, and I’ll consider situations   on a case by case basis. As a rule, keep in mind that zoom attendance and engagement is mandatory for meaningful class participation and to earn credit.

LATE POLICY: If something unexpected prevents you from submitting an essay on time, there is a grace policy. Only one out of the two out-of-class writing projects can be turned in up to 24 hours past the due date and time without penalty. Please alert me if you need to use this clause. I suggest saving it for when you really need to use it.

OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITIES: There are at least three opportunities to earn extra credit throughout the semester.

●    Revise either WP #1 or WP #3 =  5 essay percentage points on essay 1

●    Complete an extended metacognitive analysis of WP #3 assessment = 20 HW points

●    Earn no more than 1 tardy throughout the semester = 10 essay percentage points on essay #2

CONDITIONALLY RELEASED ASSIGNMENTS: Throughout the course, there may be some required conditionally released assignments. A conditionally released assignment is one in which a piece of the content or an assignment does not become available until the student meets a specific condition. For instance, if an instructor wants to ensure that students read a specific document before students complete an assignment, instructors can place a condition on the assignment that requires students to view a Canvas page containing the document. After the student views the page, the graded assignment will unlock itself, and the student can complete it and earn points.

To earn credit, make sure to complete the conditionally released assignments by the specified due date   and time to ensure you can move on and complete the next assignments in the sequence. Students who skip assignments in the required sequence cannot earn credit for the following assignment, so be sure to complete each one on schedule.

GRADING SCALE

Essay 1                                                                                                       16%

Essay 2                                                                                                       17%

Essay 3                                                                                                       17%

Essay 4                                                                                                          18%

Homework/Quizzes                                                                                    8%

Project Presentation #1                                                                              8%

Project Presentation #2                                                                              8%

Participation: Rough Drafts, Peer Reviews, Classwork                         8%

Grade appeals for essays and exams must be submitted in writing, explaining why a particular grade should be changed on the basis of the essay or exam’s merit. If the instructor consents to re-evaluate the text, then the second results of the evaluation are final, and the score may increase, decrease, or earn the same amount of points