802 ENGLISH Gladfelter 659
GenEd: Analytical Reading and Writing Section 42/CRN: 050063/4 credits
Spring 2011 MW 2:00-3:40
Instructor: Dr. Julia Mendenhall Email: [e-mail] Office: 1019 Anderson Hall (10th Floor, go left out of the elevators) Office Telephone: [phone] First-Year Writing Program Telephone: [phone] Office Hours: Mon. & Wed. 4:00-5:30, and/or by appointment. Our Course Website: http://TUPortal.temple.edu, then "Blackboard," then "Analytic Read and Writing" TU Computer Help Desk: 215-204-8000 (will help with Blackboard, email, computer/printer problems, etc.) Course Description and Objectives: Our 802 course, which a vital part of the Temple University GenEd curriculum, is designed to help you to develop your self-expression and your ability to focus, as well as the thinking, listening, reading, questioning, writing, time management, teamwork, and leadership skills that will help you succeed--right now-- in college and in life. The themes this semester will range from identity, community, diversity, globalization, to politics, knowledge, collaboration, education, and technology. We will collaboratively examine these themes, and in order to do this exploration effectively, we will be analyzing creative non-fiction, "cross-over" scholarly articles, and these readings will not only provoke our curiosity and launch our research, but will also encourage ethical reflection, civic engagement, and awareness of current issues. In two library sessions we will learn to search online databases, identify appropriate sources, and think critically about information, arguments, and ideas. We will learn how to cite these researched sources correctly, how to think through complex texts and ideas, and how to use others' thoughts in order to discover and craft our own thoughtful, fair, and wellsupported arguments. Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately, in office hours, to discuss the specific situation as soon as possible. Contact Disability Resources and Services at 215- 204-1280 in 100 Ritter Annex to coordinate reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. Freedom to teach and freedom to learn are inseparable facets of academic freedom. The University has a policy on Student and Faculty and Academic Rights and Responsibilities (Policy #03.70.02) which can be accessed through the following link: http://policies.temple.edu/getdoc.asp?policy_no=03.70.02. Required Textbooks and Materials: Barrios, Barclay. Emerging: Contemporary Readings for Writers. Bedford/St. Martins: 2010. ISBN: 0312-47444-x. Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual 5e with 2009 MLA Update. New York: Bedford/St. Martins, 2009. ISBN: 0-312-664-80x Text's Website: www.dianahacker.com/pocket Other Readings will be posted on Blackboard, under Content; you must print these. Materials: a dual-pocket folder; a portable stapler and staples; paper and toner for your printer and/or $ for printing; access to computer/Blackboard.
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COURSE INFORMATION AND POLICIES: Welcome to our course. The following pages of this document will advise you of the course policies that will both enable you to do your best work and lead to your success. Please read this information with care and ask questions immediately (you can raise your questions either in class, by email, or in office hours). Grading Breakdown: 1. Paper Assignments and Portfolio: 2. Attendance, Participation, and All Other Classwork: 3. Discussion Leadership:
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1. Paper Assignments and Portfolio Grading (80%): You will complete three substantial pieces of writing, known as "paper assignments, or "papers," for short. The completion of a given paper roughly follows these steps: first, you will write a "draft" of a paper for in-class Peer Review (students respond to your draft), then you will revise your draft based on their comments (and your own!), then turn in a "revision" to receive feedback from me, and then revise/edit/proofread your paper yet again to be included in a Portfolio, which will be evaluated at the end of the course. Ultimately, the idea behind "Portfolio Grading System" is that your writing should only be graded at the end of the semester, after you've been given a chance to learn and practice academic reading and the "writing process." What is important, then, is acting on the feedback you receive from your peers and myself to develop and revise your papers. Your portfolio will contain final, substantially revised versions of the three papers you will write for the course. Throughout the course, I will indicate to you whether a paper would be graded as approximately passing, borderline, or not passing. Final Course Grading: You must receive a C- or above, on your Portfolio, in order to pass this course. If your Portfolio is not of passing standard, you will not be eligible to pass the course. A student with any or all of the following will receive an F (fail) for the course: an incomplete or markedly insufficient portfolio (i.e., all three papers must be written/completed); a missing portfolio; your failure to submit each paper to Blackboard SafeAssign; more than the allowed number of total absences; and plagiarism. At the end of the semester, a panel of instructors will review your portfolio to assess the grade given to your portfolio by your instructor (me). This procedure ensures that all students are scored fairly and that standards are kept consistent in the First-Year Writing Program. 2. Attendance and Lateness Policy: When you don't come to class, and/or come to class without the required texts and materials, you harm both your own and your classmates' ability to do our best work. Therefore, it makes no difference why you missed class-- you were ill, or had an emergency or appointment, or just skipped class-- you have nevertheless actually missed a unique, collaborative learning experience that cannot be replicated, and this lost experience causes your development to suffer. Thus, we know that you need to be fully present for every class session, bring the required texts and materials with you to class, and actively participate, in order to acquire the course's many skills. As per the First-Year Writing Program (FYWP) Policies, English 802 students are allowed a maximum of four absences [total] during the semester (whether excused and unexcused, no difference). Therefore, if you are absent a total of five times (or an equivalent combination of absences and latenesses) you have missed too much to pass the course and have to re-take it. Note: an "absence" can be accrued for other reasons besides actually missing a class. Arriving late to class and leaving early means you miss part of the course and disrupt the class; thus, four latenesses or early departures will be scored as equal to one absence. Set your watch at www.nist.time.gov NB: an absence will also be marked for the following reasons: if you come to class but come without a paper draft or revision (when due), and if you don't bring your required texts, and/or if you clearly demonstrate a lack of participation in the classwork for the
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day. Missing a conference is also marked as an absence. NOTE: YOU are responsible for tracking your attendance and lateness record on our Blackboard site (click on Tools, then look on the right for "Online Attendance"). A mark of A and U means that you were in class, but have been marked absent because you didn't bring the required materials or did not sufficiently take part in the classroom activities for the day. Serious Health Emergencies and Current Health Issues: If you currently have a serious, on-going health issue, please speak with me at the beginning of the semester so that we may provide accommodations for you. If you become severely ill or are hospitalized at any time during the course of the semester, do not wait until you've missed several classes to contact me--please have someone contact me asap so that we may consult on the best course of action. 3. Discussion Leadership (10%): You and a partner will lead the class in a discussion of a reading (or part of a reading) assigned for that day. See the forthcoming Blackboard/Content handout "Discussion Leader Guidelines and Rules," for all of the details. Extra Credit--Using the Temple University Writing Center (201 Tuttleman Learning Center, near Paley Library): Our University has an excellent Writing Center with tutors who will help you develop your writing and grammar skills, and address the paper assignments. Although very few professors give this kind of credit, I'll give "extra credit" if you visit the Writing Center: if you attend four Drop-In Sessions (30 minutes each), or if you attend two Appointment Sessions (50 minutes each), then I will give you "extra credit" that may "erase" one of your absences and/or several of your "lates" (and is also used toward your participation grade). To receive credit, you must ask for your tutor to email an Official Verification email to me, and ask him/her to fill out my writing center form (distributed on the first day of class/on Blackboard). Please ask your tutor to write whether the session was Drop-In (30 minutes) or Appointment (50 minutes). If the tutor doesn't mark the session type, I'll assume that it was a Drop-In. Call 215/204-0702 at least two days in advance for Appointment Sessions. Writing Center "extra credit" will not be given after you have already failed the class by accruing more than four absences. Email-tutoring counts as half a drop-in session; check it out at: http://www.temple.edu/writingctr/e-mail-tutoring.html Extra Credit--Diamond Peer Teacher and Study Sessions: We are lucky to have Chad Biney-Amissah, senior English/pre-law major, as our wonderful Diamond Peer Teacher this semester. She will attend one of my sections of the course, take notes, read all assigned materials, and conduct out-of-class Study Sessions/Office Hours for every student in my three sections of 802. The Peer Teacher is the "model student," a facilitator who helps students to achieve great success in the course by developing effective learning/study strategies through individualized tutoring and advising tailored to our sections of 802. Study Sessions are open to all students registered in Mendenhall's sections of 802 (Section 17, 28, and 42). Student attendance is on a voluntary basis, but you will receive "extra participation credit" (like the credit for Writing Center tutoring; see above section). Times and location will be determined early in the course. Reference Librarian Help/Office Hours: Kristina DeVoe is the English 802 Reference Librarian; she will hold library office hours in the English Department Mondays on and Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30pm in Anderson 1032. Please see her if you need help researching a topic or subject area. Class Participation and Conduct: I truly want everyone to feel comfortable in our classroom and to ask questions, take wild guesses, and share their thoughts. To prepare for participation, you will need to do the reading assignments before the day listed on the syllabus. You should spend some time before class
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not only thinking about what you've read, but also preparing some notes about what you would like to contribute in each class. Additionally, we may discuss subject matter that some students may consider controversial or uncomfortable. Our purpose in this class is to think about the subject matter deeply and consider multiple perspectives and arguments. I hope that you are attending Temple University in order to engage with challenging questions and thought-provoking intellectual ideas. Please keep in mind that "engaging in disorderly conduct," including anything that may disrupt "classroom activities" is a violation of the Temple University Student Code of Conduct. Therefore, we will listen attentively, are free to disagree, and will treat each other with civility, respect, and kindness. *Please see the "Participation Grading" handout (Blackboard/Content) for more information on how your participation will be graded. No eating, text messaging, or ringing phones in class, please (unless voted down). If your phone rings or buzzes during class, please do not ignore it, just politely turn it off. You need to check your Temple email and our Blackboard site between every class session, because I send announcements that will help you succeed. Academic Accountability: The "course schedule," aka "syllabus," located at the end of this document, tells you what we will do in class on any given day, and what work is due. Before the next class, you are responsible for reviewing the syllabus to find out what is due and managing your time accordingly. The syllabus is subject to change and changes will be announced in class. You are fully responsible for all assignments, instructions, and information presented in this class, whether you are present or not. If you are absent, late, or leave early, you need to consult a classmate to find out what you missed; all student email addresses are posted on Blackboard under Tools/Send Email. Missed handouts may be obtained on Blackboard, or just ask me at the next class. I encourage you to attend Peer Teacher Study sessions/office hours after you miss a class. Note: If I sense that students are not keeping up with the reading, quizzes will be given. Conferences: You will meet with me individually two times this semester, in my office, 1019 Anderson Hall. In our Conference, we'll talk about your writing and other issues which may be of concern. If you miss your conference appointment an absence will be counted (and I'll ask you to come to my office hours anyway). Please take conferences seriously. Written Classwork: We'll do many smaller in-class and out-of-class writing tasks that will count toward your participation grade, and will vastly improve your papers. One task is what we call "Peer Reviews," in which you bring in a substantial draft of your paper in order to receive written feedback from a peer; it is a vital part of the course and responsible participation is required. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: PLAGIARISM AND VIOLATING THE RULES OF AN ASSIGNMENT [Excerpted from the Temple University Statement on Academic Honesty for Students in Undergraduate Courses] Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person's labor, whether another person's ideas, words, or assistance. Students must not copy words, phrases, or ideas (even from the Internet) into their own paper without clearly citing the source; students must not copy someone else's examination answer or laboratory report; students must not submit a paper written in whole or in part by someone else, or have a friend or parent do an assignment for them, take a test for them, or edit their work. When in doubt about whether to identify a source, cite the source and consult with your instructor. Violating the Rules of an Assignment: Academic work is intended to advance the skills, knowledge, and intellectual competence of students. Academic cheating is, in general terms, the thwarting or breaking of the general rules of academic work and/or the specific rules of individual courses. It includes
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falsifying data; submitting, without the instructor's approval, work for one course which was done for another; helping others to plagiarize or cheat from one's own or someone else's work. Penalty for Plagiarism and Academic Cheating: If you plagiarize or commit academic cheating, later in this course, you will fail this course. This is not negotiable. We will spend time early in the semester learning how to cite and how to avoid plagiarism, and I'm always happy to confer with you. If you are unsure about what constitutes plagiarism, ask me BEFORE you hand in the work. It will be too late afterwards. I reserve the right to refer any cases of plagiarism, dishonesty, or misconduct to the University Disciplinary Committee. Refer to Diana Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual, for tips on avoiding plagiarism and how to use other people's writing and ideas in your own papers correctly. Office Hours and How to Contact Me: On all Mondays and Wednesdays, from 4:00p.m.-5:30pm, I'm in my office, so that you can drop in to talk about any aspect of your work in the class, your work at Temple, or your future plans, goals, and dreams. If my office hours change, I'll announce it in class. Another way to contact me is by email, but please also understand that it may take me 24 hours, or more, to return your email. And depending on the nature of your email, I may prefer to respond to you in person and ask that you come to talk with me in office hours. If my office hours don't work for you, contact me 24 hours in advance, and we'll arrange a mutually convenient appointment time (I'm often available on Thursdays). Please do not hesitate to contact me if you are having trouble or feel you need help.
The Last Word: If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me. I have created a course that is fair to all students, and that allows all students the opportunity to do their best work. I love my work and intend to teach the class well so that you become thoughtful speakers, readers, and writers, and future leaders in your chosen fields.
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English 802 Course Schedule sec 42 Spring 2011 N.B.: this schedule is subject to change WEEK 1 W 1/19 Introduction to the Course; In-class Writing, etc.
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WEEK 2 M 1/24 Reading and Writing Due: "Mini Guide to Critical Thinking" [on Blackboard] and Introduction to the textbook, 2-20 and Rebekah Nathan, 228-246. Answer all "Questions for Critical Reading" and do one of the Exploring Context--your choice.
W 1/26 Reading and Writing Due: Kenji Yoshino selections, 479-488. Answer all "Questions for Critical Reading" and do one of the Exploring Context--your choice. Continue discussion of Nathan, Intro, Mini Guide, and paper 1. WEEK 3 M 1/31 Discuss analytical reading and writing, etc. continue discussions of essays. W 2/2 Library Research Session #1 (section 28 & 42): starts sharply at the beginning of class, Location: 130 Paley Library (do not go to our classroom). Afterward: conduct research. WEEK 4 M 2/7 Meet in the Writing Center classroom, in 201 Tuttleman Learning Center (not usual room). http:// www.temple.edu/maps/documents/TUMain_map.pdf Writing Due: Paper 1 Draft (for all sections) (submit to Blackboard SafeAssign and bring in 2 hard copies of your draft to class with word count). In-Class Writing: Peer Review. If you don't bring a draft, an absence is scored. Discuss: Paper 1 revision strategies. W 2/9 No class--Conference #1 in my office, 1019 Anderson Hall (sections 28, 42) Work Due at conference: to be announced.
WEEK 5 M 2/14 Paper 1 revision strategies W 2/16 Writing Due: Paper 1 Revision (assignment handout tells you what to do and bring). Paper 2 introduced and other writing discussions/tasks. WEEK 6 M 2/21 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 1 and 2: Kwame Anthony Appiah, DL1=56-63; DL2=63-72. Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers.
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W 2/23 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 3 and 4: Thomas Friedman; DL3=120-131 DL4=start at "Infosys versus al Qaeda" section/131 to end. Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers.
WEEK 7 M 2/28 work toward paper 2 W 3/2 Library Research Session #2 (section 28 & 42): starts sharply at the beginning of class, Location: 130 Paley Library (do not go to our classroom). Afterward: conduct research. WEEK 8 SPRING BREAK! NO CLASS! WEEK 9 M 3/14 Writing Due: Paper 2 Draft. In-Class: Peer Reviews. Paper 2 revision strategies. W 3/16 Paper 2 revision strategies. WEEK 10 M 3/21 Writing Due: Paper 2 Revision (assignment handout tells you what to bring). Paper 3 introduced. W 3/23 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 5: Marshall Poe. 264-277. Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers.
WEEK 11 M 3/28 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 6 and 7: Leslie Savan. DL6=363-376 BOTTOM. DL7=377 TOP "Covert Operations" to end, 388. Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers. W 3/30 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 8: Julia Serano, 391-397.Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers. WEEK 12 M 4/4 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 9: Steve Olson, 249-262. Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers. W 4/6 Reading Due: Discussion Leaders 10: The Dalai Lama, 76-84. Work Due: Reading Questions from Discussion Leaders/Your Answers. WEEK 13 M 4/11 Writing Due: Paper 3 Draft (see P3 assignment handout for what to do).
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*Writing Due: Paper 3 Revision (see P3 assignment handout for what to do).
WEEK 14 M 4/18 To be determined: possibly meet in the Writing Center. Work on paper 3 revisions. W 4/20 No class--Conference #2 in my office, 1019 Anderson Hall. Writing Due at conference: Revision of Paper 3 (assignment handout tells you what to bring). WEEK 15 M 4/25Meet in the Writing Center classroom, in 201 Tuttleman Learning Center (not usual room). http:// www.temple.edu/maps/documents/TUMain_map.pdf Work on portfolio revisions. W 4/27 WEEK 16 M 5/2 Due: Portfolio. Last day of class--Congratulations--you did it! Concluding remarks, some intel on Mosaic. No office hours or appointments. no class; health day--work on your portfolio revisions and cover letter.
Because it may violate Temple University's FERPA policy on confidentiality, please do not ask me to email your grade to you or otherwise discuss your grade over email.