Missouri Western State College

Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism

ENG104 College Writing and Rhetoric

Section 11: 3:30-4:50 T Th, JGM 105

Section 64: 9:30-10:50 T Th, JGM 104

Fall 2001

Instructor: Dennis Chepurnov

Office: SSC 222N

Office Hours: 11:00-12:00 T Th, 10:00-12:00 W; and by appointment

Phone: 271-5812 (during office hours)

e-mail: chepurno@griffon.mwsc.edu

Texts

Axelrod, Rise B., and Charles R. Cooper. Reading Critically, Writing Well. 5^th ed. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 1999.

Huckin, Thomas N., and Christine A. Hult. The New Century Handbook. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Course Objectives

You can view MWSC's common course goals and objectives for ENG 104 at this URL: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/eflj/eng104.asp

Attendance Policy

Attendance is expected (be sure to sign in daily). Six absences will constitute failure in the course. The fifth absence will decrease your final grade by a letter. Continual tardiness may lower your final grade by as much as 30 pts (½ letter grade).

Students with Disabilities Policy

Any student in this course who has a disability that requires any special consideration should make an appointment to meet with me as soon as possible to discuss class requirements.

Assignments and Grading Policy

Four essays 100 pts each == 400 pts

Quizzes and exercises == 200 pts

600 pts total: A (600-540); B (539-480); C (479-420); D (419-360); F (359-0)

A late paper will lose one letter grade for each day it is overdue.

Revision Policy

The first three essays may be revised and resubmitted before the deadline. You must conference with me before revising. Revisions must be submitted together with the previously graded drafts.

Academic Honesty Policy

You are expected to do your own work in this course. Any case of cheating/plagiarism will result in no credit (0) for that assignment and may result in a disciplinary action by the College.

Classroom Behavior Policy

As stated in the MWSC Student Handbook, "Behavior which disrupts the classroom environment or interferes with other students' ability to learn may be grounds or justification for dismissal from the classroom" (28). Please turn off the ringers of your pagers and phones, and refrain from sleeping, conducting private conversations or using computers for other than assigned purposes until after the class.

Tentative Calendar

T 8/21 Introductions, Course

Th 8/23 Read Ch 1 (1-6); Appendix One (450-6), Lorde (14-8)

T 8/28 Read Ch 2 (12-4); Baker (29-34); and pp 52-9

Th 8/30 Read Ch 4(117-9); Staples (127-30); Lee (141-5); and NC (20-32)

T 9/4 Read Toussaint (120-6); Haines (146-51); and pp 151- 8

Th 9/6 Read Scheller (handout); NC (33-41); NC (246-48)

T 9/11 Read Ehrenreich(131-135); Rockwood (136-40); pp 158-60; and NC (101-102)

Th 9/13 Peer Editing - Essay 1

T 9/18 Essay 1 Due; Read Ch 5 (161-3); Quammen (163-171)

Th 9/20 Read Castro(187-93); and pp 211-7

T 9/25 Read Elmer-DeWitt (180-6); Bailey (194-204)

Th 9/27 Read McCool (205-11); and pp 217-21

T 10/2 Read Tannen (172-9); NC (210-14)

Th 10/4 Peer Editing - Essay 2

T 10/9 Essay 2 Due; Read Ch 6 (222-5); Etzioni (225-9)

Th 10/11 Read Herz (239-42); Hyder (250-5); Wolf (256-60); and pp 261-5

T 10/16 Read Ch 9 (393-5); Estrada (395-8); Meadows (409-13)

Th 10/18 Read Steele (420-31); and pp 265-9

T 10/23 Read Statsky (handout); Appendix One (476-80); NC (66-73)

Th 10/25 Peer Editing - Essay 3

T 10/30 Essay 3 Due; Read Ch7 (273-5); King (276-82)

Th 11/1 Read Kozol (298-306); and pp 323-34

T 11/6 Read Ch 8 (335-7); Samuelson (338-46)

Th 11/8 O'Malley (374-380); and pp 380-9

T 11/13 Last Day to turn in Revisions; Read Ryder (361-6); McKibben(367-73); NC (165-66)

Th 11/15 Read Krauthammer (414-9); and pp 389-92

T 11/20 Peer Editing - Essay 4

Th 11/22 No Class - Thanksgiving Break

T 11/27 Read handout (Violence on TV)

Th 11/29 Essay 4 Due