Missouri Western State College

Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism

ENG 108 College Writing and Research

Section 01: 8:00-9:20 TTh JGM 105

Section 06: 11:00-12:20 TTh A 201

Section 15:12:30-1:50 TTh A 201
Spring 2001

Instructor: Dennis Chepurnov

Office: JGM 309G

Office Hours: 11:00-12:00 T Th; 1:00-3:00 F; and by appointment

Phone: 271-5812 (during office hours)

e-mail: chepurno@griffon.mwsc.edu

Texts

Kiniry, Malcolm, and Mike Rose. Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing. 3^rd ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 1998.

Lunsford, Andrea A., and John J. Ruszkiewicz. Everything's an Argument. 2^nd ed. Boston: Bedford Books, 2000.

Course Objectives

You can view the MWSC's common course goals and objectives for ENG 108 at this URL:

http://www.missouriwestern.edu/eflj/eng108.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 needs to meet with me as soon as possible to discuss class requirements.

Assignments and Grading Policy

Two short researched essays 100 pts each == 200 pts

Research paper (200 pts), materials (75 pts), and presentation (25pts) == 300 pts

Quizzes and exercises == 100 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 two essays may be revised and resubmitted before the deadline. You must conference with me before revising. Revisions must be submitted together with the graded drafts.

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.

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.

Tentative Calendar

T 1/16 Introductions, Course

Th 1/18 Read EA Ch 1(3-19)

T 1/22 Read CS Ch 2 - Summarizing (78-99); EA Ch 20 (326-32) and Ch 22 (342-356)

Th 1/24 Read CS Ch 1 - Defining (9-21), Mairs (28-36)

T 1/30 Read EA Ch 9 - Arguments of Definition (109-134), CS Howard and Rifkin (45-50)

Th 2/01 Read EA Ch 10 - Arguments of Evaluation (135-160)

T 2/06 Read CS Ch 4 - Classifying (285-311)

Th 2/08 Progress Report I Due; Read CS Ueda (358-70), Portes and Rumbaut (403-17)

T 2/13 Read EA Ch 2&3 (22-45)

Th 2/15 Peer Editing - Essay 1

T 2/20 Essay 1 Due; Read CS Ch 3 - Serializing(170-87), Cooper (201-10)

Th 2/22 Read EA Ch 11 - Causal Arguments (161-81); CS Loth (253-8)

T 2/27 Read EA Ch 18 and 19 (297-325); CS Sherman (145-50)

[Last Day to Change Topic of the Research Project]

Th 3/01 Read EA Ch 12 - Proposals (190-214).

T 3/06 Read EA Ch 21 (334-41)

Th 3/08 Peer Editing - Essay 2

T 3/13, Th 3/15 Spring Break - No Class

T 3/20 Essay 2 Due; Read CS Ch 6 - Analyzing (556-83)

Th 3/22 Read CS Economics Assignment (589-98)

T 3/27 Read EA Ch 4 and Ch 5 (49-63); CS Kinkaid (655-9)

Th 3/29 Progress Report II Due; Read EA Ch 6 and 7 (64-87)

T 4/03 Read CS Ch 5 - Comparing (420-47)

Th 4/05 Read and bring to class the Cover Stories handout

T 4/10 Peer Editing - Research Paper

Th 4/12 Presentations

T 4/17 Presentations. [Last Day to turn in Revisions]

Th 4/19 Presentations

T 4/24 Presentations

Th 4/26 Presentations

T 5/01 Research Paper and Materials Due