Missouri Western State University
Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences
English 108-01 • College
Writing and Research
8:00 a.m., MWF, Murphy 112
Instructor:
Susan Garrison
Home phone: 816-262-1082
Office
Hours: By appointment
E-mail:
garrison@missouriwestern.edu
Course Description &
Objectives:
Students will:
• Learn to write for different audiences and
purposes focusing particularly on academic audiences and scholarly purposes.
• Learn to use active
reading and critical thinking.
• Learn to use writing
processes.
• Learn written
conventions.
Please
see the Internet site: http://www.missouriwestern.edu/EFLJ/eng108.asp
for more details.
Attendance
Policy:
In
order to improve student learning and to achieve compliance with federal
financial aid policies, MWSU has a mandatory attendance policy for all 100- and
200-level courses. Because of that, this course has a very strict attendance
policy. If you miss five class periods for a Monday/Wednesday/Friday class
before the October 10 midterm, you will receive an F in the class. Thus, when
you have six absences, you will be reported to the Registrar’s Office, who will
automatically withdraw you from this class. The Financial Aid Office will
reduce financial aid as appropriate.
For
each unexcused absence after the fifth one (after midterm), you will lose
one-half of a letter grade of your final grade (or five points).
For example, if you have an 84% “B” in the class and miss six classes, your
final grade will be a 79% or “C.”
A student will
be given an excused absence when acting as an official representative of the
university, provided the student gives prior
written verification for the faculty/staff supervisor of the event; however,
there are no other excused absences, exceptions or “make-ups” for this
attendance requirement. If you
miss a class session, you are responsible for material covered or assignments given which you
missed because of absence, so ask another student to inform you of what
happened while you were gone. Quizzes or other graded assignments done in class
the day you miss cannot be made up. All
out-of-class assignments are due at the beginning of the class period. No late
assignments will be accepted.
Participation:
Come to class prepared to
participate.
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.
Academic Honesty:
Do your own work. In the event that you do turn in
an assignment using someone else’s work, you will fail the course. We will
discuss plagiarism and the importance of crediting your source in this course.
Center for Academic Support:
The Center for Academic Support is staffed by professionals and trained student tutors. It is an excellent resource for the English 108 student. There is no cost for the tutoring. The Center is located in LRC 213.
Journals:
You will keep a journal for the
entire semester. Sometimes we will write in it in class, sometimes at home. Do
not write anything in your journal that you do not want me to read.
I will occasionally pick up and give
participation points for the journal. Please use a new page each time you write
in your journal, date it, and “title” with the writing assignment.
Format:
All papers must be typed. The
English Department at MWSC has a policy that all drafts are typed. If you do
not have access to a computer at home, as a student you can use the computer
labs on campus. Make sure you have a flash drive or disk in case you have
computer problems. Always save your work on disk or flash drive because you will make changes to it as each draft evolves.
Grading Policy:
Grades will be figured on a point
basis totaled throughout the semester. 90–100=A; 80–89=B; 70–79=C; 60–69=D; 59
and below=F.
Assignments:
A tentative schedule is attached.
Your points in the class will be based on: