Prerequisite:  ENG 001

TEXTBOOKS and COURSE MATERIALS
Understanding Style by Joe Glaser
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Readings—to be provided
Dictionary (strongly recommended)
Email account
Your essay drafts—occasionally, copies may be required
Other Supplies as needed

COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course will build on the skills developed in ENG 001.  You will gain further experience in academic writing but will also have the opportunity to experiment with other writing situations, forms, and audiences. Additionally, you will spend time crafting your writing voice and style.

We will focus on (at least) the following specific areas:

A. Writers’ concerns including audience, purpose, rhetorical strategies, and personal style and voice.
B. The art of writing.
C. Research skills and interests.
D. Non-academic forms of writing.
E. Revision.
F. Evaluation skills.
G. Critical thinking, reading, and writing.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed as a writing workshop.  Class time will be used to compose and evaluate texts, discuss and practice writing skills, and respond to assigned readings.  Since participation is an essential element of the work, the success of this class depends as much on you as it does on me.  Please be prompt and prepared for class meetings.  Try to attend every session since absences will affect your grade—and the quality of this course—in negative ways.  If you have problems during the semester that begin to affect your work and attendance, please see or email me so we can decide if you will be able to successfully finish the class.  You should also be aware that even excused absences will negatively affect your grade unless you keep up with all of the work.
Note: late homework will not be accepted and late essays will be graded down.  If you are absent, you must contact a classmate or me to find out what is due for the next class.

PRESENTATION OF PAPERS, HOMEWORK, AND PORTFOLIOS
All homework must be typed; work that is not typed will be returned to you without remarks or a grade.  Papers must be formatted according to MLA style rules.

MAJOR ASSIGNMENTS
Dillard Project   (5-8 pages)       10%
Research Project   (10 pages)       20%
Interview—related to research project   (8 pages)    20%
Personal Essay  (8 pages)       20%
Style Analysis Presentation—Group Project (5-10 minutes)   10%
Final portfolio (Reflective Essay Personal Essay, and Style Analysis of
One Essay)         10%
Homework and Other Class Preparations     10%

GRADING POLICY
We will discuss the specific grading criteria for each of the above major assignments.  If you ever have questions about a grade that I have given you, please bring the graded paper (and all drafts) and speak with me about it.

PLAGIARISM
Although often unintentional, plagiarism is a serious academic offense. The following actions constitute plagiarism:
· Summarizing someone else’s ideas in your own words without citing the source properly.
· Quoting part of a sentence (a key phrase) without citing the source properly.
· Quoting a whole sentence without citing the source properly.
· Quoting several sentences, a whole paragraph or more without citing the source properly.
· Turning in a paper that you did not write as if it were your own work.
Plagiarism will result in an automatic F for the assignment and a serious grade reduction for the course.  Please do not plagiarize.  If you have problems with an assignment for whatever reason, please come and speak with me rather than succumb to the temptation to plagiarize.  Please.  (See The Key for further information on plagiarism.)

Additionally, every paper that you submit must be written specifically for this class (and not for additional classes) unless you have my permission as well as the permission of the other professor(s).  Failure to comply with this request will result in an F for the assignment.

CELLULAR TELEPHONES, PAGERS, OTHER NOISE-MAKING DEVICES
PLEASE, keep them turned off during all class sessions and conferences.

CLASS CALENDAR
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 to 1:20 pm
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Week 1 Aug. 26 Introduction to course and classmates; begin discussion of first topic.
            Aug. 28 Begin discussion of The Writing Life; review Dillard assignment.

Week 2 Sept. 2  No class—follow your Monday schedule.
             Sept. 4  Discuss Dillard; work on Dillard assignment.

Week 3 Sept. 9  Discuss other assigned readings.
             Sept. 11 Peer review of ½ drafts of Dillard assignment; review Research and Interview assignments.

Week 4 Sept. 16 Conferences to review full drafts of Dillard assignment.
         Sept. 18 Create grading criteria for Dillard assignment; introduction to Understanding Style.

Week 5 Sept. 23 Dillard Projects due; presentations.
             Sept. 25 Discuss sample research writing.

Week 6 Sept. 30 Discuss interview strategies and sample interviews.
             Oct. 2  Research proposals due; interview plan due.

Week 7 Oct. 7  Rhetorical strategies and stylistic concerns: research projects: work on papers in class.
             Oct. 9  Stylistic concerns: interviews.

Week 8 Oct. 14  First draft of Research Paper due; peer review.
             Oct. 16  Discuss revision; work from Understanding Style.

Week 9 Oct. 21  Introduction to Style Presentation Project.
             Oct. 23  First draft of Interview due; peer review.

Week 10 Oct. 28  Work on style revisions of Research Paper.
               Oct. 30  Conferences.

Week 11 Nov. 4  Revision of Research Paper due; work on Style Presentations.
               Nov. 6  Work on revisions of Interview; work on Style Presentations.

Week 12 Nov. 11 Revision of Interview due; introduction to Personal Essay.
               Nov. 13 Presentations; discuss Personal Essay readings.

Week 13 Nov. 18 Presentations; discuss Personal Essay readings.
               Nov. 20 Work on Personal Essay; conferences.

Week 14 Nov. 25 Draft of Personal Essay due; peer review; discuss Final Portfolio.
               Nov. 27 No class—Thanksgiving Day Holiday.

Week 15 Dec. 2  Work on Final Portfolio.
Dec. 4  Conferences: Final Portfolio and Personal Essay.

Week 16 Dec. ?  Final Portfolio due; Personal Essay Reading.