Instructor: Ms. Erin Karper

HEAV 443

(49)4-3784 (office)

(49)5-6785 (at home, emergencies only please)

ekarper@purdue.edu

Office Hours: MWF 1:00-2:00 pm, and by appointment

"Writing is a way of speaking without being interrupted." Jules Renard

English 101 is a course devoted to learning about genres of writing and how they are created. In order to learn about this, students will study various genres and learn about the process that writers use to crea te them. They will then apply this process to the creation of their own work.

Textbook: Rise B. Axelrod and Charles R. Cooper, The Saint Martin's Guide to Writing, 5th ed.

5 papers, each approximately 1000 words or 4 typewritten pages. Papers must be typed or word processed, double-spaced, in a font no larger than 16 point, with margins no greater than 1.5 inches. Your name, the section, the instructor's name, and the date must appear on the first page. Title pages are not required.

A journal in which you will record the various stages of your writing process as you plan and draft each paper, and in which you can keep the various exercises assigned for homewo rk or done in-class, as well as any free writing you do. Journals may be typed, handwritten, or a combination of both. In order to monitor your progress, I will occasionally ask you to hand in assignments from your journal for a pass/fail grade and comm entary. It is therefore suggested that you keep the journal in a folder or three-ring binder in order to make removal of pages easy.

Class participation, which includes prompt attendance, keeping up with the reading and writing exercises, being an active participant in discussion and group work, as well as a mandatory conference with me later in the semester.

Grades will be based on grades on each of the five papers (weighted equ ally), class participation, and occasional assignments collected from your journal.

Attendance Policy: English 101 is a class devoted to improving your communication skills. While our primary mode of communication will be writing, there will also be extensive class discussion and group work. Your attendance is therefore vital in order for you to be able to give feedback to and receive feed back from your classmates. Class participation counts as 10% of your final grade. The attendance policy is therefore as follows:

4 unexcused absences

Each absence after four will lower your class participation grade by 2 points.

7 unexcused absences (except under extenuating circumstances) will result in automatic failure of the course.

Exceptions to this rule can on ly be made under extenuating and documented circumstances (serious illness, death in the family, or other serious problem) and proof of these circumstances must be furnished to the instructor upon request. Please call and/or come see me if you exp erience any of these circumstances.

If you find that you absolutely cannot turn in a paper on the due date, for whatever reason, you must call me before or on the day that the paper is due in order to mak e arrangements. If you are absent the day the paper is due and have not made prior arrangements, you must find some way of getting the paper to me. You may have someone else turn it in in class, or leave it in my office or in my mailbox, but it must be before 5:00 that afternoon in order for it not to be subject to the late paper policy.

For each day the paper is late after the due date, the grade will drop half a letter grade. Late papers will not be accepted after a week.

Plan of the Course:

Aug 24: Introduction to the Course

Aug 26: In-class writing: diagnostic essay

Aug 28: SMG: Chapter 1

Aug 31: SMG: Chapter 2, Remembering Events

Sept 2: SMG:Chapter 14, Narrating

Sept 4: SMG: Chapter 2, Invention, pp. 42-45

Sep 7:Labor Day, no class

Sep 9: SMG: Chapter 11, A Catalog of Invention Strategies

Sep 11: SMG: Chapter, Planning and Drafting

Sep 14: SMG: Chapter 13, Cueing the Reader

Sep 16: SMG: Chapter 2, Revising, pp. 51-59, groups

Sep 18: WA 1 DUE

SMG: Chapter 2, Thinking Critically About What You Have Learned

Sep 21: SMG: Chapter 7, Proposing a Solution

Sep 23: SMG: Chapter 12, A Catalogue of Reading Strategies

Sep 25: SMG: Chapter 7, Discussion of Readings

Sep 28: SMG: Chapter 15, Describing

Sep 30: SMG: Chapter 7, Invention and Research, pp. 270-275.

Oct 2: SMG: Chapter 7, Planning and Draf ting, pp. 276-280.

Oct 5: SMG, Revising, pp. 281-285 (Groups).

Oct 7: WA 2 DUE:

SMG: Chapter 7, Thinking Critically About What You Have Learned

Oct 9: SMG: Chapter 23, Essay Examinations

Oct 12: October break: NO CLASS

Oct 14: SMG: Chapter 8, Justifying an Evaluation

Oct 16: SMG: Chapter 18, Comparing and Contrasting

Oct&# 9;19: SMG: Chapter 8, readings

Oct 21: SMG: Chapter 8, Invention and Research, pp. 317-322.

Oct 23: SMG: Chapter 8, Planning and Drafting, pp. 322-333.

Nov 2: SMG: Chapter 9, Speculating about Causes

Nov 4: SMG: Chapter 9, readings

Nov 6: SMG: Chapter 17, Classifying

Nov 9: S MG: Chapter 9, Invention and Research, pp. 361-366.

Nov 11: SMG: Chapter 21, Library and Internet Research

Nov 13: SMG: Chapter 9, Planning and Drafting, pp. 367-370.

Nov 16: SMG: Chapter 22, Using and Acknowledging Sources

Nov 18: SMG: Chapter 9, Revising pp. 371-377 (Groups)

Nov 20: WA 4 DUE

Thinking Critically About What You Have Learned

Nov 23: SMG: Chapter 4, Writing Profiles

Nov 25 and 27: Thanksgiving Holiday: NO CLASS

Nov 30: SMG: Chapter 4, Readings

Dec 2: SMG: Chapter 4, Invention and Research, pp. 133-139.

Dec 4: SMG: Chapter 4, Planning and Drafting, pp. 139-143.

Dec 7: SMG: Chapter 4, Revising and Group Work, pp. 144-152.

Dec 9: WA 5 DUE

Dec 11: Thinking Critically About What You Have Learned