COURSE POLICIES	Alexis Khouiy
English 125	638-3641 ex. 3406
	Hours: TTH 9:30-Il
	Office: Annex Room 1

Required Texts: Patterns for College Writing; The Little-Brown Handbook; The Awakening.

Materials:	Students must purchase a sturdy folder in which to file completed essays, as well as a paperback, easily transportable college dictionary. Students will also need to purchase floppy disks on which to save compositions.

You will write five essays for this class. All essays, except for the fmal, will be based on personal experience; you will learn how to employ various rhetorical strategies to prove clear thesis statements. The concept of thesis is central to this class, and close studies of professional writing will be an essential part of learning to develop theses. The final essay will be a literary analysis of The Awakening. Final drafts of essays will be approximately five hundred words. That is a ballpark figure and I don’t count words, so please please please please don’t ask me if your paper is long enough.

1.	Some essays may be submitted to turn itin. corn, an anti-plagiarism site, before being submitted to me. I will guide you through this process in class, and will not accept any papers that have not been processed if I have required that you run them through. I will also spot check papers on the site. Any student who plagiarizes a paper will automatically fail the course.

2.	Final drafts must be typed, double-spaced, and have ample margins. I need space to comment on your work. Please provide a cover page which includes both of our names, the date and number of the assignment, and the course numbers. Do not submit individual essays in folders. Just staple the upper left-hand corner.

3.	Late papers will not be accepted under any circumstances. Each student has the option of dropping one essay, except for the final on The Awakening, during the course of the semester. Use this option wisely.

4.	I give mindless Vanna White quizzes in classes where students fail to keep up with their reading. The quizzes are stupid, boring, and a waste of time, and I won’t allow you to make them up if you’ve missed a class where one is given. If given, quizzes will be averaged together to count as one essay grade at the end of the semester.

5.	Show up for this class. If you’re going to miss class, please don’t ask if you will miss anything important. I’m almost certain that is the only stupid question I’ve ever been asked by a student. I am quietly irritated by students who are excessively absent and will drop you if you miss more than six hours of class.

6.	1 reserve the right to make changes in the syllabus as the need arises. This happens every single semester, because the needs of individual classes vary and require flexibility. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR STAYING INFORMED ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN CLASS. ABSENCES ARE NOT AN EXCUSE FOR MISSED WORK OR FOR BEING UNAWARE OF CHANGES. It’s a smart idea to get a few phone numbers from people in class in case you can’t get in touch with me immediately.

7.	Papers are evaluated on the value and clarity of their content as well as on the accuracy and fluency of presentation. Content and form are inextricably bound.

8.	1 don’t give extra credit assignments.

9.	You may have a number of smaller, less formal writing assignments. While these assignments will not be graded, failure to submit them will damage your fmal grade.
10, Final grades are calculated by averaging together your essay grades. Remember that if I give quizzes, the average of those will be averaged into your fmal grade.

11. Any student who types on a computer during a discussion or lecture that occurs in the lab will be asked to leave after one warning.

Grading Scale: A: 90-100; B: 80-90; C: 70-80; D: 60-70.

SYLLABUS

Week of 18 August: Introduction to the course. Sentences and paragraphs.

Week of 25 August: Continue paragraphing. Begin narration.

PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO CLASS MEETINGS ON 27 AUGUST OR 1 SEPTEMBER
FOR THE MW CLASS. THERE WILL BE NO CLASS MEETING ON 28 AUGUST FOR THE
TTH CLASS.

Week of 1 September: Read narration chapter in Patterns. 9/8: LAST DAY TO DROP W/O A “W.” Week of 8 September: Begin drafting first essay. Continue narration.

Week of 15 September: Begin description. ESSAY ONE (narration) DUE 17 SEPTEMBER FOR MW CLASS AND 18 SEPTEMBER FOR TTh CLASS.

Week of 22 September: Continue description. Begin drafting second essay. Week of 29 September: Begin exemplification.

Week of 6 October: Continue exemplification. ESSAY TWO (description) DUE 8 OCTOBER FOR MW CLASS AN]) 9 OCTOBER FOR TTH CLASS.

Week of 13 October: Review use of handbook. Begin drafting third essay. Begin discussion of process
analysis.	10/17: LAST DAY TO DROP A FULL-LENGTH CLASS.

Week of 20 October: ESSAY THREE (exemplification) DUE 22 OCTOBER FOR MW CLASS AND 23 OCTOBER FOR TTh CLASS. Continue process analysis.

Week of 27 October: Begin definition.

Week of 3 November: Continue definition. Begin critical thin ~iig unit; read the chapter on Argumentation.

Weeks of 10 and 17 November: Argumentation and critical thinking. Begin drafting fourth essay. Week of 24 November: Begin discussion of comparison contrast.

Week of 1 December: ESSAY FOUR (definition) DUE 3 DECEMBER FOR MW CLASS AND 4 DECEMBER FOR TTH CLASS. Begin discussion of The Awakening.

Week of 8 December: The Awakening.
FINAL EXAM (ESSAY FiVE)	MW CLASS: 1:00 12/17