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TEXTS
Axelrod, Rise B., Charles R. Cooper and Alison Warner.  Reading Critically Writing Well.  7th ed. Boston:  Bedford, St. Martin’s, 2005.  ISBN:  0-312-14177-3

Raimes, Ann.  Keys for Writers, 5th Ed.  Boston:  Houghton, 2008.  ISBN:  0-618-75659-0
           
PLACEMENT
Students are placed in Writing 1110 based on performance on an English Placement Essay.  A grade of C- or better is required for entry into Writing 1120.

OBJECTIVES

1. To apply strategies of the writing process to expository essays.
2. To utilize writing techniques that encourage critical thinking skills.
3. To recognize and correct errors producing revised, typed final drafts in Standard Written English.
4. To recognize elements of good style and apply them to the writing assignments.
5. To demonstrate critical reading skills by responding to peer essays, taking quizzes over required textbook readings, and discussing professional texts.
6. To learn a variety of methods (from personal to academic) for defending a thesis, including appropriate patterns of organization and effective introductions, conclusions, and transitions.
7. To address the pursuit and nature of knowledge, the exploration of timely topics, and the students’ concepts of their relationships to these ideas by discussion, writing, journaling, and/or peer critiquing.
8. To write expository essays allowing writers to explore and sometimes change their own viewpoints on the world both personally and globally. In the process, students have the option of pursuing faith related, value based, or issue oriented content.
9. To explore the relationship between Christian commitments and practices through writing.
10. To examine personal and global questions and issues through writing.
11. To examine one’s obligation for service in personal and professional areas of life through writing.
    

ENGL 1110 AND THE WRITING SEQUENCE
Satisfactory completion of the writing sequence is one of the requirements of the Liberal Arts Program of Anderson University for all baccalaureate degree students.  This requirement stipulates that you must pass ENGL 1110 with a grade of C- or better before you can proceed to the final writing course of the sequence.  Therefore, should your final grade be a D+ or lower, you will be required to repeat ENGL 1110.  Some majors may require a C.

COURSE ASSIGNMENTS

1. Assigned readings and exercises from the textbook.
2. Short writing assignments and quizzes.
3. At least five essays, one of which will be an argument, written through multiple drafts according to your instructor's written policy, submitted within the assigned time frame. Some instructors may elect to require complete revision of a previous essay, in lieu of essay number five. To receive a passing grade in ENGL 1110, you must submit all of the major writing assignments. (Late penalties will be determined by each instructor's written policy.)
4. Preliminary assignments and drafts leading to the five major papers.  (A paper will not be accepted unless you complete all steps in the writing process, as assigned.)
5. A final test, written in class, during the designated final examination period, consisting of an essay and a final usage and mechanics test covering but not limited to comma splices, run ons, sentence fragments, misspelling of homonyms, pronoun/antecedent agreement, and commas after introductory clauses.
   

GRADING POLICY
Your final grade will be determined by an average of seven grades**: five essay grades, a final exam, and a combined journal/quiz/homework/class participation grade.

**Teachers who require more than five essays (see Course Assignments #4) will adjust this total number accordingly.

ATTENDANCE
Regular attendance in a writing class is essential; every new assignment will build on skills developed during the previous one.  Therefore, you are expected to attend every class session.  Poor attendance will seriously affect your final grade; according to official Anderson University policy, you may be directly penalized after your number of absences exceeds the number of class meeting hours per week.  For more information concerning this matter, please read your instructor's individual attendance policy.

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POLICY STATEMENT ON ABSENCES DUE TO PARTICIPATION IN A UNIVERSITY-SANCTIONED ACTIVITY: 
Any student who must miss a class session for a university-sanctioned activity (athletic events, musical performances, debate team events, etc.) must notify the instructor in writing at least two class sessions in advance of that absence so that she or he can complete and submit in advance, according to the instructor’s directions, any work that will be due on the day when the student will miss.  (The nature of some work, of course, may not lend itself to being completed outside of class.)  The instructor is not required to accept any work that was due on the date of absence after that absence has occurred.  Finally, the university’s attendance policy permits the instructor to reject any make-up work for any absence that exceeds the number of class meeting hours per week (see page 31 in the Anderson University Undergraduate College Catalog, 2006-2008).

THE WRITING CENTER
The Writing Center is part of the Kissinger Learning Center which houses free tutorial services.  Call 641-4225 for an appointment.  Here you may work on individual writing skills with the help of a tutor and various materials that the Writing Center offers.  If your instructor directs you to the Writing Center for help with your writing, you will be expected to make an appointment with a writing tutor as soon as possible, or your class participation grade will be affected.

If you have special problems that might affect your performance in this class, you should notify the instructor during the first week of school.  Arrangements can be made for you to work closely with a special instructor or a tutor in the Kissinger Learning Center.

STATEMENT ON PLAGIARISM
In most situations when a student is caught plagiarizing, that student will fail this course.

School Policy:  Plagiarism is dishonesty.  A plagiarized paper will receive a grade of no credit (0), and that grade will count double the original value of the assignment.  In accordance with the Anderson University plagiarism policy, if you plagiarize, your act of dishonesty will be reported to the Dean of the College.  Two such reports may lead to your dismissal from the university.

Definition: "Plagiarism" is the inappropriate use of someone else's written work.  If you ask someone else to write an assignment for you, or if you re-copy and turn in as your own writing someone else's words, in whole or in part, or if you start with someone else's writing and change the words around, you have plagiarized.  Another form of plagiarism is the use of ideas, words, or phrases from published works without proper documentation, including purchasing and submitting essays from the Internet.

GUIDANCE
Please come to your instructor's office, during office hours or by appointment, when you have questions or need help.  We welcome this chance to get to know you better.