YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR KNOWING AND COMPLYING WITH THE COURSE REQUIREMENTS LISTED IN THIS SYLLABUS.

Course Name: Composition I                               

Course Number: ENGL 1301.502                     

Class Meeting Time: MWF  12-12:50 PM

Classroom: FLM  203

Last Day to Drop with a “W”: Thursday April 6, 2017

Final Exam: Wednesday May 10, 2017 

Instructor’s Name: Susan Barwick   

PLEASE CONTACT ME THROUGH CANVAS                                                     

E-mail Address: sbarwick@nctc.edu 

Office Phone #: (972)-899-8400                         

Office Hours: MWF 9-12 and by appointment

Catalog Description: Intensive study of and practice in writing processes, from invention and researching to drafting, revising, and editing, both individually and collaboratively. Emphasis on effective rhetorical choices, including audience, purpose, arrangement, and style. Focus on writing the academic essay as a vehicle for learning, communicating, and critical analysis. Prerequisite:  Satisfactory placement test score or passing grade in ENGL 0305.

Required Textbooks & Materials:

Kirszner, Laurie G. and Stephen Mandrell. Patterns for College Writing 13th ed. Bedford St. Martins, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-319-08806-4

Lunsford, Andrea. The Everyday Writer 6th ed. Bedford St. Martin's, 2016

A recent standard college dictionary

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of English 1301, students should be able to do the following:

1.         Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative writing processes.

2.         Develop ideas with appropriate support and attribution.

3.         Write in a style appropriate to audience and purpose.

4.         Read, reflect, and respond critically to a variety of texts.

5.         Use Edited American English in academic essays.

Foundational Component Area:  Communication

Courses in this category focus on developing ideas and expressing them clearly, considering the effect of the message, fostering understanding, and building the skills needed to communicate persuasively.  Courses involve the command of oral, aural, written, and visual literacy skills that enable people to exchange messages appropriate to the subject, occasion, and audience.

*Critical Thinking Skills (CT)- to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information

*Communication Skills (COM)- to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication

*Teamwork (TW)- to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal

*Personal Responsibility (PR)- to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making  

Important Information:

PLEASE DON’T DO THESE THINGS DURING CLASS:

·     Send or read text messages

·     Use your cell phone, mp3 player/iPod, or laptop

·     Wear earbuds or headphones

·     Carry on a conversation that is unrelated to the class discussion with other students

·     Leave and then re-enter the classroom while class is in progress

DO THESE THINGS:

·     Check the Canvas page before each class and bring printed copies of any required material

·     Arrive on time

·     Bring the required text, any handouts and your notes to class

·     Take notes

·     Ask questions if there’s something you don’t understand

Grading:

Please keep all graded assignments that I return to you. If you do this, we can solve the problem easily if there’s ever a difference between what I record in the grade book and what’s written on your paper

Late Assignments and make-up work: 

• Weekly writing assignments that are turned in late will receive a grade of no higher than 70.
• Major essays that are not submitted on time and in the manner instructed will be docked 10 points for every day they are late. Essays that are not submitted in electronic as well as print format will receive a zero.
• As a general rule (most of the time) no make-up tests or quizzes will be given. Exceptions include deaths in your family, hospitalizations, and other serious emergencies. You must provide me with documentation of any of these events.

Extra Credit: There is none. Your grade is determined solely by your performance on the assignments listed.

Attendance Policy: If you miss class, it is your responsibility to find out, from other students or from the Angel page for this class what you missed.

If you miss more than 6 classes, I reserve the right to give you an F for the course.

Grades: 

Your lowest quiz grade and your lowest weekly writing grade will be dropped when calculating final grades

Cheating and Plagiarism: If you cheat on a test or commit intentional plagiarism, you will receive a zero for that test or assignment. I may also ask to have you dropped from the course or simply give you a failing grade for the course.

Other NCTC Definitions and Policies

Scholastic Integrity: Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. See Student Handbook “Student Rights & Responsibilities: Student Conduct: “When cheating, collusion, or plagiarism has occurred beyond any reasonable doubt, the instructor may give the student or students involved an “F” on a particular assignment or in the course. The instructor shall make a written report of the incident and of the planned action to his Department Chair. The Department Chair shall report the incident and action to appropriate instructional dean who shall review the case, notify the student and, if necessary, take further action. This may involve either probation or suspension of the student or students in question. If such disciplinary action is deemed necessary, the Dean of Student Services shall be notified, and the action shall be taken through that office.”

Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. See Student Handbook “Student Rights & Responsibilities: Student Conduct [FLB- (LOCAL)]” #18.

Disciplinary Actions [Student Handbook, #5] “When cheating, collusion, or plagiarism has occurred beyond any reasonable doubt, the instructor may give the student or students involved an “F” on a particular assignment or in the course. [See Scholastic Dishonesty FLB (Local)] The instructor shall make a written report of the incident and of the planned action to his Department Chair.  The Department Chair shall report the incident and action to appropriate instructional dean who shall review the case, notify the student and, if necessary, take further action.  This may involve either probation or suspension of the student or students in question. If such disciplinary action is deemed necessary, the Dean of Student Services shall be notified, and the action shall be taken through that office.”

Plagiarism, which should be avoided at all costs, includes the following student actions:

1.         Turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own;

2.         Unintentionally or inadvertently turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own as the result of failing to document sources both internally and in the Works Cited;

3.         Copying words, ideas, or images from someone without giving credit; Failing to put a quotation in quotations marks;

4.         Giving incorrect information about the source of information, quotations, or images;

5.         Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit;

6.         Copying so many words, ideas, or images from a source that it makes up the majority of the student's work, whether or not the student gives credit.

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Disability Accommodations

The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) provides accommodations for students who have a documented disability. A disability is anything that can interfere with learning, such as a learning disability, psychological challenge, physical illness, or injury. Accommodations may include extra time on tests, tests in a distraction-reduced environment, volunteer note taker in class, etc.

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http://www.nctc.edu/StudentServices/SupportServices/Disabilityservices/DisabilitiesFacultyResources.aspx

EEOC Statement

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Tobacco-Free Campus

NCTC restricts the use of all tobacco products including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, electronic cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco on campus property. NCTC is aware that tobacco use influences underage students, which cumulates unsightly tobacco litter and interferes with assuring clean air for all who come to NCTC. NCTC recognizes the health hazards of tobacco use and of exposure to second hand smoke. Information on a tobacco cessation program is available for students, faculty, staff who wish to stop using tobacco products. We would like to "thank you" for your help in making our campuses Tobacco-Free. For questions or concerns, please contact the Office of Vice President of Student Services at 940-668-4240.