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EWRT 200: Fundamentals of Writing (Fall 2007)
General Information:
Call Number: 0964
| Call Number: 0966
| Schedule ID: EWRT 200.05
| Schedule ID: EWRT 200.07
| | Days: Mondays & Wednesdays | Days: Mondays & Wednesdays | | Time: 12:30 to 2:40 p.m. | Time: 3:45 to 5:55 p.m.
| Location: L81 (Wednesdays)
ATC 103 (Mondays)
| Location: S71 (Wednesdays)
ATC 103 (Mondays)
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Prerequisite:
Qualifying score on English Placement Test
| Co requisite:
Students must also enroll in English Writing 201
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Instructor Contact Information:General Course Description:| This
course is designed to help students prepare for college-level reading
and essay writing, and is graded on a Pass-No Pass (P-NP) basis. Focus
is on writing fluency and familiarity with the conventions of standard
written English. Students develop the ability to respond in writing and
orally to written texts. Assignments show the interconnection among
readings, class discussion, personal experiences, observation, and
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Goals:
- Experience pleasure and intellectual engagement while reading and writing, and in collegial conversation.
- Carefully read, respond to and analyze a variety of texts.
- Develop fluency in informal, generative writing.
- Develop personally meaningful ideas, topics and purposes for writing projects.
- Produce personally meaningful writing that has a clear focus.
- Produce personally meaningful writing that has an audience-pleasing beginning, middle and end.
- Identify and practice informal and formal writing for different audiences and purposes.
- Practice writing as a multi-step process.
- Practice composing writing projects that increase in complexity.
- Identify and correct recurrent usage and sentence-level errors.
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Required Materials: (Having trouble coming up with the money for these materials?) All required materials except tickets to the movie version of No Country for Old Men are available at the De Anza College Bookstore. Please purchase all materials before the second class meeting and bring all materials to every class. Feel free to purchase materials elsewhere, but be sure to obtain the correct edition. The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself must be purchased new (or used with no marks or other writing inside).
     - Allen, Roberta. The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
- Bazerman, Charles, and Harvey S. Wiener. Writing Skills Handbook. Fifth Edition. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
- McCarthy, Cormac. No Counry For Old Men. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
- No Country for Old Men.
Dir. Joel Coen. Perf. Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem,
Kelly MacDonald, Woody Harrelson. Motion Picture. Miramax, Scheduled
Release November 21, 2007. Instead of a regular class on Wednesday, November 21, we will go to see this movie as a group at a theater near De Anza College. (Or you may go on your own, keeping your ticket stub as proof that you saw the movie.)
- USB Flash Drive (minimum 512 MB)
- Computer, printer and internet access. (Access to computers is
available on campus on the lower level of the Advanced Technology Center in ATC 102 & 103, in the Library, and in the Open Media
Lab. Printing is
available on campus for 10 cents/page in the Open Media Lab.)
- Students will be required to become a member of my faculty website for access to course
announcements, discussion, readings and resources.
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Coursework: (Revised)
- plete all entries in The Playful Way of Knowing Yourself according to the Course Schedule. (The instructor will check for completion, but will neither read, nor grade, these entries.)
- Students will revise and edit one entry from The Playful Way of Knowing Yourself.
- Students will complete all study questions and group exercises for No Country for Old Men
- Students will complete a final in-class exam
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Minimum Requirements to Receive a "Pass" for this course: (Revised)
- No more than 3 absences.
- All coursework must be
completed.
General
criteria for passing quality written assignments:
- The entries in The Playful Way of Knowing Yourself are:
- richly
exploratory
- reflect intellectual engagement with matters of significance.
- The revision of the selected The Playful Way of Knowing Yourself entry:
- reflects the
writer's ability to develop a clear focus
- is detailed
- reflects the writer's consideration of peer response
- reflects the
writer's individuality
- contains no formatting or errors in standard written English.
- Study questions and group exercises for No Country for Old Men:
- are complete
- are completed on time
- reflect careful reading/viewing and understanding of NCFOM.
- The final exam reflects the students ability to:
- produce a rich rough draft
- focus on one main idea
- develop and organize the main idea
- produce writing that is free of comprehension-level errors
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Course Policies: No electronic devices may be used in class, and no human translators in class (except ASL or other special accommodations). Please do not sign up for this class if you intend to rely on a friend to translate for you. Instead, please let me know if you are having trouble understanding me. English language learners are welcome, and I am more than happy to help you with comprehension, vocabulary and spelling.
Submission of writing assignments. You should submit assignments via e-mail to schultzmary@deanza.edu, or posted to the class Discussion Group, as directed.
Late assignments (Not!)
I do not comment on, nor do I allow re-writes of assignments that are
not submitted on time, and I tend to be much less generous in grading
these assignments, unless you have talked to me about a revised
deadline before the due date, so talk to me first!
Attendance. If you miss more than two classes for any reason, I may drop you; if you miss more than three classes for any reason, I will drop you, even if the fourth absence is late in the quarter.
I'll do my best to help you if you are having trouble getting yourself
to class, so talk to me before you start missing classes. If you do
miss a class, be sure to obtain any handout or assignment from the class you missed, and come to the next session fully prepared. Do not
skip a class because you don't have an assignment to turn in when it's
due. Come anyway. I'll probably be nice about it, especially if you are
sufficiently tortured and contrite.
Student success:
Students will work on developing an efficient learning process
by analyzing and improving their reading, writing, and study habits and
strategies by seeking out and availing themselves of the many De
Anza Student Success services available to them, when needed.
Plagiarism:
Plagiarism is a problem when students seek only to pass a course,
rather than achieve the goals of the course. It is a vexing problem for
the instructor since s/he is required to detect it, report it, and
penalize the student for it, all of which is a great waste of time, and
not fun for anyone, especially since it will automatically result in an
F on an assignment (and in serious cases will be reported to the Dean
of the Language Arts Division and will result in an F for the class).
If you are unsure, always err on the side of giving credit to your
sources.
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Special Needs:
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