LOS ANGELES MISSION COLLEGE
SPRING 2001
English 101
TICKET #3395
MONDAY 7 PM - 10 PM
CMPC 3
Kemp
Syllabus
Course Description:
English 101 is designed to develop proficiency in expository writing
required for successful university work. The literature-based
writing in this course should be primarily analytical and argumentative.
The objective is to teach you to write well about something important,
thus challenging your thought and linguistic powers.
Specific Course Objectives: To help improve your writing
by focusing on the invention process: pre-writing, drafting, revising,
evaluating. To increase your knowledge of writing techniques through
discussions of the writing styles found in assigned reading.
Course Requirements: Reading and writing requirements are
interactive. All the work you do in this class, including peer
editing, Writing labs, Writer's Workshops (which target specific
composition skills) and grammar usage exercises will be graded.
Grade Computation Factors: Each writing lab and essay will
be graded on a six-point rubric, which is a useful way for me
to evaluate your work and for you to gauge your progress. A composition
rating scale based on the six-point rubric will also be used to
grade each writing assignment. The total number of points possible
is 100. (See computation sheet for details.)
A Novel Note is one direct quotation from each chapter
of the novel. Your assignment is to write a comment, observation,
or question you may have about the passage. You must discuss the
thought, not retell the plot.
Class Attendance: Attendance is required. Three unexcused
absences are permitted. Students may be dropped or given a failing
grade after three unexcused absences. Three late arrivals or early
departures are the equivalent of one absence.
Course Details:
Write in ink or type all assignments.
Please use the following heading in the upper right corner of
your papers:
Last, First Name
English 101, Monday 7-10
Assignment and # (i.e. Writing Lab #4)
Use Loose-leaf paper. Papers must be stapled
only. (No paperclips, plastic binder, etc.)
Staple your papers on the top, left-hand corner.
Do not use any fancy covers or borders on your papers.
Save all your papers (notes, drafts, finished products).
Each student is required to maintain a portfolio, a collection
of in-class and out-of-class assignments.
Please Review
Bloom's Taxonomy.
Competencies.
Rubric.
post
your writing lab discussions here
Course Texts and Materials:
Fowler, The Little Brown Handbook, Seventh Edition, Longman
Robert Miller, The Informed Argument, Fifth Edition, Harcourt
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Two Blue Books are required to the mid-term and final examinations.
Office Hours:
6-7 PM Instructional Center