1. Students are expected to attend every class period.
2. Six (6) class hours of absence will be allowed for illness, unusual, or emergency situations.
3. For every absence beyond the number of allowed absences, the final grade will be lowered by 2 percentage points.
4. Missing attendance roll call will constitute one complete absence.

1. The student is completely responsible for all textual and lecture material, classroom discussion, individualized assignments, and all written assignments.
2. NO missed exams, papers, quizzes, or other assignmentswill be made up.
3. All in-class hand written assignments MUST be written in ink, double-spaced.
4. ALL other assignments MUST be computer-printed or typewritten.
5. Late assignments will NOT be accepted except with prior professor permission.
6. ALL assignments must be completed and submitted to pass the course; failure to submit even a single assignment will result in failure in the course.

75% - Papers
15% - Final Exam
10% - Quizzes, other assignments, subjective factors

100% - FINAL GRADE SCALE

1. When you directly quote someone else;
2. When you use someone else's ideas or opinions (unless they are common knowledge);
3. When you use someone else's examples;
4. When you cite statistics or other facts compiled by someone else;
5. When you present evidence or testimony taken from someone else's argument.

Berke, Jacqueline. Twenty Questions for the Writer. 4th edition. New York: Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1985.

IF A STUDENT PLAGIARIZES, THAT STUDENT WILL RECEIVE AN "F" FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. A SECOND OCCURRENCE OF PLAGIARISM WILL RESULT IN EXPULSION FROM THE COURSE.

HOURS
M -W                              11-11:30 a.m.
Tues.                               7:30-8:00 a.m.

*All other times by appointment only*

1. To help students improve their basic writing skills to the college level.
2. To review fundamentals of grammar and usage.
3. To identify weaknesses in composition AND help eliminate those weaknesses.
4. To prepare the student for English 100 level courses by developing skills in word usage, sentence construction, and paragraph development. Emphasis is on learning to write an effective paragraph which contains a clearly expressed idea supported by relevant, well-organized, specific details and examples.

ASSESSMENT: Students will demonstrate the ability to follow directions in written and oral work.

ASSESSMENT: Students will use prewriting techniques in their writing.

1. finding a focus,
2. developing a topic sentence,
3. generating adequate specifics to support topic sentence,
4. organizing specifics

ASSESSMENT: Students will write drafts from the results of prewriting

ASSESSMENT: Students will revise their drafts.

ASSESSMENT: Students will edit/proofread their drafts.

ASSESSMENT: Students will write clear, unified, well-supported, and logically organized paragraphs.

ASSESSMENT: Students will write paragraphs developed by different methods.

ASSESSMENT: Students will write paragraphs using correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

ASSESSMENT: Students will identify and use different types of sentences in their writing.

ASSESSMENT: Students will use dictionaries in their class work.

ASSESSMENT: Students will write at least one multi-paragraph paper.