Department of English and Journalism

English 180-24:
College Writing I

Fall 1996

TTh 11:00-12:30
Simpkins 321 and 324
Optional lab, 3:00-4:00 Mon, SI 319

Official Course Objectives

Texts:

• Leland, Discovery: Writing to Learn
• Hacker, A Pocket Style Manual
• Additional assigned reading from print and electronic texts

Requirements:

1. Faithful attendance. Serious illness or family emergency are the only reasons for absence.
2. Equally faithful completion of reading and writing assignments on time.
3. Six major writing assignments
4. Additional shorter writing exercises
5. Email postings to e180-24 four times a week including responses to readings, to points raised in class, to one another's ideas and questions. All posts should observe standard netiquette conventions. Click here to post to the list.
6. Participation. We will be acting as a discourse community, writing and talking in order to discover meaning. Your participation in the class discussion is essential.

Tentative schedule of events.

Grades:

Major papers: 70%
In-Class Writing: 10%
Email: 10%
Participation and exercises: 10%

Grading Standards:

While we will concentrate on particular issues of thinking and writing with each assignment, all writing you publish (i.e. share with your reader) will be evaluated on its effectiveness in its rhetorical context, as measured by the customary standards for college writing.

Computer Access:

All students in the class will get an internet (ECN) account and DUFS access and use Pine or Eudora to post email messages to the class listserv list. You may subscribe to e180-24 from this syllabus.

You will need to spend a great deal of out-of-class time at the computer. There are four computers in the Writing Center (Simpkins 341), though they are usually in high demand. Your best bet is to use the labs in Stipes, Morgan, the Library, or a residence hall. If you have a modem for a home computer, you should take three formatted HD disks to the Academic Computing office in Stipes so they can copy two programs for you:

• Kermit, which will let you access your ECN account for email and web work, and
• Slip, the suite of internet programs for Windows, which will let you view World Wide Web pages and also telnet to your account from Windows.

How to Find me:

Office: Simpkins 127
Office hours:
Phone: 298-2136

Escape clause: This syllabus is subject to revision as circumstances dictate. You can expect additional links to be added with some regularity--check it often!.

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