Units
Course Requirements
Plagiarism
Attendance
Helpful Resources
100
The challenges of globalization: Who are "we" in relation to others? The readings in this and the next unit confront the enormous and challenging question of who "we" are in relation to "others" in an increasingly small world
What is the topic of Unit 2
100
Blackboard Reading Responses, Peer review, In-class writing assignments 15 % 4 Interpretive Essays 50 % Documented Essay 20 % Writing Portfolio 15%
What are the course requirements, all of which must be submitted to pass the class
100
Turning in written work as your own that you have copied from another source, whether a website, print media, or even another student.
What is plagiarism?
100
Students can miss two classes without grade penalties
What is the number of classes a student can miss before experiencing grade penalties
100
MSU First Year Writing
What is a helpful resource when I'm struggling with my writing?
200
We will discuss our individual relationship to the planet. We will address what it means to be "green" as well as "sustainable" solutions. What do these terms mean for us as we go about our daily activities of getting from one place to the next, eating means, buying things, learning, and occasionally cleaning our living spaces?
What is Unit 3?
200
Students must try to talk once during each class. Participation includes questions about the text, responses to classmates, interpretations of the texts, and connections between texts. Any contribution that is recognizably analytic, interpretive, reflective, or comparative will qualify. Students who do not participate can expect lowered grades.
What is meant by daily participation?
200
I will submit your plagiarized paper and the source materials from which you have plagiarized to the Student Conduct office and you will face disciplinary action from the University.
What happens when a student is caught plagiarizing?
200
Students who miss more than five classes will fail the course.
What happens if a student misses more than five classes?
200
The Center for Writing Excellence, where trained writing consultants offer regular appointments. Drop-ins are also available. The CWE website offers writing exercises to help with specific writing problems, including grammar.
What is the CWE?
300
How do our educational systems work to preserve or undo class and race divisions?
What is Unit 4?
300
Students will develop their own research project for the final paper and will write an essay based on their findings. Students should consider the kinds of questions that our class reader, From Inquiry to Academic Writing, raises when developing topics.
What is the documented essay?
300
You can appeal the decision and request a meeting with your professor and the director of first-year writing, Dr. Jessica Restaino.
What if I feel that I did not plagiarize?
300
Grades will drop by one third for each absence after two.
What is the grade penalty for missing three classes? Four?
300
Writing Exercises from Diana Hacker
What is www. hackerhandbooks.com/writersref
400
Crafting Identity: Representing and Misrepresenting ourselves in cyberspace -- Who do I say I am? To which communities do I aspire? What does it mean to create an identity?
What is Unit 5?
400
Students will submit a portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This will include a selection of the essays you have written over the semester. Important: save and carefully label each piece of work as a separate date file for the Portfolio; do not "write over" any existing files when drafting, and be sure to back up work consistently.
What is a writing portfolio?
400
SafeAssign, which is a data base of everything that's ever been written. Your professor's ability to identify prose that is not yours -- she's read a lot of your writing and can almost identify you by the way you string words together on a page!
When I plagiarize, how is it detected?
400
Final grades are affected.
What happens when students use cell phones or arrive late?
400
Re: Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's writing aids)
What is bedfordstmartins.com/rewriting
500
Possible essay topics are assigned for all Units. However, students may design their own topic around a question they have developed in response to an assigned text. If a student chooses his or her own topic, instructor approval is required.
Are essay topics assigned, or can we develop our own topics?
500
Each essay will undergo revision and rewriting, with the assistance of peer review and instructor feedback (quality of both revision and peer review will be factored into the final grade for each essay).
Is there great writing? How does the process of writing essays in 105 ensure great writing?
500
You may miss one deadline for a 48-hour extension without a grade penalty. You may use this "buy" for either a first-, second- or final-draft deadline. The essay will have to be turned in, of course, but the extra time is often very helpful.
What has Professor Diana offered as a way to show that in spite of her workload and crazy expectations for inspired prose, she understands that chaos can consume freshmen students, new to college-level work.
500
Students will be notified by Blackboard email.
What happens if class must be cancelled?
500
I am in room 315 by 7:15 a.m., and I am available by appointment whenever you need. I am also open to working through issues online.
What is Professor Diana's availability?
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