Criteria
Unit 3 Studies
Grammar & Usage
Syllabus
Random
100

Free of distracting surface-level errors & has appropriate citations.

What is editing?

100

This assignment is not doing this

What is arguing?

100

Choose the right place to separate the noun phrase from the verb phrase in each sentence.

Ebenezer ate peanuts in the garden.

Ebenezer // ate peanuts in the garden.

100

What kind of writing is the main focus for ENGL 100?

Informative and expressive writing

100

Where is Sierra's office?

ECS 003

200

Accurately & Fairly summarizes and synthesizes sources & ideas.

What is Development?

200

One part of the introduction.

What is hook, context, or thesis?

200

Is the example below correctly punctuated, or is it a run-on or a comma-splice sentence? 

Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric -- with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next -- Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.

Yes

200

What happens if you don't complete and submit all four of the major assignments?

You will earn a failing grade for the semester.

200

What was the main topic for unit 2?

Reading Reflection

300

Respectful, Invitations, engaging

What is Tone?

300

Target Audience for this paper

You should imagine your target audience as a reader who may have a partial, or even firmly narrow, view about the issue. Your reader might come from a different background, might have different knowledge, and/or might have experienced the world differently than the authors with whom you engage.

300

Is this sentence punctuated correctly? 

Your conclusion, however, should not include new information.

Yes

300

According to the syllabus, if you are going to be unable to make a deadline for an assignment, what should you do?

Contact your instructor ahead of time.

300

What is the Unit 4 essay called?

Informative Report

400

To inform, explore, and invite into a conversation

What is purpose?

400

One objective of the Unit 3 assignment

  • Demonstrate your ability to respectfully examine a complex issue from multiple perspectives 
  • Maintain a neutral, invitational tone 
  • Show that you understand and respect the perspectives of others 
  • Objectively and accurately summarize writers’ main points 
  • Organize sources thematically to inform an audience about a larger conversation 
  • Synthesize sources in terms of their common and diverging points 
  • Effectively integrate outside sources into your essay 
  • Effectively and purposefully organize your ideas to convey a clear topic focus in your writing
400

Do you need a comma before the coordinating conjunction? Select the correct answer.

A. Vasily Grossman wrote his great novel, Stalingrad, during the 1950s in the Soviet Union, so he had to rewrite his book several times to appease communist party censors.

B. Vasily Grossman wrote his great novel, Stalingrad, during the 1950s in the Soviet Union so he had to rewrite his book several times to appease communist party censors.

A. Vasily Grossman wrote his great novel, Stalingrad, during the 1950s in the Soviet Union, so he had to rewrite his book several times to appease communist party censors.

400

How many unexcused absences before you may fail the class?

10

400

What is the penalty for plagiarism by AI?

First offense, reported to the honor counsel and you fail that paper & must turn in a new paper in your own words. 

Second offense, reported to the honor counsel you fail the class with an XF. 

(note: the honor counsel may choose to take harsher forms of punishment)

500

Explore a conversation about class from multiple perspectives, creating a nuances understanding of the issue. 

What is purpose?

500

Define Socioeconomic class

Socioeconomic status is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's economic access to resources and social position in relation to others.

500

What punctuation and where should it be added?


My great-grandparents voted for Dwight Eisenhower who came from Kansas.

Comma


My great-grandparents voted for Dwight Eisenhower // who came from Kansas.

500

What percent of your grade is each unit?

Unit #1  15%

Unit #2    15%

Unit #3   25%

Unit #4 25%

Minor Assignments  10%

Attendance & Participation10%

500

When is the last day to drop the class with a W?

TOMORROW October 25