English 101 M. Hoskinson (3105 11-12MW,
1-3T)(10-11Th - online only for this office hour)
HOSKINML@piercecollege.edu
http://info.piercecollege.edu/departments/English/eng101-9.htm
(818)710-4102
My alternative email is: hoskinml@yahoo.com. Use it if the Pierce email is not
working.
PRIMIS - COLLEGE READING AND COMPOSITION
Rodrigues and Tuman: WRITING ESSENTIALS
updated 7/15
We will meet in class today(9/2), 9/4, all of the in class essay days (9/9,
9/23, 10/7, 12/9), term paper preparation days (11/11 and 18) and the final
(12/18). All of the rest of the course is online.
To make sure that you are credited for all of your essays and papers, take the
precaution of sending them to your own email as well as on moodle; it is also
wise to put them on flash drive. Remember that electronic communication, though
highly effective, can fail. If you send something to me and do not get a reply
within a couple of days, assume that the material is lost and send it again.
Do not ever have just one copy of your work. Do not assume that I am not going
to grade your work; I will always grade your work.
BE SURE THAT YOU ARE PARTICIPATING IN DISCUSSION REGULARLY (at least 3 times each week). DOING SO IS A PART OF YOUR GRADE. You cannot receive a grade for any essay or the term paper unless you have posted discussion. Discussion questions are at the bottom of this page and on the class Moodle site.
Remember that you are expected to spend as much time working on an online course as you would a standard one. According to Carnegie rules, students are expected to spend a minimum of 2 hours at home for every hour spent in class, which means that you should be spending at least 9 hours each week on this class.
If you want to rewrite your essay, please use bold or italics to show where you have made corrections. You may rewrite any essay within a week of its return to you. To view marks that I use in correcting essays, go to Editing Marks. When essays are satisfactorily rewritten, they will be raised 1 step - for example C+ to B-. The essay grades are numbers because that is what Moodle uses - 4-6=C, 7-9=B, 10-12=A. If any of your essays are graded 4 or lower, please use some of the many writing helps on campus and/or talk to me. I will give you letter grades as well, so that you do not panic when you see the numbers, which are not percentages.
To hear my reading (1MB file) of "Dover Beach" by Arnold, click here.
To hear my reading (3MB file) of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
by Eliot, click here.
This class is college level reading and writing (4 in class essays,
2 out of class, term paper, final).
You will write in class 9/9 (for which read and post discussion
for selections in Primis pp 1-22 for McGarvey, Murray, Saki, Thurber, Angelou), 9/23
(Primis 31-59, Arnold, Auden, Browning, Camus, Carroll, Woolf, Austen, 10/7
(Primis 62-87, Carson, Eliot, Frost, Gilman, Glaspell), 12/9 (Primis 98-131,
Hawking, Cole, Keller, King, Kubler-Ross, Marquis, Moore, Nash) (500 words each).
The final will be just like an in class essay. Notice
that the final is on a Thurs, 12/18, 9-11. You will write about Primis 133-150,
Wollstonecraft, Stanton, Sagan, Sanger, Stevens, Vidal. Remember
to post 3 discussions for each week. You may choose the selections to discuss,
and the 3 posts may be all about 1 selection or about several selections. Remember
that you must post discussion before writing the essay.
Use Plato in The Learning Center and use Rodrigues/Tuman for help with writing.
During the semester, we will be working in the Software Lab (1508). You will
need to be able to access Moodle and to use email.
Between 10/7 and 10/21, we will read Hillerman’s A THIEF OF
TIME, with the essay discussing characters or culture comparison, due 4/1
(please continue to answer discussion questions). For 11/4, each student will
make a report on a book relevant to that person's term paper. Your
discussion for these weeks will be your responses to the book you are reading.
The out of class essays should be 800 words.
For an interesting site on Hillerman's work, see http://www.tonyhillermanbooks.com/.
Hillerman won the Kirsch award for lifetime achievement.
The term paper, 10 typewritten pages, with full references in
MLA format (see Rodrigues/Tuman) is due 11/25; you may choose topics in the fields
of environmental studies, literature, social problems, health. Please do not
choose a religion or anything about which you know the only answer as your subject.
I must approve the topic by 9/9
and see the first evidence of research by 9/23.
I must see a sample works cited and abstract (paragraph
about your topic) by 10/7.
We will work with notes 11/11and rough draft 11/18, when we will
discuss format and other problems. Be sure to be in class on those days.
YOU MUST SHOW ME YOUR WORK DURING THESE SESSIONS OR PRIOR TO THEM
OR YOUR PAPER IS UNACCEPTABLE. THE PAPER MUST BE IN MLA FORMAT.
Here
is a link to my term paper FAQ's. Your discussion between 11/11 and 11/18 should
refer to your paper and format problems; it may also concern concepts that are
mentioned in the FAQ's.
Here is a link to UC Berkeley' guidelines about evaluating online sources.
Remember that you must use both written and online sources for your term paper. Furthermore, just as I will not grade an essay before you have presented discussion, I will not grade a term paper without seeing the preliminaries. For help with your research, you can take Library Sci. 102 9/15/08 – 11/3/08, Mondays 7 p.m. – 10:10 p.m. Here is a link to our library's services. If you go to the library, you will be able to get a password for the library's online services.
Essays will be graded for thought content, fullness of support of ideas or arguments, grammatical accuracy, imagination. Plagiarism is a serious fault and will be considered a basis for a fail in the class. Essays may be revised (see Editing Marks). Please show your editing by using bold or italics. You may sometimes need to rewrite a whole paragraph, but you should not rewrite the whole essay. Rewrites are due with 1 week of the return of the essay. Rewritten essays will go up 1 step when all corrections are made.
One grade will be dropped. If you are missing more than one essay by the end of the term, the missing essay(s) will count against you. The term paper and the final each equal 3 essays. You must participate in class discussion at least 3 times a week. Discussion participation is a part of your grade. You must maintain a C average in writing done in class in order to pass the class.
I will take attendance for the first 2 weeks only. After that point, attending or dropping the class is your responsibility. However, if you have not submitted your notes, abstract, sample works and rough draft by 11/18, I will drop you. I take attendance by your discussions; if you contribute to discussions, you are attending the class. If you do not contribute to discussions, your grade will be lowered, regardless of your recorded grades.
Discussion questions/comments – Primis, College Reading and Composition –
Use these in addition to the questions in Primis to help you create comments for the week’s discussion.
McGarvey
Murray
1. What is the most helpful advice that Murray gives? How is it like or unlike the advice of others?
2. Consider Murray’s comment about detachment. What devices does he use to help you the student develop detachment so that you can work through many drafts of a paper?
3. Murray uses figurative language in paragraph 12 to describe the process of editing. How effective is his use of language in that paragraph?
4. Murray’s advice seems to agree with the comment from mystery writer Margery Allingham about her process of writing that she writes it first to get the idea down, then makes everything precise, and last to make it seem as if she has just thought of it.
5. Does knowing how much trouble most published writers take with their writing help you to work with your own writing?
Saki
Thurber
Angelou