• Enhance your ability to interpret college - level reading in the disciplines, including multicultural texts.

• Demystify the reading/writing process and build upon the skills you have already developed.

• Improve your ability to organize information and ideas through reading, writing, and discussion.

• Help you to produce writing which demonstrates appropriate grammar, sentence structure, and usage, reflecting the mature thinking of a college student.

• Help you to understand the impact of language use in a multi-cultural society and to recognize the effects of biased language on readers and writers.

• Introduce you to online learning communites: discussions and practice in online "netiquette," the use of email, discussion lists and research data bases.

This course focuses on the close relationship of the reading/writing process: pre-writing, and pre-reading, drafting, revising. Much of class time will be spent discussing, writing, and working in small groups, both offline and online. Students are encouraged to use the resources of the Learning Resource Center.

Please go to the English Department webpage ENGLISH 097: DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING COURSE GUIDELINES for a thorough statement of goals and expectations for this course.

• Four in-class, timed essays:
  • Timed Writing (SAMPLE)
  • Timed Writing (RESPONSE TO A TEXT)
  • Timed Writing (ANALYSIS OF A TEXT)
  • Timed Writing (REFLECTION)

• Portfolio requirements.
  • Cover Letter
  • One in-class timed writing (unrevised)
  • One summary and response (revised, edited)
  • One Annotated text
  • One text based paper (revised, edited)

• Journal: consists of various writing assignments, summaries and responses to all articles, reading logs, homework and in class work. Collected randomly.

• Divakaruni, Chitra. We, Too, Sing America. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1998.

• New Voices Jackson, Sandra and Pamela Bourgeois eds. 2009.

• Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game.

• Silverman, Hughes and Wienbroer.Rules of Thumb. 7th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2009.

Required Materials:

• Composition Notebook (paper journal)
• Pocket Folder(s)
• Computer storage device (drafts will require word processing)
• College dictionary - bring to class each meeting

Conferencing and Office Hours: One office conference (TBA) is required, and all students are strongly urged to come by my office as confusion, problems, questions arise. The sharing of positive writing experience is also permitted. My office (ST821) is located in Sierra Tower next to the Jerome Richfield building. BYOF&D. Hours are T/Th 11:00 - 12:00 or by appt (before 8:00 am and after 2:00 pm T/Th).

Last Revised Aug 09