INSTRUCTOR: Professor Priscila Martins-Read, HHL Room 114. Phone: 992-2389, campus x 2389. Fax: 992-2881. Office Hours MW 1:30-2:30 at my office, and TTH 12:00-1:00 in BHL 101. Friday by appointment. E-mail address: pmartins-read@clark.edu Web page address: http://web.clark.edu/martpe
TEXT and SUPPLIES: Foundations of Writing, Developing Research and Academic Writing Skills, by Carolyn Spencer and Beverly Arbon; The Bedford Handbook for Writers, by Diana Hacker.
A 1 inch Notebook Binder with index tabs for your Portfolio A formatted 1.44 MB diskette.
RESOURCES: An English-English dictionary such as the American Heritage Dictionary; A thesaurus you can use easily; (available at the Clark College bookstore); Internet sources for exercises and reading materials-- see your lab assistant or your instructor.
GRADING: Strictly based on your portfolio work and on your class participation. See the file "Portfolio Instructions and grading criteria" for detailed explanations of the portfolio part of your grade.
* All assignments must be typed. Your in class essays are the only assignments I will accept in handwritten form. Editing marks may be made by hand. The ENL lab is available to you for this purpose, so use it and take advantage of the help that is there for you.
FINAL DRAFTS MUST BE FREE FROM GRAMMATICAL ERRORS!
Week 1 Tuesday: Introductions, in-class writing: “How does the education you are getting now compare with the education you got before?” -- begin discussion of what to include in a summary.
Thursday: 1. Chapters 2, 3, 4; 2. How to use quotations appropriately -- BHandbook; 3. Discussion of the reading Confessions of an Ex-Smoker, by Franklin Zimring, page 307 in The Prose Reader by Kim Flachmann, (on reserve at the library) We will begin to write the summary in class and you will be able to finish your rough draft at home.
Week 2 Tuesday: 1. Unit 2, Chapters 4, 5, 6; 2. Read The human cost of an Illiterate Society, by Jonathan Kozol, (on electronic reserve at the library http://oswald.clark.edu/search/ . See me for the password you will need to access it. 3. Continue with Summaries and Begin Summary Reports if there is time. Bring your first draft of your summary for peer review.
Jonathan Kozol, an educator, researcher
and author of several books. His most well-known book, Savage Inequalities,
examined the funding inequities inherent to many school districts and the
impacts on their students. He will discuss the effects of poverty and race on
the education of children. Listen to him for free!! You will need this
information to write your summary report next week.
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
6:30 p.m.
McNerney-Hanson Lecture: Jonathan Kozol
Chiles Center
Thursday:
First draft of your summary is due.
1. Continue with Summary Reports.
Discussion of a reading of your choice or a television program you have watched on the subject
that relates to the topics we have been reading about for this course. 3. Integrating the different sources
you've read or discussed into
your writing. - your summary report. 4. Start your report in
class - finish at home.
Week 3 Tuesday: 1. Chapters 8,9,10 Cause / Effect. 2. Learning to use the library electronic reserve. Read Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note, by Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Meda Chesney-Lind, page 594 (both from The Prose Reader by Flachman, on reserve at the library) 3. Read Family influences on adolescent sexual and contraceptive behavior published in The Journal of Sex Research, Feb 2002 v39 i1 p22(5), Brent C. Miller. (found on Infotrac) 4. Bring your summary report for peer review.
Thursday: 1. Read Brave New Babies, by Claudia Kalb, published in Newsweek, January 26, 2004 (ProQuest) and The Broken Cord, by Michael Dorris (on electronic reserve at the library http://oswald.clark.edu/search/ . See me for the password you will need to access it) 2. Continue with Cause / Effect. Focus on sentence structures that will add strength to your paper. 3. Start your Cause/Effect paper or Persuasive Paper.
Week 4 Tuesday: Summary Report is due. 1. Read Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, by Robert j. Sokol, Virginia Denaney-Black, Beth Nordstrom. JAMA. Chicago: Dec. 10,2003. Vol. 290, Iss. 22; p 2996.(in the collection - no longer online)2. Read Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Dad's fault too? Medical Update, July 1990 v 14 n1 p5(1) Copyright 1990 Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society. Inc. (InfoTrac)
Thursday: Continue to work on your cause /effect assignment . Bring your cause / effect assignment for peer review. Begin defending a position, Unit 5, chapters 17, 18, and 19 of Foundations of Writing. 2. Read MOMMY MADNESS Judith Warner. Newsweek. New York: Feb 21, 2005.Vol.145, Iss. 8; pg. 42, 6 pgs, and The Good Enough Mother, by Anna Quindlen, in the same magazine.
Week 5 Tuesday: All second/third drafts need to be turned in as soon as possible, folks Your portfolio is due in 21/2 weeks! 1. Analysis / persuasion 2. Appearance and Delinquency: A Research Note, by Jill Leslie Rosenbaum and Meda Chesney-Lind, page 594 (both from The Prose Reader by Flachman, on reserve at the library) Midterm: In class writing - to be finished before you go home today.
Thursday: Cause / effect paper is due 1. Making strong arguments 2. Read the Introduction and part of the first chapter, The Rise of the Educated Class (pages 9-18) of the book Bobos in Paradise, The New Upper Class And How they Got There by David Brooks. 3. Listen to Robert Siegal's interview with David Brooks, about his book Bobos in Paradise at NPR : http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1073447 . Both are about the current social structure in America. - The book is on 2-hour reserve at the library.
Week 6 Tuesday: All second drafts need to be turned in as soon as possible, folks! 1. Continue with Analysis/ persuasion paper 2. We will also work with sentence structure - making your sentences say what you really want to say. 3. Logic.
Thursday: . Analysis/ persuasion paper - peer review. 1. Continue with sentence structure / logic exercises.
Week 7 Tuesday and Thursday: Analysis / persuasion paper is due on Tuesday. Your portfolio is due at my office by 5 PM on Friday. All in class and other writing assignments need to be included. Strategies to use when writing longer papers - focus on Introductions.
Week 8 Tuesday and Thursday: Strong transitions. Making sure there is unity in your paper, 1. 2. Widening or narrowing the topic. Checking for plagiarism
Week 9 Tuesday and Thursday: Developing the body of your paper, Help with your paper. Checking for plagiarism.
Week 10 Last week of help with paper. Strong Conclusions, Cover and Reference pages, Help with your paper. Sign up for an individual grades meeting next week. Your paper is due on the last day of classes at my office.
Final I will schedule individual interviews during final's week. Students will sign up for times during the last week of classes.