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Home Engl 59 Syllabus Spring 2005
Writing in the Workplace
Instructor: David Lang Wednesdays 7:00 – 10:10 pm Room MT - 24
Office: W3 601 D Mailbox: S2 - 402 Office Hours: Tuesdays/Thursdays: 9:30 am – 10:30 am Wednesdays: 2:15 pm – 3:25 pm or at other times by appointment Office phone: (408) 855-5178 E-mail address: david_lang@wvmccd.cc.ca.us Home page: http://salsa.missioncollege.org/lang/ I. Required Texts
Kolin, Philip. Successful Writing at Work. 7th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 Raimes, Ann. Keys for Writers: A Brief Handbook. 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005 II. Course Description
Writing technical and business related documents. Credit/No Credit option
III. Prerequisites Engl 905 or qualifying score on placement test. Note: enrollment in English 900 is highly recommended. It is a lab course where you earn credit while creating or revising your writing or developing related writing skills. Reading 53 is also highly recommended
IV. Course GoalsBy the end of the course you should be able to:
· understand the writing process · plan, draft, revise, and edit your writing · write several types of business documents · analyze your readers and supply them with information so that they can make decisions and solve problems · use a variety of research tools · give useful feedback to other business writers
V. Assignments and Evaluation
Memos, E-mails 50 Letters 150 Resume and Application Letter 100 Short Reports 100 Case Study 200 Error Log Workbooks 100 Midterm Exam 100 Final Exam 200 Negative points for absences, late arrivals/early departures, late papers, and drafts not available for peer response. Total 1000 Note: where more than one assignment is given within a category (for example, you will write several letters in the Letters category), each assignment will be scored out of the points available for the whole category. Points for all assignments within a category will then be added together and divided by the number of assignments. For example, if you are assigned to write six letters, each letter will be scored out of 150 points. The total you score will then be divided by six, resulting in an average score out of 150 points
Total points earned will convert to grades according to the following table:
900 – 1000 A 800 – 899 B 700 – 799 C 600 – 699 D Below 600 F
VI. Attendance, Participation, and Submission of Papers On TimeA. You should attend and participate in each class. Sign the attendance sheet at the beginning of each class. The attendance sheet is the official record of your presence in the class. I will record late arrivals, early departures, and absences. You are allowed two emergency absences without penalty. The third absence will count as 35 negative points. The fourth absence will count as an additional 55 negative points. If you are absent five times or more, you will receive a D or lower for the course. Note well: arriving more than half an hour late or leaving more than half an hour early counts as a three-quarter absence. Arriving or leaving between ten and thirty minutes late/early is a late arrival/early departure and counts as ten negative points each time. Habitually arriving up to ten minutes after the class has started will also be noted in negative points. B. If you miss a class, you are responsible for finding out what you missed so that you can arrive at the next class with the assignment completed. I suggest you get the phone numbers of several of your classmates so that you can call them should you miss a class and cannot reach me. C. You should submit assignments by the due dates. You are allowed one late out-of-class paper during the term without penalty if, on the day that the assignment is due, you are present in class and turn in the “No Questions Asked Coupon” (see the end of the syllabus). Exception: you cannot use the coupon for the exams. You must submit the late paper within one week of the due date. If you do not submit a paper because you are absent from class on the day a paper is due, the paper will be counted as late. I will subtract three points for each business day (Monday—Friday) that a paper is late (unless you have used the “No Questions Asked Coupon”). I will accept late papers up to but not more than two weeks after the due date. Exception: I will not accept late papers during or after finals week. If you deliver a late paper to my box in room S2 402 or slip it under my office door, you must write on the cover letter the date you delivered the paper. (If you don’t, I will assume you delivered the paper on the day that I pick it up.) Note well: if you do not submit a paper (draft or revision) within two weeks of the due date, your chances of passing the course are severely reduced since you will not receive points for the assignment. D. There are no exceptions for any other due date. Thus, you are expected to: 1. take the exams on the assigned dates (unless you have made a special arrangement with me at least three days before the exam and received my permission for an alternate date—I will not grant this permission easily); 2. bring drafts to class for peer responses when asked (if you do not bring a draft to a peer response session, you will receive ten negative points); 3. complete assigned readings and written responses to readings (if required) before the classes on which they are due; 4. submit on time any other assigned work (e.g. Error Log Workbook). Note: some assignments cannot be made up. VII. PlagiarismPlagiarism will result in an “F.” Plagiarism means “to steal and pass off the ideas and words of another as one’s own” (Webster’s New World Dictionary). Mission College takes plagiarism very seriously and considers it grounds for failure. Turning in someone else’s work will result in an F and can result in disciplinary action, including suspension or expulsion, by the college administration. Plagiarism includes using words from a published article, book, or another student’s work without acknowledging the source, allowing another student to use your own work, or having a tutor, friend, family member, or anyone else write your paper for you. If you are unsure if you’re plagiarizing or not, ask me before turning in your work. See “Academic Standards and Regulations” in the college catalog for further details on plagiarism.
VIII. Tentative Schedule (subject to change)
IX. Special Needs
Mission College makes reasonable accommodation for persons with documented disabilities. Students should notify DISC (Disability Instructional Support Center), located in S2 – 201 (855-5085), of any special needs. NO QUESTIONS ASKED COUPON >Use this coupon wisely. You get only one during the term.
On the date that an assignment is due, you can turn in this coupon instead. There is no penalty for an assignment that you turn in up to one week late if you have handed in this “NQA” coupon on the date that the assignment is due. However, you must be present in class on the date that the assignment is due in order to use the coupon. Note: you cannot use this coupon for the exams or the case study.<o:p></o:p> Complete all lines below. Please print clearly:
Your Name: ____________________________________________________________ Name of Class: __________________________________________________________ Day the class meets: __________________________________________________ Updated: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 10:07:51 AM by David Lang 12/4/2008; 11:25:30 AM |
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