En 120a—Expository Writing

Tuesday/Thursday 8:30—10:00 Rm 1

Instructor: David Jenkins

e-mail: djenkyns@comfsm.fm

Office Hours: M/W/F 2:30—3:30 T/Th 11:30—12:30

Course Objectives:

To help students improve their academic writing and learn to write essays in a variety of different rhetorical modes. Sentence structures, as well as grammar will be stressed. Learning to edit and rewrite compositions is also very important.

Course Work:

Every week you will be expected to complete exercises from the textbook. Supplemental material will also be given to you on the nature of writing and the structure of the English language and this will count towards your grade as well.

Textbook:

Refining Composition Skills: Rhetoric and Grammar

Fifth Edition Smalley/Ruetten/Kozyrev

Grading:

Writing Assn: 20% Four short papers

Assessment: 20% (Class Participation/homework)

Mid-term 20%

Final 40%

A=90—100

B=80—89

C=70—79

D=60—69

F=Below 60

Class Attendance:

Students who are absent for more than four sessions can be automatically dropped from the course. A total of four includes both excused and unexcused absences.

If you come more than ten minutes late to class you can be marked absent for half the class. If you come more than twenty minutes late, you can be marked absent for the