Linguistics 101: English Composition I for ESL Students
Spring 2008 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Course Information
Instructor: Qian Zhou (Jane)
Ling 101, Section 002
Class Meetings: MWF 2:00~2:50 p.m.
Classroom: Faner 2525
Instructor’s Office: Faner 4333
Office Hours: M&W 10:00~11:00 a.m. or by appointment
Instructor’s Office Number: 618-453-3412
Mailbox: Faner 3233
Email Address: janezhou@siu.edu
Linguistics Main Office and Phone:
Faner 3234/ 618-536-3385
Course Description and Goals
By the end of this course, you should be able to develop the following academic writing skills and strategies:
v Understanding the writing assignments and responding appropriately
v Quoting sources from published authentic texts
v Writing citations accurately
v Avoiding plagiarism
v Planning your own writing (developing a thesis statement, main body and conclusion)
v Giving comments to others’ texts, both in oral and written forms
v Developing your writing from peers’ and instructor’s feedbacks
v Becoming aware of audience when writing an essay
You will practice these skills by completing reading selections, discussing your interpretations, responding to the readings in form of writing, producing your own writing and sharing your drafts with peers. Due to the variety of writing functions, the writing assignments will include different genres of writing like narration, description, analysis, comparison and argumentation.
Required Course Materials
Spatt, B. (2007). Writing from Sources. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin’s
Aaron, J.E. (2007).The Little, Brown Compact Handbook. 6th ed. United States: Pearson Education, Inc.
Recommended Course Materials
Cambridge Dictionary of American English. 5th ed. (2007)
Requirements and Student Responsibilities
All the Writing Tasks
You are required to turn in only hard copies and handwritten papers on all the writing tasks assigned this semester. Homework sent by email will NOT count. In this course, only paper with printed materials or handwritten content is valid. No submission of electronic versions is allowed and doing so will result in your losing all the points for the assignments.
Email Checking
You are required to check your email at least once a day for any possible notification on the issues related with this course. Any notices about this course will be sent to the email address you provided on the Bio-data and Writing Styles Questionnaire. Excuses such as Internet failure, email account difficulties or computer problems will NOT be accepted as a sound reason for your not doing a certain assignment, and point deduction or a failing will result.
Policies on Dealing with Late Work
All writing assignments, including note cards and other types of homework, are due only AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS. Drafts or homework turned in even five minutes after class begins on the due date will be considered late, and point deductions will be implemented. For essays, there will be a 10-point deduction per day for each day beyond the due date. For other assignments, the following shows the scale of deduction:
· Note cards: Any late note card will result in a 1-point deduction.
· Journals: Any late journal will result in a 10-point deduction.
· Other Homework: Any late homework will result in a 5-point deduction.
· Essay Drafts: Any late essay draft will be deducted 10 points per day for each day beyond the due date.
· Peer Response Work: Takes place only in class. If you are unprepared or miss the response workshop, you will get a zero.
· Self-Assessment Summary: Any late self-assessment summary will result in a 10-point deduction.
· Portfolio: Any late portfolio will result in a 10-point deduction per day for each day late.
Please note that no assignments, homework, or journals will be accepted beyond three days late!
Attendance and Class Participation & Absence
Attendance and participation is vital for your success in this class. Your score on attendance and participation will be evaluated based on both your daily attendance and participation in class, your enthusiasm in class and group discussions, completion of peer evaluations, attendance at individual conferences and completion of
in-class assignments. In order to participate, you need to attend class. Three absences or less will not affect your grade, which means you can be absent three times without penalty; However, for each absence beyond your third, a zero will be given for that day.
There are 44 class meetings for this semester; each class meeting is counted 5 points, so the total for “Attendance and Participation” is 220 points. In the process, attendance and participation are each worth 50% of that total. Thus, “attendance” accounts 2.50 points per meeting and “participation” counts 2.50 points per meeting. Consequently, 110 points will be given for full attendance and another 110 points given for full participation. Whoever comes to class but fails to participate, or rather, focuses on doing things that are unrelated to Linguistics 101, will only get 2.50 points of attendance for that day, and lose 2.50 for participation.
Lateness Policy
Our class begins at 2:00 p.m. If you are five or more minutes, but less than 30 minutes late, you will be considered late. If you are 30 or more minutes late, you will be counted absent. Three accumulated tardiness/lateness will be counted as one absence.
If you miss class, you are responsible for making up the work that you have missed-you should find out what you have missed and borrow necessary notes or handouts from your classmates before the next class meeting.
Extra credit: If you have no absences or tardiness, you will earn 5 points extra towards your final grade.
Classroom Rules
· Come to class on time. If you do happen to arrive late, please do not disrupt others.
· Turn off cell phones before coming to class. If you are expecting an important phone call, notify me before class and have your phone on vibration while you are in class.
· No eating is allowed in class, but water or soft drinks are fine.
· Be respectful and considerate to everyone in the classroom.
· Please raise your hand and wait for your turn while another person or the instructor is speaking.
· Please avoid any unnecessary talking during lecture and group work.
Readings on Textbooks and Handouts & Note cards
You will be assigned to do some readings throughout this course, either from your books or from handouts given in class. You are expected to do the assigned readings and discuss them in class. For each assigned reading, you will need to write your own opinions on, reflections about and/or questions you may have on the text you have read on a note card which will be due at the beginning of class. Don’t worry. You will not have to write a lot; 2-3 lines are enough!
If assigned, note cards will be due at the beginning of each class, account for a total of 50 points.
Other Homework
Other than note cards, there will be other homework assignments. All these writings take 50 points in total, and the average score will be given to each completement.
Essays
In this course, you will compose three different essays:
a) You will write about yourself on a topic created on your own in the personal essay assignment.
*No religious, political or controversial topics such as Christianity, war and abortion are allowed.*
b) You will present your source’s point of views as well as your own views in the single-source essay. You will either support or argue against your source’s standpoint in this assignment.
c) You will synthesize three or more sources and develop a broad generalization that encompasses your source material in the multiple-source essay assignment.
**Each assignment will be evaluated on the basis of organization, content, logic and language use. Specific criteria will be given for each assignment. **
For each assignment, you will be required to write two drafts. The first draft is your initial or original writing, on which, you will receive feedback from both your peers and the instructor in order to help your later revision and editing. The second draft is your final version which demonstrates your modification, revision and editing of the original draft after the comments or feedbacks are reviewed. Therefore, the final draft is you mature version of the essay. Both the first and final draft of each assignment will be evaluated for a grade.
Written Peer Response
You will be required to respond to your peers’ first drafts three times during the semester. At the same time, you will receive feedbacks from your peers. To do so, you will be provided with a peer response form for each assignment, on which, you will answer all the questions listed. The peer response session will take place in the class period when the first drafts are due.
30 points total, 10 for each essay
Journal Entry Writing
Throughout this semester, you will practice writing in English without worrying about errors on journal entry writing. A journal entry is like a diary where you freely write your thoughts and ideas. You will either be given topics to write on or compose anything you want for the five journals required this semester.
100 points total, 20 for each journal
Self-Assessment Summary
You will be asked to evaluate yourself after completing all the writing assignments at the end of the semester. The self-assessment summary is a reflective letter explaining your progress during the course, what you have learned, what you have improved and so on, from taking this course.
20 points total
Portfolio
As mentioned above, during this course, you will receive several handouts, do in-class activities, complete different homework writing tasks, write journals, compose two drafts on three essays, complete peer-response evaluations and write a self-assessment summary. So, you will include all this paperwork in a folder called “portfolio” in an orderly way, turn it in at the end of the semester and receive a grade for that. As long as you include everything sequentially and neatly, you will receive the full credit for this assignment.
You will not need to write anything extra for this portfolio, so don’t worry! The purpose of this portfolio is to encourage you to attend class regularly and organize relevant materials orderly in normal times. In case you have to miss class, it is your responsibility to get the handouts and anything else that was given during the class period you have missed from your classmates in order to include them into your portfolio.
50 points total
Essay Format
All drafts must:
1. be typed, double–spaced and numbered
2. have one-inch margins on all sides
3. be stapled on the left upper corner
4. use 12-point font size and “Times New Roman” font style
5. include your name, course number, instructor’s name, the date, the assignment and draft number on the left upper corner of the first page.
Example: Mike Lee
Ling 101
Instructor: Qian Zhou (Jane)
February 15th, 2008
Personal Essay, First Draft
Assignment Due Dates
You will be given a due date for each assignment. Thus, you have to bring to class two copies of your assignment at the beginning of class. Late work will result in corresponding point deductions based on the time it is turned in.
*I recommend that you not wait until the last minute to print out or make copies of your drafts.* Computer, printer or Internet failure will NOT be considered an acceptable reason to explain why you cannot turn in the drafts on the due dates.
If you are sick and indeed cannot come to class the day the draft is due, you will need to have a friend or a classmate bring the draft to the class or to my mailbox in Faner Hall Room 3233 by the beginning of class that day. Also, you will have to attach an official document from either the doctor or the clinic with the time and a note explaining why you could not be in class. If you have an extreme emergency that prevents you from turning in your draft on time, contact me before class and we will discuss the situation. You can reach me by phone or email. In case you cannot find me, call the Linguistics Department at 536-3385 and leave a message including your name and phone number. If you miss the class when a draft is due and do not have anyone turn it in for you, with no message or explanation at all, it will be considered late and graded accordingly.
Assessment and Grading Policies
Your course grade will be assessed on the basis of the following weighted scale:
Assignments Points
v Personal Essay…………………………………………………………......100 (40+60)
First Draft…………………………………………………………………........40
Final Draft…………………………………………………………………........60
v Single-Source Essay……………………………………………………….150 (60+90)
First Draft………………………………………………………………….........60
Final Draft………………………………………………………………….........90
v Multiple-Source Essay……………………………………………………200 (80+120)
First Draft………………………………………………………………….........80
Final Draft………………………………………………………………….........120
v Written Peer Response…………………………………………………...30 (10×3)
v Journals……………………………………………………………………......100 (20×5)
v Self-Assessment Summary……………………………………………...20
v Note Cards………………………………………………………………........50
v Other Homework Writing………………………………………………..50
v Portfolio………………………………………………………………….........50
v Class Attendance……………………………………………………….......110 (44×2.5)
v Class Participation……………………………………………………….....110 (44×2.5)────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Total 970
Course Grades
A=90%~100% (873~970 points)
B=80%~89% (776~872 points)
C=70%~79% (679~775 points)
D=60%~69% (582~678 points)
F=below 60% (below 582 points)
Writing Center: http://www.siu.edu/~write/
The Writing Center is a great place to talk to another writer about your writing. Tutors there can help you improve your writing skills. They can help you develop new strategies of writing at any stage in your writing process. For example, they can help you choose and/or refine a topic, formulate thesis statements, develop your ideas, organize paragraphs, create transitions between and within paragraphs and identify grammatical errors-the possibilities are virtually endless. However, they do not edit or proofread your work.
The Writing Center has four locations: Faner 2281, Morris Library (basement of the library, Rm.30), Trueblood Hall Learning Resource Center (lower level) and Lents Hall Learning Resource Center(lower level). You can schedule an appointment or just drop in and wait for a tutor- it’s free!
I encourage you to go to the Writing Center and work with these tutors, not only for this course but for any course that requires writing essays, reports etc. I believe you will find it very helpful. Be sure to have a conference summary sent to me after your session informing me the date you visited the Center and the areas you have worked with your tutor.
Honesty and Use of Secondary Sources
In academic writing in the U.S., writers are expected to give credits to the people from whom they borrow their ideas or quotes by citing the authors in their texts. Not doing so is called plagiarism, which means taking someone else’s words, writing, ideas and presenting them as your own without giving credit to the original author. In many other cultures, it is not necessary to cite the names of authors from whom ideas have been borrowed. Many international students come from cultures where it is considered a sign of education and honor to use the exact words of established authors. However, this is not the case in the U.S.
In this course, you will be expected to cite any secondary source from which you borrowed quotes and/or ideas. Do not plagiarize-the penalties for doing so are extremely serious. Consult the Student Conduct Code, Section II, Part A in Important Information for Students, Faculty and Staff for Southern Illinois University’s policy on academic dishonesty and plagiarism.
Emergency Procedures
Sothern Illinois University Carbondale is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for study and work. Because some health and safety circumstances are beyond our control, we ask that you become familiar with the SIUC Emergency Response Plan and Building Emergency Response Team (BERT) program. Emergency response information is available on posters in buildings on campus, available on the BERT’S website at www.bert.siu.edu, Department of Public Safety’s website www.dps.siu.edu (disaster drop down) and in the Emergency Response Guidelines pamphlet. Know how to respond to each type of emergency.
Instructors will provide guidance and direction to students in the classroom in the event of an emergency affecting your location. It is important that you follow these instructions and stay with your instructor during an evacuation or sheltering emergency. The Building Emergency Response Team will provide assistance to your instructor in evacuating the building or sheltering within the facility.
Final note
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me through email, phone or stop by my office. If my office hours are not convenient for you, we will find a time together that is convenient for both of us and meet. I am more than happy to help all of you!
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