Office: Foster 219

(360) 992-2215 (24 hr. voice and e-mail available, though only checked M-F).

URL: thor.clark.edu/korprt

Office Hours: MWF 11-Noon; TTh 3-4, and by appt.

Required Course Books and Materials

1. Bedford Handbook, 6^th edition, Hacker.

2. Supplementary Syllabus—This document supplements the basic course management information given here. All students MUST READ this document prior to the second class meeting. Codicils of this document will be enforced starting in the second class meeting.

3. English Dept. Policies and Procedures Handout—This will be provided to you in class. Reading it is an assignment for this class.

4. Various reading assignments from the Internet will be made via assignment sheets. Please review each assignment sheet carefully for these.

5. A three-ring binder for submission of the paper with photocopies of reference sources used.

6. A notebook system with which to take notes in class, in the library, and at home. Some of the class will involve lecture, but much of it will involve hands-on modeling exercises.

7. A 3.5-inch floppy disk for use in Hawkins Lab. Be sure to label your disk with your name, class number, and my name in case you lose it.

Course Components—Assignment sheets will be given on all assignments.

1. Library Exercise—12 percent. Covers Dept. SLO 1 & 3.

2. Proposal—4 percent. Covers SLOs 1, 3, 6, & 7.

3. Bibliography Checkpoint—4 percent. Covers SLO 7.

4. Annotated Bibliography—24 percent. Covers SLOs 1, 3, 6, & 7. . No late papers accepted.

5. Research Paper—40 percent. Minimum 3000 words and 10 sources except with instructor permission. Students are REQUIRED to turn in a rough draft (may be partial) at the first submission date, and are REQUIRED to turn in the full and complete draft with marked first copy at the final submission date. Failure to submit on either date might result in course failure, which can be avoided via withdrawal through . Covers SLOs 5 & 7.

· First draft due May 20 (early submissions encouraged). Papers will be returned by .

· Final draft due by 6 pm,

6. Final Presentation—4 percent. Covers SLOs 1, 3, 5, 6, & 7. Assignment will be made orally in class in week 9. Completed in class, Week 10.

7. Final Bibliography—8 percent. Covers SLO 7. Submitted with the final draft of the research paper.

8. Participation—4 percent. Covers SLOs 8 & 9. Calculated after last class meeting.

Late Paper Policy

All students need to be aware of item 26 of the English Department Policies and Practices. This codicil defines the department stance on late paper policies. Specific late submission policies will be covered on each specific assignment sheet.

Students who cannot attend class on a paper due date may call me to let me know that they will not be turning in the paper on time (this will NOT apply to either research paper draft). I will allow ONE undocumented submission in such cases; in other words, if you cannot make it on a second paper due date, you will need to provide documentation for me to consider in order to allow submission. Remember, papers may be submitted via e-mail as well (see supplementary syllabus for instructions).

Attendance Policy

All students need to be aware of item 27 of the English Department Policies and Practices. This codicil defines the department stance on attendance policies.

Students are expected to attend class. A student who misses class is solely responsible for making up work and/or picking up handouts or graded assignments. Students who miss class 20 percent of classes (4 classes) may be asked to withdraw; students will fail participation if they miss four classes. Students who attend class less than 70 percent of the time will be failed as they will not have achieved a passing percentage of attendance on the scale defined below (70 percent or better required for passing).

Emergencies will be handled individually, confidentially, and at my discretion, if appropriate documentation is given, but in all cases, any action must be fair to all students within the class.

Tardiness

Students who are tardy are expected to enter the class with a minimum of disturbance. Persistent tardiness of whatever length may be considered a conduct problem and may result in conference or request for withdrawal.

Course Grading

On an assignment where a point scale is used, I use the following scale:

90-100 A 80-89 B 70-79 C 69 and below F

This point total is then converted to the letter grade assigned. After a letter grade is given on an assignment, a numerical value is assigned to the grade based upon the following scale:

A 15	A— 14	B+ 13	B 12	B— 11
C+ 10	C 9	D 5	F 1	Z 0

The values assigned above are multiplied by the percentage value of the assignment, and a point value is obtained. Before a final grade is assigned, the following is considered:

1. A student who receives an F on the research paper will fail the class.

2. A student who receives a D on the research paper will only be eligible for one of three grades: C, D, or F. A C will be earned if a student’s point total meets the minimum C threshold below.

3. A student must have submitted all assignments in a timely manner as defined by the late paper policies on each assignment sheet.

4. A student may not have more than 40 percent F grades.

5. Student must meet class attendance requirements.

Once these five conditions have been met, the student’s final point total is then placed on the following scale:

A 1425-1500	A— 1350-1424	B+ 1250-1349
B 1150-1249	B— 1050-1149	C+ 950-1049
C 750-949	D 300-749	F 0-299

Note: The grades of C—, D+, and D— are not used in this course.

W’s and I’s

Students have the right to withdraw from the course according to the deadlines found in the time schedule. All withdrawals are handled via the registration office in Gaiser Hall. For the period when my signature is needed for withdrawal, I recommend using office hours to find me or, if necessary, call me to make an appointment. If I cannot be found, the Division Chair or Instructional Dean has been given permission by me to sign withdrawal forms (I can and will revoke such permission in the case of plagiarists). S. Students who are enrolled after that date will receive a grade.

Incompletes will only be given if a great majority of the work is done and if the student has some compelling need to have a little more time to finish. Documentation is generally required for incompletes.

Radical Topic Changes—“radical” will be defined in class.

Before the Proposal—Students may change their topics as many times as they want to before the proposal due date of .
Before the Annotated Bibliography—Students may change their paper topic before the annotated bibliography due date of if the following items happen: (a) they confer with the instructor outside of class time, and (b) they submit a new and fully developed proposal on or before the annotated bibliography due date. Only one topic change will be allowed in this period. The original proposal grade is retained.
Before the Research Paper—Students may change their topic before the research paper first draft due date of of the following items happen: (a) they confer with the instructor outside of class time, (b) they submit a written rationale justifying their topic change, (c) they submit a new and fully developed proposal (original grade retained—see codicil 3, Course Grading as with above), (d) they submit a new annotated bibliography using the new paper topic on or before the rough draft due date (the grade of the new annotated bibliography will be used for the final course grade), and (e) they submit a FULL AND COMPLETE rough draft by the deadline of (in other words, a partial draft will not be accepted if you change topics after the annotated bibliography is due. Once a rough draft is submitted, a topic change cannot occur unless I instruct you to do so.
After Rough Draft Deadline—Only instructor-commenced changes allowed.

Plagiarism

Please note the following codicils on the problem of plagiarism:

1. Intentional plagiarism is the use of materials that have not been originally created by the “author” who has chosen to put his or her name on the paper. This is covered on the Department Statement on Plagiarism in the paragraph that starts “The purchase of . . .” This also includes intentionally taking papers or articles off of the web and passing them off as one’s own. Any incident of intentional plagiarism will result in a report being made to the Student Development Office and failure of the course upon due process proceedings.

A repeat of unintentional plagiarism after such an act has been previously identified, and instruction or identification given to the student, will then be considered intentional plagiarism. The same penalties on course failure will apply; report to the Student Development Office may also be made.

2. Unintentional plagiarism results from lack of knowledge about proper use of punctuation, wording, and documentation. Many students will make mistakes of improper paraphrase or summary in a paper, and part of my job is to teach how to avoid this. If a student submits a complete rough draft on time, the student will have the opportunity to revise these problems; a student who submits a partial rough draft who unintentionally plagiarizes within the remainder of the draft (those parts not reviewed by the instructor as they did not exist) will be failed at the end. Students who cannot fix unintentional plagiarism in revision will receive failing grades. Unintentional plagiarism will be defined in class.

Nature of this Document

All handouts given during the quarter are extended parts of the syllabus. Please be sure to read them carefully and to ask questions about those things that you do not understand. Students must also be aware that other documents published by the college—Supplementary Syllabus, Clark College Computing Policy, English Dept. Policies and Practices, the Student Code of Conduct, the time schedule for the current quarter, and the Clark College Catalog—affect the conduct of this class.