Syllabus for English 3236

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="040d4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B>Ray Knight's Learning Experiments </B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ray Knights Learning Experiments "><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>Syllabus for English 3236</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Handouts for English 3236"><U>Handouts for English 3236</U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Schedule and Readings for 3236"><U>Schedule and Readings for 3236</U></A></div> <div> Syllabus for English 3236</div> <div> <A HREF="id64.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Schedule and Readings for 3236"><U>Schedule and Readings</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id65.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Handouts for English 3236"><U>Handouts</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Classes offered this semester"><U>back to Classes offered this Semester</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> University of Puerto Rico - RUM English Department</div> <div> <B>Course Syllabus for English 3236, Fall 2007</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Professor</U></B>:  Raymond Knight  <B><U>Email:</U></B>  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="mailto:r_knightprof@hotmail.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:r_knightprof@hotmail.com"><U><U>r_knightprof@hotmail.com</U></U></A></FONT>,  <B><U>phone</U></B>:  x3102**</div> <div> <B><U>Office</U></B>:  Ch-110B, <B><U>Office Hours</U></B>:  MWF 12:30-1:30pm, Tues/Thurs 9:00-10:30am, & by appointment      <B><U>Class-related website</U></B>:  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://academic.uprm.edu/rknight" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://academic.uprm.edu/rknight"><U><U>http://academic.uprm.edu/rknight</U></U></A></FONT> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Catalog and course description</B>:  Technical Report Writing.  Three credit hours.</div> <div> English 3236 focuses on supervised writing with emphasis on clearness, correctness, conciseness, completeness, and appropriate tone: practice in organizing paragraphing, sentence structre, word choice, grammar and punctuation.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Prerequisites</B>:  Successful completion of English 3202, 3104, or 3012.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Textbook</B>:  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/"><U><U>http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/</U></U></A></FONT> </div> <div> This is an online textbook. Reading schedule to be announced.  Supplementary materials may be made available from a variety of sources, including newspapers, journals, Internet documents/websites, the library, etc.  These materials may be on paper or in electronic form.</div> <div> <U>Additional materials</U>:  Students are expected to have access to and to use college-level dictionaries in their reading and writing for this class.     </div> <bR> <div> <B>Course objectives & Student learning outcomes</B>:  By the end of this course, students will be able to compose and revise a variety of types of technical writing assignments such as resumés, letters, memos, abstracts, summaries, descriptions (objects and processes), and proposals in addition to create and deliver professional oral presentations.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Course topics and projects</B>:  We will work with the following major topic areas during the semester:  </div> <div> Writing process in technical writing (purpose, audience, strategies)</div> <div> Elements of document design, analyzing documents</div> <div> Informative writing, describing and defining, arguing, </div> <div> Job related documents (resumés, cover letters, memos, etc)</div> <div> Reports and proposals, abstracts, summaries, </div> <div> Ethics and legal issues in professional writing, plagiarism</div> <div> Oral presentations</div> <div> Both individual and group projects or tasks will be used in approaching and discussing these topics, and the focus will be on identifying the communication problems present in a given situation and how best to resolve these problems.  Class writing will follow a process approach to writing.  Internet tools and websites will be used for some classwork and as objects of study and discussion.  </div> <div> Instructional strategies include: conference, workshop, discussion, groupwork projects [individual and group], peer reviews. </div> <bR> <div>      VI.  <B>Evaluation Scale:</B></div> <div>           Attendance and participation…………………………..10%</div> <div>           Written assignments……………………………………40%*</div> <div>           Quizzes…………………………………………………10%</div> <div>           Proposal / project……………………………………….20%*</div> <div>           Oral Presentation……………………………………….10%</div> <div>           Final Exam……………………………………………..10%*</div> <div>           *Where possible, the final exam will be based on one or more of a                     student's earlier written assignments.</div> <bR> <div> VII.  <B>Class policies</B>: </div> <div>           <U>Attendance</U>:  Attendance is mandatory, as is active participation in all class activities.  Students may have three absences before this directly affects their final grade.  After this, final letter grades are lowered by one letter every subsequent absence.</div> <div> Students who miss classes are still responsible for finding out and completing assignments on time.</div> <div>           <U>Participation</U>:  Class participation involves being prepared before class, actively discussing, answering (or asking) questions, giving opinions, collaborating in peer reviews, etc.  <I>Simply being present is not the same as participating</I>.  </div> <div>           <U>Late work</U>: Work turned in late (without an accepted excuse) will lose 10% of the grade for every day late.  Late assignments will not be accepted after 5 days.          <U>Email use</U>:  All students need to provide an accurate working email address.  This will be used for communicating with the professor, who may send assignments, quizzes, materials, links, and related information by email.  In addition, groups may need to use email [or perhaps blogs or wikis] for collaborative writing assignments  in this class.  Students are expected to check their email accounts regularly, and also when the professor announces in class that he will send something by email.  In addition, as discussed in class (CYA J), you should always send yourself a copy of any assignment sent by email to your professor for reference in case of any confusion or dispute.</div> <div>           <U>Computer access and use</U>:  Computers are available in many areas in Colegio, including Ch-112, Ch-325, the library, and your respective departments.  It is your responsibility to make arrangements to use the Colegio's resources when necessary  just as you do to access the regular library</div> <div>           <B><U>Plagiarism:</U></B>  Plagiarism will result in an F on the particular assignment.  Plagiarism occurring after the unit on plagiarism will result in an F in the entire course.</div> <bR> <div> : <B>English Department Grading Scale</B></div> <div> A  (90-100),   B (80-89.9),  C  (70-79.9),  D  (65-69.9)</div> <div>      <I>Perfect attendance and completion of all assignments does not guarantee a      particular grade, but obviously, it improves your chances of getting an A or a B in      the class.</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Drop Deadline</B>: </div> <div>  This semester's drop deadline is Thursday, November 1st. </div> <bR> <div>      X.  <B>According to Law 51</B></div> <div> Students will identify themselves with the Institution and the instructor of the course for purposes of assessment (exams) accommodations. For more information please call the Student with Disabilities Office which is part of the Dean of Students office (Chemistry Building, room 019) at  (787)265-3862 or (787)832-4040 extensions 3250 or 3258.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>