Required Textbook: John Langan's College Writing Skills with Readings, 3rd. ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993).

Late Assignment Policy: Assignments can be turned in during class periods only. A one-week late assignment is docked one full letter grade or 10 out of 100 points; a two-week late assignment is docked two letter grades or 20 out of 100 points. Work not turned in two-weeks after the due date will receive a grade of 0.

Attendance Policy: If you miss 1 month of class (4 weeks or 4 classes), you will be dropped or fail the course.

Drop Policy: To avoid getting an F on your transcript for a class you have dropped, you need to notify registration and your teacher as soon as you decide to drop a class.

Cheating: If you use another person's ideas or words without saying that the ideas or words are not yours, you are cheating. You will receive an F for the assignment and can receive an F for the class if the cheating is wide spread and malicious.

Discrimination: The school forbids students to harass other students on the basis of "race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or political affiliation, age or sexual orientation" (Chaffey College Catalog 1994-95) 25). Note that the inclusion of "sexual orientation" means that no anti-homosexual or anti-heterosexual comments are permitted in class!

Grading Policy
Ten Writing Assignments (see class schedule for specifics) 60%
Other Work and Class Participation 30%
Final Exam 10%

9/10 Introduction, Essay Form, Outlining, Using Specific Details

Homework due 9/17: (typed) "Life without Television" Activity (pp. 59-61) (3% of final grade); read pp. 3-61; handouts

9/17 Examples, Thesis, Parallelism, Research Topics

Homework due 9/24: (typed) "Problems with My Apartment" Writing Assignment (pp. 125-127) (3% of final grade); read 258-273; Activity, pp. 261-2; Activity, pp. 263-4; read pp. 62-86

9/24 Definition, Transitions, Introductions, Conclusions, Titles, Using the Library

Homework due 10/1: (typed) "The Meaning of Maturity" Writing Assignment (pp. 174-5) (5% of final grade); Activities 1-3, p. 266; Activities, pp. 268-9 and p. 271;

10/1 Division and Classification, Evaluating Essays, Commonly Confused Words

Homework due 10/8: (typed) "College Stress" Writing Assignment (pp. 186 7) (5% of final grade); Activity, pp. 272-3

10/8 Summary, Quotation Marks, Effective Word Choice

Homework due 10/15: (typed) Summary of "Power Learning" Activity (pp. 240-5) (6% of final grade); read pp. 274-293; Activity, p. 282

10/15 Writing A Research Paper, Additional Information About Verbs, Subject and Verbs, Sentence Fragments

Homework due 10/22: (typed) Summary of Research Topic Article (6% of final grade); read pp. 247-250; Review Tests 1 and 3, pp. 315, 317

10/22 Reports, Run-Ons, Comma

Homework due 10/29: (typed) Report on Research Topic Book (6% of final grade); Review Test 4, p. 329; Review Test 4, p. 414

10/29 Cause and Effect, Regular and Irregular Verbs, Subject-Verb Agreement, Consistent Verb Tense

Homework due 11/5: (typed) Short Paper on Research Topic using Sources--Cause and Effect Method of Development (3 pages plus Works Cited page)(6% of final grade); Review Test 2, p. 338; Review Test 3, p. 344

11/5 Apostrophe, Other Punctuation Marks, Modifiers, Capital Letters

Homework due 11/12: Review Test 3, p. 360; Review Test 2, p. 391; read pp. 517-521; Reading Comprehension Questions, pp. 521-523

11/12 Argument and Persuasion, Pronouns, "Smash Thy Neighbor"

Homework due 11/19: (typed) Short Paper on Research Topic using Sources-- Argument Method of Development (3 pages plus Works Cited page) (10% of final grade); read pp. 584-589; reading comprehension questions, pp. 590-1

11/19 Adjectives and Adverbs, Editing Tests, "Advertising Claims," "Here's to Your Health"

Homework due 11/26: read pp. 614-619; reading comprehension questions, pp. 619-620; read pp. 623-625; reading comprehension questions, pp.625-627; read pp. 647-9; reading comprehension questions, pp. 649-650

11/26 Discussion of Readings, Research Paper Progress

Homework due 12/3: (typed) Research Paper using Sources (6-10 pages plus Works Cited page) (10% of final grade)

12/3 Review Class

12/10 Final Exam