The Tier I Stretch (ENG 11001 & ENG 11002): This is the first writing requirement for all undergraduates, and students are expected to complete Tier I during their first year of study. This is a two-course squence of classes: Introduction to College Writing-S (ENG 11001and College Writing I-S (ENG 11002). Students either test into this two-semester sequence of classes, or they choose to take it because they wish to develop their writing skills at a slower pace. The goals and objectives for this writing sequence are the same as those for ENG 11011 (College Writing I), and the same material is covered. However, students must pass with a C or better before contining on to the second half of the sequence. (NOTE: A C- does not count as passing for this class!)

Goals and Objectives for Tier I (ENG 11011 OR ENG 11001 & ENG 11002):
1. To learn how to recognize and strategically use the conventions of academic literacy.
-- Control formal features of syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
-- Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics.
-- Demonstrate appropriate means of documenting their work.
-- Learn common formats fro different contexts.

2. To understand and use rhetorical principles to produce public and private documents appropriate for academic and professional audiences and purposes.
-- Focus on a purpose.
-- Respond to the needs of different audiences.
-- Use conventions of format and structure appropriate to the rhetorical situation.
-- Adopt appropriate voice, tone, and level of formality.
-- Use various technological tools to explore texts.

3. To practice good writing, including planning, revision, editing, evaluating sources, and working with others.
-- Develop flexible strategies for generating, revising, editing, and proofreading.
-- Use writing as an open process that permits writers to revise their work.
-- Learn to critique their own and others' works.
-- Learn the advantages and responsibilities of writing as a collaborative act.

4. To practice the processes of good reading.
-- Experience and use the many layers of meaning implicit in "texts."
-- Interact with a text to question the ideas it presents and the language it uses.
-- Read and respond to written and visual texts.
-- Learn to proofread and edit documents for academic and professional audiences.

5. To learn Web and digital environments valued by the university, for example, some or all of the following:
-- Use the internet as a research tool.
-- Use word processing.
-- Back up files on CDs or jump drives.
-- Send and receive email.
-- Enter discussion in chat rooms.
-- Access Web Vista.

6. To learn and practice how writing, at the university, is often based on previous research and inquiry and how to use this research in your writing.
-- Use writing and reading for inquiry, rather than merely reporting.
-- Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources.
-- Integrate your own ideas with those of others (that is, integrate sources to support your own stance).

Requirements for Tier I ( ENG 11001 & ENG 11002):
1. To write approximately 20 pages (double spaced 12pt. font) of graded writing. In addition to these formal graded pieces of writing, students will also produce informal writing that may consist of, but is not limited to, journals, process or research logs, responses to reading assignments, free-write activities, peer responses, and multiple drafts of each graded, formal writing assignment.

2. To develop a minimum of 6 papers: 2 papers on slected topics and 1 reflective paper per semester.

3. To develop papers that have a point; that is, personal experience, narratives, or other modes should not be assigned for their own sake but to further a continuing argument or thesis. To focus on a variety of textual lengths and difficulties.

4. To document at least one paper with research that uses a recognizable documentation format and style.

GRADES:
Hounding Productions Bulletin Board DaisyDiversity Fall 2009 Forum Participation (10%): This online forum will be conducted at http://houndingproductions.net/bb/. The purpose of this forum is to expand and otherwise supplement class discussion. Your written words must reflect quality of thought and directly pertain to the topic, so if you want to be clever or silly (or anything else), such verbiage does not count toward the grade (but will most likely be enjoyed by all who read it). Your writing will be graded for content (depth of thought, support, critical analysis, and development of ideas).  The requirements are:
~~2 topic sets (one set has six topics);
~~ 50-100 words per entry
~~ at least one entry per topic
~~ suggested: at least one entry per week (on average)--waiting until the last minute to complete all entries is your risk
~~ late entries: do not count for more than 0 points
~~ missing entries: do not count for more than -5 points

FIRST DRAFT ESSAYS 1-3 (30%): These drafts will be roughly 2-3 pages long (12 pt. font, double spaced) and in MLA format.  Two of these esays will be written in response to a list of topics; the third will be a reflective essay.  These essays will be graded for organization, depth of thought, unity, and content structure (introduction, thesis statement, well developed body paragraphs with topic sentences, conclusion).  

SECOND DRAFT ESSAYS 1 & 2 (20%): The rewrites must be roughly 4-6 pages long (12 pt. font, double spaced) and in MLA format.  These papers must show significant improvement--not only corrections made in direct response to my commentary on the content, but also changes made based upon your own re-evaluation and based upon peer-evaluation. In addition, these revisions must show significant expansions that incorporate the texts we have been reading or the films we have been viewing for class.  Finally, these revisions will be graded for grammar and other coherence-related matters.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION (5%): Students will convert an essay into an illustrated presentation (PowerPoint, blog, web page or a similar medium), which they will present to the class at the end of the semester.

PORTFOLIO (35%): You must turn in two copies of your portfolio, each copy stapled together.
Each copy of the portfolio must include the following:
-- Final (3rd) Draft of Essay One
-- Final (3rd) Draft of Essay Two
-- Final (2nd) Draft of Reflective Essay
In addition, you must turn in all previously graded drafts (as part of one portfolio).
Late portfolios will not be accepted!