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Attendance | Participation
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Guidelines |
- Attendance
- The class attendance
policy is pretty straightforward: I expect you to be on time and to
attend all the scheduled classes and conferences. If you do miss a
class, you must make it up and you also must still turn (on time)
in any work due that day.
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If you know in
advance that you'll miss a class, let me know as soon as possible
in writing via e-mail -- even if you also tell me verbally.
Athletes with away games should provide me with a complete schedule
of their trips at the beginning of the quarter. If you are absent
due to illness, family emergency, or other unexpected events, please
contact me as soon as possible so that we can determine a make-up
plan for the work that you miss. If you are absent more than twice
during a quarter, it may adversely affect your grade.
- Participation
- Class discussion,
peer review, practicing presentations, and workshopping student writing
are all important parts of the PWR learning experience, and I have
no doubt that you will contribute positively to all these activities.
However, always remember to be respectful of your classmates, both
in your written and verbal comments; tactless, negative or demeaning
remarks - even if you are "only kidding" -- don't have a
place in our classroom.
- Conferences
and Office Hours
- This quarter,
we will meet for conferences at different stages of your research:
during brainstorming, during writing, and during the development of
your oral presentation. We may also have some group conferences to
discuss the collaborative work you'll be doing in class.
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- In addition,
you will make an appointment to consult at least once with an Oral
Communication Tutor (OCT) from the Oral
Communications Program. This peer tutor can offer you additional
advice and instruction in brainstorming, drafting, and revising your
oral presentations. OCTs have gone through an intensive training process
and are an invaluable resource for those students interested in refining
their presentation skills.
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the Conferences link to confirm
the date, time, and location of your conferences. |
Attendance at all
these conferences is mandatory, and since rescheduling missed conferences
is often difficult if not impossible, please take note of the date,
time and location of any confernece that you have signed up for.
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- You may also
come and see me during my on-campus office hours (12:15-1:15pm on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in room 335 of Margaret Jacks Hall)
or online during my AIM office hours (Wednesdays 10:30-midnight: screenname
steener67). If none of these times work for you, you can schedule
an appointment to meet with me at a different time.
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- Submission
Guidelines
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You will be asked
to submit works in many different forms for this class. Below are
some common conventions for submissions, although some assignments
might have more specific directions.
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- You
should include a cover letter as
a preface to your proposal presentation script, your feature article
revision, the academic presentation script, and the applied argument
script that provides me with a framework for and introduction to your
submission -- with special reference to your process, struggles, and
triumphs. In addition, your cover memo must very specifically address
some of your rhetorical decisions, for instance related to rhetorical
appeals (pathos, logos, ethos), to kairos,
to the
five canons of rhetoric, or to the rhetorical situtation.
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- All submissions
should be archived in your forum folder: text files should be attached
as doc files or pdfs. The coverletter should be cut and pasted into
your message post when you upload your file into the forum. Please
check the individual assignment sheets for specific instructions about
submission.
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Academic
writing
Traditional
academic writing should be typed, double-spaced, with roughly
one-inch margins. You should use MLA documentation style, and
all sources should be cited appropriately. Visuals are welcomed
(and encouraged) in academic writing, as long as they are used
effectively as evidence or argumentation (rather than as decoration),
are integrated strategically into your text, and are cited appropriately
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| Mediated
News Writing
Mediated
news writing includes those texts that were created to follow
a specific news convention: the newsmagazine feature; the newspaper
column; the editorial. Each of these submissions should be printed
out and should follow the conventions of the type of writing
that you emulating, both in terms of writing style and physical
layout (including use of images). If your mediated news writing
takes the form of a video-taped news spot, you should submit
a copy of your detailed script (a full script, not a series
of notes) along with your video file.
For a submission
of this nature, please include in your cover letter a discussion
of the features of that particular form of news writing that
you employed as well as a description of how you implemented
those characteristics into your own text. You may include a
sample of a model for your document (a link or a hard copy)
if you like.
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| Oral
Presentations
Oral presentations
will be taped by an OCT or by me during the time of their performance.
However, students are responsible for archiving in their forum
folder any powerpoint slides, video clips, links, that are used
in the presentation. In addition, students should post the script
for their presentation.
As
in the case with the other assignments, any presentation materials
submitted should be prefaced by a cover letter that discusses
the following as applicable:
- the rhetorical
strategies used in designing and scripting the presentation
(i.e, pathos, logos, ethos, kairos, the 5 canons of rhetoric
-- you do not need to cover all of these)
- the
OCT meeting -- at what stage in the process it took place
and how that influenced the form of the final version of the
presentation
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the comments generated by peer review and how those comments
influenced subsequent revision of the presentation
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cover letter should be pasted into the message post area when
the material is uploaded onto the course forum; the cover memo
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A Note
on Late
Work:
Unless
you have received my permission at least 24 hours in advance of the
due date in writing, late work will be graded
down at the rate of a half a grade per day late. After one week, I
reserve the right not to accept late work at all. You will not pass
this class unless you complete and submit each of the major assignments
for this class.
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