COURSE OUTLINE
0101-150.01 and 0202-150.01
Effective Writing I
Winter 2006
Instructor: Jill Singleton-Jackson, Ph.D.
Phone: 253-3000, ext. 4706
Email:
Office: CHT 209C
Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30/T 10-11
Mailbox – CHS 167
Teaching assistants:
John Cappucci, Head TA and Assistant to the Coordinator /Megan Harris, Senior TA /
Sarah Butler /
Paula Castonguay /
Kiersten Harrison /
Katie Leblang /
Sandi Moubarak /
Objectives: A basic course designed to develop effective writing skills for communicating ideas in academic and other tasks. Topics will include grammar, writing processes, conventions of different prose forms, sentence and paragraph construction. This course isan on-line course with real time midterm and final exams.
Textbooks (required):
Spotlight on Sentence and Paragraph
C.A. May
* includes a MyCompLab access card
The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, 3rd Canadian ed.
J.E. Aaron & M. McArthur
Grading: Your grade in this course will come from your scores on the assigned on-line exercises and assessments, peer review participation, a midterm exam, a final exam, and the on-line pretest and post-test. The midterm and final exams will be taken on campus; they will NOT be available on-line. Exams will cover materials from the texts and from the on-line exercises and assessments. Additionally, there may be outside readings that will be included on exams.
The weighting for the course assignments and exams will be as follows:
On-line exercises and assessments – 40%
Participation in on-line peer review process – 10%
Midterm Exam – 20%
Final Exam – 25 %
Pretest – 2.5%
Post-test - 2.5%
Conversion of raw score into letter grades:
GRADE / RAW SCORE / GRADE / RAW SCOREA+ / 93-100 / C / 63-66.99
A / 86-92.99 / C- / 60-62.99
A- / 80-85.99 / D+ / 57-59.99
B+ / 77-79.99 / D / 53-56.99
B / 73-76.99 / D- / 50-52.99
B- / 70-72.99 / F / 35-49.99
C+ / 67-69.99 / F- / 0-34.99
To Contest a Mark:In the event you wish to contest a mark on an exam or assignment, you will need tooutline the reasons you wish to contest (i.e., why your mark should be changed) in written form -- typed or word-processed. You will need to hand that request in with the original marked paper to the TA who marked your work or the Head TA. Challenges to marks will be accepted for 10 days after you have received your mark. After 10 days, challenges will no longer be entertained.
Course Website: The address for the course website is
It is important that you check the website frequently.
READ THIS!!!
Plagiarism and Examination Make-up Policies
1. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a serious academic offense because it dishonestly and fraudulently uses someone else’s work as one’s own. Students are to be evaluated on the basis of their own original work. In the preparation of essays, papers, reports, and any other types of assignments, students must necessarily rely on the work of others. However, it is imperative that the source of any ideas, wording, or data obtained from others be disclosed and properly acknowledged by citations, quotation marks, and bibliographic references in the proper format. Using the work of others without acknowledgment is plagiarism. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to:
a) Using a passage or passages of any length from published or unpublished work of others without placing the passage(s) in quotation marks (or using indentation for long quotation(s)) and acknowledging their source;
b) Submitting work as original when that work also has been or is currently being submitted for another course, unless prior permission has been given in writing;
c) Copying material, for example, from the Internet, or purchasing material and submitting it as one’s own;
d) Submitting work completely or largely identical to that of other students, unless group work and joint submissions are explicitly permitted by the instructor.
In cases of plagiarism, the instructor assigns a grade of 0 (F-) to the work in question. This will be decided in consultation with the AAU head or designate. If an instructor determines that plagiarism has occurred, the student shall be informed and the case reported to the Executive Dean of the Faculty. Disciplinary proceedings may be initiated pursuant to Senate Bylaw 31, which could result in suspension or expulsion from the University in cases of repeated plagiarism. Students will not be allowed to re- write or re-submit work to compensate for grades assigned as a result of plagiarism. Students can appeal a plagiarism grade to the AAU head or designate and/or to the Administrative Dean of Student and Academic Services, and ultimately to a judicial review panel at the University.
2. Exam Policy
The Policy of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is not to allow make-ups for scheduled tests, midterms, or final exams, nor to assign a grade of Incomplete without acceptable and verifiable medical (or equivalent compassionate) reason. Acceptable reasons might include hospital stays, serious illness, family emergencies (like serious accidents or illnesses, death) or similar circumstances. Normally, written documentation stating specific reasons and dates is required. Arrangements for make-up exams--if allowed by the instructor--must be made as soon as possible. The instructor establishes the date and format for make-up exams, which will usually differ from the original exam.
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