Course Description and Pedagogy: Required Texts and Basic Student Requirements

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Required Texts

• Brazier, ed. Points of Departure

Basic Requirements:

• Students read a minimum of six selections from Points of Departure.
• Students write 5 out-of-class essays, including a rough and final draft for each essay. By the term’s end, a student’s final drafts should total at least 25 typed pages.
• Students take an in-class Midterm and Final Exam (essay format, graded pass/fail). They must pass the Final Exam in order to pass the course. See 100 & 100R for additional exam requirements in 100R.
• If you are enrolled in 100R, see 100 & 100R for requirements in the 099 or “reading” portion of the course.
• The lowest passing grade for any essay, and for the course, is a C.
• Students must keep all rough and final drafts in a folder, which teachers will collect for “folder review” twice during the semester.
• Students must demonstrate solid reading comprehension, competence in presenting a coherent thesis in writing, solid paragraph structure, paragraph development in the service of the thesis, appropriate and relevant use of quotation, the ability to revise their own papers in the drafting process, and basic sentence-level clarity and correctness.

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