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ENGLISH 091
INSTRUCTOR:
Robert
Mugford
OFFICE:
LC 352 (Click
on my office number to see a map)
OFFICE
PHONE:
480-423-6463
OFFICE
HOURS:
M-W-F 12:30 to 1:30 T-TH 10:30 to
11:30
FAX:
Eng Dept: 423-6469
E-MAIL:
ishmail.mugford@sccmail.maricopa.edu
If you do not want to read the entire course outline, click on any of the following links:
Teaching Methods Grammar help Course Content Evaluation
Attendance
Late to Class
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TEXTBOOK:
A
Writer's Resource, by Maimon,
Peritz, and Yancey
(this text has a companion
site)
You may purchase the
text
from SCC's bookstore, but you would
be wise to check out some
online bookstores for better prices.
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COURSE FOCUS:
The emphasis in this
course
is on the fundamentals of
sentence and
paragraph
development.
A student must receive a
grade of C or better
in order
to enroll in Eng. 101, a
required class which
emphasizes
the writing of expository essays.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
My primary objective is to
help the students gain a clearer
understanding of why
learning
the grammatical conventions of English
will make them more
effective
and skillful writers, particularly in
their required
composition
classes. Throughout the semester the
students will focus
on, and
learn strategies to eliminate,some of
the most common
freshmen
compostion problems most responsive to
grammar-based
instruction.
Near the end of the session, they will
practice techniques
for
effective
paragraph structuring and be
introduced to methods
for
organizing essays.
Need some grammar help?
Chapters, 69, 70, 71, 72
(pp. 565-602).............Approx. 5 weeks
Covers: Parts of
speech,
Sentence Patterns,
Download
Grammar Review PowerPoint
Types and
Functions of
Phrases,
Download
Memory Tester document
Dependent Clauses
and
Functions,
Types of Sentences:
Students may be quizzed
Chapter 57 (pp.
501-14)........................ Approx. 1 week
Covers: Use of
the Comma
Students will be quizzed
Chapter 51 (pp.
446-52)......................... Approx. 1 week
Covers: Sentence
Fragments:
Students will be quizzed
Chapter 52
(pp.453-59)......................... Approx.
1 week
Covers: Comma
splices
and Fused sentences)
Students will be
quizzed
Chapter 53 and 55a
(pp.459-66 and 478-80)...... Approx. 1
week
Covers: Agreement
of
Subject
and Verb and Antecedent and Pronoun
Students will be quizzed
Exam II Nov
6
I will review for the exam
Conferences................................
Approx. 1 week
(After Chapters 53
and 55a,
I will try to schedule a conference
with each student to
discuss
his or her progress/grade in the class).
Chapter 6
(pp.57-73).........................Approx.
4 weeks
Covers: Writing
Paragraphs
/Students
will write between five and seven
paragraphs
(The instructor
will also give a final exam review).
*THE
INSTRUCTOR RESERVES
THE
RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE COURSE OUTLINE,
TO
MODIFY ASSIGNMENTS, DATES,
ETC., AS NECESSARY.
SPECIFIC
READING ASSIGNMENTS AND EXERCISES FOR YOU TO COMPLETE
IN THE
HANDBOOK
AND/OR ON HANDOUTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT EACH CLASS
MEETING.
YOU WILL BE CALLED ON TO PARTICIPATE IN CLASS DURING
DISCUSSION
OF THE EXERCISES, ETC., SO PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU DO YOUR
HOMEWORK.
ALSO, MOST OF THE HOMEWORK WILL BE COLLECTED FROM TIME
TO TIME
AND
CREDITED. (SOMETIMES, I GIVE SURPRISE QUIZZES,
ANOTHER
REASON YOU SHOULD COMPLETE EACH HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT!)
The student's grade for
the
course is primarily derived from
his or her exams,
quizzes and
final
exam (40% of course grade), paragraph
assignments (40%),
homework, class participation, extra credit,
and
attendance (20%).
FINAL
EXAM for section 55959... Wed. Dec 16 @ 9:30 (1 hour earlier!)
FINAL
EXAM for section 55961... Mon. Dec 14 @ 11:30
(To
receive
any grade for Eng. 091, the student must take
one
of two final exams offered).
ATTENDANCE POLICY (Please read carefully)
Obviously,
you
will get much
more out of the class if you are always in
the room listening and asking questions about the assignments, which
make
up
eighty percent ofyour grade for the course. As a seasoned veteran
teacher,
I can
honestly say that most
students who are excessively absent often do
very poorly, even fail because they do not
fulfill assignments’ objectives
and/or fail quizzes, do no submit
homework, etc. All college level courses require
student responsibility; mine is
no different. Thus, I will
not initiate a withdrawl
from the course
for you.You may
initiate
your own withdrawal
(without my signature)
prior
to and including Oct. 2.
After
this
date I must also sign the form, but I cannot
sign
any after Nov 30, the
last
day you can withdraw. This attendance
policy
does
not apply to students who
are absent because they are participating in authorized
college functions; in this
case, however, arrangement for makeup work must be
made
with the instructor prior
to the absence.
Because you have enrolled
for this class, you have established
a 16 week committment
to
be in the classroom at the designated
start time, and I
expect
you to honor it. In my 120 years of
teaching, I have
found the
consistently late student to be quite
disrespectful to me
and to
his or her classmates. Sure, sometimes
the god Tardynisis
may
prevent
us from being on time; however, if
you must be late,
please
be courteous to everyone in the room:
enter quietly and
proceed
to your desk, all the while trying not
to show the
sheet-wrinkle
imprints on your face.
If you (or I) should think
that tutorial assistance is necessary
to help improve your
grammar
and writing skills and, in turn,
your grade for the
class,
Scottsdale Community College's Writing Center--
located on the SW
corner
of the Language and Communication
Bldg., LC
379--offers FREE tutoring for students having problems
with English class
assignments
and/or writing assignments for other classes.
Individualized
instruction
from a human being is available and/or from computers,
which have software
to help
with grammar, mechanics, usage, organization, etc.
Contact
the Writing
Center at
480-423-6416 to schedule an appointment
If you have a some time in between classes
while you are on this side of
the campus, I suggest you visit
the
WC and familiarize yourself with it.
Here, you can get personal
server space instruction from one of the techs.
Regarding
Audio-Visual Cellular Communication Devices:
Though I
realize that many of you may suffer withdrawal
symptoms--I often
see students’ hands shaking and right ears twitching due to lack of
tactile stimulation-- the
English Dept. policy is CPO (Cell Phones Off) while in a
classroom.
"Texting
is Vexing"
Turnitin Enrollment
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The password is sccwriters
11:30
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The enrollment ID number is 1943492
The password is grammarkids
Process: New Users
Go to
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click on “New Users.”
Then @ the next screen, in the “New students start here” box, click
on “create a user profile”;
@ the next screen, click on “student.” This will
bring you
to
the site at which you fill in all the necessary
information before you go to the
bottom and
click on
“I agree---create a profile.”
Be sure to write down
the
password and secret question you answered.
Remember the password
is case sensitive and must include a number as part of the 6-12
characters.
Already enrolled:
If you are in the Turnitin system, you will have to use the password
you initially selected; once you do this, you can then enroll in my
class.
If you have frogotten the password or answer to the secret question,
you will have to click on the appropriate link to renew them.
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