Welcome to IE3 Writing - Spring 2015
IEIII – Integrated English – Writing
Spring 2015
Instructor: Chris
Elvin
Blog: www.ie3elvin.blogspot.jp
Course
Description
Welcome
to Integrated English III. This class is designed to
accomplish the following:
i) Write classification essays.
ii) Write persuasion essays.
iii) Use direct and indirect quotations.
iv) Paraphrase and summarize.
v) Use MLA style to cite sources and compile bibliographies.
Your topics are i) relationships, ii) cross-cultural values, iii)
the environment, and iv) media.
Course
Assessment and Grading Criteria
a) 10% Attendance
b) 10% Participation
c) 20% Mid-term
assessment
d) 20% Classification
essay
e) 20% Persuasion
essay
f) 20% Final
in-class essay
Attendance: You are expected to
attend ALL classes. Your first two absences will be penalized by one drop in
grade. Your third and fourth absences will be penalized by subsequent drops in
grade. If you are absent five times, you will fail the course. Please keep a
record of your attendance throughout the semester.
Participation: All students will score
a maximum of ten points in this category unless I notice otherwise.
Mid-term assessment: This assignment will
be worth twenty points. You will score ten points for map or outline, title,
paragraph shape, thesis statement, and three MLA in-text citations together
with their corresponding MLA references in your “Works Cited”.
Portfolio: You will be required
to write two homework assignments during the semester. You should write about two
specific topics from the four general topics of i) relationships, ii)
cross-cultural values, iii) the environment and iv) the media. Each essay will
be worth twenty percentage points, and should be between 400 and 500 words in
length. You should include your name, ID, date, essay title, map or outline and
word count. You should also write at least three MLA-style in-text citations
for each essay, and list these sources in a “Works Cited” also according to MLA
style. These essays must be typed, not handwritten, and it goes without saying
that your homework must be your own words and ideas. You may show me any of
your homework assignments as many times as you like up until the final day. I
will check them and offer advice. At the end of the semester, please put your
homework assignments into a plastic file and hand it to your teacher.
Essay scoring rubric: Your essays will be assessed using the following
five criteria; thesis statement, task achievement, coherence and cohesion, lexical
resource, and grammatical range and accuracy.
Final in-class essay: The final in-class
essay will last 70 minutes. You will not be given any information about the
topic of this essay in advance.
Good luck!