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!

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