English 1010
Fall, 2004
John Bremer
Office: Gateway House (unless otherwise specified)
Office hours: MW:
TH:
Phone: 477-4316 (Gateway House)
Email: bremer_john@hotmail.com
Course description:
This
course is designed to help students read more effectively at the college level.
A variety of reading strategies and such activities as lectures, discussions,
conferences with the instructor, quizzes, graded and ungraded short writings,
and readings in and out of class will be employed so that students can find
approaches which work best for them.
Required text:
·
a novel, story
collection, or nonfiction work you’ll choose.
·
Goshgarian, Gary ed. The Contemporary
Reader. Seventh edition.
·
Knipfel,
Jim. Slackjaw:
A Memoir.
Your semester grade will be determined by the
following:
final presentation 20%
short writings/exercises/quizzes
20%
journals 20%
essay
20%
essay
20%
Policies
The
class schedule will be distributed in small increments seldom exceeding one or
two weeks; this will allow us maximum flexibility in addressing problems in
reading and analysis.
Unannounced
quizzes will be given fairly often, and they won’t be made up unless your
absence is legitimate. A paper’s grade
will be lowered by one-third grade per day for each weekday it is late.
Don’t
expect to make up work you’ve missed during an extended absence, especially if
you haven’t been in touch during the absence.
You
will get an F for plagiarized work.