Colorado Technical University English 111 Course Guidelines

English 111 Course Guidelines

� Attendance Policy:

Attendance is mandatory for the lecture portion AND the lab portion of this course.
Attendance is vital to students' understanding of the course material.
When students miss a class it is their responsibility to get notes from a fellow student.� Handouts are available in the Library for students to check-out and copy and on the Internet at: http://welcome.to/CTUEnglish - http://welcome.to/CTUEnglish111 - the URLs are case sensitive!
If a student cannot attend class, for reasons outside of his or her control, he or she should call or e-mail the instructor, prior to class.� Remember to provide a name and telephone number if a return call is requested.
To sign-up for the class e-mail list students need to go to:� http://welcome.to/CTUstudentEmail on the Internet, click on "join list" for the appropriate class, and follow the instructions.
Students who do not have e-mail accounts are encouraged to set-up a "free" e-mail account using the computers in the Labs or the Library.� Many Internet sites offer free e-mail such as Yahoo.com, Mailcity.com, Hotmail.com, Netscape.com, etc.� Students do not need to have their own personal computer to have an e-mail account with any of the free Internet e-mail providers; access to the e-mail account is available from any computer with Internet access.� Also, K-mart and Yahoo have formed a partnership to offer free Internet service, which is accessible by getting the free compact disk (CD) from any K-mart store and installing the program on a home computer.

Assignment Policy:

All formal writing assignments must be word processed and double-spaced according to Turabian guidelines.� A Turabian handout is available at the Production Center, and the Turabian Book is available at the Book Store.
All assignments will be turned in during the class period specified in the syllabus.
All assignments are due on or before the date provided in the syllabus for each assignment unless PRIOR arrangements have been made, in writing, with the instructor.� With prior written approval from the instructor, a seven (7) day extension may be granted for extenuating circumstances (i.e., TDY, field duty, illness requiring hospitalization, etc.).� No assignments will be accepted after the last day of class.
Failure to complete and submit any course assignment in class on the assigned due date will result in an automatic ten-percent (10%) reduction of the assignment grade, per day, as the highest possible score.� Assignments will NOT be accepted after they have been late for seven (7) days.
All graded assignments are "individual" work.� Each student is to complete his/her own work.
Good time management is essential for students to succeed in this class.� The easiest way to do well in this course is to have consistent attendance and to complete assignments on time.� The grade sheet is always available for students to check their grades and for students to see which assignments they have completed.� Doing well in this course will ensure students are able to do well on all of their writing assignments in their other college classes and on writing tasks in the business world.

In case of inclement weather, students should call the CTU status number:� 590-6808, prior to driving to class.� If CTU is closed on a day/night students have an assignment due, students will turn in the assignment at the Production Center the following day.� The Production Center fax number is:� 598-3740.� Assignments turned in the next day following a school closure will not be assessed a late penalty.

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Grading Scale
900	- 1000 points =	A�
850	-� 899 points =	B⁺
800	-� 849 points =	B�
750	-� 799 points =	C⁺
700	-� 749 points =	C�
650	-� 699 points =	D⁺
600	-� 649 points =	D�
0	-� 599 points =	F�

Researching and Incorporating
Research Material into Written Work:

�� When students conduct research, they are finding the relevant facts about a subject.� The purpose of research is to find out about a particular subject that has significance for the writer.� Research is conducted in the academic world and in the business world.� There are two ways to incorporate research material into essays, research papers, and business reports (quoting and paraphrasing).

�� Quoting:� Quoting is using another writer's words verbatim (exactly word-for-word).� Writers use a quote when the exact words of the author clearly support an assertion they have made or when the exact words contain a prestatement of information needed to support the topic.� Writers copy the exact wording of definitions, comments about significance, and important statistics.

�� As a basic rule, provide a source for all information that is not considered common knowledge {i.e., there are seven days in a week and 365 days in a year ? no source necessary because this is common knowledge; "The Julian calendar, under which Western nations measured time until [after death] A.D. 1582, was authorized by Julius Caesar in 46 [before Christ] B.C., the year 709 of Rome" (Famighetti 1994, 266).� ? quotation marks and source required because this is not common knowledge.}.

�� To quote, place quotation marks before and after the exact words of the author.� Writers generally precede quotations with a brief introductory phrase.� Do not quote in a way that misrepresents the original author's meaning.� The source immediately follows the quotation.� One or more sentences always follow a quotation in which the writer states the significance and the relation of the quotation to the topic.� Paragraphs do not end in quotations because by ending in a quotation writers are, in effect, allowing the source to speak for them.� To insert their own words into a quotation, writers use brackets.� "To assure the reader that" any "wrong word" and/or "incorrect spelling" within a quotation "is in the original, the Latin word sic ("so," always in italic, without a period) may be placed in brackets after the error" (Turabian 1996, 85).� For example:� "The dogs was [sic] barking very loudly."� To delete part of a quotation from the beginning, the middle, or the end of a quotation writers use ellipsis . . . dots.� (Ellipsis dots are made by:� space period space period space period space.)� According to Turabian standards a ". . . quotation of two or more sentences that runs to eight or more lines of text in a paper should be set off from the text in single-spacing and indented in its entirety four spaces from the left margin, with no quotation marks at the beginning or end.� A quotation so treated is called a block quotation" (Turabian 1996, 74-75).

�� Example:� According to Tom Peters, "What this pattern [of sending significant signals] will suggest to those others, however, can be influenced dramatically" (Peters 1987, 508).� Every day workers send "signals" that together form a pattern for others to decipher.� All workers should look at the signals they send to others on a daily basis to determine if the pattern presented by the signals is beneficial to their overall objective.

�� Paraphrasing:� Paraphrasing is conveying the meaning of another writer's words in words different from the writer's original words.� Paraphrasing IS NOT just changing a few words and then claiming that the passage is not in "the exact words" of the other writer.

�� To paraphrase, a writer must express the message in his own original language.� Paraphrases are used to outline processes or to describe items, to give illustrative examples, and to explain causes, effects, or significance.� To paraphrase, writers rewrite sentences and/or passages into their own words.� The author (source) of the information/idea is always indicated at the end of the text.� When in doubt about whether an idea is original or another author's idea, give credit to the author.� Do not paraphrase in a way that misrepresents the original author's meaning.

�� Example:� Since the small acts of sending significant signals are not unnoticed and not ignored, they are precisely the forum to use to cause change (Peters 1987, 508).� Every day workers send "signals" that together form a pattern for others to decipher.� All workers should look at the signals they send to others on a daily basis to determine if the pattern presented by the signals is beneficial to their overall objective.

Academic Standards:

All work for this class is "individual" work.
None of the assignments in this class, to which points are attached,
are group/team/partner assignments.
Each student is to turn-in his or her own original work,
prepared specifically for this course, on an individual basis.
Each student is responsible for working toward and earning
his or her own grade based on 1000 points.

�� Plagiarism:� The American Heritage Dictionary defines plagiarism as "1. To use and pass off as one's own (the ideas or writings of another).� 2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another)" (Berube 1993, 1044).� Colorado Technical University adheres to the aforementioned definition of plagiarism and specifies in the 1999-2000 Student Handbook that plagiarism involves:

Submitting another person's written work as one's own
Submitting another person's material on computer disk as one's own
Submitting another person's lab assignments (on paper and/or disk) as one's own
Submitting work from any source that is not properly acknowledged by footnote, bibliography, or reference within a paper
Submitting work pieced together from phrases and/or sentences from various sources without acknowledgment
Submitting work with another person's phrase(s) rearranged without acknowledgment
Submitting work that uses any phrase, sentence, or stylistic mannerism without acknowledgment
Omitting quotation marks from any directly quoted material
Failure to use three dots (. . .) to indicate omission of one or more words
Submitting work downloaded from the Internet (without documentation) as one's own
Submitting work from another course and/or student as one's own original work
Copying another student's work and submitting it as one's own work
Copying and altering another student's work and submitting it as one's own work
And any other actions deemed to be plagiarism by the faculty (Colorado Technical University 1999, 2-3)

�� "All Colorado Technical University students are expected to conform to the accepted standards of academic honesty.� Any clear violations of these standards, such as cheating, violating copyright laws, or plagiarism are handled promptly, firmly, privately, and fairly by the Professor.� The Professor will promptly notify the Department Dean/Chair of the student's major department of the discovery of the incident.� The penalty for students found guilty of cheating, violating copyright laws, or plagiarism may range from receiving a grade of "0" or "F" on the paper or test in question; an "F" for the course; or possible action by the Scholastic Standards Committee to include suspension or dismissal from the University" (Colorado Technical University 1999, 2-3).� For additional information on the accepted standards of academic honesty at Colorado Technical University (CTU), please refer to the CTU Catalog.

Do not jeopardize your grade, your education, your credibility,
and the integrity and net worth of your degree by turning in someone else's work as your work.
Do not share your work or your computer disks/lab assignments with other students.

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