To increase the student's awareness of and ability to adapt to audience. To provide the student with experience in gathering, selecting, arranging and interpreting data, using primary and secondary research techniques. To increase the student's ability to organize material clearly and to choose an appropriate way to present information and data. To increase the student's ability to design an effective document. Any student who, because of a disabling condition, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor as soon as possible so that the necessary accommodations can be made.
Students are responsible for their own lives.
A Reader-Centered Approach , Third edition. Because class participation is an essential part of this course, attendance is required. Class participation means having something pertinent to say in online discussion, having document drafts for Peer Editing prepared before class, and responding thoughtfully to classmates' writing. After that, each absence counts as one point off your final course average. An absence is missing half or more of a class.