Integrated Reading and Writing Syllabus for 2023-2024
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As a student you may experience a range of issues that can cause barriers to learning, such as strained relationships, increased anxiety, alcohol/drug problems, feeling down, difficulty concentrating and/or lack of motivation. These mental health concerns or stressful events may lead to diminished academic performance or reduce a student's ability to participate in daily activities. Amarillo College offers services to assist you with addressing these and other concerns you may be experiencing. If you or someone you know are suffering from any of the aforementioned conditions, you can learn more about the broad range of confidential mental health services available on campus by calling the AC Counseling Center at 806-371-5900. The AC Counseling Center website is https://www.actx.edu/counseling/ . Also, if you are in need of social services (affordable housing, utilities, transportation, food, clothing, childcare, medical/dental/vision, legal), please call the AC Advocacy & Resource Center at 806-371-5439. The AC Advocacy & Resource Center website is https://www.actx.edu/arc

Amarillo College Tutoring for Success Policy:

Tutoring for Success applies to any student whose overall performance in the course falls below 75%. The instructor will create the task in the Student Engagement Portal (Watermark) to direct the student to the appropriate tutoring service, which may be faculty- or SI-led, discipline-specific, and/or general. The tutoring service assigned, the due date for when the tutoring must be completed, and the amount of tutoring required are at the discretion of the instructor. Additionally, the task will alert the student’s success team. Students who do not fulfill the assigned tutoring task may be subject to program- and course-specific penalties that could result in a grade reduction and/or in not being allowed to progress in the course until the tutoring requirement has been satisfied.

Administrative Drop Policy

Students who do not attend class on or prior to the census date will be administratively dropped. Effective Fall, 2016

Student Withdrawal Procedures

Students who wish to withdraw from a course must complete all steps indicated on the Academic Withdrawal Request form by the course withdrawal deadline.

NOTE: Students who are attending Texas institutions of higher education, for the first time fall 2007 and later, may not withdraw from more than six courses during their academic career. This withdrawal limitation does not include dual credit or developmental classes (Senate Bill 1231 Rule 4.10.) For more information on Drop and Withdrawal Policies, please visit the Registrar's Office Web site.

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Course

INRW-0303-LC42 Integrated Reading and Writing

Prerequisites

Corequisite: ENGL 1301

Course Description

The course is designed as a co-requisite, supplemental course for ENGL 1301. The course concentrates on the integration of reading and writing skills. This course does not transfer and is not applicable toward any degree.

Student ResourcesStudent Resources Website

Department Expectations

Occupational License Disclaimer

Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:

Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:

Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me

You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.

Hours

(3 sem hrs; 3 lec, 1 lab)

Class Type

Hybrid

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Amarillo College English Dept., eds. A Rhetorical Handbook for English 1301, 1302 and 2311, 4th ed., Hayden-McNeil, 2019.

Richard Bullock, Michal Brody, and Francine Weinberg. The Little Seagull Handbook with Exercises, 4th ed. with InQuizative, W.W. Norton and Company, 2017.

Supplies

A computer with reliable access to the internet and a word processing program, such as Word or Google Docs.  Notepad and Wordpad are not acceptable word processing programs for this course because their formatting features do not work with other programs used in the course.

Students must be able to save documents as either Word files  (.doc or .docx) or portable document format files (.pdf).

Student Performance

THECB ACGM Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
  2. Locate explicit textual information, draw complex inferences, and describe, analyze, and evaluate the information within and across multiple texts of varying lengths.
  3. Comprehend and use vocabulary effectively in oral communication, reading, and writing.
  4. Identify and analyze the audience, purpose, and message across a variety of texts.
  5. Describe and apply insights gained from reading and writing a variety of texts.
  6. Compose a variety of texts that demonstrate reading comprehension, clear focus, logical development of ideas, and use of appropriate language that advance the writer’s purpose.
  7. Determine and use effective approaches and rhetorical strategies for given reading and writing situations.
  8. Generate ideas and gather information relevant to the topic and purpose, incorporating the ideas and words of other writers in student writing using established strategies.
  9. Evaluate relevance and quality of ideas and information in recognizing, formulating, and developing a claim.
  10. Develop and use effective reading and revision strategies to strengthen the writer’s ability to compose college-level writing assignments.
  11. Recognize and apply the conventions of standard English in reading and writing.

Students Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights and Responsibilities

Log in using the AC Connect Portal

In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .

If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".

Expected Student Behavior

Students should act with decorum and maturity with both the instructor and with fellow students.

Plagerism: 

The Amarillo College English Department defines plagiarism as “using exact words from any outside source without using quotation marks or properly citing them; paraphrasing words from any outside source without citing them; or using research from any outside source without citing it.”

The Amarillo College English Department defines collusion as “the unauthorized collaboration with another person or by any other means, including artificial intelligence and computer translators, in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements.”

Any work produced in part or in whole through plagiarism or collusion may receive a penalty on the paper's grade, up to and including a zero for the assignment. A subsequent infraction will result in expulsion from the class. At this point, the case will be referred to the Vice President of Enrollment Management.

Grading Criteria

Grading Criteria INRW 0303The following criteria will be used to determine your grade:

 A   90-100  Passing
B  80-89  Passing
C  70-79  Passing
D  60-69  Failing
F  59 or below  Failing

 

The semester average will be determined as follows:

  10%  Quizzes
  20%  Lab
  10%  Assignments
  30%  Tests
  30%  Essays

Attendance

Regular attendance is requires.  It is worth 10% of your total grade.

Calendar

Week 1

  • Review:
    • Syllabus & Textbooks
    • Calendars
    • AC Connect &.Blackboard
    • Buy Books from AC Bookstore
    • Sign up for Remind App
    • Register for InQuizitive Lab
  • Read:
    • Chapter 1: Mindset by Carol Dweck (found in Blackboard)
  • Discuss:
    • Grammar for InQuizitive Labs
      • Verb Forms & Subject-Verb Agreement
    • Time Management Plan
    • Information Sheet
    • Discussion Board --> Mindset quiz & reflection
  • Complete: 
    • Information Sheet for Chapter 1 of Mindset
    • InQuizitive Lab
    • Syllabus Quiz
    • Grammar
      • Verb forms ans Subject Verbs
      • Misplaced/Dangling Modifiers
    • Time Management Plan

Week 2: 

  • Review:
    • MLA format in MLA Information folder
  • Read:
    • “MLA Manuscript Preparation” (RH 6-7)
    • Chapter 3 of "Mindset": The Truth about ability and Accomplishment
  • Discuss:
    • Chapter 3 of "Mindset"
    • MLA Formatting requirements
    • Grammar
      • Unnecessary Commas
      • Fused & Run-on sentences
      • Sentence Fragments
  • Complete:
    • InQuizitive Labs
    • Grammar Quizzes
      • Fused and Run-on Sentences
      • Sentence Fragments
    • Chapter 3 of "Mindset" information sheet
    • Writing Workshop for Essay 1
      • Discussion Board-Thesis Statements

Week 3: 

  • Review:
    • MLA Format
    • Essay Format
      • Introductory Paragraphs
      • Conclusion Paragraphs
  • Read:
    •  Article TBD
  • Discuss:
    •  Week 3 Article
    • Introductory Paragraphs
    • Concluding Paragraphs
    • Grammar:
      • Pronouns in the Wrong Case
      • Pronouns with an Unclear Reference
  • Complete:
    • Grammar
      • Pronouns in the Wrong Case
      • Pronouns with an Unclear Reference
    • InQuizitive Labs
    • Week 3 Article Information Sheet
    • Develop Essay (Writing Workshop of Essay 2)

Week 4: MIDTERM WEEK

  • Review:
    • MLA Format
    • Works Cited
  • Read:
    • “The 5 Most Common Barriers for Community College Students” (Blackboard)
  • Discuss:
    •  "The 5 Most Common Barriers...."
    • Essay #2
    • Grammar:
      • Verb Tenses
      • Apostrophe Errors
      • Unnecessary Errors
  • Complete:
    • Information Sheet for "The 5 Most Common Barriers..."
    • Grammar Quizzes
      • Verb Tenses
      • Apostrophe Errors
      • Unnecessary Errors
    • InQuizitive Labs
    • Midterm Exam (Must be present in class

Week 5:

  • Review:
    • Research Strategies
  • Read:
    • "Erasing the Community College Stigma" (Blackboard)
  • Discuss:
    • "Erasing the Community College Stigma"
    • Thesis statements
    • Practice Using AC databases
    • Search for Research Sources
    • Grammar
      • Incorporating Quotations
      • Punctuating Quotations
  • Complete:
    • Grammar Quizzes
      • Incorporating Quotations
      • Punctuating Quotations
    • InQuizitive Labs
    • Information Sheet for "Erasing the Community College Stigma"

Week 6: 

  • Review:
    • Plagiarism 
    • In Text Documentation
    • Works Cited
    • Essay #3: Research
  • Read:
    • Article TBD
  • Discuss: 
    • Week 6 Article
    • Transitions
    • Thesis Statements & Topic Sentences
    • In-Text Citations
    • Grammar:
      • Evaluating Sources
      • Integrating Sources
      • Synthesizing Sources
  • Complete:
    • Grammar Quizzes:
      • Evaluating Sources
      • Integrating Sources
      • Synthesizing Sources
    • InQuizitive Labs
    • Week 6 Article Information Sheet
    • Essay #3: Peer Review

Week 7:

  • Read:
    • Article TBD
  • Discuss:
    • Week 7 Article
    • Finals
    • Grammar:
      • Errors that Matter
  • Complete:
    • Errors that Matter Quiz
    • InQuizitive Labs
    • Week 7 Information sheet
       

Week 8: FINALS

Final Exam (Must be present in class to take exam)

**Assignments and Due dates subject to change**

    

Additional Information

Please note that this course may contain adult subject matter.

Syllabus Created on:

01/11/24 12:57 PM

Last Edited on:

01/11/24 2:17 PM