COURSE OUTLINE

0101-151.01
Effective Writing II
Winter 2006

www.uwindsor.ca/users/j/jjackson/main.nsf

Instructor: Jill Singleton-Jackson, Ph.D. Office: CHT 209C

Phone: 253-3000, ext. 4706 Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30/T 10-11
Email: jjackson@uwindsor.ca Mailbox CHS 167

Teaching assistants:
John Cappucci, Head TA and Assistant to cappuc2@uwindsor.ca
the Coordinator
Tracy Desjardins, Senior TA desjarh@uwindsor.ca
Yolanda Ferrato yolanda_m_f@hotmail.com
Lauren Fowler laurenfowler53@hotmail.com
Amy Leblang leblank@uwindsor.ca

Objectives: A basic writing course designed as a follow up to Effective Writing I. This

course aims to develop effective writing skills for communicating ideas in academic and
other tasks. Topics will include a cursory review of grammar, writing processes, and
conventions of different prose forms in various scholarly disciplines. The main content
of the course is paragraph and essay writing, research skills, and forms of scholarly
citation. This course is an on-line course with real time midterm and final exams.

Textbooks (required):
Spotlight on Paragraph and Essay Skills
C.A. May
* includes a MyCompLab access card
You MUST have a new access card and code even though you have taken EW I.

The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, 3rd Canadian ed.

J.E. Aaron & M. McArthur

Grading: Your grade in this course will come from your scores on the assigned on-line
assignments, peer review participation, a midterm exam, a final exam, and a final essay.
The midterm and final exams will be taken on campus; they will NOT be available on-
line. Exams will cover materials from the texts and from the on-line exercises and
assessments. Additionally, there may be outside readings that will be included on exams.
The weighting for the course assignments and exams will be as follows:

On-line assignments 35%

Participation in on-line peer review process 10%
Final Essay 15%
Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 20 %

Conversion of raw score into letter grades:

GRADE RAW SCORE GRADE RAW SCORE

A+ 93-100 C 63-66.99
A 86-92.99 C- 60-62.99
A- 80-85.99 D+ 57-59.99
B+ 77-79.99 D 53-56.99
B 73-76.99 D- 50-52.99
B- 70-72.99 F 35-49.99
C+ 67-69.99 F- 0-34.99

To Contest a Mark: In the event you wish to contest a mark on an exam or assignment,
you will need to outline the reasons you wish to contest (i.e., why your mark should be
changed) in written form -- typed or word-processed. You will need to hand that request
in with the original marked paper to the TA who marked your work or the Head TA.
Challenges to marks will be accepted for 10 days after you have received your mark.
After 10 days, challenges will no longer be entertained.

Course Website: The address for the course website is

www.uwindsor.ca/users/j/jjackson/main.nsf
It is important that you check the website frequently.