Instructor: Lael Ewy
E:mail: laele@hesston.edu
Credits: 3
The Hesston Mission Statement
Hesston College, the two-year college of the Mennonite Church USA, educates and nurtures each student within Christ-centered community, integrating thought, life, and faith for service to others in the church and the world.
Hesston College Outcomes: Hesston College works to help each student
- Communicate well
- Think critically
- Integrate thoght
- Become socially responsible
- Have a greater biblical understanding and faith.
Course Description and Objectives
College Writing II explores how we write and why we write through reading, discussion, and the practice of the writing discipline itself. We will be:
- developing ideas
- developing a thesis
- learning to critique text
- learning to organize an argument
- learning to edit and critique original work
- learning the different types of argumentation
- learning to think critically and make intellectual connections.
Challenging Perspectives by Deborah H. Holdstein
Keys For Writers 4th edition by Ann Raimes
A good pocket dictionary (Webster's will do, but there are plenty of good ones
A notebook of some kind
What We'll Do
Someone once said that all Western philosophy is just a commentary on Plato. Implied in this statment is that all ideas are interconnected: commentaries follow upon commentaries, ideas upon ideas, connections interweave to create new meanings. These new meanings are stored and transmitted primarily through text, through language and symbol and sign. They are tested through argument and reason. We'll be coming up with ideas and arguments in response to text and on our own, writing about those ideas and responses to text and on our own, writing about those ideas and responses in the classroom itself and outside the classroom, and discussing the ideas we encounter.
A Note on Discussion
Discussion is especially important in a class about argumentation, since argument involves dialectic, the engagement with and anticipation of an opposition. I'll expect you to be a part of the discussion of the readings we'll do (so do it) and to be respectful of those with whom you disagree.
Late Papers and Rewrites
You may hand in two out-of-class assignments up to one week late, no questions asked, no excuses needed. After that week, your grade for those papers will decline one letter grade for each missing week. The exception to this rule will be the final paper, which I can't accept late. All out-of-class papers except for the final (unless you hand it in early) may be rewritten as many times as you like until the last week of class. Most of the time this will result in a higher grade for the paper.
Academic Integrity
(a.k.a. plagiarism): see the latest Hesston College Catalog. Yes, I take this very seriously. I'm well within my rights to begin the process of academic withdrawal in cases of blatant and/or obviously intentional plagiarism.
Special Needs:
The ADA gives disabled students the right to special accommodations. Let me know if you need them.
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