The first of the required GE writing courses introduces students to academic composition. Students will engage in writing as a process, pre-drafting strategies, multiple drafts, peer review, and large and small-scale revisions. Students with ACT English scores below 29 are required to take ENGL 1010 before enrolling in ENGL 2010. Those with scores below 17 must concurrently enroll in ENGL 0990 Academic Writing Workshop.

• Readings posted on Canvas

• 1. Genre Awareness: Demonstrate critical and conceptual awareness of genre in reading and writing—including organization, content, presentation, formatting, and stylistic choices.
• 2. Context and Purpose: Analyze rhetorical situations and adapt to the audience, purpose, modalities, and the circumstances surrounding a range of reading and writing tasks.
• 3. Language Awareness and Usage: Recognize and make intentional, critical, and contextually-informed language choices across a range of rhetorical contexts/situations.
• 4. Recursive Writing Processes: Develop flexible, iterative, and reflective processes for invention, drafting, workshopping, and revision.

• = Failure to complete the Project Analysis Paragraph is an automatic letter grade reduction to Essay grade.

• = No late work is accepted. Writing Assignments are graded on a check/check minus/check plus basis. You should keep ALL returned assignments. I will collect the portfolio on the date indicated on the schedule.

Grading Scale

Essays

You will complete a number of essays in this class. Each essay has specific instructions that are provided on Canvas.

Peer Reviews

It takes a village to write. We will engage in peer reviews for all of the major writing assignments. You will find your peers paper and give the peer review on the class wiki. You should keep a document that contains ALL of the peer reviews you GIVE to other writers for each major paper. This document is handed in on Canvas. All combined the peer reviews are worth ten points. I will grade your peer reviews based on the helpfulness of the review you offer, as well as tone, and other aspects of good writing. Remember to give the type of review that you would like to receive. Hard copies of the peer reviews are due when you hand in the final drafts of the essays.

In-Class Writing Exams

You will have the opportunity to take several in-class writing exams. These exams are graded on unity, coherency, development, and grammar. In order to receive points for the in-class writing exam, you must pass TWO exams. I will record the highest grade. Keep these writing exams. I do not keep the grades. You hand in the highest scores you receive (through Canvas) at the end of the semester.

Writing Assignments

Writing assignments are due nearly every class period for the first half of the semester.

Class Participation

The class participation grade reflects your engagement in the class. I expect active and enthusiastic participation at all levels of class. Texting, talking, sleeping, or being otherwise disengaged from the class affects all of us, and your grade will be lowered at my discretion. Please feel free to check with me at any time if you have questions about your participation grade. Absences and tardiness will affect this grade as well. PLEASE DO NOT USE LAPTOPS IN CLASS!

Calendar This calendar is subject to change. Items listed on the calendar are due at the beginning of class. For example, everything listed as “due” on Sept 3 is due at the beginning of class on Sept 3.

• No late work is accepted for the Writing Assignments of peer review assignments.
• If you submit a major project without a Project Analysis Paragraph, I will return the project to you, and you may submit it late (see above for deductions for late work)
• Late projects receive a deduction of one letter grade for each class period they are late. If they are more than one week late, I will not accept them.
• I cannot respond with helpful feedback to late drafts.

Essays handed in late will be penalized by one letter grade for each class period that it is late. I will not accept essays that are more than one week late. I reserve the right NOT to grade late until the end of the semester. Please hand your work in on time. You make a successful appeal to ethos by meeting deadlines appropriately.

Projects that do not have a project analysis paragraph, when a project analysis paragraph is requested, will be considered incomplete and will be returned. You may resubmit the projects for a late grade, along with the project analysis paragraph. Assignments marked with * require a project analysis paragraph.

Attendance and Participation Grade

If you miss more than four class periods, your grade will be substantially lowered. It takes a village to write. If you are absent, the village suffers. We will be working together often, and your comments often help your peers. I cannot give you participation points for the activities that we complete in class, which are frequent and unannounced.

Rude and disruptive behavior will not be tolerated in this class. Southern Utah University students are governed by the Student Responsibilities and Rights section of University Policy (5.46). All students are expected to demonstrate “conduct that respects the rights and interest of others in common endeavor...Students who violate expected standards of conduct will be subject to disciplinary action.” Inappropriate use of electronic devices during class time constitutes rude and disruptive behavior.

The SUU Undergraduate Writing Center invites all students to the Writing Center in Braithwaite Center 101 where qualified peer tutors are ready to help with any stage of the writing process. Fall hours start September 2: M-Th 8 am–9 pm, F 8 am–5 pm, and Saturday 11 am–3 pm. All appointments are free, and in-person, online, and written feedback appointments are available. To schedule, visit our website at . https://www.suu.edu/writingcenter/

Every assignment you turn in is your responsibility, including its accuracy, sources, and ideas. Generative AI can fabricate sources and quotations, misrepresent facts, and produce confident-sounding, but empty filler sentences. If your submitted work contains fabricated sources or quotations, inaccurate information, or passages you cannot explain or defend, you will be held accountable for that and incur the penalties that include failing the project or failing the course.

If you use AI in your writing process, please disclose that usage in your project reflection paragraph. Honest AI disclosure can be uncomfortable, especially when expectations around AI are still shifting and inconsistent. The Writing Program asks you to do it anyway because misrepresenting your process undermines your own credibility and your relationship with your instructor.

The Writing Program does not use AI detection software to evaluate your work. We believe that trust and honest dialogue are more effective and fair than surveillance tools, which are unreliable and discriminatory.

AI is a new and evolving field, and nobody has all the answers, including your professors. If you are unsure if a particular use of AI is appropriate, please ask me before submitting an assignment.