Instructor:  Mary Margaret Popova Course time and location:Tuesday/Thursday – 9:30-10:45 and 12:30-1:45 Modern Languages , Rooms 401 and 502
Office:  CCIT Room 236 Cubicle B Drop off location for papers/messages:English office, Modern Languages Rm.445
Office Hours: Wednesday: 2-3/Thursday:11-12 and by appointment
E-mail: popovamm@hotmail.comPhone messages: 621-1838 (English)
POLIS site:  www.u.arizona.edu/ic/polis/fall01
Required Texts:

A Student’s Guide to First-Year Composition, 22nd ed., Betil Eroz, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran and Randall Sadler, eds.  (Boston:  Pearson, 2001)

The Writer’s FAQs.  Muriel Harris, (Upper Saddle River, N. J.:  Prentice Hall, 2000).

Frame Work  Culture, Storytelling and College Writing.   Editors:  Gray Colombo, Bonnie Lisle, and Sandra Mano.  (Bedford Books:  Boston  {a division of St. Martin's Press} 1997).

Course Description:
The primary purpose of this class is to help you become a more effective writer in an academic setting. To do this, our class will focus on drawing your attention to a range of rhetorical styles through reading and on applying what you have learned to your own writing. Through writing, we think, learn, discover ideas, remember – and communicate what we have thought, learned, discovered, and remembered. Writing, at the university, it the primary component of dialogue between faculty, staff, students and the community.  In this course, writing is viewed as a process through which the writer learns the best strategies to express his or her own voice, for a specific purpose, to a specific audience. Writing is also seen as a collaborative effort in terms of sharing ideas with fellow students through class discussions and through peer feedback. To get the most out of this class, remember that learning should be both challenging and fun—get ready to write, write, write!

Writing Requirements:
· In-class and out-of-class writing will be assigned throughout the course. If you are not in class when the writing is assigned, you are still responsible for the assignment.
· LATE WORK will not be accepted without penalty (see policy below)
· Students are required to keep copies of ALL drafts and major assignments until after the end of the semester.
· Drafts must be turned in with all essays. Drafts should show significant changes in purpose, audience organization, or evidence.

Writing Format:
· MLA manuscript format and documentation ( see the Pocket Manual)
· All essays and journal writing assignments-- typed, double-spaced 
· 12 point type and 1 inch margins
(Separate title page)
· Do not skip additional lines between paragraphs
· Number your pages
· Staple your paper before turning it in
· Keep copies on disc – always. Keep copies of drafts separately! (draft #1, draft#2, etc …you never know when you might need to retrieve them).