Winter 2007--TR 9:55 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Susan Delagrange
Office 419.755.4235; home 419.368.8371
e-mail: delagrange.2@osu.edu
Course web site: http://english.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/writing/276

Office hours (O-349): T 8-9:30 a.m., R 3:15-5 p.m., or by appointment.

Please purchase your own copy of Brummett, Rhetoric in Popular Culture ( 2d ed).
Ball and Arola, ix Visual Exercises and other readings will be provided in class or online.

You will also need a USB flash drive to store your computer files when we begin working on our analyses and projects.

You are expected to attend class regularly. Failure to do so will affect your performance and your final grade. Class participation includes coming to class prepared, keeping up with the readings, participating in class discussions and group discussion (oral and written), and completing assignments on time.

Please, please come to see me if you are having problems. Extensions will be given, but only if requested at least one week before the due date; extensions will not be given the day an assignment is due. This applies to all presentations, papers, quizzes, and tests. If you find that you must miss a class or a scheduled conference with me, you must notify me in time to make other arrangements.

If you have a disability and need particular accommodations, please feel free to discuss the issue with me during office hours. Students with disabilities who need accommodations should contact Michelle McLane in the Conard Learning Center (755-4304) to arrange for documentation and a variety of other services.

All members of the OSU community are welcome to discuss their writing with a trained consultant at the Writing Center. The Center offers the following services for free:

• Help with any assignment (ranging from essays to lab reports to application letters) at any stage of the writing process (brainstorming, thesis development, revising, etc.)
• One-to-one tutorials in Ovalwood 230.
• Group tutorials for students working on the same assignment.
• ...and much, much more.

Here is how your course grade will be determined:

• Quizzes 10% (5% each)
• Tests 20% (10% each)
• Rhetorical analysis (20%)
• Rhetorical artifact (20%)
• Oral presentation 10%
• Participation in class 20%

Because I want to reward your best work, the above percentages are only guidelines.