I really like the very-graphic course description from SUNY Suffolk (http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/eatonc/eg11-syllabus-villanti.pdf). The course description, which the instructor rightly calls a "course packet" is far more in depth than I'm used to seeing from a course description, but I imagine it was a very useful introduction for the class. Especially as it appears some sections are held online. Now that I've seen this, I'll consider something similarly graphic'd out and detailed in the future.
Course Description:
Welcome to Developmental Writing! This intensive, collaborative course is designed to prepare students for college-level reading and writing activities and is usually taken in preparation for English 1A (College Composition). This semester, we will tackle questions of place and identity--how is our identity shaped by the places we visit and live, and how might these places be changed and shaped by our presence? Our reading will include essays, news articles, fiction, memoirs and even a play. And of course we will write...a lot! Lists, free-writes, journal entries, narratives, proposals, definitions and analyses--bring plenty of paper and pens each day because nothing is too big or too small for us to write about.
Grading Methodology:
Participation: 10%
attendance, participate in discussion, classwork and peer review
Journal: 20%
reading journal, in-class prompts, pre-writing (collected and graded at midterm and two weeks before end of term)
Group Project: 20%
dialectical journal, discussion notes, group paper and class presentation
Portfolio: 50%
4 essays taken through draft, mid-draft and revision, weighted as follows...
- narrative - 10%
- analysis/response - 10%
- proposal - 15%
- semester synthesis - 15%
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