ONLINE WR 199: Selected Topics: Documentation (CRN
20777)
Spring 2008 Course Plan, Learning Objectives, Grading
This
Spring 2008 Blackboard-based Online
WR 199 - ST: Documentation course
is comprised of five sequenced lessons (equivalent to 10 lecture hours)
and
evaluated assignments, which enrolled students can complete successfully in 5 to 10 weeks, dependent upon such variables as how early
in the term students (who have met the
prerequisite) register in this online course and begin its work, the pace at
which students complete sequenced lessons and submit
assignments for evaluation, and necessary preparation time that the instructor
requires to post/update Bb lessons and evaluate students' submitted assignments.
Prerequisite:
Successful completion of COCC
Online
Orientation Units
1-5
(Mini-Course)
Information:
http://web.cocc.edu/onlineorientation/
Sign-up: http://web.cocc.edu/onlineorientation/orientation_signup.htm
Registered Students will be able to
access this Spring 2008 Blackboard course
beginning Mon., March 24, 2008.
COCC Blackboard Login:
http://bb.cocc.edu/
Discussion Board Forums - Grading
Weight: 10%
--Getting Started
includes required "Begin Here" and
"Course Documents" Readings, WR 199 Bb course navigational Survey,
and required Posting to Discussion Board Forum #1:
Introductions & Course Questions.
--After completion of Lessons #1 & #2, required Posting to Discussion
Board Forum #2:
Topic & Directions TBA
--After completion of Lessons #3 & #4, required Posting to
Discussion Board Forum #3:
Topic & Directions TBA
--After completion of Lesson #5, required Posting to
Discussion Board Forum #4:
Topic & Directions TBA
Lesson #1: Plagiarism
- Grading Weight: 15%
Completion of Lesson #1 includes
required Readings & one graded reading-based Writing Assignment.
Students who successfully complete WR 199 Lesson #1 will
demonstrate achievement of . . .
Learning Outcome 1: Define what plagiarism is and explain how plagiarism
can be avoided.
Lesson #2: Documentation
Styles - Grading Weight: 5%
Completion of Lesson #2 includes
required Readings and one graded reading-based Writing Assignment.
Students who successfully complete WR 199 Lesson #2 will
demonstrate achievement of . . .
Learning Outcome 2: Identify the essential purposes and common types of
established academic and professional documentation styles
(e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago, CSE) for citing sources in college writing assignments
across the curriculum.
Lesson #3: Bibliography
Construction - Grading Weight: 30%
Completion of Lesson #3 includes
required Readings, and one graded Bibliography assignment.
(Graded bibliography assignments may be revised to improve grade: see Lesson
#4 below)
Students who successfully complete WR 199 Lesson #3 will
demonstrate achievement of . . .
Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate competency in constructing an alphabetized
bibliography of several common types of sources (e.g. standard
print sources, as well as online/electronic, field & other non-print sources),
for each of which bibliographical entries are complete and correctly
formatted according to an accepted documentation style (e.g. APA References
or MLA Works Cited).
Lesson #4: In-Text Citation
Practices - Grading Weight: 20%
Completion of Lesson #4 includes
required Readings, one graded In-Text Citation assignment, and submission of
(Revised) Bibliography assignment (see Lesson #3 above).
Students who successfully complete WR 199 Lesson #4 will
demonstrate achievement of . . .
Learning Outcome 4: Demonstrate competency in constructing several common
types of in-text citations (e.g. summary, paraphrase, short and
long "block" direct quotations indicating any necessary alterations with
ellipsis and brackets, indirect citations from sources, "unsigned"
sources, "unpaginated" sources), each
of which are correctly
formatted according to an accepted (e.g. APA or MLA)
documentation style and
clearly matchable to corresponding complete, correctly formatted entries listed
in a master alphabetized bibliography of all sources cited in text.
Lesson #5: Capstone Project
Applications - Grading Weight: 20%
Completion of Lesson #5 includes
review of WR 199 Lessons #1-4 readings and evaluated assignments;
electronic submission to Cora and Turnitin.com of one or more current and/or
past formal research-based writing assignments prepared for an/other
course/s; student author's critique of documentation practices in the
submitted research-based assignment/s; and submission of Revised version/s
of research-based assignment/s for instructor evaluation of documentation
practices.
Students who successfully complete WR 199 Lesson #5 will
demonstrate achievement of . . .
Learning Outcome 5: Review and edit documentation in at least one
current or previously prepared formal research-based writing assignment,
successfully applying above Learning Outcomes 1-4 documentation skills and
knowledge gained from this course.
