PAWR Course Overview
PAWR Course Overview
PAWR Course Overview
● Introductions
● Course Overview
● Class Structure
● Assignment Submission
ENGL 10102: Principles of Academic Writing
and Research (PAWR)
This textbook has been designed by our own faculty and the
content/layout have been created specifically with the needs of
this course in mind.
VIRTUAL CLASSROOM:
VIRTUAL CLASSROOM:
The lecture will usually run an hour. There will be no formal lab
period online. (It is recommended to use the lab time to do work
for this class based on the weekly content.) After the lecture
there will be live office hours in the virtual classroom for
meeting with individual students for support.
CLASS STRUCTURE
TURNITIN:
TURNITIN:
CLASS STRUCTURE
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Evaluation Plan:
Week 3
Instructions:
Students can be asked to search the Sheridan library and look for key
information such as library hours, academic integrity, course guides, specific
passages from articles, etc.
Week 5
Instructions:
The week before the assessment, the students can be provided with the
Sheridan Academic Integrity policy and procedure documents to review and a
newspaper article on the subject of plagiarism. Students can then be asked to
do a written response (letter, short analysis, etc) on the topic of plagiarism.
Faculty may wish to provide a question for the students to respond to with
evidence from the sources. Citations and integration of evidence should be
evaluated in this exercise.
Week 9
Instructions:
Students can be given an academic article on a general interest topic and asked
to provide a reference entry and analysis of the source in an annotated
bibliography format. Referencing format should be evaluated in this exercise.
Week 11
Instructions:
For the second half of the semester, the students will complete
four assignments based on a topic of their choosing. The
research proposal requires students to provide a research
question, a thesis statement, main discussion points, and a
counter argument. The annotated bibliography requires
students to find academic and professional resources, create a
reference list, summarize the sources, and explain how they
intend to use each source.
The Research Essay Proposal (5%)
Week 6
Instructions:
Instructions:
Weeks 10-12
Presentation:
Students will submit a presentation on their individual topics and will be
evaluated on breadth and depth of knowledge/research.
Due in Assessments-> Assignments and the Week 10 Discussion forum
by Mar. 28 at 9 am.
Beginning of Week 13
Instructions:
The Research Essay is the final stage of a research and writing process
that incorporates your work on the Research Proposal, the Annotated
Bibliography and the Presentation. You MUST USE THE SAME TOPIC
THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN FOR YOUR ANNOTATED
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRESENTATION.
Research Essay (20%)
Beginning of Week 13
-An APA style reference page with a minimum of five research sources – with at
least two academic (peer-reviewed) sources.
-A word count between 1,000 and 1,500 words, not including the title page and
references page.
If you submit your assignment early, you will get your mark once
all assignments have been graded for the class. This is in order to
keep things consistent.
Commonly Asked Questions About Assignment
Submission
3) Can I send you the entire draft of my assignment for you to look over
and give me feedback? That way I can fix any problems before I submit it
to the Dropbox.
5) I submitted my assignment to the Self-Check Folder. Why haven’t you marked it?
I will not be checking or marking any assignments in the Self-Check Folder (found in
Assessments-->Assignments).
The Self-Check Folder is set up so that you can check your Turnitin score in advance
before you submit an assignment. This is meant to be an optional tool for you.
Once the deadline for assignments has passed, I check the Assignment drop box.
If I do not see your assignment, and if you have not asked me for an extension, I will post a
zero in your grades. This will indicate to you that I have not received anything from you.
In the past, some students (being understandably busy) have forgotten to submit their
assignments even though they have completed them, and they don't realize that they
forgot to submit until days or even a week after the deadline. This scenario ends up being
stressful for everyone, so that's why I will post a zero to make it clear that I haven't received
anything from you.
Commonly Asked Questions About Assignment
Submission