1. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?
Do Now: Write your name on your index card. Beneath your name, write your response to this question: Why do you think it’s been said, “the pen is truly mightier than the sword”?

2. Writing Intensive
Fall 2010
Mr. Misciagna
How do you say my name?
“Misciagna” like “Lasagna”

3. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?
Course Overview: This course is designed to develop your skills as an effective writer of academic prose. Each unit will sequence an ongoing examination and application of composition principles in rhetorical modes, writing processes, structural elements, organizational patterns, and stylistic considerations.
“Academic Prose”

4. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?
Texts: The Bedford Handbook and Models for Writers (handouts)
Materials: Notebook and folder
Homework: 25%
Quizzes and Class work: 25%
Formal Assessments—Essays: 50%
Academic dishonesty is an extremely serious offense.

5. Some Secrets to success…
Arrive to class on time.
When you get to class, immediately begin your “Do now”.
All homework, essays, etc. must be submitted on the assigned date.
We will run a “G” rated classroom.
The instructor cannot and will not compete with others who are talking.
Regarding discipline, we will run a “three strikes” policy.

6. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?
There's nothing to writing.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. 
~Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

7. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?

8. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?
Write your learning style on the same line across from your name.

9. Aim: What are the first steps to making this class a success?
What are some ways you learn best?
What are some ways of learning that don't work well for you? Why do you think that is?
Do you prefer to work independently? In small groups? Large groups?
What are some things you'd really like me to help you learn or get better at?
What else should I know about you as a person and a student that could help me teach you better?
What is something about yourself that I do not know but you'd be willing to share with me to help me know you better?
I like to work on my own first and then figure stuff out with other people. I like to pick my own groups, though, and don't like when it seems that other people are randomly assigned to work with me.

10. And in closing…
Thank you in advance for making this a pleasant and, hopefully, enriching relationship—on both sides of the teacher’s desk. I respect each of you and your individuality and look forward to not only teaching you but also learning from you, so please, do your best to reach beyond your grasp and maintain a collegiate atmosphere and mature classroom without all the “baby stuff”. You have all begun this term with a 100%, not a 0%, so push yourself and focus because, as corny as it sounds, you will never know what you are capable of if you never try. You reap what you sow.
What questions do you have about this class?

11. Homework #1—always on SITHS!
(This is the easiest homework ever.)
Investigate your learning style (links online)
Obtain the materials you need for class.
Read and review the opening day documents online.
Return the signed portion of the class contract.
Register/Create an account on The Bedford Handbook Online and turnitin.com. 11