1. Welcome to College Composition 1 for Paralegal Studies Majors CM114 Instructor: Tara King

2. Contact Information tjones@kaplan.edu (please make note of this since my email address does not use my current last name)tjones@kaplan.edu tarainst@comcast.net (alternate email address)tarainst@comcast.net Office Hours: Fridays 5 – 7 pm ET Login name for AIM, Yahoo, and GoogleTalk: tarainst

3. Rubrics

4. Due Dates & Late Policy Assignments are due by 11:59 pm ET on Tuesday of the assigned unit If your assignment is going to be late for any reason, email me prior to the due date to make arrangements. No late assignments will be accepted after the end of Unit 8. Resubmissions are not allowed

5. Incomplete policy Granted only in extreme cases Must have a passing grade in the course when the incomplete is requested.

6. Seminar Options Option 1 (preferred) –Attend the audio seminar Option 2 –Review the seminar transcript –Write a synopsis and analysis of the covered material –Email to the instructor within one week of the seminar

7. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the act of stealing words or ideas from a source and acting as if those words or thoughts were your own. It is not tolerated in this class. I submit everything to www.turnitin.com.www.turnitin.com In addition, submitting work for this class and another class is considered academic plagiarism because you are supposed to do original work for each class.

8. Final Project Due at the end of Unit 9 Worth 200 points of your final grade. Late projects are not accepted.

9. Basic Elements of Writing Audience –General –Academic –Specific Narrowed Topic Purpose –Inform –Explain –Entertain Tone –Formal –Informal Structure –Chronological –Spatial –Order of importance

10. A new way to consider writing Instead of thinking of... Format Correctness Chunks of information Think of... Audience Purpose Connections