Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - Standards in Freshman Rhetoric (1956) [PAGE 4]

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Icnentarj instruction in research procedures and in logical reasoning.

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OBJECTIVE

In this course you will learn to read better by studying reading techniques and by reading and studying well-written pieces of factual prose. Your reading skill will be gauged by the discernment you show in elass discussion of assigned readings, by occasional tests, and by weekly written compositions based on your reaction to the reading you have done. Your study of the prose produced by writers of distinction will reveal to you ways in which your own prose style could be further improved.

SPECIAL RULES AND REQUIREMENTS

The general objective <f tru two i mo U i - om < i > to l,«lp the studcnl improve his prod* icn< y in tie related skills of writing, speaking n ading and listening.

PLAN

1. You will receive no credit in the course unless you have done all the required work: this includes study and classroom discussion of all assigned readings and completion and revision of all written work. 2. You will not be allowed to make up late them after the thirteenth week of the semester.

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The basic pattern of the work is preti instruction, student performance, and retest. In general, the work of the first semester consists of expository speakinj and writing, with which is correlated the- development of reading and listening skills. The work of the second semester consists of a piobl'-m-solvin experience in deliberation upon currently unsolved problems of public policv. This project gives training in panel discussion, individual speaking, writing, and the further development of listening skills. Throughout DGS 111-112 classes meet four times a weekthree times in small di-( ussion sections and once in a common meeting for all students.

RULES AND REQUIREMENTS

3. You will be required to have at least one conference with your instructor during the semester. 1. You will be required to read and report on two books recommended or approved by your instructor.

1. Deficiencies in mechanical skills are treated as personal limitations to be remedied by the student's own efforts after consultation with the instructor or with the- appropriate university clinu 2. Each student is required to have at least two conferences with his instructor and is encouraged t < ask for further consultation when he feels the need of it.

5. You will be expected to strengthen and enlarge your vocabulary. Your instructor will give you frequent tests on the meaning and spelling of words used in your assigned reading. You will be expected to make a grade of at least 80 on a spelling and vocabulary test to be given sometime toward the end of the semester. Failure to make this grade will lower your semester grade one letter, even to the point of failure in the course. The words on the test will be chosen from assigned reading in the textbooks.

PROFICIENCY IN WRITTEN ENGLISH AS A REQUIREMENT FOR GRADUATION

DGS 1 1 1 - 1 1 2 : Verbal Communication

The Division of General Studies oilers a two-semester nil which is equivalent, in terms of college requirements, to the combination of Rhetoric 101, Rhetoric 102, and Speech 101. The com satisfi. the University requirements in rhetoric and the >ec4 )i requirement of those colic > which ask that then tudenti omplete one semester's work inspeech. , v ' i«»1 passim radc «.,, the Rhetoric Place1 OJ passin grade in Rhetoric loo.

Proficiency in the use of written English is a require merit for all undergraduate degrees awarded by the Urbana divisions oi the University oi Illinois. Students who rccci\c grades of C or D in Rhetoric 102 or Verbal Communication 112 must take an English qualifying examination at the beginning oi their junior year. Those who fail to pass this examination must, before graduating, take- and pass an extra on, semester course in rhetoric Rhetoric 200),

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