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UWP 7V

PRACTICES IN COLLEGE READING & WRITING

Summer Session 1 2025

UWP 007V: Practices in College Reading and Writing is a 4 unit credit-bearing course taught by writing faculty at UC Davis. The small class size of 18 students allows for intense mentorship and collaboration as students focus on academic literacy strategies, including understanding scholarly texts, contextualizing information, developing source-based academic writing projects, and learning how to implement feedback and revision plans. This course is a fully online, asynchronous course.

UWP 7V Fulfills the ELWR (Entry Level Writing Requirement)

The entry level writing requirement (ELWR) is a way to ensure students get literacy support right away upon enrolling at UC Davis so they can be successful in their classes. ELWR fulfilling courses provide college reading and writing strategies, emphasizing how college writers work with source materials in particular.

Students need to earn either a C or higher in the course to fulfill the ELWR.

A “PASS” in this course will not fulfill the ELWR. See “How are Students Graded” section for more details.

UWP 7V will be all asynchronous work that you will complete on your own. There are weekly deadlines that you are expected to meet that will help pace your learning in the course:

■ You are expected to log into Canvas regularly, using the weekly Module you find there as your guide.

■ The weekly module typically begins with a video that describes the week’s work along with a series of tasks you need to complete in order, along with the individual due dates of those tasks.

■ It is important that you complete the tasks in the order they are listed and assigned.

■ It is important that you meet the deadlines of the course. The deadlines are designed to help us complete the work of this course in the short six week summer session.

■ Every Wednesday I will host a Zoom call from 10-11:40am. This Zoom call meeting is optional and should be treated like community office hours. You can use this time to ask questions, discuss feedback you have received, etc.

We will use a combination of Canvas and Google Drive this quarter. Office hours and conferences may be conducted using Zoom, so you will need a computer, microphone, webcam, and reliable internet access to participate in class and complete coursework. Your equipment will need to be able to stream both audio and video.

I will guide the class through the sign-up process for additional applications you will need via assigned videos I make for the class. Please do not sign up for these tools on your own; my guidance is necessary to ensure that you register correctly to synch these tools with your ucdavis.edu credentials:

1. Eli Review, an online writing workshop platform, to share drafts and exchange feedback. If you participate in the Equitable Access program through the UC Davis Bookstore you will find your subscription code via the Canvas Bookshelf. If you are not participating in that program you can pay for access to Eli Review for the term via the Eli Review website. Our course code = victor1371locals.

2. Padlet, a free online collaborative writing space.

3. Perusall, a free online collaborative reading annotation app.

Research tells us that consistent engagement with the processes of reading and writing, more so than production of final products, fosters the development of stronger, more flexible academic writers. Therefore, the grading system in this class evaluates both your consistent engagement with the tasks and content of the course as well as the completeness of the final written products.

The chart below explains the grading criteria in columns. You will earn a "Complete" grade (displayed as a ✔ in Canvas) if you have met the expectations of a given assignment. You will earn an “Incomplete” grade (displayed as an X in Canvas) if you have not met the expectations and/or deadlines of an assignment. Earning all “Completes” in the categories of Eli Review Tasks and Final Draft Submissions is required in order to earn a grade higher than a C and use this course to fulfill ELWR.

You will be able to calculate your grade in the course based on the number of “Incomplete” scores you have earned. You must meet all the criteria listed in the vertical column to earn the grade at the top of the column.

Letter Grade Requirements

Categories of Assigned Work:

An Overview (See Individual Assignment Sheets for Details)

Weekly Activities

Weekly activities include things like online discussion posts and replies, reading annotations, reading summaries and reflections, charts, brainstorming assignments, worksheets and planning documents. All of these activities are designed to help you complete the two required Final Submission Drafts in this course and to help you improve as a writer. It is important that you complete them all as they are assigned. All weekly activities submitted late will be marked as Incomplete (X) as well as submissions that do not meet the minimum requirements of the assignment.

Literacy Journal Entries

Reflecting on your own literacy experiences, practices, strategies, and habits will help you develop greater awareness and flexibility as a writer, one of the primary goals of UWP 7V. Literacy journal entries ask you to think deeply about your own reading and writing processes, experiences, practices, and strategies. I will provide you with specific topics or questions to think about for each Literacy Journal Entry. All literacy journal entries submitted late will be marked as Incomplete (X) as will submissions that do not meet the minimum requirements of the assignment.

Eli Review Tasks

Peer writing workshops are key to improving as a writer. You will participate in multiple, required peer workshops in UWP 7V that are very structured and take place within Eli Review. Eli Review (writing, review, and revision tasks) activities that are submitted on time but do not complete all the required elements of the workshop adequately will be evaluated as Incomplete (X).

All assigned Eli Review tasks (writing, review, and revision tasks) must be submitted on time and evaluated as Complete (✔) to pass the course with a C or higher.

Average Helpfulness Scores

Part of each writing workshop cycle involves reading the feedback you receive from your peers and rating how helpful you find that feedback. At the end of each writing workshop, then, you have a helpfulness score that indicates how helpful (on a scale of 5-1) your feedback is to them as a writer. Your average helpfulness score is the average of all your helpfulness scores across all the writing workshops in UWP 7V (after the first practice workshop early in the quarter). Your average helpfulness score is important because it reflects the quality of your feedback from the perspective of an actual writer and so is part of your final  grade configuration.

Final Submission Drafts

There are two Final Submission Drafts required in UWP 7V (Synthesis Paper and Literacy Self-Study). To pass this course with a C or higher your Final Submission Drafts must be submitted on time and be evaluated as Complete (✔) in content and quality as defined by the assignment. You may only submit a Final Submission Draft late if you consult with me in advance of the due date and get permission. Final Submission Drafts that are submitted on time but are evaluated as Incomplete (X) can only be revised and resubmitted in consultation with me.

All Final Submission Drafts must be evaluated as Complete (✔) to pass the course with a C or higher.