English 1102: Composition II Spring 2016
CRN: 580 Section: A1 Online
Dr. LaRonda Sanders-Senu Office: 103G Academic Building Office Hours: MW 9:15-11:15, TR 9:15-10:15, TR 10:15-11:15 (Online) Phone: 678-359-5444 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.gordonstate.edu/Faculty/lsanders-senu/
Welcome Greetings and welcome to Composition II. If you take full advantage of this course, it can be of infinite value to you. No matter what your major or ultimate career plans, you will never be able to escape writing. Learning to present organized, well-reasoned arguments is a skill that will be of great benefit to you throughout your life. The ability to support arguments with thoughtful and thorough scholarship will also be beneficial in both your academic and professional careers. This course will involve a great deal of discussion, presentation of different perspectives, peer activities, reading, and research. Ultimately, it can be as enjoyable and beneficial as you make it. This is an environment where we will all learn from each other, and I am very excited about this semester.
Course Description A composition course emphasizing interpretation and evaluation that incorporates a variety of advanced research methods
Course Objectives: 1. Students will be able to conduct independent research in a variety of disciplines and evaluate that research to produce informed, thoughtful contributions to scholarly and professional issues. 2. Students will be able to craft their writing to suit a variety of audiences and rhetorical purposes in both electronic and traditional formats. 3. Students will be able to apply critical thinking concepts such as inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and moral reasoning to their own texts and to the texts of others. 4. Students will be able to analyze and evaluate their own texts and the texts of others for tone, style, purpose, audience, and errors of logic. 5. Students will be able to evaluate and synthesize a variety of primary and secondary resources with their own thinking to create structured, persuasive, and sustained arguments.
Prerequisite In order to be eligible to enroll in English 1102, students must have been exempted from or earned at least a C in English 1101
Prerequisite In order to be eligible to enroll in English 1102, students must have been exempted from or earned at least a C in English 1101
Required Texts and Technology
Students should be familiar with D2L which works best with Fire Fox Mozilla Browser. I have not assigned a reading textbook for this class. The material on D2L is your textbook. All resources for this class will be posted on our D2L page. If you need technical support, you may find videos and helpful tools on the Computer Services website: http://www.gordonstate.edu/computer- services/georgiaview-desire2learn.
Students must have access to and be able to use a video recorder.
The Gordon State College Writing Handbook http://faculty.gordonstate.edu/wvenus/Handbook.htm
Office Hours and Emails You may always visit me during my on campus office hours. However, I will have online office hours as well. If you send me an email during my online office hours, I will try to respond immediately unless I am with another student. I will reply to all emails in a timely manner. We may also use the D2L chat feature. I will not check the D2L email. Send all emails to lsanders- [email protected].
1 Grading General Scale A = 100—90 B =89.9— 80 C = 79.9—70 D= 69.9—60 F = 59 and below*
Paper Scale A = 95 A- = 92 B+ = 88 B = 85 B- = 82 C+ = 78 C = 75 C- = 72 D+ = 68 D=65 D- = 62 F = 58 and so on.
Homework and Class work Grading Scale √+ = A (100-90) √ = B (85) √- = C (75) √- - = D (65) NC= No Credit
Assignments
Paper One: Rhetorical Analysis 10% Paper Two: Lyrical Analysis 20% Paper Three: Argumentative Research Paper 20% Paper Four Analysis of a Scholarly Text and Argument (Written in Class) 20% Discussion Board Posts 15%
Participation, Homework, Class work, and Quizzes 15%
***Be advised that students who fail to submit one or more major assignments usually exit the course with a grade of D or F.***
Outside of Class Paper Guidelines (See General Paper Grading Guidelines) With the exception of Paper Four, all papers will be submitted using the dropbox feature in D2L. The papers should have one-inch margins and 12-point Times New Roman font. They should be properly formatted and cited in MLA Style; see pages 435-440 in the Prentice Hall Guide. Papers should be submitted in the appropriate dropbox by their due dates and times. Papers that are not submitted in Microsoft Word or in the correct drop box by the due date will not be accepted. I do not accept papers via email. Turn in all preliminary work with final papers. (Including First Drafts, Worksheets, Peer Review Sheets, and Outlines)
Peer Review For Papers Two and Three, you will have to complete peer review. I will provide you with a peer review sheet, and I will assign you two partners. You will have to submit a completed draft to the appropriate dropbox by the date listed on the schedule. After reading the two papers, you will need to fill out a peer review sheet for each paper. In addition to completing the peer review sheet, you may also make comments directly on the paper using the Microsoft comment feature. When you are done, you should email the paper with comments as well as the peer review sheet back to the author the paper. The due date for peer review will be listed on the schedule. When you submit your final paper to the appropriate dropbox, you should also attach the peer review sheets that were completed by your two peers. I expect your peer review responses to be thoughtful and helpful. If I feel that you put little effort into peer review, if you do not participate in peer review, or if you are late posting peer review materials, six points will be deducted from your final paper grade and you may also get a zero for a home work assignment for that week.
In-Class Paper Guidelines (See General Paper Grading Guidelines) The division requires a portion of your grade to be based on in-class writing. To fulfill that requirement, students will be required to write Paper Four in class on May 3, 2016 at 10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. in 114 Academic Building. Only authorized material is allowed during the writing process. Students are not allowed to draft the paper or write any portion of the papers outside of class. I will treat all drafts of this paper that are written outside of class, in whole or in part, as violations of academic integrity. Students who violate this rule will receive a zero on the paper.
I will grade this paper with the same rigor as papers written outside of the classroom. It should reflect students’ skills as writers. It should be fully developed. It should include an introduction, multiple body sections, and a conclusion. It should adhere to MLA guidelines and contain sufficient analysis. The paper should be written in print, skipping lines between each line of text. Use blue or black ink. Illegible text will negatively impact your grade. Students should bring sufficient paper or a bluebook to class on in-class writing days. Students will have the two hour exam period to write the paper. Students who are late on the in-class writing day will not get additional time to complete the assignment. The on campus in-class writing assignment is mandatory.
2 Revisions Students will have the option to revise one of the first three papers this semester. This opportunity will be extended only to students who submit the assignment within one week of the due date. Students who fail to complete an assignment within one week of its due date will not have the opportunity to then submit the assignment for revision. All revisions will be due at 5:00 p.m. two weeks after the paper is returned to students who submitted their material on time, no exceptions no excuses. (The two week deadline is only applicable when possible. For paper three, you may have less than two weeks.) These papers should be substantial revisions of the previous assignment, not just topical revisions that reflect surface level changes. Because this is a revision opportunity, my comments on the revised paper will not be as extensive as my comments on the initial assignment. Students who make a grade below a C- on any paper are strongly urged to make an appointment with me to discuss strategies to improve papers.
Late Work With the exception of major papers, I do not accept late work. You will not be allowed to make up quizzes or class work. If you fail to submit that material when it is due, you will receive a zero. Please do not submit work via email.
Discussion Board Throughout the course, you will be required to make discussion board posts. The prompts will ask you to respond to specific instructions. Each original discussion board post should be at least 200 words. Large quotations will not count toward the word count. Posts that do not meet the length requirement will receive a zero. If an original post is late, the student will receive no credit for the original post. Students are also required to respond to two of their peers, unless otherwise notified in the prompt. These responses should be thoughtful and respectful engagements with ideas presented in the original posts. Feel free to agree or disagree, but make sure that you clearly explain your thoughts. Even if a student fails to submit an original post, he or she may still earn points by responding to two peers. Late response posts will earn a zero. Though I will leave the word count of the responses up to students, both responses and original posts should be thoughtful and well written. Original discussion board posts are due on Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted. Discussion board response posts are due on Fridays by 8:00 a.m. (Please note that there may be some weeks in which discussion board posts are not assigned. Pay attention to your syllabus. These assignments are in green on the course schedule.) You are responsible for reading every discussion board post that is made by the Thursday deadlines.
Class Work and Homework Throughout the semester, students will be assigned many class work/homework assignments. These assignments should be submitted using the appropriate D2L dropbox. Unless otherwise noted, these assignments will be due every Sunday by 12:00 p.m. These assignments are in blue on the course schedule.
Attendance While this is an online class, failure to submit assignments reflects a lack of engagement with the class. Such behavior is the same as being absent from a face-to-face class. You will have two conferences this semester. Conferences are required, and you will be informed in advance. These conferences will be virtual conferences. I expect you to be on time and prepared. Failure to attend an individual conference will count as an absence.
Academic Integrity The 2015-2016 Gordon State College Academic Catalog states that Plagiarism is prohibited. It is assumed that the written work submitted for evaluation and credit is the student's own unless appropriately acknowledged. Such acknowledgment should occur whenever one directly quotes another person's actual words, appropriates another's ideas, opinions, or theories even when they are paraphrased, and whenever one borrows facts, statistics, or other illustrative materials unless the information is common knowledge. (348) Be mindful of this in your academic work. Academic integrity is a serious matter.
Types of Plagiarism: Lack of Citation- Quotations that do not have proper citation or quotations that do not have accurate citation information.
Inadequate Paraphrase- A paraphrase that shares the same sentence structure and word choice with the original text (Quotation), a paraphrase that changes the meaning of the original text, or a paraphrase that is not properly cited.
Patchwork Plagiarism- A text that is comprised, either entirely or in part, of improperly cited material from multiple sources.
Wholesale Plagiarism- A text that is submitted by a student that is comprised of work that was written by someone other than the student. This includes papers or sections of papers that are taken from the internet, purchased, retrieved from reference books ,or written by an acquaintance, friend, or family member.
3 Self-Plagiarism-A text, either in its entirety or in part, that was written by the student and submitted for another course (or the same course).
Using Unauthorized Material for In-Class Papers- Any drafts of papers, portions of papers, or other unauthorized material that is used during in-class paper assignments is considered plagiarism.
Collusion- A text with which a student receives so much help from others that the assignment can no longer be considered a valid representation of the student’s work. This includes excessive help from friends, family members, tutors, or other classmates. All work should be an indication of the student’s ability. I reserve the right to refuse to accept an assignment that reflects collusion between a student and any other person.
Assignments will be submitted to Turnitin.com to be checked for plagiarism. At my discretion, the penalty for plagiarism of any type may range from a lower grade, to a zero on the assignment, to a failure of the course. I will inform the Vice President of Student Affairs of cases of plagiarism. Egregious instances of plagiarism or repeated instances of plagiarism will result in referral to the Academic Judicial Committee. Please review the Student Code of Conduct.
ADA and 504 If you have a documented disability as described by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504, you may be eligible to receive accommodations to assist in programmatic and/or physical accessibility. The Counseling and Accessibility Services office located in the Student Center, Room 212 can assist you in formulating a reasonable accommodation plan and in providing support in developing appropriate accommodations to ensure equal access to all GSC programs and facilities. Course requirements will not be waived, but accommodations may assist you in meeting the requirements. For documentation requirements and for additional information, contact Counseling and Accessibility Services at 678-359-5585.
Title IX Gordon State College is committed to providing an environment free of all forms of discrimination and sexual harassment, including sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. If you (or someone you know) has experienced or experiences any of these incidents, know that you are not alone. All faculty members at Gordon State College are mandated reporters. Any student reporting any type of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, domestic violence or stalking must be made aware that any report made to a faculty member under the provisions of Title IX will be reported to the Title IX Coordinator or a Title IX Deputy Coordinator. If you wish to speak with someone confidentially, you must contact the Counseling and Accessibility Services office, Room 212, Student Life Center. The licensed counselors in the Counseling Office are able to provide confidential support.
Gordon State College does not discriminate against any student on the basis of pregnancy, parenting or related conditions. Students seeking accommodations on the basis of pregnancy, parenting or related conditions should contact Counseling and Accessibility Services regarding the process of documenting pregnancy related issues and being approved for accommodations, including pregnancy related absences as defined under Title IX.
I reserve the right to make changes to the schedule and course policies at my discretion.
Friendly Notes Please ask if there is ever anything that you do not understand. Please communicate with me during my office hours or make an appointment with me. I am here to help, and I want to help! I would also encourage you to utilize the Students Success Center, which is located in room 235 of the Student Center. The tutoring staff there can help you in most of your courses. (http://www.gdn.edu/successcenter/ )
Students are responsible for all written and verbal material that I introduce in class, send through email, and place on Desire2Learn. Make sure that you check your Gordon email frequently. I will use your gordonstate.edu address to communicate.
Students are expected to always follow the schedule without being prompted by the professor, unless notified of specific changes.
I do not respond to emails after 4:00 pm or on weekends. If I do respond via email during those times, you should consider it a courtesy. I will try to respond to all emails in a timely manner.
Students are required to wait at least twenty-four hours to ask questions about their paper grades. During that twenty-four hour period, students should review both my comments and their paper to make sure that they fully understand their grade. Those questions should be asked during my office hours.
I expect you to read the syllabus, your assignments, and any supplemental documents that I supply thoroughly. I am happy to answer any questions that you have, but please make sure that your questions do not reflect your failure to read the materials that I supply.
4 English 1102: Composition II Spring 2016
CRN: 580 Section: A1 Online
**Items in blue reflect class work or homework assignments that should be placed in the appropriate dropbox **Items in green are discussion board assignments that should be completed within the appropriate discussion board forum **The link for the Gordon State College Writing Handbook is located in the Syllabus Folder in D2L
Week 1: January 6 th -10 th Welcome
Read Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Essential Skills, Chapter 9: Tips for Success in the Gordon State College Writing Handbook
Review the Writing Process PowerPoint
Read the following Handouts on D2L: You, One, I, and Contractions; How to Write and Email; Analysis of Seventeen Magazine (Provides an example of paper structure) ; Organizing a Paper
Write an introductory discussion board post. Share where you are from, your major or field of interest, and one suggestion. The suggestion should be something you think your classmates should do, see, or read or not do, see or read. Do not provide weak common sense suggestions such as “I think you should read all assignments.” Your suggestion should be substantive and it does not necessarily have to be related to academics or Gordon.
Week 2: January 11 th -17 th Review Rhetorical Analysis PowerPoint and Read Rhetorical Analysis and Critical Analysis of a Text Handout
Using the Canadian Club Whisky advertisement at the end of the Rhetorical Analysis PowerPoint, write a discussion board post that discusses how the advertisers use color, model placement, costuming, font, and/or décor to present the message that “real” men adhere to stereotypical views of masculinity (strength, success, attractiveness, domination, aggressiveness).
Read Martin L. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Review MLK Materials
Create a rhetorical analysis outline for the Canadian Club Whisky advertisement. First determine the main idea of the advertisement. While the advertisers clearly want to sell alcohol, they are also presenting another message. Then create a rhetorical analysis thesis and three topic sentences that address HOW the advertisers argue.
Week 3: January 18 th -24 th Read Paper One: Rhetorical Analysis Assignment
Read President Bush’s “Address to the Joint Sessions of Congress on the 9/11 Attacks”
Pick one of the three potential rhetorical features for paper one (patriotism, strength, and unity) and find three examples of it in the speech. Provide analysis of them; explain how President Bush uses each of your examples to remind his audience that America is resilient and unbowed in the face of terrorism.
Create your outline for Paper One
Read Chapter 8: Tips for Success in the Gordon State College Writing Handbook
5 Review Plagiarism and Integrating Quotations PowerPoint
Week 4: January 25 th -31 st Read D'Souza's “America the Beautiful What We're Fighting”
Read about the Reading Process
Complete the Critical Reading Activity
Pick two of the Contextual Reading References that you included in the Critical Reading Activity and explain how D’Souza intends for the reference to function. Also, select one Critical Reading question that you included in the Critical Reading Activity and explain the significance of that question.
Paper One Due by 5:00 p.m. January 29th in the appropriate dropbox.
Read Paper Two: Lyrical Analysis Assignment
Week 5: February 1 st -7 th Review “Georgia….Bush” PowerPoint
Review Georgia…Bush Outline and Sample Body Section
Select a lyric, reference, or audio feature from the song that is not listed in the “Georgia…Bush” PowerPoint presentation and explain how Lil Wayne uses it as a tool to propel his main idea. You may also select a lyric, reference, or audio feature that I discussed in the PowerPoint presentation that you see as functioning differently than how I explained it.
Submit the lyrics to your song as an attachment. In a second attachment, explain the main idea/ thesis of the song. (You must decide this before you can proceed. Claiming that a song has multiple main ideas is not sufficient. You must decide on the main point that the artist is attempting to present.) You must also create a draft of your outline for this paper.
Week 6: February 8 th -14 th Read Chapter 2: Essential Skills and the Appendix in the Gordon State College Writings Handbook, Perdue OWL Sections on Modifiers, Parallel Structure, and Active/Passive Voice (linked on D2L)
Read the Grammar PowerPoint
Complete the Grammar Study Worksheet and attach it to the Discussion Board. Remember that you should rewrite each sentence fully, and you must retain the same meaning in the sentence. There are multiple ways to correct each sentence, and there may be multiple problems in the sentence. Within a Discussion Board Post, pick four of the sentences; identify the grammar, style, or citation issues in each, and write the corrected sentences. Since there are multiple ways to correct each sentence, you need to respond to two of your peers, correcting their four sentences in a different way than they did.
Submit your outline, introduction, and first body section for Paper Two in one Microsoft Word Document.
Week 7: February 15 th -21 st Read Chapter 2: Essential Skills in the Gordon State College Writing Handbook and the Prentice Hall Guide’s Chapter on MLA Citation (linked on D2L)
Review the Citation Lecture
Peer Review Sheet
Complete the Citation Exercise (Feel Free to Complete this assignment early)
Paper Two Peer Review Draft Due
Conferences 6 Week 8: February 22 nd -28 th Peer review should be completed by February 24th 5:00 p.m.
Review Academic Research PowerPoint
Complete the Academic Research Activity as outlined in the Academic Research PowerPoint
Write a 200-400 word reflection explaining how you plan to revise and improve Paper Two
Paper Two Due on February 28th
Week 9: February 29 th -March 6 th Review Paper Three: Argumentative Research Paper Assignment
Review the Proposal and Annotated Bibliography Assignments
Review the Database Research PowerPoint
Begin Researching
Send me three potential topics for Paper Three in the appropriate dropbox by 12:00 p.m. Wednesday March 2nd
Review the Types of Evidence PowerPoint
In a discussion board post, share your topic and one piece of evidence that you have found very significant, and explain what it contributes to your argument. As you review the posts of your peers, you should comment on your thoughts about the evidence and the topic.
Submit the Proposal in the appropriate dropbox.
Withdrawal Deadline February 29th
Week 10: March 14 th - 20 th Review the Annotated Bibliography Supplemental Material
Continue Researching
Create and Submit Annotated Bibliography
Select two of the most valid (counter arguments) arguments that people who disagree with your position might say. Be mindful not to pick the arguments that are easily invalidated. Pick arguments that are so valid that they may not change your mind, but they make your think more deeply about the topic. Post those counter arguments and explain why, in the face of those counter arguments, your position is still valid. Be very thoughtful.
Week 11: March 21 st - 27 th Create a five minute video in which you provide background about your Paper Three topic; explain the different sides of the debate; explain why you chose the topic, explain your thesis, and share two interesting facts about your topic that you have learned through your research. You should post this video in the appropriate discussion board forum. Watch all videos. Respond to two of your peers sharing where you stand in the debate.
Work on Paper Three Outline
Paper Three Outline Due Thursday, March 24th at 5:00 p.m.
7 Week 12: March 28 th – April 3 rd Paper Three Draft Due
Peer review should be completed by March 29th 5:00 p.m.
Write a 200-400 word reflection explaining how you plan to revise and improve you Paper Two
Paper Three Due in the appropriate dropbox Monday, April 4th 5:00 p.m.
Week 13: April 4 th – 10 th Read Crane’s “The Blue Hotel” and Donald Gibson’s “The Blue Hotel" and the Ideal of Human Courage”
Review the Literary Research PowerPoint
Introduce Paper Four: Analysis of a Scholarly Text and Argument
Assign Stories
Read Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Create a discussion board post in which you identify what you think is the main idea of “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and discuss an aspect of the text that you see as a particularly effective rhetorical tool. This could relate to narration, dialect, symbolism, setting, characterization, or character relationships.
Answer the questions about “Rappaccini’s Daughter” in the appropriate Dropbox. (The the questions will be within the dropbox.)
Week 14: April 11 th – 17 th Begin Paper Four Research
Read Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” and O’Connors’s “Good Country People”
Create a discussion board post in which you identify what you think is the main idea of either “Bartleby the Scrivner” or “Good Country People” and discuss an aspect of the text that you see as a particularly effective rhetorical tool. This could relate to narration, dialect, symbolism, setting, characterization, or character relationships.
Answer the questions about “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Good Country People” in the appropriate Dropbox. (The the questions will be within the dropbox.)
Week 15: April 18 th – 24 th Create a discussion board post in which you identify what you think is the main idea of Oroonoko and discuss an aspect of the text that you see as a particularly effective rhetorical tool. This could relate to narration, dialect, symbolism, setting, characterization, or character relationships.
Answer the questions about “Oroonoko in the appropriate Dropbox. (The the questions will be within the dropbox.)
Submit the article that you have selected as the centerpiece of Paper Four as an attachment along with a completed Scholarly Article Analysis on that article to the appropriate dropbox. This is due on April 21st by 5:00 p.m.
Conferences
Week 16: April 25 th – 28 th Conferences Outline Final Exam: May 3, 2016 from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 a.m. Paper Four will be written in class. We will meet in 114 Academic Building. This is a mandatory meeting. Please plan accordingly. 8