ENGL+1102+Comp+II+Description+and+Policies

**Course Description ** ENGL 1102 is the second of a two-semester program focusing on skills required for both effective writing for various rhetorical situations, and critical reading of texts. In writing, students must demonstrate competency in argumentation, and writing that is strengthened by citations of multiple textual sources. 
 * ENGLISH 1102: Composition II ** **Dr. Lori Wilson Snaith ** https://lsnaith.wikispaces.com/Snaith+home+page


 * Required Texts and Materials **

1) Hacker, Diana. //A Pocket Style Manual// St. Martins Binding Spiral. ISBN 1-4576-4232-8 Amazon used: $13.22; University Bookstore $39.75 **Hard copy required**: You can purchase it at the University Book Store, or (less expensively) here at **[|Amazon.com]**
 * You'll need this text right away...no later than the beginning of Week Three **

2) Edson, Margaret. //Wit.// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (March 29, 1999). ISBN-10: 0571198775 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Amazon used: $6.47; University Bookstore $12.oo


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;">Hard copy required: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;">everyone **MUST** have the same edition, which you can find here at **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;">[|Amazon.com] **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 28px;">3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Green, Tamra. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">//Greek & Latin Roots of English.// Rowman Edition, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">ISBN 1442233273 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Amazon new: $49.00; University Bookstore $64.20-- <span style="background-color: #f7e0e6; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">you need a clean, unused copy.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Hard copy required: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">everyone **MUST** have the same edition, which you can find here at **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">[|Amazon.com] **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">4) King, Stephen. //Different Seasons: Four Novellas//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Amazon: $4.00 used; University Bookstore $13.00
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Hard copy required: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">everyone **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> MUST **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">have the same edition, which you can find here at **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">[|Amazon.com] **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">5) Carroll, Andrew et. al., eds. //101 Great American Poems.// Dover Thrift Edition, ISBN 978-0486401584 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">S2.00 used at Amazon; $3.60 at University Bookstore
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">Hard copy required: **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">everyone **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"> MUST **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18.6667px;">have the same edition, which you can find here at <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">**[|Amazon.com]**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Approximate semester cost: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">$75.00 Amazon.com+ printing; <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> $132.55 University Bookstore + printing

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">6) You'll be responsible for printing out a few reading selections; each student **MUST** have his or her own hard copy for class.

<span style="color: #d62339; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">**I always ask students who come to class without their required** <span style="color: #d62339; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">**materials to leave class and** **retrieve the materials I've required for that day.** **<span style="color: #0ea2d1; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">So, please...save us both the trouble, and come to class prepared, ** **<span style="color: #0ea2d1; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">and with your books and/or printed articles at hand. **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students who pass this course will have demonstrated mastery over the following college-level writing skills:
 * <span style="color: #c267ed; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Learning Objectives **


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To read, understand, and interpret a broad range of written and visual texts from a variety of genres
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To understand literary principles and use basic terms important to critical writing and reading.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To develop skills in all the tools necessary for effective argumentation.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To develop facility with the whole writing process from invention through revision.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To understand and employ a variety of rhetorical modes and techniques of persuasion.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To acquire mastery of conventions of college-level prose writing.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To incorporate and document additional textual materials to strengthen and support argument.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students must complete 4000 words of graded—final draft—writing in three essays formatted in flawless MLA style (figure approximately 250 words per full page of typed, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman text). You must complete all assignments in order to pass this course.
 * <span style="color: #249e37; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Course Requirements and Grading **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">STUDENTS MUST COMPLETE EACH OF THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENTS IN ORDER TO PASS THIS COURSE:


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Homework assignments, quizzes, class discussion participation: 20%
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Argument Analyses: **Three** PragerU brief summaries and analysis of arguments: 5% each = 15%
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Essay #1: 15%
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Essay #2: 20%
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Essay #3: 30%

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will grade all of your formal papers strictly according to the Essay Rubrics that correspond with your assignment (see the syllabus for links to these rubrics). I'll assign both a numerical grade and its corresponding letter grade to each of your papers (for example, a B ≈ 85; a D+/C- ≈ 70; A- ≈ 92; A+ ≈ 98, an F ≈ 50, etc.). Please note: A grade of C or higher in English 1101 is a prerequisite for English 1102.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will assess this portion of your semester grade according to evidence of your preparation for each week's readings, the quality of your completed assignments, and your on-going participation in our discussions.
 * <span style="color: #ed6c7b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">Quizzes, Homework, Discussions, and Participation--20% **

<span style="color: #3ebf33; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt;">**Argumentation Analyses (three at 5% each)--15% cumulative** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">The more well-supported argumentation you encounter and analyze, the better of an essay-writer you'll become; therefore, in this component of your semester grade, you will visit [|Prager University's website] and watch five video courses of your choice (each is around five minutes in length), each from a different category (you have ten from which to choose). You must submit a **typed** (proofread and spell-checked) analysis of the topic ****, the Instructor's argument, evidence, his or her credentials, along with your own response to the course.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">I will assess these analyses with a simple A/C/F rubric: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">A = thorough answers, thought-provoking, insightful observations, clearly proofread and free of spelling/grammar errors. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">C = minimal answers, surface-level observations, and/or spelling and grammar problems. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">F = incoherent answers, incoherent sentences.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">I will not set due dates for any of these analyses; do them at your own pace...BUT you may only submit **one** **per week** beginning in Week Three and ending in Week Twelve.

<span style="color: #994cbd; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">**Have you noticed that your Homework/Participation and Quiz grades** <span style="color: #994cbd; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">**are worth 20% of your semester grade? I take your sustained, careful,** <span style="color: #994cbd; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;">**on-going preparation very seriously, and hope you will, too.**


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Format for All Papers **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">You must submit all out-of-class papers typed and formatted in MLA style. Staple your pages together in the top left corner, and include a Works Cited page.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will require you to revise Essay #1, and give you the option to revise #2, due no later than one week after I return it to you graded (in all cases, you must include the original with your rewrite). I’ll calculate the paper’s final grade by weighing the original score as 2/3, and the revised score 1/3; if your original grade is 78, and your revision grade is 90, then the paper’s final grade would be 82: 78 + 78 + 90 = 246, divided by 3 = 82.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Revisions **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order to receive credit for revisions, please thoroughly follow my instructions for revising:


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Late Work **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will not accept late work. I know this policy is challenging, but I really do mean it, and I don't make exceptions. Being late with assignments hinders your progress—and often, that of the entire class. A late paper is one that a student doesn't place in my hands at the beginning of class...if you arrive late to class on the day an essay is due, your paper will be late, too.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Plagiarism or other means of cheating are grounds for failure in the course; in addition, I will report any instance of plagiarism to the Provost for disciplinary action. Plagiarism is the use of another’s words or ideas as if they were one’s own; published works are considered intellectual property belonging to the author. Therefore, if you borrow either words or an idea, either:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Academic Dishonesty **<span style="font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,serif;">:


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">express it in language entirely your own and acknowledge your borrowing with a parenthetical reference or footnote, OR
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">acknowledge the exact extent of your debt to the actual words of the source by enclosing them in quotation marks and documenting the source according to MLA conventions.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">If you are unsure that your use of a secondary source is correct, please feel free to consult me. Please see the department website for a definition of plagiarism and a discussion on means to avoid it.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Further, submitting the same paper in multiple classes—no matter whether those courses are taken in the same or different semesters—is a form of academic dishonesty and will result in a failing grade for the course.


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Excessive Collaboration **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the end of the term in both ENGL 1101 and 1102, students should demonstrate the ability to produce independent writing (writing without collaborative assistance of peers, writing tutors, or professionals in the field) that shows an acceptable level of competence. Although classroom activities and out-of-class assignments may highlight collaborative learning and collaborative research, excessive collaboration (collaboration that results in the loss of a student's voice/style and original claims to course-related work) is considered another form of academic dishonesty and therefore will not be permitted.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order to be crystal clear on what I, the English Department, and the University expect of you in regard to academic honesty AND classroom deportment, please review the link below--I hold each of my students responsible for having read and understood these policies:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will give an automatic "F" in this course to any student who plagiarizes or excessively collaborates on any assignment (quizzes, out-of-class essays, and journals). . . no exceptions. In order to be crystal clear on what I, the English Department, and the University expect of you in regard to academic honesty, please review all the links below--I hold each of my students responsible for having read and understood these policies:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order to be crystal clear on what I, the English Department, and the University expect of you in regard to academic honesty AND classroom deportment, please review the link below--I hold each of my students responsible for having read and understood these policies:

<span style="font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,serif;">[|**//http://www.w] <span style="font-family: &#39;Palatino Linotype&#39;,serif;">[|estga.edu/%7Eengdept/FirstYearWriting/ENGL1101and1102/GeneralPolicies.htm//**]

<span style="font-family: Impact,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Special Needs **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I will do my best to work with the University in order to provide all students with equal access to my classes and materials, regardless of special needs, temporary or permanent disability, special needs related to pregnancy, etc. If you have a registered disability that will require accommodation, please notify me at the beginning of the semester. If you have a disability that you have not yet registered through the Disabled Student Services Office, please contact that office at (678) 839-6428.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">FALL 2017--REGISTRAR AND ENGLISH DEPARTMENT  <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">TITLE IX--FYI
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">And Finally... **
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Please **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">[|**click on this link**] **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">to a document that the University of West Georgia ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">has asked all professors ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">to add to every syllabus; do read it ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">over carefully, as it touches upon matters ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">that ** **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">will affect your college career. **

<span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">**Non-Engagement** <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">The USG and UWG have become concerned with “Non-Engaged” students – <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">those whose level of interest and engagement in the learning process is not optimal, <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">and thus setting them up for failure. <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">In order to help students perform to the utmost of their abilities, professors must identify and report <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">non-engaged students to Student Services and other appropriate university offices, in order to assure timely intervention <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">and support. I hope I won't have to report anyone in this class as “non-engaged”; <span style="background-color: #a8eb90; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; text-align: center;">let's work together to assure your success in this course!