ENC 1102 Syllabus Spring 2005-02___Florida International University

Class: ENC 1102 January 09-April 29, 2006 Ref 18987 4J MW 2-3:15 PM; Ref 18997 4M MW 3:30-4:45 PM

 Instructor: PROFESSOR LYNN lynnj@fiu.edu Office Hours: By Appointment 1:00-2 PM MW

   1102 FSYL 2005-02 Lynn.pdf                   

 

Required Texts:			Bedford Introduction to Literature 7th edition, Michael Meyer The Everyday Writer 3rd Edition, Andrea A. Lunsford
Materials:			Notebook 8 x 11 (college-ruled); Pens: blue or black ink; small stapler; highlighter
Percent	Week		Essay #	Assignment				Words		Date Due:
	January 9			Review Exemplification, Persuasion, Cause-Effect Read Chapter 51 Reading and Writing (2063-2095)
10%	January 16		Essay # 1	Audience Purpose (Walker, King)       In Class				600		W Jan 25
	January 23			Literary Interpretation: Plot, Conflict, Theme Narrator, Character, Symbolism (Walker, Hemingway, Faulkner, Gilman, Weineke, Mahfouz)				Group Portfolio
	January 30
	February 6
15%	February 13		Essay # 2	Literary Interpretation-Short Story Mode: Persuasion				700		M Feb 13
				Library Research (Read 2096-2114 in Bedford Intro; 137-179 and 365-412 in Everyday Writer)				Rm 280		W Feb 15
	February 20			Transcendentalism and the relationship to Nature in Emerson, Thoreau, Wordsworth, and Keats				Group Portfolio
	February 27
	March 6		Research I	Introduction, Thesis, Outline, Bibliography Research I						M Mar 6
20%	March 13		*Research I	3-page, 3-source Transcendentalism and Nature				1000		Mar 13-15*
		Monday, March 13 Last Day to drop a course with a DR grade
	March 13		Research II	Research II Critical Approach & Topic Selection (Read 2029-2062)						W Mar 15
J		March 20-25 Spring Break			Journal Transcendentalism and Nature
	March 27			Literary Interpretation Poetry and Drama      (Frost, Momaday, Harjo, Rose; Sophocles’ Antigone)				Group Portfolio
	April 3		Research II	Introduction, Thesis & Outline Research II Due						M Mar 27
25%	April 10		**Research II	5-Page, 5-Source Research Paper Due				2000		Apr 10-12**
10%	April 17		Final Exam					600InClass		TBA
20%			Portfolio	Group Presentations: Poetry, Fiction, Drama In-Class				600		Bi-weekly
			Freewriting	Freewriting Portfolio				500
		April 20, 2006: Last Day of Classes							Final Exam TBA
100%						Gordon Requirement 6000 words TOTAL

 

Essay Assignments: To receive a passing grade in English 1102 requires writing in-class and out-of-class essays at an acceptable college level (grade C, 75 or higher) and participating in group assignments related to the written essays compiled in a portfolio and presented for oral and written group presentations.

·       Out-of-class essays must be typed and double-spaced using the spell/grammar check so that essays are free of mechanical spelling and grammatical errors in MLA format.

·       In-class essays must be written legibly in ink on one side of the page in large enough print that your instructor can easily read.

Late- or Missed Work Penalty. Completion of In- and Out-of-Class Assignments on the due date is mandatory.

•       Late out-of-class assignments will receive a one-letter grade drop. Late essays are accepted one week from the due date only with instructor approval. No make-up is accepted for missed in-class work.

•       Your final evaluation is based on completion of all assigned coursework. Expository essays will be averaged as one grade; failure to submit any of the major essay assignments will result in a full grade drop (10 points) in the final essay grade average. Attendance Absences without penalty: 2-day a week classes—3 absences Holidays: M January 16 Martin Luther King

•       Each absence thereafter will result in a one-point deduction from your final grade.. Accumulating double the allowed absences will result in a failing grade. Repeated tardiness to class will be counted as an absence (3 late classes = 1 absence)

•       Perfect attendance and class participation that promotes the group learning process count as extra credit; conversely, unacceptable academic conduct counts against the overall grade.

 

COMPONENTS OF FINAL GRADE	EXPOSITORY ESSAYS 70%
Literary Analysis: Exemplification, Persuasion, Cause-Effect		25%
Research (Documentation in MLA format submitted through Turnitin.com database*)		45%
Group/Collaborative Assignments Freewriting Portfolio		20%
Exams		10%

 

All out-of-class essays will be submitted to Turnitin.com to identify unoriginal documentation from their database of published works. Students will have a 48-hour window to revise incorrectly documented text and sources in research-based essays*.

Draft and final essays are due in both hard copy and electronic versions to turnitin.com on the corresponding dates on the syllabus. Essays that are not submitted to turnitin.com on the due date will not be evaluated and will receive a grade of 0.

Course Objectives: In English 1101 and 1102 students write essays that address the chosen topic by supporting a central idea with evidence and targeting a specific audience. Students write in several rhetorical genres (including expository, argumentative, reflective, and narrative writing) and learn to adapt conventions of structure and style appropriately for the genre. Reading selections enable students to gain practice in critical, analytically active reading, and show evidence of the ability to respond critically to written texts, including those of their peers by engaging in a full writing process (invention, drafting, revising, and editing). Students analyze literary texts, focusing on rhetorical strategy and understanding how the writer responded to his/her historical/cultural context. Students learn to write research essays that exhibit information literacy by effectively incorporating sources that synthesize the ideas of others to support the essay’s central idea as well as learn scholarly research to access information and to formulate criteria for evaluating sources and to properly document sources.

 

 

Note: All writingis evaluated on both style and content. Error-free writing has little effect if it does not contain sufficient detail and if the writer does not use clear and effective language. Similarly, a paper that is well developed and expressive can fail if it is marred by mechanical, stylistic, and structural weaknesses. A paper that contains a grade of 89/90, 79/80, or 69/70 means that the essay contains the strengths of the higher grade but is too flawed in one of the areas required to warrant the higher grade. However, the overall improvement of essays written throughout the semester and other factors such as constructive classroom participation and understanding of course content may result in the higher grade as a determining factor in the final grade average for the student.

 

Plagiarism. Intentional plagiarism occurs when someone submits work written by someone else, or submits work, part or all of which is taken from a printed or Internet source, with no documentation of the source. An essay that does not attribute the use of external sources is an automatic failure. Unintentional plagiarism may occur when students are not sure of when or how to acknowledge sources. The rule is that if you include any information from an outside source in your essay either indirectly or directly, whether you paraphrase, summarize, or directly quote the information, it must be acknowledged as a parenthetic reference in the text and included with a list of Works Cited at the end of the paper. The most serious consequence of plagiarism at the college level may be failure and expulsion.

Documentation. In English and in some humanities classes, you will be asked to use the Modern Language Association system for documenting sources, using in-text citations that refer readers to a list of Works Cited at the end of the paper (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed., 2003). Research-based essays will be submitted to Turnitin.com to identify unoriginal documentation from their database of published works. Only scholarly, critical reviews will be accepted as external sources. Sources that cite summaries of literary works will be rejected, and the use of such summaries without documentation in place of the student’s original ideas constitutes plagiarism.

 

Definition of Academic Trust

 

Academic trust is the assurance that teacher and student will faithfully abide by the rules of intellectual engagement established between them. This trust can exist only when students adhere to the standards of academic honesty and when faculty test and evaluate students in a manner that presumes that students are acting with academic integrity.

(Committee on Academic Honesty, Proposal for an Academic Honor code)