ENGLISH 13O2: Composition and Rhetoric II
English 1302: Composition and Rhetoric II 1
Instructor contact information
Instructor: / David Glen Smith, M.A., M.F.A. / Day/Time available outside of class: / 10:30 am – 11.15 amCASA 325
Division Office: / Division One, CASA 114
832.482.1053 / LSCS E-mail: /
Course information
Course Number: / English 1302 / Semester and Year: / Spring 2014Section Number: / 5L17 / Class Days & Times: / M-W-F 11:20am-12:15pm
Credit Hours: / 3 / Class Room Location: / CASA 330
English 1302: Composition and Rhetoric II 1
English 1302 overview
Course Description:
Intensive study of and practice in the strategies and techniques for developing research-based expository and persuasive texts. Emphasis on effective and ethical rhetorical inquiry, including primary and secondary research methods; critical reading of verbal, visual, and multimedia texts; systematic evaluation, synthesis, and documentation of information sources; and critical thinking about evidence and conclusions.
Learning Outcomes:
§ Demonstrate knowledge of individual and collaborative research processes.
§ Develop ideas and synthesize primary and secondary sources within focused academic arguments, including one or more research-based essays.
§ Analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of texts for the ethical and logical uses of evidence.
§ Write in a style that clearly communicates meaning, builds credibility, and inspires belief or action.
§ Apply the conventions of style manuals for specific academic disciplines (e.g., APA, CMS, MLA, etc.)
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Course requirements
Prerequisites: passing grade in ENGL 1301
Co-requisites: none
Required Textbooks: Portable Legacies, 2nd Schmidt/Crockett
Writer’s Reference, 7th (with “Writing About Literature”), Hacker/Sommers
Other Materials : Blue Books for Final;
Note-taking equipment;
Portable Flash Drive(s) to store material (recommended)
Dropbox.com account (or any other outside secondary storage site)
Instructor policies
Attendance Requirements: Due to the nature of the course and the in-class exercises, communication with instructor is paramount: nine (9) absences result in a failing grade (F) in the course. No exceptions. Emergency situations do happen, but keep in mind: an absence is an absence regardless if the situation is medical or legal emergency. Budget your time accordingly.
• Students are responsible for filling out paperwork to drop course in order to avoid failing grade.
• Students are responsible for signing the daily roll sheet at the beginning of each class.
• If you forget to sign the form you are considered absent.
• A student arriving 20-minutes after class starting time will be considered absent.
• If you leave early, for any reason, you will be marked absent for that day.
• Physician appointments, court dates, and job interviews should not be set during class time.
• If you make an appointment within the time-frame of a course period, do not come to class for that day.
Phone Policy: Phones must be silent in class. If an important call arrives, take it into the hall quickly. On the other hand, no texting or surfing the net or social media is permitted in the classroom. You will be asked to leave the class and will be marked as absent. No technology should be in use during class time unless under instructor’s guidance.
The only material on your desktop should be paper and writing instruments. Avoid creating a fort around you with backpack, books, and/or purses in order to hide a phone.
Laptop/Tablet Policy: If properly utilized these tools can be an asset to your studies. If however, the student persists in using the technology to avoid class interaction or class participation, you will be asked to leave the class and will be marked as absent.
E-mail Policy: Staying in contact with the instructor is important. However, there are certain guidelines to follow with using the contemporary communication tools.
• identify who you are in the e-mail; even though this is a face-to-face class, remind me who you are and what time
your class meets
• all communication must come through the Lone Star e-mail account supplied to you; the instructor cannot supply grades, test results, or other academic information to unrecognized e-mail services
• do not request to see lecture notes, test dates, handouts, progressive reports, or other academic information through e-mail; do tell me you need to talk in person and set up a time we can talk over material; all lecture notes are posted on the course web site. If you miss a day, first visit the web site, then ask me any questions you have concerning the material. A large quantity of information is being delivered to you on a daily basis.
• do not send attachments; no late work is accepted through e-mail— see Late Paper / Assignment Policy
Assignment information
Academic Integrity Policy: All student work for this course must be original to the student and original to the course. If clear evidence of academic dishonesty is found for any assignment, zero points (0 points) for the assignment will be recorded. If a second incident of academic dishonesty occurs, an F for the course grade
will be recorded.
Please note: the date of the final cannot be changed for any circumstances. If a student has conflict with the assigned day, he/she must discuss the matter with the Head of the English Department and/or the Dean. Instructors cannot change the date of the Final Exam for any student.
Missed Group Policy: Students will break into groups for five separate occasions throughout the course. These days are posted on the on-line syllabus. Points for these scheduled times cannot be made up if absences occur. Your grades will show accordingly.
Assignment information (continued)
Late Paper/Missed Assignment Policy: Students will write a minimum of two full essays (and comparable writing exercises). Various homework and numerous reading assignments are expected. The two papers include— a critical, in-depth APA essay and a critical, in-depth MLA essay (final project).
• Since the progress of this class depends on essays turned in on time, late essays are not accepted. I do not accept e-mails with any assignment-attachments. If you miss class when an essay is due, your grade will show accordingly.
• In addition, there will be in-class assignments and group activities. We will have reading quizzes/group study sheets as well. Completing these assignments earn you points. Since these are based on specific lectures, you must be present on the day the in-class assignment is given and collected. No late work will be accepted for this category.
• All assignments are required to be submitted into the Turnitin.com system.
Any paper not in the database will earn a grade of zero points (0).
Grade Determination:
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Final course grade will be determined by the following / Assignment Details / PercentageWeekly Activities / Class Exercises • HW • Ten Quizzes / 15
Five Group Activities / Discussion / Participation • Presentation / 15
APA Research Paper / 25
MLA Research paper / 25
Final Exam / 20
Total: / 100
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Final Course Grade:
Letter Grade
/ Final Average in Points or PercentA
/ 100 - 90B
/ 89 – 80C
/ 79 – 70D
/ 69 – 60F
/ 59 – 0English 1302: Composition and Rhetoric II 1
MWF Course schedule
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Week Number / Activities and Lectures /1
Mon-Jan 13 / Basic Introduction to Class: Syllabus
Wed-Jan 15 / Quiz 1: Syllabus / Guidelines for Reading— Intertextuality, Literary Devices
Fri-Jan 16 / Conflict • Classifications of Literature and Literary Modes
2
Mon-Jan 20 / MLK Holiday-no class
Wed-Jan 22 / Definitions of Myth • Fable
Fri-Jan 24 / Quiz 2: Fable / Definitions of Parable • Folk Tale
3
Mon-Jan 27 / Library Orientation: Literary Databases
Wed-Jan 29 / Literary Criticism: APA versus MLA- part 1 • Academic Paragraphs / Quiz 3: APA
Fri-Jan 31 / Literary Criticism: APA versus MLA- part 2 • Academic Summary
4
Mon-Feb 3 / Assignment 1: APA paper: Overview • Exercise 1: Academic Summary due
Literary Criticism – part 1 • Thesis Statements • Guidelines for Declaring a Thesis
Wed-Feb 5 / Literary Criticism – part 2
Fri-Feb 7 / Figurative Language • Archetypes and Symbol • Elements of Fairy Tales
5
Mon- Feb 10 / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “The Goose-Girl” - supplemental
Wed-Feb 12 / Group Discussions 1: Grimm, “Godfather Death” – supplemental • Presentations of Group
Fri- Feb 14 / Narration • Irony • Gothic Ideology
6
Mon-Feb 17 / Settings • Group Discussions 2: Various Criticism on Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”
Wed-Feb 19 / Presentations of Group Discussions
Fri-Feb 21 / Quiz 4: Reading Comprehension / Ernest Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants” p. 525-528
7
Mon-Feb 24 / Assignment 1-prt.1: APA Abstract due • Charlotte Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” p. 544-555
Wed-Feb 26 / Quiz 5: Reading Comprehension / — “The Yellow Wallpaper” p. 544-555
Fri-Feb 28 / James Joyce, “Eveline” p. 525-528
8
Mon-Mar 3 / Quiz 6: Reading Comprehension / William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily” p. 302-307
Wed-Mar 5 / — “A Rose for Emily”
Fri-Mar 7 / — “A Rose for Emily” • Assignment 1-part 2: APA paper due
Spring Break (Mar 10-16)
9
Mon-Mar 17 / Group Discussions 3: Joao Guimaraes Rosa, “The Third Bank of the River” p. 296
Wed-Mar 19 / Presentations of Group Discussions: Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Fri-Mar 21 / Assignment 2: MLA paper: Overview • Analysis of Cinema
10
Mon-Mar 24 / Sophocles, Antigone, p.803-830 / Quiz 7: Reading Comprehension
Wed-Mar 26 / — Antigone
Fri-Mar 28 / — Antigone
11
Mon-Mar 31 / How to Read Poetry • Poetic Device- part 1
Wed-Apr 2 / Last Day to Withdraw (Thursday Apr 3) • Poetic Devices and Terminologies- part 2
Fri-Apr 4 / Quiz 8: Poetic Devices
English-Irish Ballads • Assignment 2 - part 1: Intro for MLA paper due
12
Mon-Apr 7 / Formal Tradition of Haiku / Quiz 9
Wed-Apr 9 / Group Discussions 4: Modernism
Fri-Apr 11 / Presentations of Group Discussions
13
Mon-Apr 14 / Quiz 10: Reading Comprehension / T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p.591-595
Wed-Apr 16 / “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Fri-Apr 18 / Spring Holiday—no class
14
Mon-Apr 21 / Group Discussions 5: Sylvia Plath • Assignment 2 - part 2: MLA paper due
Wed-Apr 23 / Presentations of Group Discussions
Fri-Apr 25 / Postmodernism: Seamus Heaney, “Digging” p. 318-319 • Preparation for Final-part 1
15
Mon-Apr 28 / Preparation for Final-part 2 • Contemporary Poetry
Wed-Apr 30 / Contemporary Poetry
Fri-May 2 / Contemporary Poetry
Final Exam
May 5: Noon – 1:50 pm
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