ENG 102: College Composition II

Dual Enrollment Senior English, 3 CreditHours

Angela Buzan, M.Ed., NBCT

Coconino High School

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Course Information

CCC Course Description

IMPORTANT: ENG 101 (or DE101) is a prerequisite for this class.If you have not taken DE101, you will not earn college credit for DE102.

Extensive practice in critical thinking, reading, and writing. Course grades will be heavilyinfluenced by written essays, both timed and untimed.

Course Goals

To further develop rhetorical and critical thinking, reading, writing, and research (as demanded for academic, professional, and public life).

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Course Objectives and Standards

Writing Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • analyze, synthesize, and evaluate a variety of print and electronic texts
  • engage in the writing and research processes to compose academic texts
  • use a variety of technologies for a range of rhetorical situations
  • analyze and critique their own writing and peer writing
  • integrate evidence to support their own ideas, using quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing
  • and choose and apply an academic documentation style to suit purpose and audience.

The Writing Process

A formal essay is the product of a process, not the completion of a draft. Good writers understand that writing is a recursive process that involves many steps:

  • free-writing, brainstorming, questioning, mapping, organizing
  • determining audience, purpose, point of view
  • developing a focused, clearly stated critical thesis
  • supporting claims with evidence
  • revising for unity and coherence, sentence variety, and clarity

Research Objectives

  • Effectively integrate sources from books, databases, publications, and internet articles
  • Appropriately cite material in a manner that adheres to college standards for academic integrity
  • analyze, interpret, and synthesize ideas from multiple sources
  • format sources and papers according to formal MLA style

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Syllabus and Procedures

Unit Themes

Classical Greek Rhetoric

Drama as a Genre

Perspective/Reflective non-fiction essays

Cultural Analysis: India

Modern Rhetoric and Analysis of Media Sources

Classic Literature and Canonical Short Stories

Existentialism

Meta-narrative and creative non-fiction

Creative, Autobiographical writing

Required Readings: Consider purchasing a personal copy of bolded titles.

Oedipus, Sophocles

Antigone, Sophocles

The Republic, Plato

Our Town, Thornton Wilder

Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller

Literature & Writing Process ISBN#978025902279

Macbeth, William Shakespeare

The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka

Brain Rules, John Medina

•Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

•Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer

Formal Assignments

4 timed essays (1-3 pgs ea.)

1 untimed, analytical essay (3-5 pgs)

1 untimed, synthesis essay (3-5 pgs)

1 research paper (6-10 pgs)

1 presentation

1 fully annotated book

Senior Capstone Writing Portfolio

Required Materials:

Notebook (notes are self-initiated and directed)

Required reading

Attendance Policy

  • A student who arrives 10 minutes after the start of class is considered absent.
  • A student who has 10 or more absences will not receive course credit, regardless of their grade in the class.

Late work

  • Late formal assignments will receive a score of 1pt—no matter how little the assignment is. If you are absent on the due date, your assignment needs to be e-mailed or delivered on time.
  • Informal assignments will be accepted until the end of the same week without penalty. After that time, the completed assignment will receive a score of 1 pt.

Replacement Assignments

  • I allow students one Replacement Assignmentper semester if they do not have any missing assignments. A Replacement Assignment will replace one score, up to 100 points, in any category. You may not split the points into multiple categories, so choose wisely. If you have missing assignments, and would like to turn in an R.A., complete all of the missing work for 1 pt credit.

Formatting and Criteria

  • All formal assignments need to be typed and printed (not e-mailed).
  • All formal assignments need to be in MLA format.
  • Handwritten assignments (timed essays, informal assignments) need to be legible.
  • All formal assignments will include a rubric so that grading criteria is always clear. A well-written paper that does not meet the assignment criteria or prompt will not be grade.
  • Research papers that do not include parenthetical citations, MLA formatting, or Works Cited will not be graded.

Plagiarism

  • Plagiarism is a form of theft and grounds for failing the course. A first (minor) offense will result in a loss of credit for the quarter.
  • If you are not sure how to cite something, see me before you submit your work.

Instructor Preferences

  • The formulaic five-paragraph essayis not appropriate for college.
  • An essay is the final product of a process: submit all brainstorms and drafts with your final assignment. Please note that editing and revising are different tasks. As our course is focused on ideas, I’m more concerned with the latter than the former.
  • Do not use back-to-back citations in research papers.
  • Do not usefirst or second person narration in informative essays.
  • Use passive voice sparingly and intentionally.
  • All essays must have thesis statements; theses do not have to be formulaic.
  • You’re not perfect; I’m certainly not perfect. We will slip up. When those moments occur, be honest about them and do not waste both of our time with excuses. If you genuinely need an extension, ask me before the paper is due.