ENG-102: Writing Through Literature

Brian T. Murphy

ENG-102: Writing through Literature

Supplemental Materials

Introduction to English 102...... 1-2

English Department Statement on Plagiarism...... 3

LaGuardia Community College Policy on Academic Integrity...... 4

English Department Style Sheet...... 5-6

Cover Page (sample)...... 7

Revising and Editing Checklist...... 8

Incorporating Sources...... 9

Works Cited:

Instructions ...... 10

Sample...... 11

Research Paper Checklist...... 12

Research Paper Folder Checklist...... 13

E. E. Cummings, “l(a”...... 14

Walter Raleigh, “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”...... 14

William Blake, “London”...... 14

LaGuardia Community CollegeEnglish Department

Introduction to Composition II (English 102)

Welcome to your second college-level writing course offered by the English Department.This course, Writing Through Literature, extends and intensifies the skills that you have learned inComposition I (ENC/G101), including process-based writing and research methods. You will learnclose-reading techniques to further develop your critical thinking and writing skills through the studyof culturally diverse works in poetry and at least two other literary genres (short story, drama, thenovel, the literary essay, and others). You must have passed ENC/G101 to remain in and receivecredit for Composition II (ENG102).

1. Your instructor will assign books and materials that you must purchase. S/he will give you adetailed syllabus that includes an overview of the course, an outline of course themes and learningobjectives, a schedule of assignments and class activities, attendance and punctuality policy,grading standards, and/or other information.

2. All of the essays written in ENG102 will build on the writing and editing skills you have learned inENC/G101. All papers should use precise and effective language, demonstrate a sound analysis ofthe literary text(s) in focus, as well as exhibit organized and developed ideas that support a thesis ormain point.

3. You will be introduced to methodologies that help you access and think critically about modes ofliterary analysis, including biographical information, historical context, and/or critical theories such asformalism, reader-response theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonialism.

4. You will write five essays of varying lengths (between 600 and 2000 words): three critical essays(one of which might be in-class), plus an in-class midterm essay and in-class final examination. Oneor more of the three critical essays must be a research paper. You will be provided with at least oneopportunity to revise each essay, except for the final examination. Your instructor has the right torefuse, or lower the grade for, late work. At the beginning of the semester, your instructor may alsoassign a diagnostic essay to determine what areas of your writing need reinforcing; this essay doesnot count toward your final course grade.

5. For the research paper or papers, you will be required to conduct library research, locate reliableand appropriate sources, and use them to develop and support your ideas. As in ENC/G101, yourinstructor will guide you through the research, drafting, and writing process. You will review how todocument your sources in the Modern Language Association (MLA) style.

6. You will also review how to use quotations and paraphrases with the appropriate MLA WorksCited documentation to avoid plagiarism (presenting someone else’s work as one’s own). Anystudent who plagiarizes will be given a failing grade.

7. Your instructor may conduct the class through group work, lecture, and/or other teachingmethods. S/he may use various technologies to enhance instruction. At times, you may work withyour instructor and classmates to develop your essay ideas, and they may, in the revision process,make suggestions on improving drafts of your essays.

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8. Your instructor will respond to your papers in written comments and/or in conferences. Theinstructor will evaluate and grade your written work according to content, organization, style,grammar, and/or other criteria. The instructor will also make suggestions for revisions.

9. Tutors in the Writing Center (B200) are available to offer you help in improving your writing skills.The Writing Center is a free service. You are encouraged to use it to help revise your work and towork on areas that are giving you problems. Your instructor may require that you attend the WritingCenter if your writing skills need significant improvement.

10. Classroom learning is essential to this course. Therefore, class attendance and punctuality aremandatory and are requirements for passing ENG102. You may have no more than four hours ofabsences. According to the College’s 2007-2008 Catalog, “Absences are counted from the first dayof class even if they are a result of late registration or change of program” (117).

Your ENG102 instructor will:

Reinforce process-based writing, including pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing andproofreading.
Enable you to write essays of varying lengths (between 600 and 2000 words) that demonstratethe concept of writing as a critical thinking process by using various rhetorical strategies.
Familiarize you with at least three genres of literature, one of which will be poetry, and introduceyou to techniques for close reading of literary texts through the study of literary elements.
Reinforce research methods, conventions, and practices that will be integrated into critical andanalytical writing about literature.
Introduce you to methodologies that access and evaluate forms of literary analysis, includingbiographical information, historical context, and/or critical theory.
Reinforce test-taking strategies to prepare you to write a final in-class essay.
Reinforce your knowledge of standard U.S. English and further refine editing skills.

At the end of this course, you will:

Demonstrate understanding of writing as a process by pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing andproofreading their essays.
Write essays of varying lengths (between 600 and 2000 words) that demonstrate the concept ofwriting as a critical thinking process.
Interpret and write critically about poetry and at least two other genres of literature (novel, shortstory, play, etc.), while applying techniques of close reading and incorporating literary elements.
Demonstrate understanding of research methods, conventions, and practices as they areintegrated into critical and analytical writing.
Identify and evaluate forms of literary analysis, including biographical information, historicalcontext, and/or critical theory.
Pass a timed, in-class final essay.
Write essays that conform to standard U.S. English and reflect developed editing skills.

The English Department wishes you a productive semester strengthening your writing skillsthrough literature! Completion of this course will help to prepare you for the CPE examination. It willalso prepare you for a range of exciting literature, writing, and journalism courses offered by theEnglish Department, including courses that lead to an Associate of Arts degree in Writing andLiterature. For further information, contact your instructor or the English Department at E103(718-482-5656), or visit the Department website (

STATEMENT OF PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is stealing. Plagiarized papers automatically receive a failing grade.

Sometimes students plagiarize papers because they do not wish to do their own work, but sometimes they plagiarize because they do not fully understand what plagiarism is. This explanation should help you to understand and avoid plagiarism.

Plagiarism is stealing the words and ideas of someone else. If you copy sentences from a book, magazine article, newspaper, encyclopedia, or any other printed source and do not put quotation marks around the sentences, you are plagiarizing. If you paraphrase the sentence (put the ideas into your own words) but do not show where you got the ideas, you are plagiarizing.

All research papers use ideas and actual sentences from printed sources; therefore, it is important to learn how to use this material in your paper without plagiarizing.

The following sentences appeared in the New York Post on July 4, 1978 on page 4:

The police have begun a new drive against midtown vice by having decoy plainclothes women officers arrest men who patronize prostitutes. The new effort, begun quietly four months ago, has resulted in more than 150 summonses, which could result in fines of up to $250 each. Many of the cases that have reached court so far ended in fines of $25 or less. Midtown police say the change in emphasis is in part a recognition that male customers contribute to the problem as much as the prostitutes.

A.If you wanted to use a sentence or two from this source, you would name the source, copy the words and punctuation exactly and put quotation marks around them. Your quote would look like this:

According to the New York Post (July 4, 1978), “The police have begun a new drive against midtown vice by having decoy plainclothes women officers arrest men who patronize prostitutes” (Smith 4).

If you had not used quotation marks, you would have plagiarized. Following the final quotation marks, put in parenthesis the last name of the author and the page number. If there is no author, put the article title in abbreviated form in parenthesis with the page number.

B.If you wanted to put the main point of the sentences into your own words, you would name your source but not use quotation marks. Your paraphrase might look like this:

According to the July 4, 1978 issue of the New York Post, women police officers dressed in street clothes now apprehend men who pay for the services of prostitutes (Smith 4).

Note: Commonly used words such as men and prostitutes may be used in a paraphrase without placing quotation marks around them.

C.However, sometimes a paraphrase may contain phrases from the original. If your paraphrase includes phrases from the original, those phrases must be in quotation marks. If you do not do this, you are plagiarizing. The following is an example of plagiarism:

According to the New York Post on July 4, 1978, there is a new drive against vice in midtown Manhattan because decoy plainclothes women officers are now apprehending men who patronize prostitutes.

Notice that the phrases a new drive against, decoy plainclothes women officers, andmen who patronize prostitutes are quoted, but they do not have quotation marks around them. The writer has just changed a few words. That is plagiarism, even though the writer refers to the New York Post.

A paraphrase containing quoted phrases should look like this:

According to the New York Post (July 4, 1978), there is “a new drive against” vice in midtown Manhattan because “decoy plainclothes women officers” are now apprehending “men who patronize prostitutes” (Smith 4).

D. Remember to list all of the sources that you have used in your bibliography.
LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE POLICY ON ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
It is the responsibility of each student to familiarize himself or herself with the information written here.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Academic Dishonesty is prohibited in the City University of New York and is punishable by penalties ranging from a grade of “F” on a given test, research paper or assignment, to an “F” in the course, or suspension or expulsion from the College.

Academic Dishonesty includes:
●CHEATING—the unauthorized use or attempted use of material, information, notes, study aids, devices or communication during an academic exercise. Examples: Copying from a student during an examination, unauthorized collaboration on take home assignments, submitting someone else’s work as your own, allowing another student to take an examination for you, or unauthorized use of notes, electronic devices or other materials during an examination.

●PLAGIARISM—the act of presenting another person’s ideas, research or writings as your own. Examples: Copying another person’s actual words without the use of quotation marks and/or footnotes, failure to acknowledge a source when using information that is not common knowledge or failure to acknowledge collaborators on homework or laboratory assignments.

●INTERNET PLAGIARISM—plagiarism that includes the submitting of downloaded term papers or parts of term papers as a student’s own work, paraphrasing or copying information from the internet without citing the source, as well as other forms of “cutting and pasting.”

●OBTAINING UNFAIR ADVANTAGE—any activity that intentionally or unintentionally gives a student an unfair academic advantage over other students. Examples: Stealing, circulating or otherwise gaining access to unauthorized examination materials, intentionally obstructing or interfering with another student’s work, depriving other students of access to needed class or library materials by stealing, destroying or defacing them, retaining or circulating examination materials that clearly should have been returned at the end of the exam.

●FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS AND OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Examples: Forging signatures or authorization, falsifying information on academic records, falsifying official documents such as grade reports, drop/add forms, ID cards or other college documents.

●MISCONDUCT ON INTERNSHIPS— Behavior inappropriate to a professional setting or in violation of the rules established by either the College or the internship site. Noncompliance with local, state and federal laws while on internship is also included. (Above adapted from The CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity, June 2004)

VIOLATIONS OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY The handling of violations of academic integrity involves the imposition of sanctions in accordance with the College’s definitions of academic dishonesty as listed above.

●When an incident involving apparent academic dishonesty occurs, the instructor will retain related documentation and complete an “Academic Integrity Complaint Form.”

●The instructor will then meet with the student to discuss the academic integrity charge and to explain the proposed sanction.

●If a student does not challenge the accusation and accepts the proposed sanction, the student signs the Academic Integrity Complaint Form and is given a copy. The remaining copies are then given to the Department Chairperson and the College Adjudicator in the Office of Enrollment and student Development.

●If a student indicates on the AcademicIntegrity Complaint Form that he or shewishes to challenge the accusation orpenalty or does not wish to make astatement, or if the student refuses to signthe Form or meet with the instructor,the Complaint Form is forwarded to theDepartment Chairperson. The student mayrequest to meet with the DepartmentChairperson. If the matter still remainsunresolved, a copy of the Complaint Formis given to the student and the instructor.The remaining copies of the ComplaintForm and related documentation are thenforwarded to the College Adjudicator inthe Office of Enrollment and StudentDevelopment for further action.

a) Students challenging cases involvingplagiarism: The College Adjudicator willforward the complaint to the College’sAcademic Standing Committee for review.The ASC will evaluate the alleged violationand return its decision to the CollegeAdjudicator in a timely fashion. At thattime, the College Adjudicator will informthe student of the final decision andsanction, if any.

b) Students challenging all other cases ofacademic dishonesty: The College Adjudicatorwill forward the complaint to theCollege’s Faculty Student Review Board.The FSRB will evaluate the alleged violation and return its decision to the College Adjudicator in a timely fashion. At that time, the College Adjudicator will inform the student of the final decision and sanction, if any.

c) Students indicating “I do not wish to make a statement at this time” or refusing to sign the complaint form or meet with the instructor: The College Adjudicator will call the student to a meeting to determine an appropriate course of action as described above. In cases in which a student fails to appear at the required meeting or to contact the adjudicator within one week of his or her failure to appear, the instructor’s sanction shall apply without further benefit of student appeal.

The Adjudicator will keep records of all cases involving academic dishonesty. In cases involving a second or further offense, the Student Faculty Review Board may impose a disciplinary sanction in addition to the academic sanction imposed by the instructor.

LaGuardia Community CollegeEnglish Dept.

Rev. Jan. 21, 1998

STYLE SHEET

Papers written to fulfill requirements for the English Department must follow the format outlined below.

Format / Handwritten / Typed
paper / white looseleaf (8 ½ x 11)
(no spiral or legal or colors) / plain white unlined
(no onionskin or erasables; remove perforations from computer pages, separate the pages, put them in order and staple)
ink
Spacing
left margin
right, top
& bottom margins / blue or black
skip lines
1 ½ inches
1 inch / black
double space
1 ½ inches
1 inch
paragraphs
clips / indent 1 inch
staple once in left-hand corner or clip / indent 6 spaces
staple once in
left-hand corner or clip

If you do not follow these formats, you will be asked to recopy your work.

Heading

In the upper left hand corner, write your name, course & section, instructor’s name, and the date:

Sarah Student

Professor Profound

English 101.01

November 1, 1997

Essay 4, Revision[Optional, at the instructor’s discretion]

Title

All essays and other works must have a title. Center your title. Leave two blank lines after your heading; leave two more blank lines before your first paragraph. Do not underline your title or place it in quotation marks unless incorporating another’s title; for example,
Isolation in “Sonny’s Blues.” Use standard capitalization.

Page Numbering

For research papers, start numbering on page one and put your last name and a page number in the upper right-hand corner of all subsequent pages. For regular essays, start page numbering on page two and center the page number on the bottom of the page. Use Arabic numerals without parentheses or periods.

See reverse side for a sample first page of a research paper and
a sample first [page of a regular essay, according to MLA format

SAMPLE FIRST PAGE OF A RESEARCH ESSAY

Gaffney 1

Christine Gaffney

Professor van Slyck

English 103.73

November 20, 1997

Domestic Violence Towards Women

Domestic violence is a serious problem that affects many women every day of their lives and many of them don’t even know it is happening. All around us women are being beaten up and not speaking out, but there are those who want to do something about it.