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Professor R. Golland E-mail: rgolland@stac.edu
English 102D Office phone: 398-4138
Spring 2005 Office hours: Mon. 10am-12pm;
Office: Sullivan Theatre 2(ST2) Th. 8:45-9:45am and by appointment
Text: The Story and Its Writer, Ann Charters, ed.
English 102 is a course in which students read, discuss, and write responses to the ideas and thematic representations located in a variety of short fiction. The course also offers students the opportunity to pay close attention to the kinds of language used to express personalized definitions of a set of complex terms and ideas.
Course Outcomes
At the end of English 102, students should be:
- able to comprehend and perform a coherent critical analysis of short fiction writing
- consistently able to write essays that have the following characteristics:
a clearly defined subject; a precise, but not formulaic thesis; an organized argument; sound paragraph division and focus; correct grammatical usage including spelling, subject-verb agreement, proper use of possessive case, syntax, pronoun use, and punctuation
3. able to practice the correct uses of a paraphrase, a summary, and direct quotation with correct and appropriate documentation (though, unless otherwise notified, the basis of essay writing in this course is independent analysis by the student).
Assignments
Out-of-class writing assignments for this class will consist of four 4-5 page essays. There will also be an in-class identifications mid-term. The out-of-class essays must be typed and double-spaced, assembled and will have appropriate margins and fonts. Drafts will be due in advance of each final copy, and students are encouraged to meet with the professor for review.
Drafting Days
Assigned drafting days have been allotted so that students will have the opportunity for feedback from both the professor and peers. These drafting days are to be taken quite seriously as a time for draft review, feedback and revision. Students will lose points on the final essay grade when they fail to turn in a printed draft IN CLASS, on the assigned drafting days, and it will count as ½ an absence for each missed draft. The professor's office hours are for ADDITIONAL assistance, in conjunction with the work done in class. If you attend class without a draft on drafting day, you will lose class participation points, attendance, and essay points. However, it is still best to attend than not to. Furthermore, barring any emergency situations, if you are absent on a drafting day, you forfeit the opportunity for draft review.
Evaluation
Essay #1 10%
Essay #2 15%
Essay #3 Midterm 15%
Essay #4 20%
Essay #5 Final 20%
Class Participation 20%
Any quizzes, in-class writing assignments, rough drafts
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100%
Rules and Requirements
A total of five (5) essays will be assigned throughout the semester. Four of these essays will be written out of class on assigned topics. These essays should be a minimum of four pages in length. In addition, there will be an in-class midterm. All written work should be maintained by students in individual "portfolios" for review by instructor at midterm and finals time.
One or two lengthy in-class writings on assigned topics; a variety of short in-class writing assignments.
Completion of assigned readings. Students should be prepared to discuss assignments in class. Quizzes will promote closer reading.
A highlighter for close reading and editing; a dictionary; a blank computer disk for use in computer lab and to save all typed work for English 102 ONLY!
A portfolio of all graded work must be turned in at the semester's end. Be sure to save all graded work as it is returned to you.
Class participation and attendance. You are expected to participate in all class discussions, and to attend all classes, barring any emergency situations.
Attendance and Tardiness
Students are required to be regular and prompt in their attendance, to complete the assigned readings and written work on time, and to participate in class interactions. Habitual lateness to any extent will be counted as absence, and will seriously affect your class participation grade. In addition, three lates of ten minutes or more will equal half an absence. Two lates of at least twenty minutes will be counted as an absence. It is the responsibility of the student (after class) to ensure that a mark of absence is changed in case of late arrival. Absence in excess of two unexcused will jeopardize the final grade. Absence in excess of four will be reason for failure.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the submission, for grade or for review, of work that is not your own. This includes ideas you get from elsewhere as well as language- specific words and sentences- taken from other sources. You should know that plagiarism, or academic theft as it is also known, is a serious offense, punishable by sanctions ranging from failure to dismissal from the college. You should also be aware that I know plagiarism when I see it. Any student who is discovered to have plagiarized material in my class will receive a failing grade.
Late Paper Policy
I will accept one (1) late paper from you throughout the semester, but it will receive a late grade. For every 24-hour period the essay is late (weekends count each day as a 24-hour period), your essay grade will be lowered one full letter grade from the grade you earn. For example, if you have a 'C' paper, but turn it in one day late, your final grade for the essay will be a 'D'. Once you have turned in one late paper, no other papers will be accepted as late from you, and will count as a zero. It is your responsibility to ensure that the instructor has received your essay.
Written work is due at the start of class. Papers delivered after 1:00 pm will be subject to point deduction. Be sure to print your paper out well before it is due. You will be counted as late or absent if you leave class to print out, or finish printing out, your essay.
Rewrites
When a rewrite is assigned, the final copy is due two weeks from the date that the rewrite was returned to the student. It will not be accepted after that time, and will count as an 'F' grade. Students must see the professor for a conference, with the paper present, before the essay may be resubmitted. Essays will not be accepted without a rewrite conference. Essays that are originally turned in late or for which no drafts were turned in on drafting days cannot be rewritten.
Classroom Rules
This is a learning environment; therefore, the classroom atmosphere should be appropriate for an educational institution. All beepers, cell phones, watches, or other devices that make noise will be turned off by the owner before class begins. In addition, if a student leaves the classroom unexcused for more than ten minutes, it will affect his or her class participation, and after fifteen minutes will count as half
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