Eastfield College Arts, Language, and Literature Division English 1302-4001 Composition 2 Semester: Autumn 2011 Professor: R. R. Small Class room: C-224 Class: Mon / Wed / Fri 8:00 a.m. – 8:55 p.m. Office Hours: after class or (By appointment) Adjunct Faculty Office Phone: 972.391-1047 Email: [email protected] WELCOME to English Composition 2. You are about to embark on a journey into the fascinating world of writing. Hopefully during your journey, you’ll learn a lot about the world of writing, and at its conclusion have the confidence that you can write any nonfiction piece. COURSE Prerequisite: English 1301 and have met Texas Success Initiative (TSI) standard in Reading and Writing. COURSE MATERIALS - TEXT: Mauk, John and John Metz. Inventing Argument: Brief Second Edition with 2009 MLA Update. Boston, MA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2009. ISBN (10): 1-4390-8180-8; ISBN (13): 978-1-4390-8180-8 - Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Paper 6th. Ed., New York: MLA 2003 ISBN:a78087359860 Classroom Expectations: As an adult, contributing member of this society, you are expected to: - Be to class on time. - Be in class the entire time unless an emergency occurs. - Refrain from using profanity, racial slurs, or offensive comments about classmates or professor either verbally or in writing. - This is a lecture course; therefore, you are expected to not use your ear buds, or listen to anything else during class. - Turn off any electronic devices that are not immediately pertaining to the course. - Loud and excessive talking during class will not be tolerated. FOOD AND DRINK POLICY Please be advised that food and drinks are not allowed in the classroom. The lounge areas in the foyers or the Atrium are for your meals. Please, make sure your water bottles are capped. Consequences: 1. If necessary, offending student will be asked to leave the class and will be marked absent that day. 2. Any escalation, campus police will be called.2 Writing Format Expectations: Please follow these instructions when writing your papers: ● All writing assignments must be typed. ● Use a sans serif font (Comic-sans, Verdana, Arial) and font size of 12 pt. ● Double-space or 1.5 line spacing; never use single-space. ● Research paper is to be 15 paragraphs in length. ● Essay Writing Assignments are to be 6+ paragraphs in length. ● Essay Response Assignments are to be one full page in length. ● Pay attention to spelling, grammar, and punctuation. ● Due dates for all assignments are noted on the Course schedule. - Follow MLA Format for your research paper. - All writings turned in to the professor need a cover page that is correctly labeled: 1. Title of essay 2. Your Name 3. Course and Section number 4. Professor’s name 5. Due date Also insert a footer to each essay page with your name, the file name, and the date. * Late essays will NEVER be accepted. Your essay must reach me by the end of class on its due date. Do not email me your essay. It must be turned-in in class or placed in my mailbox with a time stamp by an Adjunct TLC office personnel. The exact due date of each Essay is in the course schedule. COURSE GRADES Your assignments will be evaluated using the following point values: Four Essay Assignments @ 50 points each 200 One Research Essay 100 Five Reading Responses @ 30 points each 150 Ten Discussion thread responses @ 6 points each 60 Ten quizzes @ 13 points each 130 Midterm Exam 50 Final Exam 100 Total points available 790 COURSE GRADE Semester grades will be assigned according to this 790-point scale: 790 – 630 = A 629 – 470 = B 469 – 310 = C 309 – 150 = D 149 – 0 = F3 English 1302 SLOs or Objectives:  Critically read and analyze college-level material, including library and Internet resources.  Compose academic prose that demonstrates clear purpose, logical organization, and relevant support through evaluation and synthesis.  Establish and maintain a clear, controlling idea that serves as a thesis/claim statement in an essay.  Revise, edit, and proofread an essay for grammatical accuracy.  Apply MLA style to essay format, in-text citations, and works cited documentation. Course Expectations To complete this course successfully, you must do all of the following: ● Follow all class expectations. - Maintain good attendance. - Participate in all course activities. - Complete all the in-class and out-of-class assignments and turn-in on-time. - Prepare and submit all writing assignments on-time. - Study for all quizzes and exams. Remember that you must turn in all assignments to receive a passing grade in the course. Assignments should be turned in on the assigned due dates unless you have extra special permission from the instructor, prior notice, and documentation. You may NOT wait until the end of the semester to turn in a substantial amount of work or all assignments at once. ACADEMIC HONESTY & PLAGIARISM In any written paper, you are guilty of the academic offense known as plagiarism if you partially or entirely copy the author’s sentences, words. For such an offense, a student will receive a zero on the assignment and can receive an F for the course. You cannot mix the author’s words with your own or “plug” your synonyms into the author’s sentence structure. To prevent unintentional borrowing, resist the temptation to look at the source as you write. The author’s words, phrases, sentences must be put in your words, in your way of writing. When you do this, you are demonstrating the ability of understanding and comprehension. If you summarize, paraphrase or directly quote from an author, you must use the appropriate documentation because the „idea(s)‟ still belong to the author. Scholastic dishonesty is a violation of the Code of Student Conduct. Your enrollment indicates acceptance of the DCCCD Code of Student Conduct published in the DCCCD Catalog at: (https://www1dcccd.edu/cat0608/ss/code.cfm). Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. Collusion is the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements.4 Cheating includes copying from another student’s test or homework paper, using materials not