Essays/Assignment: (Total 70%) 70 Points Total(All work MUST adhere to MLA standards)Assignment IV: Creative Positioning: Group Reading PresentationCLASS READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTSFALL 2011ENC 1102 Instructor: Professor Alison SmithEmail: [email protected] Online/Writing Center hours available by appointment“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.” ~Samuel Johnson“Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.~Virginia WoolfREQUIRED TEXTS AND MATERIALS: Eds. Kirszner & Mandell. Portable Literature: Seventh Edition. Boston: Thompson Higher Education, 2010. (PL) Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009. (LM) (This text I will distribute in class—you do not need to buy it) Kirszner, Lauri G., and Stephen Mandell. The Wadsworth Handbook. 9th ed. Boston: Thomas/Wadsworth, 2011. (WH) Online Readings sent to you via Atlas. (Please note you are responsible for printing these out on your own and bringing them to class when assigned. I will post these helpful and additional readings under “Files” throughout the semester; please look at the schedule often, so you are prepared to discuss these readings per theschedule). (OR)Use of Valencia’s Library databases/ Atlas and email access (checked at least 3 times a week) required—we will NOT be using Blackboard but rather Atlas only.COURSE PREREQUISITES:ENC 1101 or 1101H with a minimum grade of C.VALENCIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT COMPETENCIES: THINKVALUECOMMUNICATEACTAll four of these key competencies will be utilized this semester in order for you as writers, researchers, and students to realize the import of being part of a shared community where your own voices and ideas are valued as you become proactive members in an academic setting.INTRODUCTION AND COURSE DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES:ENC 1101 and 1102 are subject to the Gordon Rule, Rule 6A-10.030 of the Florida Administrative Code requiring students to construct multiple college level writing assignments. Students in a Gordon Rule class must earn a grade of C or better to receive course credit. ENC 1102 is worth 3 credit hours.During this second semester of Composition (ENC 1102), you will learn additional methods/tools to conduct college-level research. This will be focused primarily on library research and its literary tenets central to this class. You will learn to carefully read and evaluate your sources for bias and to examine your own. And I will be quite adamant about correctly documenting sources and will expect you to avoid plagiarism. In further developing your writing, analyzing, and research skills, you will be expected to develop a way of thinking, a way of interpreting texts and the world—in other words, I will not tell you what to think, but I will help you to construct your own ways to interpret texts. You will be asked to think about and attempt to understand the particular perspective that you bring to class, as well as alternate perspectives of your classmates and various texts’ authors. While conducting your own literary research and writing, you will be expected to consider many perspectives and include the voices of other scholars and how they vision a piece of literature.Through multiple readings and writing activities, research, film viewings and/or tv viewings, and essay assignments, we will come to know writing as a process that is never fixed, but rather a fluid act that invites a plethora of perspectives. Re-vision, as well as rethinking and rewriting are emphasized. To makethese connections, we will engage in active and thoughtful classroom discussions, lots of group activities/work, peer editing and responses, formal and informal writings, critical reading, and critical thinking. This class requires a heavy reading load and demands active engagement/participation during each class meeting. Please note: there are 100 points possible by the end of the semester.COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADE DISTRIBUTION:  Essays/Assignment: (Total 70%) 70 Points Total (All work MUST adhere to MLA standards)Essay I: Inquiry and (Re?)Discovery—Textual Analysis (15%) 15 pointsAssignment II: Academic Proposal and Annotated Bibliography (10%) 10 pointsEssay III: Argue a Workable “Truth” (documented essay) (30%) 30 pointsAssignment IV: Creative Positioning: Group Reading Presentation(15%) 15 points (Final Exam)Each essay will undergo at least two drafts before a final grade is assigned to it. This may be done through peer editing, instructor conferencing, Writing Center visits, and/or work-shopping. I am here to help you and want to see you succeed in this writing class!You are expected to adhere to MLA guidelines and the Wadsworth Handbook for all work. Each Essay draft must be typed, double-spaced, with 1 inch margins and a standard 12 inch font (Arial, Courier, Times New Roman, etc.). There is always a title page and a Works Cited. Also, your text should be numbered as well as spell-checked, avoid contractions, and free from typos and grammatical errors, stapled, with all drafts and peer responses included at the time of final submission.Group Work, Class Participation, and Attendance: (Total 10%) 10 pointsThis class relies heavily on collaboration and is designed to follow a seminar format.What this means is that we will all be learning from one another and writing with one another and constantly coming to know different ideas and ways of thinking and writing through small and large group activities including, informal presentations, classroom discussions, and four formal essays/assignments. This is not a lecture class! CLASS READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTSYou are expected to come prepared to class and talk. Please read the assigned texts before class and anticipate lively informal discussions, peer presentations, group presentations, and in-class writings. You are required to annotate each assigned reading and bring three questions or comments/concerns about the texts each class. This will illustrate your critical thinking, as various readings are discussed. Leadership of class discussion: (Total 20%) 20 points Also, you are to select (or be assigned) one reading from our book Portable Literature and schedule this semester and lead a compelling class discussion on the text (10-15 minutes). You must bring a typed handout for each class