SYLLABUS

English 102

Fall, 2000

Professor: Dr. Margaret Rozga Office: W137

Office Hours: Phone: 521-5522

M 2:15 -- 3:00 p.m. Email: mrozga@uwc.edu

5:15 -- 5: 45 p.m.

T Th 2:30 -- 3:00 p.m.

W 11:30 -- 12:45 p.m.

2:30 -- 3:00 p.m.

Also available by appointment.

REQUIRED TEXTS

1. Rose, Mike and Malcolm Kiniry. Critical Strategies for Academic Thinking and Writing. 3^rd edition. Boston: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

2. Rosen, Leonard and Laurence Behrens. The Allyn & Bacon Handbook. 4th edition. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students who complete this course successfully will have developed the following skills:

1. the ability to analyze, synthesize, evaluate and interpret information and ideas

2. the ability to construct and support hypotheses and arguments

3. the ability to integrate knowledge and experience to arrive at creative solutions

4. the ability to read and listen with comprehension and critical perception

5. the ability to write clearly, precisely and in a well-organized manner

6. the ability to gather information from printed sources, electronic sources and observation.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

The English Department requires students taking English 102 to write 5500 words during the course of the semester. To achieve that goal and the other objectives of this course, students will:

1. Complete six major writing assignments ranging in length from 750 to 1500 words (about 2 to 6 typed pages). Most of these assignments require use of outside sources, including books, scholarly periodicals and electronic sources available through the UW-Waukesha library. To prepare for using library resources, students will also complete a seventh major project, the library assignment.

2. Complete all work preliminary to the final draft of each paper. All of the preliminary work is to be handed in with the completed assignment.

All work must be handed in class on the due dates specified. Papers slipped under my office door or in my mailbox will be considered late.

You may hand in without penalty only one late paper during the course of the semester. That paper must be in at the next class meeting. For other late papers, you may expect to lose one full letter grade for each day the paper is late.

To pass the course, all six of the major writing assignments must be handed in.

3. Correct all papers after they have been handed back with grades and return them to me to keep on file. Papers that have not been satisfactorily corrected will not earn full credit.

4. Take two min-exams during the semester a comprehensive final exam. Notebooks may be used during mini-exams, but not during the final. The final exam will test to see if you have achieved the objectives of the course. (See the above section on course objectives.)

6. Attend class regularly. The work of the course includes what we do each class period. Missing class means missing part of the required work of the course.

**Our campus English Department policy states that except in extraordinary circumstances when the absence is excused by the instructor, missing the equivalent of three weeks of class will result in a failing grade for the course.**

I take attendance. If you come late or leave early, I take note of the time and calculate this time into your total absences.

On a more positive note, participation in class enriches your learning experience. Also, class participation counts as 20% of your final grade.

FINAL GRADE

Your final grade will be an average of grades for the following, except that the lowest essay grade will be dropped.

1-2. one for class participation for each half of the semester

3. the library resource exercise

4-8. one for each of your essays ( I drop the lowest essay grade)

9. the average of your two mini-exams

10. the final exam.

COURSE CALENDAR

This general calendar will be supplemented by detailed assignment sheets for each unit.

ALWAYS BRING BOTH BOOKS TO CLASS.

WEEKS 1 – 2 Wednesday, September 6 – Wednesday, September 20

Rose and Kiniry, Chapter 1 Defining;

Handbook, Chapter 1, “Critical Thinking and Reading”

W 9/6 Introductions. Diagnostic essay 1.

M 9/11 Handbook 1-17

Rose and Kiniry 1-36

W 9/13 Handbook 19-25

Rose and Kiniry 50-75.

M 9/18 PAPER DUE. Bring in three copies of a draft for peer review;

W 9/20 Final version of ESSAY 1 due at the beginning of the class period.

WEEKS 3 – 4 Monday, September 25 – Monday, October 9

Rose and Kiniry, Chapter 2, Summarizing

Handbook, Chapter 2, “Critical Thinking and Writing”

M 9/25 Handbook 29-33

Rose and Kiniry 78-99

W 9/27 Handbook 34-49

Rose and Kiniry 103-117

M 10/2 Rose and Kiniry 144-168

W 10/4 PAPER DUE. Bring in three copies of your draft for peer review .

M 10/9 Final version of ESSAY 2 due at the beginning of the class period.

WEEKS 5-7 Wednesday, October 11 – Monday, October 23

Rose and Kiniry, Chapter 3, Serializing

Handbook, Chapter 5, “The Paragraph and the Paper”

M 10/23 PAPER DUE. Final version of ESSAY 3 due at the beginning of the class period.

WEEKS 8-10 Wednesday, October 25 – Monday, November 6

Rose and Kiniry, Chapter 4, Classifying

Handbook, 3C and 3D, 65-73

M 11/6 PAPER DUE. Final version of ESSAY 4 due at the beginning of the class period.

WEEKS 11-12 Wednesday, November 8 – Wednesday, November 22

In Rose and Kiniry, Chapter 5, Comparing

In Handbook, “Writing and Evaluating Arguments, 133-164

W 11/22 PAPER DUE. Final version of ESSAY 5 due at the beginning of the class period.

WEEKS 13-15 Monday, November 27 – Monday, December 18

Rose and Kiniry, Chapter 6, Analyzing

M 12/18 PAPER DUE. Final version of ESSAY 6 draft due at the beginning of the class period.

FINAL EXAM: Monday, December 18, 2000; 3:30—5:30 p.m. Room to be announced.