B. Essays will demonstrate a mastery of conventional English grammar and usage.

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1 ENGLISH 1102, Sections 04 and 09: Composition II Fall 2014 Instructor: Janice Bolding Phone: (office) Office: Liberal Arts Building 231 Office Hours: M/W 1:30-2:30 p.m.; T/Th 10:40 a.m.-1:40 p.m. (Th 10:45-11:45 Writing Lab). 1 Required Materials: Kirszner and Mandell. Portable Literature. 8 th ed. English/World Languages, ISBN: , ISBN: Notebook paper Folder Ink pens in blue or black ink Recommended Materials A college dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed., hardbound or paperbound. Hardbound: ISBN: Paperbound: ISBN: Course Description Prerequisite: English 1101 or the equivalent. Students must have a C or better in This course is a continuation of English 1101 through its stress on composition. Emphasis is also given to introduction to literature, library orientation, documentation, and basic research skills, including capability in electronic resources and documentation. A minimum grade of C is required to complete English Course Objectives: English 1102 is primarily a composition course designed as a continuation of English A major purpose of the course is to strengthen the students' ability to organize, plan outline, write, correct, and revise essays of various types. I. ESSAYS A. The outlines and essays will include the following: 1. Title 2. Thesis Sentence 3. Organization appropriate to the assigned topic 4. Introductory or organizational paragraph 5. Three or more supporting paragraphs with topic sentences 6. Evidence of transitions 7. A concluding or summarizing paragraph B. Essays will demonstrate a mastery of conventional English grammar and usage. II. Literature A. Another purpose of the course is to function as an introduction to the short story, poetry, and/or drama. Emphasis is placed on literal content, meaning, idea, interpretation, plot, character, theme, point of view, symbol, irony, emotion, humor, fantasy, values, definitions, figurative language, imagery, denotation, connotation, allusion, tone, and other items which the instructor might choose. B. The essays and quizzes will evidence understanding of these terms and content

2 considerations in the individual works assigned by the instructor. 2 III. Library A. A further major purpose of this course is to introduce students to the wealth of information the library holds and to give them experience in unlocking this information. Students will demonstrate their abilities through: 1. Tests 2. Essays 3. A term paper based on library and electronic research B. Other appropriate assignments that an instructor will require. Student Learning Outcomes Outcome 1: Students will determine forms of communication appropriate to particular audiences and purposes; organize and communicate knowledge and ideas in a logical and purposeful way; and use accepted patterns of grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure in written communication (General Education Outcome). Outcome 2: Students will use technology and gather data to conduct research from various sources, including electronic media, and demonstrate an understanding of plagiarism by acknowledging and citing informational sources correctly (Critical Thinking). Outcome 3: Students will analyze, evaluate, and provide convincing reasons in support of conclusions and arguments (Critical Thinking). Outcome 4: Students will demonstrate an ability to evaluate observations, inferences, or relationships in works under investigation (Critical Thinking). Class Activities The student will participate in learning activities such as 1. planning, writing, and correcting a minimum of five essays; 2. doing exercises as needed to correct errors in writing; 3. discussing, prior to revising, errors in essays; 4. discussing literary selections; 5. writing journal entries and other short discussions of literary selections; 6. discussing research facilities and working on research projects; 7. taking quizzes to demonstrate mastery of the assessment goals of the course.

3 Evaluation: The final grade will be determined by the following: 3 1. Four essays and revisions will count 50%. 2. The remaining 50% of the grade will be distributed as follows: 15% Research paper. This assignment must be turned in in order to pass the class. 10% Mid-Term Exam 10% Final Exam 15% Attendance/classwork/homework EMERGENCY INSTRUCTIONAL PLAN If the college is closed for inclement weather or other conditions, please consult the course schedule that I gave you at the beginning of the semester and complete the assigned readings. Then, check your and D2L for additional assignments, activities, and due dates. If it is not possible for me to you additional assignments because of loss of power, please write a summary of the assigned reading, complete all exercises within the chapter, and bring them to the next class. If conditions allow, I will be available to answer questions through . Compensatory make-up days may be required if the total number of days lost exceeds the equivalent of one week of class time. Attendance Policy: Because work is routinely done in class, attendance is important and considered mandatory. Attendance will be taken each day, and points are given for each day that you are in class and for the work done in class that day. These points cannot be made up, and they count toward the participation portion of the final course grade. If you arrive late, please remember that it is the student s responsibility to remind me at the end of class so that you are marked present. If absences become excessive (over four), up to five points may be deducted from the final grade for each successive absence. Also please note that if you are present physically but absent mentally (text messaging, computer surfing, or the like), you will be counted absent Late work and make-up policy: Students are responsible for completing assignments on time. Missed class work and homework may not be made up. In-class essays and tests in this class and may be made up within a week of the original date only in extenuating circumstances. These make-up essays will lose at minimum a letter grade if the student does not contact me beforehand, so please let me know. Essays written as homework (not in class) lose a letter grade each day they are past the due date. You may late work to me in order to stop grade penalties, but a hard copy of the work should still be turned in at the next class meeting. Conduct: Respect for others in the classroom is paramount. If we treat each other respectfully, the classroom will be a positive environment. However, should it become necessary, I reserve the right to remove anyone who is disrespectful to me or another student or is otherwise disruptive to the learning process. Please also refrain from private conversations during class which are distracting and non-productive to the learning environment. Continued disruptions may result in appropriate letter grade deductions to the final grade. The Student Handbook contained in the College Catalog has further information concerning responses to dishonest or disruptive behavior.

4 4 Attitude is everything in the classroom, and your experience will likely mirror your willingness to engage with the opportunities presented to you. A student s attitude can also impact others, so please refrain from distracting other students and please do not use laptops, cellphones, and other electronics while in class. Should any device (like a cellphone) become distracting for me or fellow classmates, I will collect and keep it until the end of class. Also please note that students leaving class to take or return a phone call or text (or for any other reason) will be counted absent. If an emergency situation exists that requires the use of electronics, please inform me before class. Regarding plagiarism, your work in this class is expected to be your own. A grade of 0 will be given any assignment that contains plagiarism, and should any cheating become egregious, the result will be failure of the course. The Student Catalog has further definition and discussion of plagiarism. Disability Support Services: Students with disabilities or special needs are encouraged to contact Disability Support Services in Academic Resources. In order to make an appointment to obtain information on the process for qualifying for accommodations, the student must contact the Coordinator of Disability Support Services. Contact information: Andrea Roberson Pope Student Center, lower level 706/ aroberson@daltonstate.edu Drop/Withdrawal Policy: Students wishing to withdraw from the course may do so without penalty until the mid-point of the semester, and a grade of W will be assigned. After that point, withdrawal without penalty is permitted only in cases of extreme hardship as determined by the Vice President for Academic Affairs; otherwise a grade of WF will be issued. (Please note: At Dalton State College, the Hardship Withdrawal process requires students to withdraw from all classes at the college.) The proper form for dropping a course is the Schedule Adjustment Form, which can be obtained at the Enrollment Services Office in Westcott Hall. The Schedule Adjustment Form must be submitted to the Enrollment Services Office. Students who disappear, completing neither the official withdrawal procedure nor the course work, will receive the grade of F. This instructor will not withdraw students from the class. Withdrawal from any Dalton State College classes is a student responsibility. The last day to drop classes without penalty is October 21, Complete Withdrawal Statement: The proper form for withdrawing from all classes at the college after the official drop/add period but before the published withdrawal date is the Schedule Adjustment Form. All students must meet with a staff member at the Office of Academic Resources in the Pope Student Center to initiate the withdrawal process. After meeting with the staff member, students will then finalize the withdrawal process in the Enrollment Services Office. Workforce Development: If a student receiving aid administered by the DSC Workforce Development Department drops this class or completely withdraws from the College, the Schedule Adjustment form must be taken to the Workforce Development office. Hours and contacts follow.

5 5 TECH 223/Scott McNabb 8am - 4:00pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday or smcnabb@daltonstate.edu Department of Labor 8:30am 2:30pm Thursday TECH 224/Krista Kennedy-Leonard 8am - 4:00pm Monday - Friday or kkennedy@daltonstate.edu Officially Approved DSC Groups and Activities: When students are engaged in officially approved Dalton State groups or activities that require them to participate in events off campus during school days, they shall be treated similarly to any faculty or staff member acting in that same capacity. Thus, just as faculty and staff have excused absences from their regular work schedules, students shall be excused from class without penalty if they are off campus representing Dalton State College in an approved, official capacity during their regular class time. Examples include presenting a paper or otherwise participating in a conference, attending a University System student affairs event, participating in intercollegiate competition (athletic or academic), participating in an approved field trip, etc. Just as faculty and staff members are required to submit Request to Travel forms for approval, in order to be excused, the student needs to provide the following information to the instructor prior to the date when he/she will be absent from class: a schedule of away events at the beginning of the semester or as soon as possible after the schedule is available); game in the evening and will not be leaving campus until 3:00, he/she will not be excused from classes prior to that time on that day; similarly if the event is in the morning and the student will be returning to campus during the day, he/she is expected to attend any class scheduled after the return trip); and participation in the event. The student shall be allowed to make up any work missed during the time he/she is off campus representing DSC in an official capacity. He/she shall discuss what will be missed with the instructor and make arrangements to make up any assignments, tests, presentations, etc. that were scheduled on that date. See the class syllabus posted on D2L for information regarding Turnitin.com and the Humanities Department s definition and discussion of plagiarism and how to avoid it.

6 6 Turnitin.com 2007 Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia By taking this course, you agree that all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism in other papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site ( According to the Family Compliance Office of the U.S. Department of Education, your papers are education records within the meaning of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) ( Education records may not be disclosed to third parties in a form that identifies you without your consent. Since Turnitin.com is a third party, you must choose one of the two ways below (not both) to submit papers to Turnitin.com in order to comply with FERPA: 1. YOU CONSENT TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION TO TURNITIN.COM. You may consent to release your personal identification to Turnitin.com by establishing an account and uploading your paper. If you do not already have a Turnitin.com account, go to click the New Users link in the upper right, and follow the instructions to create your student account. When you have an ID, add this class. The class ID for this class is ; the enrollment password is " ". OR 2. YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO DISCLOSE PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION TO TURNITIN.COM. If you choose not to consent to release your personal identification to Turnitin.com, you must send your paper to your instructor by as an electronic attachment that can be opened by Microsoft Word, by the deadline given in the syllabus. Your identifying information will be removed and the paper uploaded to Turnitin.com for you. Because your paper will not be in a Turnitin.com account that is accessible to you, you will not be able to view your report on-line. Instead, after the deadline has passed and all papers have been processed by Turnitin.com, your instructor will an electronic copy of your paper s report to you. Your paper will be processed by Turnitin.com whichever option you choose. The different options simply determine how the paper is submitted to Turnitin.com, whether the paper has your name on it,

7 and how you receive the Turnitin.com report. 7 Please note that in Turnitin.com there is a "test upload" assignment area for practice as well as the real assignment area for your paper. Because test uploads are not required or graded, and need not be a sample of your own work, they are not "education records." Therefore, test uploads will not be submitted for you. Important note: If you upload an early draft of your paper to the test upload assignment, and then upload the final assignment, the final originality report will show that a substantial part of your paper is identical to your draft. That is as expected. You can read more about Turnitin.com here: HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT REVISED FEBRUARY 17, 2012 PLAGIARISM You probably have heard of lawsuits about plagiarism in the publishing and recording industries. You may also have had classroom discussions about academic plagiarism. Derived from the Latin word plagiarius (kidnapper), plagiarism refers to a form of cheating that has been defined as the false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person s mind and presenting it as one s own (Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality [New York: Harper, 1952] 2). To use another person s ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source is to plagiarize. Plagiarism, then, constitutes intellectual theft and often carries severe penalties, ranging from failure in a course to expulsion from school. Is the above paragraph an example of plagiarism even though it contains quotation marks and documentation within it? Yes, it is plagiarism because it was copied word for word from the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fourth Edition by Joseph Gibaldi. It should be introduced and cited as follows: Note the definition of plagiarism offered by the primary writer of a handbook for writing research papers: You probably have heard of lawsuits about plagiarism in the publishing and recording industries. You may also have had classroom discussions about academic plagiarism. Derived from the Latin word plagiarius (kidnapper), plagiarism refers to a form of cheating that has been defined as Athe false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person s mind and presenting it as one s own (Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality [New York: Harper, 1952] 2). To use another person s ideas or expressions in your writing without acknowledging the source is to plagiarize.

8 Plagiarism, then, constitutes intellectual theft and often carries severe penalties, ranging from failure in a course to expulsion from school (Gilbaldi 26). 8 In writing a research paper, every direct use from another source must be put into quotation marks and then cited within the body of the paper with the author s last name and the page number. Also, every phrase, word, idea, or passage which has been put into the writer s own words (paraphrased) and used in the paper must be cited at the end of the paraphrased material with the author s last name and page number, but the quotation marks are not necessary. What Plagiarism Is: The use of another s writing without proper use of quotation marks The borrowing or buying of a term paper or speech The borrowing of a phrase, use of an idea, or the paraphrasing of material if that information is not properly documented What Plagiarism Is Not: A summary of a total work based on the writer s impression Original ideas and reactions based upon reading critical views in secondary sources Common knowledge about the particular author, works, or topic Instructors May Suspect Plagiarism If: Writing or speaking style is significantly different from the student s normal style Vocabulary used is that which is not commonly used by the student Sentence structure varies widely from the student s writing Specific and limited knowledge is treated as common knowledge Consequences Of Plagiarism May Include: 0 on the paper or speech F in class at the Instructor s discretion, if stated in the Instructor s syllabus Referral to the Dean of Student Affairs with a conference pending Referral to the Discipline Committee for appropriate action Cases of plagiarism may be submitted to Student Conduct for a hearing and possible sanctioning. These sanctions could include: Disciplinary Warning Disciplinary Probation Disciplinary Suspension Disciplinary Expulsion Examples Following you will find examples, both correct and incorrect, of various ways to use sources in

9 your papers. First, read the original material and then compare the various styles of documentation. 9 Original Material Although commentators differ on the question of which models and sources proved most significant, they tend to concur on the question of how Huckleberry Finn transformed American literature. Twain s innovation of having a vernacular-speaking child tell his own story in his own words was the first stroke of brilliance; Twain s awareness of the power of satire in the service of social criticism was the second. Huck s voice combined with Twain s satiric genius changed the shape of fiction in America (Fishkin 3). Direct Quote Even though literary critics may differ on the finer points of Twain s novel Huckleberry Finn, most tend to agree that Mark Twain s satiric genius and his use of the youthful Huck s voice as narrator change the shape of fiction in America (Fishkin 3). It is widely felt that critics believe Mark Twain forever change American literature with his masterpiece Huckleberry Finn. According to critic Shelley Fishkin, Twain s innovation of having a vernacular-speaking child tell his own story in his own words was the first stroke of brilliance; Twain s awareness of the power of satire in the service of social criticism was the second (3). Short Paraphrase Critics agree that Mark Twain changed the course of American fiction in his novel Huckleberry Finn with his skillful treatment of point of view and social satire (Fishkin 3). Long Paraphrase Even though there is great dissension among commentators concerning the model Twain used to create Huckleberry Finn, almost all are in agreement on one aspect: how Huckleberry Finn permanently changed the face of American literature. Having a child tell the story in his own dialect combined with utilizing satire as a means of criticizing society were Twain s two strokes of genius that forever altered American literature (Fishkin 3). Incorrect Paraphrase Mark Twain changed American literature. His innovation of having a vernacular-speaking child tell his town story in his own words was a stroke of brilliance. Also, the fact that he used the power of satire in the service for social criticism was innovative (Fishkin 3). Works Cited Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

10 English 1102, Sections 04 and 09: Tentative Schedule Fall Week Date 1. Aug. 11 Course Introduction, Syllabus Aug. 13 Chapters 1 and 2 2. Aug. 18 Chapter 4: Understanding Fiction. Hills Like White Elephants Aug. 20 Chapter 6: Graphic Novels. Excerpts from Maus and Persepolis 3. Aug. 25 Chapter 7: Plot. How to Talk to Girls at Parties Aug. 27 Chapter 7: Plot. A Rose for Emily 4. Sept. 1 Labor Day No Classes Sept. 3 Chapter 8: Character. Miss Brill and A&P 5. Sept. 8 Chapter 9: Setting. This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona Sept. 10 Essay 1 (In Class) 6. Sept. 15 Chapter 10: Point of View. The Cask of Amontillado Sept. 17 Chapter 11: Style, Tone, and Language. The Things They Carried 7. Sept. 22 Chapter 12: Symbol, Allegory, and Myth. Everyday Use Sept. 24 Chapter 3: Documenting Sources A Good Man Is Hard To Find 8. Sept. 29 Chapter 13: Theme. A Worn Path and The Yellow Wallpaper Oct. 1 Essay 2 due Research Paper Assigned 9. Oct. 6 Rocking Horse Winner Oct. 8 Mid-Term Test 10. Oct. 13 Oct Fall Break No Classes Oct. 15 Library Visit 11. Oct. 20 Chapter 25: Understanding Drama Chapter 26: Ten-Minute Plays

11 Oct. 21 Oct. 22 Last day to drop without academic penalty Chapter 29: Staging. Oedipus the King Oct. 27 Play Competition Oct. 29 Play Competition 13. Nov. 3 Oedipus the King Nov. 5 Chapter 27: Plot. Trifles 14. Nov. 10 Essay 3 (In Class) Nov. 12 Research Essay Draft Due for Peer Review 15. Nov. 17 Research Paper Due (Essay 4) Poetry Nov. 19 Poetry 16. Nov. 24 Poetry Nov. 26 Nov Thanksgiving 17. Dec. 1 Essay 5 (In Class) Last Class Meeting Dec. 2-8 Final Exams Final Exam Section 04 (9:25 a.m.) 8:00-10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3 Section 09 (12:15 p.m.) 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3 Please note that this schedule is tentative. Topics may be added or deleted as necessary. If you have questions about the assignments, please ask.