RODP English 1020: Composition II
Spring 2010
3 credit hours
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Course Information |
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Course
Description: |
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English 1020 is a
composition course emphasizing documented critical writing, based on an
introduction to fiction, drama, and poetry. |
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Course
Objectives: |
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Students will be
able to
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Prerequisites
and Corequisites: |
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English 1010: Composition I |
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Course
Topics: |
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The required course
topics are rhetoric, argument and persuasion, research, and literary analysis
of poems, short stories, and plays.
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Specific
Course Requirements: |
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Students should
have basic Composition I knowledge of essay composition and development.
Students should be able to read poems, short stories, and plays critically
and interpretively. They should have college-level competency in
grammar, punctuation, and mechanics. They must be familiar and comfortable
with basic computer and Internet skills. They must be familiar with or
willing to learn a variety of online tools.
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Textbooks, Supplementary Materials, Hardware and Software
Requirements |
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Required
Textbooks: |
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available at http://rodp.bkstr.com
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Software
Requirements: |
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Microsoft
Word is the recommended word processing software for this course. Students
who do not have Microsoft Word should be able to submit essays as web pages
(HTML files) or as rich text format files (RTF files). Essay assignments will
be submitted to the electronic dropbox.At least one
of the course assignments allows but does not require Real Player audio. This
is free software available from the Internet at http://www.real.com.
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Instructor Information |
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Please see the
"Professor" topic in the Overview module of the course. |
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Assessment and Grading |
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Assignments: |
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Students will read
assignments in the textbook, post drafts, and submit developed, revised, and
edited formal papers. Formal papers include one diagnostic paper, three
other well developed and revised papers, and one timed paper submitted as a
final exam.
Optional
Assignments:
At the discretion of the professor, students may be asked to engage in peer
editing and response, revision assignment, grammar quizzes, or reading
quizzes.
From
time to time, your professor may take student writing produced in this
course as examples to explain Composition I and II ideas to other
students. Doing so may better help explain to other students the
concepts discussed in this course such as drafting, revising,
proofreading, mechanics, and/or other principles of writing. In doing
this, all student names and identifiers will be removed so that other
students in the class cannot identify the student who produced the
writing. If you do not want your writing used in this way, please
give your professor an email message to that effect. |
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Grading
Procedure: |
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Each
essay (Papers 1 through 6) is evaluated on its own merits. There is no
formula for judging an essay. When grading an essay, the professor will
consider the quality of content and organization, thesis, specific detail to
support and develop general statements, and the number and frequency of
serious composition errors (e.g. fragments, comma splices, errors in
agreement and tense, and misspellings) as well as the use of source materail and how it is integrated into the student's
paper. A paper may be relatively free from errors but lacking in insight,
thought, or content; the instructor must give such a paper a low grade. On
the other hand, a paper with strong content and organization may receive a
low grade because of serious errors in grammar, punctuation, sentence
structure, and spelling. Progress is a principal objective; therefore,
repeated errors and deficiencies weigh more heavily in the grading as the
semester goes on.
Drafts
are graded based on a rubric provided for each individual draft. Corrections
are graded based on correctly applying rules from the Little-Brown
Handbook to the rhetorical context of errors. |
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Grading
Scale: |
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Note: There are no plus or minus
grades permitted for the final grades in RODP. 90% - 100% = A Some TBR schools do not accept the
grade of "D" as a passing grade for this course. Please check
wiht any four your school you may transfer to about
their policy of a grade of "D" in this course. |
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Assignments and Participation |
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Assignments
and Projects: |
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Each
essay will be evaluated, marked, and returned to the student. Once an essay
has been submitted for a grade, students cannot revise it for a higher grade. Students
should keep copies of their papers and other work on their home computers.
Students must resubmit any papers that are lost or misplaced inside the
online class. The
instructor must have on file a copy of each graded essay before she/he can
record the final grade for that essay.
The
professor may refuse to accept essays that are not written according to
stated requirements or those for which there is a question about authorship,
plagiarism, or revision.
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Class
Participation: |
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Students must
participate in all interactive aspects of the course. For example, students
must post drafts to the discussion board and submit papers to the assignment
drop box for the course. Students are expected to communicate with the
instructor on a regular basis and check the Events schedule, news, and email
frequently for announcements or changes in the course. Students must actively
participate in the class consistently and at a steady pace. |
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Punctuality: |
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To receive full
credit, all assignments, including papers and drafts, corrections, and the
final exam essay, must be submitted on time. Ten percent (10%) of the score
will be taken away for each 24-hour period a paper or other assignment is
late. Once the deadline has passed, students may lose access to
submitting the assignments. Students who are able to work on class
assignments only in the evenings should make plans to complete assignments on
the evening before the day of the deadline. |
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Course Ground Rules |
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Students
are expected to communicate with other students, learn how to navigate
online, keep abreast of course news and emails, and read directions in Course
Content thoroughly and in detail. They should use the course email in
regular communication for the class; email outside course email should be
reserved for emergency use only. They should also give the professor a
web-based email address (such as those available from Hotmail or Yahoo) as a
back-up. Students should address technical problems immediately. (See the
help information below.) Students should observe course netiquette at
all times. In an online composition course, regular attendance takes the
form of turning assignments in on time, keeping up with course news and email
from the professor and other students, and participating in class assignments
on time. If for some reason the student must hand in any
assignment late, it is his or her responsibility to contact the professor.
The student must hand in missing essays even if they are so late that they
cannot receive a passing grade. The professor must have all essays from the
student before the student can pass the course. Plagiarism, cheating, and other forms
of academic dishonesty are prohibited. According to Webster's Ninth New
Collegiate Dictionary, plagiarism is to "steal and pass of as one's
own (the ideas or words of another); to present as one's own an idea or
product derived from an existing source." Students who plagiarize or
commit any other form of academic dishonesty will receive a zero on the paper
and may receive an F in the course. Using information from an Internet
page, another student's paper or other assignment, or paraphrasing material
from books, journals, and databases are all forms of plagiarism, cheating,
and academic dishonesty. |
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Guidelines for Communications |
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Email: |
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Discussion
Groups: |
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Chat: |
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Web
Resources: |
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Library
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The Tennessee Virtual Library is
available to all students enrolled in the Regents Degree Program. Links
to library materials (such as electronic journals, databases, interlibrary
loans, digital reserves, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and librarian
support) and Internet resources needed by learners to complete online
assignments and as background reading must be included in all courses. |
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Students With Disabilities |
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Qualified students
with disabilities will be provided reasonable and necessary academic
accommodations if determined eligible by the appropriate disability services
staff at their home institution. Prior to granting disability accommodations
in this course, the instructor must receive written verification of a
student's eligibility for specific accommodations from the disability
services staff at the home institution. It is the student's responsibility to
initiate contact with their home institution's disability services staff and
to follow the established procedures for having the accommodation notice sent
to the instructor. |
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Syllabus Changes |
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The instructor
reserves the right to make changes as necessary to this syllabus. If changes
are necessitated during the term of the course, the instructor will
immediately notify students of such changes both by individual email
communication and posting both notification and nature of change(s) on the
course bulletin board. |
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Technical Support |
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Telephone
Support: |
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