COURSE DESCRIPTION: English 1302 Internet
English1302 Internet (Freshman Compostition II) will involve extensive and difficult reading; make sure you have time to devote to it! You should have a dependable Internet connection and open your email daily.
As your instructor, beginning Monday, June 8, I will be available to you online at ibailey@mail.accd.edu or by telephone (210-486-0654). The English Department phone number is 210-486-0649. I will be unable easily to return long-distance telephone calls, however, so for those of you outside San Antonio, please do not expect me to call you long distance.
Should you enroll in the course and then find you do not have time to devote to it, drop the course officially by the drop date. As your professor, I also have the prerogative of dropping students who do not post interventions, do not submit assignments, and/or do not take the mid-semester test.
The textbook for the course: Roberts and Jacobs, Literature 8th edition. As will be seen from the table of contents, this text provides a discussion of the elements of fiction, poetry, and drama and provides excellent literary selections. The text also conveys help to students who are writing about literature.
Highly recommended: A good English composition handbook to consult as you are writing your essays. You might have bought one for Freshman Composition I. If not, buy one with a copyright date within the last 3 years. The Scott, Foresman Handbook, Diana Hacker's Rules for Writers, and the The Beacon Handbook are examples of a number of fine handbooks available.
The objectives of the course are
- to introduce you to literary terms and processes
- to increase your analytical writing skills,
- to increase your research skills
- to augment your appreciation for the literary arts
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Your responsibilities may be summarized as follows :
A. READINGS
You should read (and reread) the selections in the text as assigned on the SCHEDULE of READINGS. After reading an assigned selection and the introduction to it in the text, you might investigate the pertinent resources available on the World Wide Web. But this course is not about surfing the Web; it is about reading literary texts, discussing them and writing about them. There are, however, Web sites dedicated to literary study in general and the elucidation of texts in particular, and several of these sites will enhance your understanding of the texts you will be reading.
B. GRADING
Your grade in this course will be based primarily on your performance on three numbered analytical and documented essays, and two tests, one of which will be the final examination. Essay #1 and #2 will each count one-tenth (10%) of your grade. Essay #3 (which will require the use of both primary and secondary sources) and the mid-semester test will each count two-tenths (20%) of your grade.The final examination will count three-tenths (30%) of your grade. Another one-tenth (10%) of your grade will be determined by your interventions which you post on the listserv. See "D" below.
C. PAPER PREPARATION
The three numbered essays of literary analysis must be printed. You may bring each essay to me before its deadline, or you may email it as a Microsoft Word attachment. Be sure to keep a copy for your records. Your essays must be double-spaced. Use 8½" by 11" white paper printed on one side of the page only. If you want me to return a marked copy, place my name, your name, your U.S. mailing address, and the date clearly on the paper. Assignments for each numbered essay will be posted on the listserv.
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D. INTERVENTIONS
Interventions are comments or questions, about 40 words in length, in response to designated prompts, which will be sent to the listserv each week. There will be ten (10) interventions in all during the semester.
If you submit all the required interventions by 12 o'clock midnight on the designated days, you will receive an intervention grade of "100." Partial submissions will count only as a fraction of that. I.e., submission of only half the number of required interventions will result in an intervention grade of "50." Late interventions will not be counted. Intervention posting will be indicative of your "attendance" and participation in the class. Failure to post two consecutive interventions may result in your being dropped from the class for "non-attendance."
Label, in the subject field of your email format, each intervention by course number and date (failure to label by course number and date might result in your intervention not being counted); for example, your first intervention will be labeled "1302 Intervention #1 for June 10" and your last intervention will be labeled "1302 Intervention #10 for July 8."
Your intervention will not receive a grade, but you will be given credit. No comment or question is an inappropriate one, but try to show that you have thought about the reading assignment.
E. THE TWO TESTS
The mid-semester test and the final examination will be given online. I will post instructions and questions on the listserv. Submission deadlines are strictly enforced.
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