Fall 2013, Professor Seth Graves
ENG 1121, Composition II, D447
T/Th 11:30AM–12:45PM, Midway 303
Email: SGraves@citytech.cuny.edu (if down, email Seth.R.Graves@gmail.com)
Office Hours: Thursdays 10–11AM in Namm 529
Mailbox: S. Graves (there is another Graves directly above my box—be careful!) in Namm 529
Required Text:
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
Required Materials (bring to every class):
One folder to house drafts and returned grades
One non-spiral notebook for in-class and homework assignments
A pen
Assigned reading for the day
About the Course
This course will build upon the reading and writing skills instruction of English 1101. Students will read and analyze works of literature in multiple genres.
Prerequisite
ENG 1101 (3 hours, 3 credits)
Performance Objectives
Read and listen critically and analytically, including identifying an argument’s major assumptions and assertions and evaluating its supporting evidence.
Write clearly and coherently in varied, academic formats (such as formal essays, research papers, and reports) using standard English and appropriate technology to critique and improve one’s own and others’ texts.
Demonstrate research skills using appropriate technology, including gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing primary and secondary sources.
Support a thesis with well-reasoned arguments, and communicate persuasively across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media.
Formulate original ideas and relate them to the ideas of others by employing the conventions of ethical attribution and citation.
Course Requirements
Attendance and active participation in class; reading and writing as assigned. There will also be weekly written homework assignments and a final paper. Two papers will be given the opportunity for revision. All scheduled reading must be completed before that day’s class.
Assignments
You will write a total of TWO four-page papers, ONE six-page research paper, a midterm, a final, and web posts, quizzes, and homework as assigned. You will additionally be required to participate in in-class discussions and writing exercises and post on the class blog.
Participation
Speak at least once during each class, no matter your shyness. Exhaustive speaking, however, will not increase your grade. Please silence your phone, and do not text during class. You may use digital devices when asked to, but otherwise keep them put away.
Grading
Essays 1 & 2 30% (15% each)
Research Paper 20%
Midterm 10%
Final 10%
Homework and Quizzes 20%
Participation 10%
Attendance
Attendance is mandatory and factors into your participation grade. Late papers will be marked down for lateness. Students will lose a letter grade for each day a paper is late. Students are expected to attend all classes, be on time, and stay for the entire class. Attendance is taken at the start of class. Two late arrivals count as an absence. Three absences will lower your grade one letter. City Tech’s attendance policy states that more than three absences will result in a WU grade.
Papers
Turn in papers by email to sgraves@citytech.cuny.edu.
Formatting:
Double space your papers, use 12pt font of either Times New Roman or Garamond.
Single space your header. No title page—just your name, class, my name, and date will do.
The margins should be 1” all around—top, bottom, left, right.
Indent your paragraphs.
Website
This course will operate by website using OpenLab. You will be added to the website as a contributor and are expected to make weekly posts. Posts will be short (a little bit longer than a tweet) and include sentences from the reading and your responses to them.
Students with Disabilities
Class-related accommodations for students with disabilities are available; contact CityTech’s Student Support Services Program (SSSP).
Academic Integrity Policy
Students and all others who work with information, ideas, texts, images, music, inventions, and other intellectual property owe their audience and sources accuracy and honesty in using, crediting, and citing sources. As a community of intellectual and professional workers, the College recognizes its responsibility for providing instruction in information literacy and academic integrity, offering models of good practice, and responding vigilantly and appropriately to infractions of academic integrity. Accordingly, academic dishonesty is prohibited in The City University of New York and at New York City College of Technology and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion. The complete text of the College policy on Academic Integrity may be found in the catalog.
Plagiarism:
The use of an outside source, including electronic sources, in any paper, report or submission for academic credit without the appropriate acknowledgment is plagiarism. It is unethical to present as one’s own work, the ideas, words or representations of another without the proper indication of the source. Therefore, it is the student’s responsibility to give credit for any quotation, idea or data borrowed from an outside source. Work that is plagiarized will receive a failing grade, and the English Department will be notified.
