| English
102 emphasizes the forms of writing required of students during their
college careers and in their professional lives, with an emphasis on
research skills. Prerequisite (English 101 or 100 and approval of
the Director of the Writing Program.
Course
Description
English 102 is a course in which students read, discuss, and write
responses to the ideas and thematic representations located in a
variety of short fiction. The course also offers students the
opportunity to pay close attention to the kinds of language used to
express personalized definitions of a set of complex terms and ideas.
The Text
The text currently assigned for English 102 is The Story and Its Writer, edited by
Ann Charters.
Assignments
Students must write approximately 20 pages of graded work (drafts do
not figure into that number), and they must be given written
assignments for each of the essays they are to write. These assignments
must clearly articulate a question for students to consider and answer,
and the question must relate to a specified reading which will be
discussed in class. It is preferable to give out the assignment
question before the students do the reading - and, in fact, even more
preferable to give students thought-provoking questions which can help
them become "strong readers" of the text.
Essays
The essays written for 102 will be done according to the writing
process. This means that students will write drafts of each essay and
bring them - typed and completed - to class on a designated due day.
They should work on these rough drafts in class in some way - on their
own, in peer groups, in review pairs - to learn how to revise and edit
another writer's work, and eventually their own. Papers will be typed
and double-spaced, and will have appropriate margins and fonts. There
should be one in-class essay.
Essays should begin with a clear, coherent statement of purpose which
is then developed into a logical, clearly organized essay.
By the
end of English 102, students should be able to:
- think critically, and
rely on their inferential skills as a way of making meaning from
written texts
- use language in correct
and appropriate ways
- understand that writing
is a process that begins with the comprehension of an idea, and moves
through a number of revised drafts toward a completed product
- produce summaries and
paraphrases and understand how and why those are useful skills
- understand and use
research skills and documentation styles
- be able to work with
multiple assigned texts in ways that synthesize, compare, contrast, and
contextualize their main ideas
- write coherent essays
that demonstrate an awareness of the rules of English, and quote from
external texts for support of their point in appropriate and analytical
ways
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