Basic Class Information

Type of class:

Credit

Class Description:  Learn to employ processes of composition.  Processes include: close reading, formation of a claim or thesis regarding literature, exposition, persuasion, and generative models to stimulate invention of themes and growth of ideas.

Credit Hours : 

3

Prerequisites:

WRT 102

Location:

Meeting Time:

9 AM to 12:15 PM

Meeting Days:

FRIDAY

Instructor:

Gloria McMillan

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Email Address:

          
glomc@DakotaCom.net

Telephone:

623-8905

Office Hours:

e-mail or phone, M-F 8:30 - 5:00

Class Information Details

Text(s):

Literature for Composition, 7th Ed. Sylvan Barnet et al..

The Brief pensguin Handbook, 2nd Ed. Lester Faigley

Other Materials:

A good dictionary and access to a computer 
with WWW availability

Course Objectives:

Upon Completion of this course the student will be able to:

Conceive ideas about a topic for the purpose of writing literary analyses.

Organize, select, and relate ideas and develop them in coherent paragraphs and essays.

Vary writing styles, including vocabulary and sentence structure, for different readers and purposes.

Improve writing by restructuring, revising, and editing.

Demonstrate knowledge of conventions and rhetoric of literary analysis (which will include documentation).

Course Outline:

Write two short literary analyses.

Write one long research paper.

Learn conventions of writing literary analyses.

Learn library research skills.

Improve documentations skills.

Course Requirements:

Complete all Units of Learning

Submit a written assignment 

Participate in Peer Review and discussion on class list.
 
 

Course Assignments:
Workload:

Each unit in this course is expected to take eight to ten hours of work for the student to complete. This estimate is based on an average student and includes reviewing material on line, from the text, and discussions in group.  
You are expected to either complete assignments during the times indicated in the course outline or close to it. 
THIS IS NOT A SELF-PACED COURSE.
 

Grading System:
Participation:

Your grade will be determined by the points you earn on your assignments.
1000-900 = A
899-800 = B 
799-700 = C 
699-600 = D 
599-500 = F

Graded Assignments:
Short Essay 1     333.3
Short Essay 2     333.3
Term Paper        333.3
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TOTAL             1000.0

Incomplete:

Attendance:
 

Students are expected to access the course online at least four times for each unit.  The students should attend in-perspn classes, also.