ORIENTATION SESSION: SPRING CREEK CAMPUS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 7:00-8:00 P.M., H224
OR THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 3:00-4:00 P.M.H228
All World Literature II - English 2333.WW1 syllabus information, course activities and communication, e-mail correspondence, and related Web resources exist on this site.
As a reference, print out this frame and read the basic syllabus or click on the various parts of the syllabus policies (left menu) and calendar (right menu) for specific information about the course and activities. Please read and follow these basic communication principles:
- This course requires Cougar mail for all correspondence. If you have your user name and password, go to http://cougarmail.ccccd.edu, or go to the college Current Students User name page information sheet at http://username.ccccd.edu/username/ for further instructions - you must have a current password and username (the last six numbers of your college-wide ID).
Please remember to periodically clean-up your cougar mail account and delete all non-academic or work from previous semesters.
- As a matter of formality, put your full name in the text of each e-mail submission, either at the beginning or end, and always write the course number, week number and/or author/assignment number, as is appropriate, in the subject box of your e-mail submission - example (in the e-mail subject box): ENGL 2333 - Week 2 - Moliere.
- Please cut and paste your assignments into your Cougar mail submissions. I do not accept Word attachments.
- Submit assignments promptly (each week, Wednesdays, by 12 noon).
Please test your Cougar mail link by sending a message to me now at my permanent e-mail address - click:
cgrooms@ccccd.edu
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Calendar
The "CALENDAR" link (right menu) provides a weekly readings structure to the course to aid your responses and Web activities (including sites and response and essay assignments for all authors). As it outlines your readings and writing assignments, follow the calendar with consistent effort and energy. Keep to a strict writing schedule with the response papers, and e-mail a weekly response paper. I will grade them and post them back to you as I receive them (within 48 hours). Response paper assignments appear during the calendar week (due by Wednesdays, 12 noon) of their due date. Essay assignment prompts appear in the calendar one week before they are due. Click on the week number (right menu) for specific assignments and readings during the course.
Grades: Essays, Response Papers
Do Not Pass Beyond the Calendar Weekly Due Date (due on each Wednesday by 12 noon) Before Turning In An Essay or Response Paper. Late Submissions Will Cost You Grade Points.
In Order to Pass this Course, You Must Submit and Receive a Grade for All Three Major Essays.
You Cannot Pass This Course If You Pass More Than Three Successive Weekly Due Dates Without Submitting Work.
Last Day to Withdraw from Classes: Friday, April 11.
No Late Work Accepted after Wednesday, April 9.
I Do Not Accept Multiple Submissions.
The Final Essay is Due on Monday, May 5.
Read these course instructions and policies carefully. Do not wait until the last minute to write and send your assignments. Based on the assignment date/calendar:
- This course requires that you use your Cougar mail for all correspondence. If you have your user name and password, go to http://cougarmail.ccccd.edu, or go to the college Current Students User name page information sheet at http://username.ccccd.edu/username/ for further instructions - you must have a current password and username (the last six numbers of your college-wide ID).
Please remember to periodically clean-up your cougar mail account and delete all non-academic or work from previous semesters.
- As a matter of formality, put your full name in the text of each e-mail submission, either at the beginning or end, and always write the course number, week number and/or author/assignment number, as is appropriate, in the subject box of your e-mail submission - example (in the e-mail subject box): ENGL 2333 - Week 2 - Response Paper - Moliere.
- Please cut and paste your assignments into your Cougar mail submissions. I do not accept Word attachments.
- The "CALENDAR" link (right menu) provides a weekly readings structure to the course to aid your responses and web activities, including response paper assignment pages and author sites as additional resources. As it outlines your readings, response paper, and essay assignments, follow the calendar with consistent effort and energy.
- Submit only one e-mail assignment at a time, and wait until I return it (marked and returned within 48 hours, excepting weekends); then review all markings for purposes of future revision before submitting more work. Do not revise and resubmit work - please note what I mark, go on to the next reading and assignment, and apply those revisions and corrections to the next e-mail submission. I do not accept multiple submissions, nor do I accept Word attachments - please cut and paste your work into your Cougar mail submission.
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I will reduce the grade on any essay or response paper by 10 points if submitted after its calendar due date (Wednesdays, 12 noon).
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Any submissions after Wednesday, 12 noon of the calendar week (from Wednesday afternoon through the following Wednesday morning)count towards the following week.
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I will not accept a late response paper or essay beyond Friday, 12 noon, of the calendar week of its due date.
- I will not accept any late essays or response papers for the course after Wednesday, April 9.
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Although writing assignments are due at any time during the calendar week of each assignment (Wednesdays, by 12 noon), the final essay is due on Monday, May 5, 12 noon of the last week of the semester.
Due Dates
Be responsive to the readings and calendar due dates (Wednesdays, by 12 noon), and the course will move easily along. As a matter of formality, put your full name in the text of each e-mail submission, either at the beginning or end, and always write the course number, week number and/or author/assignment in the subject box of your e-mail submission - example (in the e-mail subject box): ENGL 2333 - Week 2 - Response Paper - Moliere.
How I Mark
I mark your responses according the revision guidelines (print out and proofread with them for each response paper or major essay) - they appear in the left menu and with any assignment in the course and I follow them religiously as to what I mark in your writing - nothing more, nothing less. I employ a simple set of bracket marks when I grade your essays and response papers: [ ] - a hard bracket to mark the error in your text, followed by a space and a { } - a soft bracket to set off my comment.
Again, submit only one e-mail at a time, and wait until I return it (marked and returned within 48 hours, excepting weekends); then review all markings for purposes of future revision before submitting more work. Do not revise and resubmit work - simply note what I mark, go on to the next reading and assignment, and apply those revisions and corrections to the next e-mail submission. I do not accept multiple submissions.
Grade Percentages
As the textbook materials (general introductions, timelines, biographies) are sufficient sources for the course, this course does not require external research. Unless the prompt asks for a specific external reference (such the Web-based exercises for the poets Blake and Baudelaire), please avoid secondary sources (Web-based or print) in your submissions. This course measures your own critical thinking and analytical skills, not those of others (see course policy on plagiarism). Support your response to the prompts by reviewing and correlating my markings with the revision guidelines.
If you include outside sources (Web-based or print), document them carefully and thoroughly to avoid failing the course as a result of plagiarism.
Two sets of writing strategies measure the percentage grade for course activities and progress:
40%: E-mail (plain text, edited, fully revised) - Twelve Response Papers (7 to 10 sentences per paragraph, 400 words minimum) to specific assignments attached to author links on the "WEB SITES" page (left menu) and the "CALENDAR" page/week (right menu); these written responses (in short essay form) will involve a close reading of the literary text and some argumentative response. Please provide appropriate MLA documentation for any primary source (the author's work), including page numbers (prose), line numbers (poetry) or act, scene, line numbers (drama) as internal parenthetical references. Also document all literary criticism from the textbook (biographical or introductory information from each literary period) by page number. Although your author choices are your own during some weeks, remember to submit one response per week. Do not let more than a week pass before you submit a response paper. These exercises prepare you for the longer, more fully-developed essays.
60%: E-mail (plain text, edited, fully revised) - Three essays (600 words minimum) over authors from three separate periods of literature during the course - topics available on-site (right menu -"ESSAYS: 1 2 3"). In order to pass this course, you must submit and receive a grade for all three major essays. As with the response papers, please provide appropriate MLA documentation for any primary source (the author's work), including page numbers (prose), line numbers (poetry) or act, scene, line numbers (drama) as internal parenthetical references. Although the textbook selections and your own critical reading are enough for answering the prompts, please document all literary criticism from the textbook (biographical or introductory information from each literary period) by page number.
If you need to polish your documentation skills, I have written an MLA Tutor to refresh your memory of this style of documentation. Failure to document your sources constitutes plagiarism (see "PLAGIARISM" policy, left menu).
Objectives (Expected Outcomes)
genres
Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the scope and variety of works or genres from each literary period.
critical skills
Demonstrate an ability to interpret literature through critical and argumentative analyses.
context
Demonstrate an understanding of literature as aesthetic expressions of individual and human values within a historical and intercultural context.
format
Practice appropriate conventions of documenting work with the MLA format.
Plagiarism
originality
Other than sources documented and cited according to MLA standards, all work submitted for a grade must be your own original work and never before submitted for a grade in any previous or current course.
submissions
Submitting previous or current work in another course or work by other writers (especially Web-based materials) as one's own original work in this course, i. e. plagiarism, constitutes a ground for failure in this course (see The New Century Handbook, 4th ed., Chapter 11, 251-285 MLA Handbook, 6th ed. Chapter 2).
As the textbook materials (general introductions, timelines, biographies) are sufficient sources for the course, this course does not require external research. Unless the prompt asks for a specific external reference (such as the Web-based exercises for the poet Blake), please avoid secondary sources (Web-based or print) in your submissions. This course measures your own critical thinking and analytical skills, not those of others.
Please provide appropriate MLA documentation for any primary source (the author's work), including page numbers (prose), line numbers (poetry) or act, scene, line numbers (drama) as internal parenthetical references. Also document all literary criticism from the textbook (biographical or introductory information from each literary period) by page number.
Textbooks
Lawall, Sarah, and Maynard Mack, gen. eds.,
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 1650 to 1900.
Volumes D, E, F. 2nd ed. (Package 2 in the textbook site description)
Volume D: ISBN: 0-393-97758-7
Volume E: ISBN: 0-393-97759-5
Volume F: ISBN: 0-393-97760-9
Hult, Christine A., and Thomas N. Huckin, eds.
The New Century Handbook, Pearson, Longman, 4th ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-45637-3
Joseph Gibaldi,
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed.
ISBN: 0-87352-986-3
(recommended: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
