ENG 102 – College Composition II

COURSE INFORMATION:
CRN: 12091/12092/13811
Online Course
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENG 101
Instructor: Laura Cline
Email: laura.cline@yc.edu (preferred method of contact)
Skype: engteacherldarrow
Office: 3-221
Office Phone: 771-6156 (for use during office hours only or to leave a
voicemail)
Office Hours: MW 8:45-10:45 a.m., T 8:45-11:45 a.m., Th, 1-3 p.m.
**These office hours will be in person in my office on the Prescott
Campus, but I will also be available online during this time via Skype if
you would prefer to video conference with me.

Required Materials:

Available in the Yavapai College Bookstore:

Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Available in the bookstore and online at

http://www.cafepress.com/sandstormer.400958666
Sean Huze, The Sandstorm
**Please be sure to order this play during the first week of the class**

Optional: The Little, Brown Handbook, in any of its forms, but I

recommend the Yavapai College Custom Edition
Webcam (you are not required to use a webcam for this class, but I
highly recommend it – I personally use a Logitech)
Please be sure that you have reliable access to a computer and access
to the Internet for the duration of this course. Also, please download
Firefox 3.5 or later to use as your browser while completing
assignments for this course.

Course Description:
The official course description for English 102 reads, “Extensive
critical reading and writing about texts, including literature. Emphasis
on fluency in critical writing. Includes research skills and writing a
critical, documented essay.” My background is in literature, so I am
excited to read and critique literary texts with you. This course should
help you to further develop some of the skills you learned in ENG 101
and to apply them to writing about different kinds of texts. Although
literature can be intimidating, I challenge you to step up to the plate
and engage with each text based on your own interests. Keep an open
mind and recognize that all the texts you will encounter in this course
have things to teach you.

Course Content:
1. Focus
2. Development strategies
3. Voice
4. Organization
5. Details
6. Sentence structure
7. Multiple meanings and perspectives in language
8. Sources and documentation
9. Surface features
10. Text interpretation and analysis
11. Critical reading

Learning Outcomes:
1. Write focus statements. (1)
2. Apply reasoned development strategies. (2)
3. Select and apply voice. (3)
4. Use organizational strategies. (1, 2, 4, 6, 10)
5. Use and select details. (5, 7, 10)
6. Apply sentence structure strategies. (4, 6)
7. Identify and evaluate multiple meanings and perspectives in
language. (7, 10)
8. Locate, evaluate, integrate, and document information. (2, 8, 10)
9. Apply conventions of standard written English. (7, 9, 10)
10. Interpret and analyze texts. (7, 8, 10)
11. Evaluate and analyze professional and student writing. (11)

REQUIRED ASSESSMENT:
1. A minimum of 5000 words of evaluated student writing.

Philosophy on Online Learning:

Since you are enrolled in my online course, it is only fair that I share
my thoughts on learning online. My belief is that an online class is
not a correspondence class, but a classroom experience much like if
you were coming to class and sitting in a desk. You must
participate regularly in the course and interact with your instructor
and fellow students. I also believe that in deciding to pursue part of
your education online, you are choosing to engage with technology
and with the vast matrix of information available on the worldwide
web. I will be asking you to engage with communication
technologies in an online environment that I see becoming more
and more prevalent in society and in the workplace. These include,
but are not limited to: blogs, online conferencing software and
methods of online presentation. I see these technologies as part of
composition and communication, and thus as related to the content
of this course.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN THIS CLASS:

• You can expect to engage with technology in this class.
You will create and maintain a blog for this class and will
post to it approximately once a week.
• You can expect to read and write a lot in this class. We
will be reading two novels, some poetry, a play and
additional supplemental materials over the course of the
class. You will complete writing assignments every week.
Please know that writing is a very individual activity and
some students’ processes are more time consuming than
others’. Writing is inherently a time-consuming process.
Please make sure that you have time in your schedule for
 a writing intensive class.
• For online courses, students are expected to spend time
that they would spend in class, working on coursework.
This is 2.5 hours per week. Then we expect an average
(“C”) student to spend 2 hours outside of class for each
hour spent in class. This means that an average student
should be spend at least 7.5 hours working on
coursework each week on average.
• You can expect to be challenged by the reading and by
the type of writing that I expect you to do. Some of the
reading for this class is controversial, and I want to alert
you to that from the start. However, I expect that as
college students and adults you will engage with these
materials in a mature way. Literary analysis, which is the
type of writing we will be doing in the class, can also be
challenging for students who have never been asked to
approach texts in this manner before.
• Since I assess your writing very frequently, please
anticipate assignments to be graded within two weeks of
their due date. I will try to grade them within one week.
If you wish for your work to be graded first, consider
submitting it early. Please refrain from asking when your
assignments will be graded until those two weeks have
passed.
• Please expect me to be available to answer your
questions and address your concerns. I will attempt to
reply to all emails within 24 hours unless I tell you that I
will be away from my computer.

MY EXPECTATIONS (“Classroom Guidelines”)

• I expect you to be respectful to me and to your classmates. Like I
mentioned, we will be dealing with some controversial material
in this class. Although I encourage you to share your ideas, I
expect you to do so in a respectful way, maintaining an
academic tone. Also, I expect correspondence with me and
between class members to be professional and formal. Please
address your emails appropriately, and ask yourself: If I were to
consider this class a job, is this the type of email I would send to
my boss?
• I expect you to familiarize yourself with the information on the
syllabus, including late work policies and expectations. I also
expect you to familiarize yourself with the resources I will
 provide you through Blackboard. Please take a look at the
“Student Resources” tab for information about online tutoring
and the ITS helpdesk.
• I expect you to remember that this is an online class and you are
responsible for having computer access so that you can
complete the coursework. Also anticipate being introduced to
different technologies and ways of working online that you might
not be familiar with now. If something is challenging, be sure to
troubleshoot on your own and then feel free to contact me for
assistance.
• I expect college level work and college level writing on
everything you complete during the semester. This includes
discussion boards and blog posts, which should be thoughtfully
composed and proofread.
• I expect you to approach each reading and writing assignment
with an open-mind and I expect you to ask yourself: what can
this piece of writing teach me and how will I be able to use it in
the future? I don’t necessarily expect you to like every
assignment, however.
• I expect that all work produced for this class will be original in
terms of ideas, wording, etc. Please see the statement on
plagiarism and academic honesty.

Attendance and Late Work:

• I expect students to participate regularly in this online course.
There will be assignments due each week for the course and I
expect students to log on regularly, participate in discussion
boards and keep up with the reading journal. The next week’s
assignments will open up at the end of each week. If you need
to work ahead for any reason, please contact me.
• If a student does not log in during the first week of class, he or
she will automatically be withdrawn from the course. You are
responsible for withdrawing yourself from the course by the drop
date if you wish to receive a “W,” otherwise, any student
enrolled in the course will receive the grade he or she has
earned (based on point value) at the end of the semester.
• As a rule, I will not accept late work. You will receive
assignments and due dates with plenty of time to complete
them. Assignments in the course will be due on Fridays and
Sundays. However, you can always turn in assignments early. If
you choose to procrastinate, realize that computer issues at the
last possible moment are not an excuse for late assignments.
Please consider submitting assignments during regular business
hours when you are able to receive technical assistance.
 • You will be allowed to turn in ONE assignment late with
no questions asked. This assignment can be turned at any
time before the last week of the semester, through the “No
Questions Asked” assignment tab. The only assignment that
CANNOT be turned in late is the final portfolio.

Statement on Plagiarism:
In this class I will be taking a zero tolerance stance on plagiarism. For
all major assignments in my class, students will be submitting their
writing through Safe Assign, which is plagiarism detection software.
Safe Assign matches students’ writing with writing on the internet and
with other student writing from this and other colleges nationwide.
After submitting the essay, the student will receive an originality report
from Safe Assign. An acceptable percentage matching on an
originality report is 25% or less. When examining the report, take into
consideration that sometimes matching doesn’t mean plagiarized
when a source is properly quoted and cited. However, cut and pasted
material from internet sources, without citation is plagiarism and is
unacceptable. It is very easy to plagiarize material on literary texts;
please realize that I realize this. Also, please know that you can
plagiarize IDEAS, so if you use an online source to come up with ideas
on a text, that should be cited in your paper. Please also see the
section on “Academic Integrity” under “Institutional Policies” at the
bottom of this syllabus.

If I discover plagiarized material in an assignment, the student will

receive a zero for that assignment. If I discover plagiarized material in
a second assignment after that, the student will receive an “F” in the
course.

Resources for Technical Assistance:

For information on resources available to you, please look on
Blackboard under the “Student Resources” tab.
On campus, for technical help please contact:
ITS Helpdesk: (928) 776-2168
TELS: Prescott: (928) 771-6120
Verde: (928) 634-6580

Assignments and Grading:

Name of assignment: Points: Learning Outcomes:

(corresponds to the
numbered list above)

Intro Assignment 50 points 4,8,9

Short Essay #1 25 points 1-7,9 -11
(Assessing a Literary
Analysis)
Short Essay #2 25 points 1-7, 9 -11
(Defining a Poetry of
Witness)
Long Essay #1 75 points 1-11
(Analysis of Tim
O’Brien)
Short Essay #3 50 points 1-7, 9-11
(Compare/Contrast,
O’Brien/Huze)
Long Essay #2 75 points 1-11
(Atwood Researched
Analysis)
Discussion 200 points 1-11
Boards/Reading
Blog/Quizzes

E-Portfolio 100 points 1-11

Final Portfolio 400 points 1-11

*To calculate your final grade, divide total points earned by 1000
** Although point values may appear different in the grade book as a
result of extra credit points on quizzes or through other opportunities,
always calculate your total points out of 1000. Use the numbers below
to set your points goal for the semester. For instance, if you wish to
receive an “A” in the course, aim for 900 or more points.
*** The final portfolio is worth 40% of your grade. I consider the work
of the class 50/50- process/product. Your e-portfolio and final portfolio
are the product of the work that you have completed over the course
of the semester and, thus will make up half of your grade.
**** For major assignments, rubrics will be provided on Blackboard.

A= 900-1000
B= 800-899
C= 700-799
D =600-699
F = less than 600

*If you wish to be graded S/U, please contact me. Recognize that S/U
grades do not transfer and that you will need to retake the class for it
to qualify towards your degree.
Institutional Policies:

Institutional Policies and Instructor Procedures

Student E-Mail & Yavapai College requires enrolled students to have an e-mail
YC Portal address to which official College communications can be sent
called 'Scholar'.. In the best interest of effective communications
management, this address will reside on the College maintained
e-mail system. The new student email system at Yavapai
College is based on Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA),
accessed the system by clicking on the email icon in the myYC
portal.

Students are expected to check their Yavapai College e-mail

account as directed by their instructor. If you need assistance, go
to http://www.yc.edu/content/myyc/emailinfo.htm

Students may elect to forward their e-mail to an address different

from their official Yavapai College account (see instructions on
website), but assume full responsibility for reading e-mail at the
forwarded location.

All Yavapai College students will be required to use the myYC

Portal to register, add, or drop classes online at http://my.yc.edu/.
First-time students will create a log-on username and password.
Returning students will register and use the myYC Portal as well.

Attendance: Students are expected to attend and participate in all class

meetings, laboratories, and field trips. A student who expects to
be absent due to another school-sponsored activity or compelling
personal reason must make prior arrangements with the
instructor. All course work must be made up as directed by the
instructor. A student who does not adhere to instructor and
College attendance requirements may be dropped from the
course as defined in the Yavapai College General Catalog.

A student-initiated drop date is established by the College [insert

Course appropriate calendar date] Students are responsible to drop a
Withdrawal: class through the Self-Service option on the YC Portal. If you
have not withdrawn from a class by the student-initiated drop
date, you will receive the letter grade earned in the course at the
end of the semester. An instructor may withdraw students from
class after the student-initiated date. If a student does not follow
official procedures for withdrawing from a course, failing grades
may be posted on the student’s permanent record.
 Honesty in academic work is a central element of the learning
Academic environment. The presentation of another individual’s work as
Integrity: one’s own or the act of seeking unfair academic advantage
through cheating, plagiarism or other dishonest means are
violations of the College’s Student Code of Conduct.

Definitions of plagiarism, cheating, and violation of copyright and

penalties for violation are available in the Yavapai College
Student Code of Conduct.

Student Code Respect for the rights of others and for the College and its
of Conduct: property are fundamental expectations for every student. The
“Code of Conduct” outlines behavioral expectations, and explains
the process for responding to allegations of student misconduct.

Students are expected to respond and write in a professional and

appropriate manner when activities are assigned to create
scenarios, discuss opinions, present on a selected subject, or
post to the web board. Inappropriate language or objectionable
material will not be tolerated and could result in disciplinary
measures and/or a failing grade for the class.

Web link for the Student Code of Conduct –

http://www.yc.edu/content/studentaffairs/scc/default.htm.

Internet Yavapai College technological equipment and resources must be

Downloading: used in accordance with the Copyright Guidelines. Use of
Yavapai College equipment and resources to illegally copy,
download, access, print or store copyrighted material or
download pornographic material is strictly prohibited. For
example, file swapping of copyrighted material such as music or
movies is strictly prohibited. Users found to violate this policy will
have their privileges to use Yavapai College technological
equipment and resources revoked.

Course Contact the course instructor during office hours, through e-mail
mentoring: or phone, or at the beginning/ending of a class session to
arrange for additional course assistance. Many student support
services are also available to assist students in successful
course completion.
 Disability Yavapai College is committed to providing educational support
Resources: services to students with documented disabilities.
Accommodations for a student must be arranged by the student
through the Disability Resources Coordinator (Prescott Campus:
928.776.2079 or Verde Valley Campus: 928.634.6563).
Yavapai College is committed to providing a quality learning
Cell Phone, environment. All cell phones and pagers must be placed in a
Pages & non-audible mode while in classrooms, computer labs, the
Texting: library, the learning center, and testing areas. Cell phones and
pagers must be used outside these facilities.

[Insert your guidelines on texting in class]

Tobacco Use: Yavapai College is committed to limiting exposure to the harmful
effects of primary and secondary smoke to campus students,
visitors, and employees. If you use the facilities at Yavapai
College, we comply with ASRS 36-301.01, Smoke Free AZ.
Smoking is prohibited indoors and 25 feet from all doors,
windows and vents.
In order to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco use and
maintain a healthful working and learning environment, the
district prohibits the use of tobacco except in specific areas.
Tobacco use on college property is defined as lighted pipes,
cigars, cigarettes, and the use of snuff and smokeless tobacco in
any form.

Drug Free Yavapai College’s policy is to provide an environment free of

Environment: drugs and alcohol. The use of illegal drugs and abuse of alcohol
pose significant threats to health and can be detrimental to the
physical, psychological, and social well-being of the user and the
entire Yavapai College community, and is prohibited.

Insert items such as -- texting in class; response to e-mail

Other messages; late work; illness; submitting work; netiquette; etc.
Instructor
Procedures: If you teach online, you may wish to include information on
submitting assignments, communication, and checking grades.