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Daniel Kies
Department of English
College of DuPage
Composition 2
English 1102

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Composition 2

English 1102



Daniel Kies
Department of English
College of DuPage


Ancient Art, New Media

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About this Site

I wrote the materials on this web site as a textbook for my first-year writing class at the College of DuPage. I keep most of my materials freely available for everyone interested in writing, composition, or English language studies, but teachers, publishers, schools, webmasters, and bloggers wishing to use my work should read the terms of use.

The table of contents below are divided into

  1. the course calendar for my students,
  2. a link to the syllabus for my students,
  3. general information for my students,
  4. a list of topics we will study in this course,
  5. a list of list of assignments, and
  6. links to two indexes to this HyperTextBook.

The Course Calendar

Lists the course's reading, writing, lab, and exam assignments in a week-by-week schedule.

Your Syllabus for English 1102

A guide to the objectives and policies of our course. Details about grades.

General Information for my Students

Welcome
A letter to the students of English 1102 & How to read the HyperTextBook.
Frequently Asked Questions
Got questions? Perhaps the HyperTextBooks' frequently asked questions page can help.
What's New?
A weekly newsletter updated each Sunday describing our class work for the week.
Update Letters from Previous Weeks
Here you can read the What's New? letters from previous weeks.
Tour the HyperTextBook
An overview of the features of my HyperTextBooks.
eForum
How we plan to use eForum — the HyperTextBooks' message board and chat room.
eForum Directions
How to use eForum.
Your Grade Sheet
Use the online grade sheet to record and track your grades.
Accolades
The New Century Handbook cites the HyperTextBooks as "one of the best composition courses on the Web."

A Listing of the Assignments in English 1102

Labs
(ungraded exercises to help you understand the readings and prepare for the final exam)

Lab 1: Learning the Basics of Manipulating Text and Images
Our first lab to help us learn to move information from one application (a browser) to another (a word processor).
Lab 2: Searching the Web for Information
An exercise on the problems of finding information in the information age.
Lab 3: Understanding Claims
This lab will help you learn about and identify the different types of claims a writer can make.
Lab 4: Analyzing Example Essays
A lab to explore all the elements of argument in context. A tour through wonderland, so to speak, guided by yours truly.
Lab 5: Reading and Evaluating Hidden Arguments
A lab to explore ideas that writers can put into our heads by implication alone.
Lab 6: Defining Fallacious Reasoning
Learning to recognize and define faulty reasoning in written argument.
Lab 7: Detecting Fallacious Reasoning
A lab to test your ability to detect fallacious reasoning.
Lab 8: More Practice in the MLA Format
An exercise to help you learn more about the MLA format.
Lab 9: Suasive Diction
An examination of the power of words to persuade.
Lab 10: Using the MLA Format
Exploring the common format in the humanities for citing and documenting sources.


Final Exam Review

  1. Review All the Labs Above
  2. Final Examination Review, Part 1
  3. Final Examination Review, Part 2
  4. PowerPoint summary/review of English 1102
    (.pptx file; for COD students only; papyr.com password required)

Writing assignments

Research Paper Proposal: A Statement of Your Research Interest
After reading the first half of the novel, we will craft a statement of interest into the topic that will become the area in which we will write the research paper.
An Example of a Research Proposal
This example is based on my own paper proposal for my research paper on 1984.
Ten Abstracts in Your Research Area
We will write ten abstracts of the best sources that we find in the library (and the library databases). These will be the sources for our research paper. See an example abstract.

See also "The Relationships among Subject, Audience, and Writer in Research Writing." This page will help explain why we are looking for specific kinds of sources as we compose abstracts 2 through 10.
Abstract assignments submission pages:
Includes instructions, supporting readings, a checklist, a rubric, and submission forms for all your abstract assignments.
Abstract 1
Abstracts 2, 3, and 4
Abstracts 5, 6, and 7
Abstracts 8, 9, and 10
The Research Paper
A researched, documented, argumentative paper on some aspect of George Orwell's 1984.

Tests on 1984

Test 1:  Covering the first third of the novel.
Test 2:  Covering the middle third of the novel.
Test 3:  Covering the last third of the novel.

Final Exam

Comprehensive Final Examination
Covering the whole course.

Indexes

File Index
An annotated list of all the files in the HyperTextBook.

Keyword Index
An index to the HyperTextBook by keywords.

 






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