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Composition 2
English 1102
Daniel Kies
Department of English
College of DuPage
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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
- the course calendar for my students,
- a link to the syllabus for my students,
- general information for my students,
- a list of topics we will study in this course,
- a list of list of assignments, and
- 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 Topics Covered in English 1102
Academic Writing and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Introduction to English 1102
Levels of Reading
Levels of Writing
On Reading & Writing
The Relationships among Subject, Audience, and Writer in Research WritingIntroductory Notes for 1984
Notes - Part 1
Notes - Part 2
Notes - Part 3
Notes - Part 4Writing an Abstract
Example AbstractWriting a Review
Example Book ReviewExample Research Paper:
"The Uses of Passivity"The Structure of Argumentation and the Nature of Evidence
Kinds of Claims
Factual Claims
Policy Claims
Value ClaimsKinds of Evidence
Ethical Appeal
Rational Appeal
Emotional AppealThe Relationships among Subject, Audience, and Writer in Research Writing
The MLA Format
In-Text Citations
Works Cited PagesQuoting & Paraphrasing
Introducing a Quote
Punctuating a QuoteA 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
- Review All the Labs Above
- Final Examination Review, Part 1
- Final Examination Review, Part 2
- 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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