The HyperTextBooks Daniel Kies
Department of English
College of DuPage
Composition 2
English 1102		 Contact Form

Course Calendar


All of the assignments – week by week – are listed below. Many of the assignments you send to me directly through the web pages themselves; others you send to me via the contact form or your college-assigned email account.

      

Due Dates: Work for each week is due by the end of the week (Friday, 5 pm). This does not mean that you must send the work to me on Friday. You can send the work to me anytime during the week that it is due.
Current work:


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Key: current date = today  current date = start date  current date = novel test due   current date = abstracts due current date = conferences  current date = draft due
  current date = exam due  current date = Thanksgiving break  current date = final paper due  current date = end date 


A List of Course Units


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 1 to
Reading:
  1. Welcome
  2. Web Browsers and our Course
  3. Email Information for our Course
  4. Your Syllabus for English 1102 Online
  5. Take the Tour
  6. Your Grade Sheet
  7. The Connection between Reading and Writing
  8. Levels of Reading
  9. Kinds of Writing
  10. The Writing Process (review from my English 1101)
  11. On the Relationship between Reading and Writing
Summary of Week 1


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 2 to
Reading:
  1. Notes for the First Quarter of 1984
  2. The first quarter (first 25%) of 1984
Lab:
  1. Manipulating Text and Image
  2. Evaluating the Web and Library Databases as Sources of Information
Summary of Week 2


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 3 to
Reading:
  1. Notes for the Second Quarter of 1984
  2. The second quarter of 1984
1984 Test:
  1. Covering the first third of the novel


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 4 to
Reading:
  1. Notes for the Third Quarter of 1984
  2. The third quarter of 1984
1984 Test:
  1. Covering the middle third of the novel


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 5 to
Reading:
  1. Notes for the Last Quarter of 1984
  2. The last quarter (last 25%) of 1984
  3. Orwell Web Sites
1984 Test:
  1. Covering the last third of the novel
Writing:
  1. Statement of Research Interest

Composition 2
English 1102
Week 6 to
Reading:
  1. Writing An Abstract
  2. Example Abstract
  3. Writing a Review
  4. An Example of a Review
Writing:
  1. Your Paper Proposal
  2. Abstract 1
Summary of Week 6


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 7 to
Reading:
  1. The Structure of Argument
  2. Writing an Argument
  3. The Nature of Claims
  4. Factual Claims
  5. Value Claims
  6. Policy Claims
Lab:
  1. Understanding Claims
  2. Analyzing Example Essays
Writing: Summary of Week 7


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 8 to
Reading:
  1. Assumptions
  2. Evidence and Appeals
  3. Rational Appeals (from my English 1101)
  4. Emotional Appeals (from my English 1101)
  5. Ethical Appeals (from my English 1101)
Writing: Summary of Week 8


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 9 to
Reading:
  1. Hidden Argument
  2. Inherent Contradictions
  3. Logic in Composition (from my English 1101)
Lab:
  1. Reading and Evaluating Hidden Arguments
Writing: Summary of Week 9
see also the "CODTIP" article from The Courier, our students' newspaper


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 10 to
Reading:
  1. Logical Fallacies
  2. Planning the Research Paper
  3. Note Taking (from my English 1101)
  4. Developing an Outline (from my English 1101)

Conferences: Week 1
  • I will send instructions to about signing up for individual
    conferences before we get close to this week.

Lab:
  1. Defining Fallacious Reasoning
  2. Detecting Fallacious Reasoning

Composition 2
English 1102
Week 11 to
Reading:
  1. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
  2. Quoting and Acknowledging Sources
  3. Introducing Quotations
  4. Punctuating Quotations
Conferences: Week 2

Lab:
  1. More Practice in the MLA Format

Composition 2
English 1102
Week 12 to
Conferences: Week 3

Writing:
  1. First Draft of Research Paper due by 11:59 pm,


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 13 to
Reading:
  1. Suasive Diction
  2. Using Grammar to Manipulate the Audience
Conferences: Week 4

Lab:
  1. Suasive Diction
Writing:
  • You are revising your research paper due by 11:59 pm,


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 14 to


Reading:
  1. The MLA Format
  2. In Text Citation
  3. Works Cited Pages

Conferences: Week 4 continued for students need extra time

Writing:
  • You are revising your research paper due by 11:59 pm,

Thanksgiving -- No classes from to


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 15 to
Lab:
  1. Using the MLA Format

Writing:
  1. Final Draft of Research Paper due by 11:59 pm,


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 16 to
Reading:
  • Review all the course web pages and the novel for our final exam.


Practice Exam:
  1. Final Examination Review, Part 1
  2. Final Examination Review, Part 2


PowerPoint summary/review of English 1102


Composition 2
English 1102
Week 17
(Exam week) to


Final exams — no classes:

We follow the College's final exam schedule; our exams are as follows:

Class Exam
MW 1 PM,
section 093		 1 to 2:50 PM,   Wednesday, December 18th in our classroom
TTh 2 PM,
section 120		 2 to 3:50 PM,   Tuesday, December 17th in our classroom
  1. Exam due by 11:59 pm,



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