Hawkeye CC Composition II
Course Title: HCC Composition
II
Course
section number: ENG106
Term: 2nd semester
Time: meets for 1 class period daily
Course Prerequisites: HCC Composition I
College Credits: 3
Texts: The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Fifth Edition
Ann Raimer’s Keys for Writers Fifth Edition
Instructor:
Mrs. Serena Andrews
Jesup High School
319-827-1700 (1313)
sandrews@jesup.k12.ia.us
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Hawkeye Composition II will meet every day to discuss the reading from The Allyn & Bacon Guide
to Writing, to conduct research both in the lab and library, and to implement the writing process for three essays and
one essay exam.
Composition II develops a student’s writing skills by continuing to emphasize fluency, organization,
the use of supporting details, and research techniques. Writing is approached as a recursive process that
includes prewriting strategies, drafting, revising, and editing. The course helps students define a sense
of audience and purpose in their writing.
Grading
Scale is published in the student handbook.
Passing
Passing the class for a high school English
credit requires a D- or better.
Passing
the class for HCC credit requires a C- or better. If a student does not pass, he or she will pay for the
class and retake it in the future to earn the credit.
Makeup
procedure is published in the student handbook.
It is in the student’s best interest to make
up work as soon as possible to avoid getting further behind. It is the student’s responsibility to
turn in the late work within the allowable time. If a student is absent from class on the day an essay
is due, the student must e-mail or drop off the essay on the day it’s due in order to avoid losing points for being
late.
Late work procedure is published
in the student handbook.
Attendance policy is published in the student handbook.
Special needs statement is published in the student handbook.
Grading
A piece of writing will be considered a work-in-progress
until all of the criteria for it are met to the teacher’s standards. A student is given 1 week to
make corrections and revisions on an essay before turning it in for a final score.
Errors in punctuation, usage, grammar,
and spelling will be docked on the first drafts. Each mistake will be 1 point off the total. If the same
mistake reoccurs, it will only be counted as 1 mistake. Each of the 15 comma rules is a separate mistake.
The same goes for other punctuation, usage, and grammar rules that were reviewed in Composition and were expected in
HCC Comp I.
Sources of information
When researching a topic, the following sources are acceptable:
q Hawkeye CC databases
(accessed with a HCC username and password)
q Hawkeye ebrary
q Professional journals
q
Newspaper sources
q Professional
human sources
q Encyclopedias and almanacs
(The free web is off limits due to its lack of professionalism and reliability.)
All sources used should be relevant, reliable, and recent.
Citing sources
The use of MLA citation to cite work that is quoted, paraphrased or summarized is required. Another
person’s ideas are protected in this way, and intellectual property is respected in this way.
Citing sources strengthens your own writing with professional
voices who support what you believe.
Any
suspicion of plagiarism will be investigated carefully. If a student is found negligent of citing or of
turning in another person’s work in part or whole, he or she will lose full credit and not be given a chance to redo
the assignment. If there is a second account of plagiarism, the student will be removed from the class
with a failing grade. The Hawkeye CC Composition department will also be notified of this problem.
All students are expected to do their own, individual work.
Collaboration is limited to idea generation and discussion, proofreading, and peer review. The student
bears ultimate responsibility for his or her work on all assignments, big or small. This includes following
the specific guidelines for each type of writing assignment, proofreading, and quoting and citing. As the
instructor, I am willing to conference about specific questions that arise about writing assignments.
Other assignments
Book exercises and other short assignments
must be turned in at the beginning of class on their due date. No credit will be given to late assignments
because we go over them in class the day they are due. The exception is for students who are absent the day it’s due
or were absent the day it was assigned.
Schedule and order of units
HCC Composition II
17 weeks
5 weeks per chapters 15, 16, and 11, from start to finish.
2 weeks to review
chapter 6 summary/response, prepare for final exam, take exam,
prepare portfolio,
and turn in books.
TOTAL = 3 essays, 1 essay exam, 4 reflections
Chapter 15
Making an Evaluation
Pages 423-446
Chapter 16
Proposing
a Solution
Pages 447-484
Chapter 11
Analyzing Images
Pages 285-319
Also, review
pages 57-65 in Chapter 3 – Visual Rhetoric
Chapter 6
Summary/Response
(Final Exam)
Pages 109-149
ETHOS, PATHOS, LOGOS on pages 55-56
