Textbooks: Faigley, Lester. The Brief Penguin Handbook. 2nd Ed. New York: Pearson, 2006.
Faigley, Lester and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons. 3rd Ed. New York: Pearson, 2006.
Relationship to Academic Development Programs and Transfer:
ENGL 102 fulfills 3 of the required 9 semester hours of credit in communication for the A.A. or A.S. degrees. It transfers as part of the General Education Core Curriculum described in the Illinois Articulation Initiative.
Course Objectives (Learning Outcomes):
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
Establish and maintain a voice that is appropriate to the selected rhetorical
context and is situated effectively within research and supporting evidence
Demonstrate theoretical and practical understanding of the relationship between
audience and purpose, and produce texts that address a variety of audiences
and discourse communities effectively
Engage inquiry in evaluating differences in perspectives and opinions—including
critical self-assessment of one’s own perspective and its relationship
to the perspectives of others
Develop an essay that demonstrates effectively organized and presented reasoning
and supporting evidence
Select, evaluate, synthesize, and interact effectively with multiple sources,
including those from academic discourse, subordinating them to the writer’s
purpose; creating confidence that they have been represented fairly; and documenting
them in MLA or other style appropriate to the discipline
Develop an effective writing process that includes successful strategies for
inventing, choosing, and narrowing a topic; exploring and developing ideas
through research and critical reading; and employs global and local revision
and editing strategies
(Discourse Communities Approach with students working
on broad categories, e.g., the humanities, the sciences, business, nursing,
the social sciences, etc.)
Unit 1: Introduction to course – summaries, paraphrase, syntheses and
critiques
Unit 2: Conventions, rhetorical strategies, forum analyses across broad disciplinary
communities
Unit 3: Writing about the same topic for different forums (writing for class
wide circulation and writing for insiders).
Unit 4: Inviting students to focus on disciplines that are of interest to
them. Analyzing specific forums and writing about discipline specific topics
Unit 5: Research approaches in specific disciplinary communities
Student assessment will be based on the following:
Portfolio of revised writings: 50%
Process Assignments, which may include,
but are not limited to the following:
In-class assignments, quizzes, class
discussion, and annotated working
bibliographies: 50%
Final grades will be determined according to the following scale:
92 to 100% = A
83 to 91% = B
74 to 82% = C
65 to 73% = D
Course Policies: (The following are optional)
Deadlines: See Schedule
Required Writing and Reading:
ENGL 102 requires four major writing assignments,
three of which should be at least 5 pages long. A research paper of at least
ten pages is required. Further, students are assigned several process writing
assignments.
Readings from textbooks and handouts are assigned.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a fundamental principle of collegial life at Heartland
Community College and is essential to the credibility of the College’s
educational programs. Moreover, because grading may be competitive, students
who misrepresent their academic work violate the right of their fellow students.
The College, therefore, views any act of academic dishonest as a serious offense
requiring disciplinary measures, including course failure, suspension, and
even expulsion from the College. In addition, an act of academic dishonesty
may have unforeseen effects far beyond any officially imposed penalties.
Violations of academic integrity include, but are not limited to cheating,
aiding or suborning cheating or other acts of academic dishonesty, plagiarism,
misrepresentation of data, falsification of academic records or documents
and unauthorized access to computerized academic or administrative records
or systems. Definitions of these violations may be found in the college catalog.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the presenting of others’ ideas as if they were your own.
When you write a paper, create a project, do a presentation or create anything
original, it is assumed that all the work, except for that which is attributed
to another author or creator, is your own. Plagiarism is considered a serious
academic offense and may take the following forms:
1 Copying word-for-word from another source and not giving that source credit.
2 Paraphrasing the work of another and not giving that source credit.
3 Adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own.
4 Using an image or a copy of an image without crediting its source.
5 Paraphrasing someone else’s line of thinking in the development of
a topic as if it were your own.
6 Receiving excessive help from a friend or elsewhere, or using another project
as if it were your own.
Note that word-for-word copying is not the only
form of plagiarism.
The penalties for plagiarism may be severe, ranging from failure on the particular
piece of work, failure in the course or expulsion from school in extreme cases.
[Adapted from the Modem Language Association’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: MLA, 1995: 26]
Support Services:
Heartland Library Information
The Library, located in the Students Commons Buildings at the Raab Road campus,
provides Heartland students with a full range of resources including books,
online journal databases, videos, newspapers, periodicals, reserves, and interlibrary
loan. Librarians are available to assist in locating information.
For more information please call the Library (309) 268-8200 or (309) 268-8292
Tutoring Center
Heartland Community College offers tutoring in various forms at no cost to
Heartland students at the Academic Support Center (ASC) in Normal and at the
Pontiac
and Lincoln Centers. Tutors are available at convenient times throughout the
week.
Study groups, group tutoring facilitated by a specially-trained tutor, are
also available by
request. For more information about services available at each location, please
call the
ASC in Normal (309) 268-8231; the Pontiac Center (815) 842-6777; the Lincoln
Center
(217) 735-1731.
Testing Center
The Testing Center provides a quiet environment for students to complete make-up
exams, online exams, and exams for students with special accommodations. Students
may be able to complete exams in the Testing Center if arrangements are made
with their instructor. For more information, contact the Testing Center at
(309) 268-8231.
Course Calendar: See Schedule
