Course Description
In English 1102, we will work to become savvier communicators by interpreting literature from a wide range of genres, including poetry, short stories, and comics. We will cultivate an understanding of writing as a recursive process, practice giving and receiving constructive feedback, and reflect on how our rhetorical and design choices affect our audiences.
Learning Outcomes
In English 1102 students will learn to:
- read fiction, drama, and poetry and write analytically about them;
- understand literary principles and use basic terms important to critical writing and reading;
- complete written projects in and out of class using processes that include discovering ideas and evidence, organizing that material, and revising, editing, and polishing the finished paper
- think critically so that they can recognize the difference between opinion and evidence and so that they can support a complex, challenging thesis, and more specifically, document essays using textual evidence;
- address written work to a range of audiences;
- understand the collaborative and social aspects of the writing process and demonstrate an ability to critique the writing of themselves and others;
- develop a sense of voice appropriate to the subject, the writer’s purpose, the context, and the reader’s expectations;
- understand how genres shape reading and writing and produce writing in several genres;
- follow the conventions of standard edited English and MLA documentation;
- use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts;
- understand and exploit the differences in the rhetorical strategies and in the affordances available for both print and electronic composing processes and texts.
Course Projects
Schedule
| Date | Reading | Writing |
| M 1/9 | ||
| W 1/11 | MLM 18-30 “Tell All the Truth But Tell It Slant” MLM 700 | |
| F 1/13 | “I Have a Dream” | |
| M 1/16 | MLK Day—no class | |
| W 1/18 | MLM 32-47 | |
| F 1/20 | MLM 158-163 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” MLM 48-51 | Portfolio bio draft |
| M 1/23 | MLM 136-145 “Victory Lap” | |
| W 1/25 | MLM 98-113 “Design” | |
| F 1/27 | MLM 113-129 “Michiko Dead” | Close Reading prewriting |
| M 1/30 | “Ozymandias” MLM 1120 MLM 56-74 | |
| W 2/1 | MLM 192-194, 827-831 | |
| F 2/3 | “Fandom for Robots” | Close Reading draft |
| M 2/6 | Watchmen ch. 4 | Close Reading peer review |
| W 2/8 | Reading Comics 236-245 | Close Reading revision plan |
| F 2/10 | Once & Future #1 | Close Reading final |
| M 2/13 | MLM 199-217 Library visit | Close Reading reflection |
| W 2/15 | Portfolio workshop | |
| F 2/117 | Bitter Root #1 | Research Pathways prewriting |
| M 2/20 | The Good Asian #1 | |
| W 2/22 | Monstress #1 | Research Pathways draft |
| F 2/24 | Black Science #1 | Research Pathways peer review |
| M 2/27 | Omniscient Reader #1-6 | Research Pathways revision plan |
| W 3/1 | Purple Hyacinth #1-5 | Research Pathways final due |
| F 3/3 | Portfolio workshop | Research Pathways reflection due |
| M 3/6 | Spring break—no class | |
| W 3/8 | Spring break—no class | |
| F 3/10 | Spring break—no class | |
| M 3/13 | MLM 1214-1226 | |
| W 3/15 | MLM 1226-1237 | |
| F 3/17 | They Say, I Say 42-51 | Interpretive Essay prewriting |
| M 3/20 | They Say, I Say 55-67 | |
| W 3/22 | They Say, I Say 105-118 | |
| F 3/24 | The Elements of Academic Style 59-73 | |
| M 3/27 | Elements 102-115 | |
| W 3/29 | “How a Volcano Helped Inspire Frankenstein” | |
| F 3/31 | “The Evolving Comedy of George Saunders” | Interpretive Essay draft |
| M 4/3 | “How women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free from Patriarchal Control” | Interpretive Essay peer review |
| W 4/5 | “Must Sex Always Mean Death When It Comes to Horror Movies?” | Interpretive Essay revision plan |
| F 4/7 | “King’s Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop” | |
| M 4/10 | “That’s Not Typing, It’s Writing: How T.S. Eliot Wrote The Waste Land” | |
| W 4/12 | “What Would W.E.B. Du Bois Make of Black Panther?” | |
| F 4/14 | “How to Draw Nothing” | |
| M 4/17 | ||
| W 4/19 | Interpretive Essay final | |
| F 4/21 | Portfolio workshop | Interpretive Essay reflection |
| M 4/24 | Portfolio workshop | |
| W 4/26 | Portfolio workshop | |
| F 4/28 | Portfolio workshop | |
| M 5/1 | Portfolio workshop |
