Engl. 102: Course Requirements

For each set of assigned readings, you will prepare a set of discussion questions, which you will type and bring to class so that you can exchange it with another student. We will exchange logs each class period so that you may have an opportunity to read and respond to your log partner's questions. I will record the logs on each due date and collect them periodically to respond to them. Logs not completed by the due date are recorded as zero. You will receive one grade at the end of the course for your dialogical reading log. For each assigned reading, you will design two discussion questions that you think raise issues essential to understanding the reading. That means that when we have two assigned readings, you will design a total of four questions. For a fuller explanation of the kinds of questions appropriate to your dialogical reading log, click here.

Research Project #1 (Cultural Studies):

A research process culminatining in a 5-8 page, fully documented essay in which you analyze a popular culture phenomenon, image, icon, artifact, event, product or practice.

The steps of the process will include:

A working bibliography

An annotated bibliography

Invention and pre-writing including several guided freewrites for each project.

2 typed preliminary drafts of each essay

A typed final draft of the essay. This draft must be a substantively revised version of the earlier drafts

Research Project #2 (Social Issue of Personal Concern to You):

A research process culminating in a 6-10 page, fully documented essay in which you offer an informed, fair-minded, and carefully considered analysis of a social or political issue about which you have a personal concern or interest.