English 102 – Composition II
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Instructor: Christy Scheuer
Office Hours: Tuesday and
Thursday, 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Office: IB2306D
Course Website
E-mail: christina.scheuer@seattlecolleges.edu
Office Phone: 206-934-4538
Canvas.northseattle.edu
COURSE OBJECTIVES
This class will explore the personal archives that come to define people’s lives—
the artifacts, rituals, and texts that gesture towards the history of a family, a
culture, or a subculture. These personal archives are often incomplete or difficult
to reconstruct, especially since it’s so easy for individual stories to get lost.
focusing on and analyzing a significant part of your own culture or subculture.
REQUIRED TEXTS
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis I and II
Art Spiegelman, Maus I and II
COURSE OBJECTIVES/LEARNING OUTCOMES
The English Department at NSCC has established the following course objectives
for English 102. This course is designed to help you improve your ability to:
1. Read critically in order to analyze, discuss, evaluate, and respond to texts.
2. Access, evaluate, and apply information from a variety of sources.
3. Write in order to discover the meanings in other texts.
4. Write in order to discover your own ideas in relation to the writing of others.
5. Write to communicate ideas to a particular audience.
6. Paraphrase, summarize, quote, and cite sources according to MLA form and
integrate source materials smoothly into your own words to add support and
emphasis to your own writing.
7. Understand the importance of intellectual honesty and avoid plagiarism.
8. Take responsibility for producing writing that has been revised, edited, and
proofread.
9. Continue the development of your own voice as a writer.
10. Work and communicate effectively in both large and small groups, which
requires that you recognize the value of divergent views, tolerate ambiguity, and
develop both listening and speaking skills.
GRADES
Essay 1: Persepolis: Analysis
Seminar Paper
20 points
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Seminar Prep and Participation
Proposal
Introduction and Outline
Full Rough Draft and Peer Review
Final Draft
10 points
10 points
10 points
15 points
100 points
Essay 2: Maus: Synthesis
Seminar Paper
Seminar Prep and Participation
Synthesis Worksheet
Paper Proposal
Full Rough Draft and Peer Review
Final Draft
20 points
10 points
10 points
10 points
15 points
100 points
Essay 3: Autoethnography (Research Paper)
Project Proposal (brief)
Project Proposal (longer)
Introduction and Outline
Presentation
Full Rough Draft and Peer Review
Final Draft
5 points
10 points
10 points
40 points
15 points
150 points
Participation and Attendance
50 points
In-class writing and short homework assignments (8 x 5 pts) 40 points
Total:
655 points
DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY OF WRITERS
Students come to this class with a broad range of educational, writing, and
personal experiences. This diversity enhances our class archive by
expanding its range and providing us with new ideas to discuss in class. It is
very important that you are supportive and respectful of every student’s work
and opinions so that the classroom is an environment in which everyone feels
welcome. Writing can be difficult and frustrating at times, but the writing
process is much more enjoyable and rewarding if we work through it together.
I hope that, during the course of the quarter, you will become increasingly
comfortable and confident with the writing process. Please communicate with
me at any time regarding any concerns or questions you have about the course.
You can come to my office hours or make an appointment if you would like to
talk about your progress in the class, specific assignments, or any other concerns
or questions that arise during the quarter. I’m here to help you, and I enjoy
talking to students about their writing.
COURSE POLICIES:
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Attend daily. The importance of attending regularly cannot be
overestimated. Please arrive at class on time and expect to remain until class
is over. Your attendance and participation will figure into your final grade in
the form of points assigned for in-class exercises and in your final
participation and attendance grade. Daily exercises cannot be made up. If you
arrive late or leave early and miss an in-class exercise, you will not be
permitted to complete the exercise you missed.
Papers must be typed. All assignments (including drafts) should be typed,
double-spaced, using 12 point Times New Roman font. I will not accept
handwritten drafts.
Save your work. It is your responsibility to keep an extra copy of all
assignments that you turn in.
Submit your work on time. An assignment is counted late if you do not
submit it during class on the date it is due. For each class period an
assignment is late, your grade on that assignment will be reduced by one
letter grade. For example, an A paper that is received one class late will be
reduced to a B; two class periods late, a C; three classes late, a D; and four
classes late, an F. If an assignment is turned in even 1 minute after class time
on the day it is due, it will be counted as one day late.
Schedule about 2 hours each day (in addition to class time) to read and
write. This is a 5 credit class, and you will be expected to do two additional
hours of work for each credit. This means that you should expect to spend a
total of 15 hours/week on this course – 5 hours in class and 10 hours
outside of it. NOTE: Some weeks you may need to schedule additional hours,
especially when a major paper is due.
Work that is due should be brought to class in paper form when
stipulated in the course schedule. In this class, major essays will be
submitted electronically, but shorter papers (homework, proposals, and
seminar papers) should be brought to class in paper form.
Drafts and revisions are required for the three major papers. The major
papers will go through a typed draft version and a final, corrected version
before a grade is assigned. In terms of the grading system, drafts and final
versions constitute separate assignments, with drafts receiving point for
completion. If a draft is handwritten, haphazard, or incomplete, you will not
receive full points. Failure to bring a draft to class on the assigned date will
result in a zero. Drafts will be turned in with final version in a two-pocket
folder.
RESOURCES
Accessibility and Disability Services: My goal is to make the classroom as
accessible as possible to all students. If you require any disability-related
accommodations, I recommend contacting disability services. The Disability
Services (DS) office at North Seattle College (NSC) provides reasonable
accommodations so that qualified students with documented disabilities have an
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equal opportunity to participate in all of North’s programs, activities, events, and
services. DS also provides resources, referrals, and advocacy support as needed.
934-3697 - main line
934-7808 - Maud Steyaert
Visit also www.washington.edu/doit/ (Links to an external site.) for more
information.
Who is eligible to receive services through Disability Services?
Students who have a documented disability that impacts their academic
performance may be eligible. Students are responsible for self-disclosing their
disability to DS and for providing documentation in order to determine eligibility.
As responsible adults in the college environment, students with disabilities should
contact DS directly. The contact must be by the student and not a representative of
the student.
Academic accommodations can be provided if the adjustments are determined to be
reasonable and appropriate for the student’s specific disability and its impacts.
What types of accommodations are available?
Accommodations are individualized for each student, but may include:
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Sign Language interpreters
Books in Braille or electronic format
Exam modifications
Furniture and equipment
Adaptive software
Notetakers
Is disability information kept confidential?
DS does not share information about a student’s disability with faculty, staff,
parents, caseworkers or other individuals without written permission from the
student. Additionally, DS cannot confirm whether or not a student is receiving
services or disclose information about their accommodations. When talking with
instructors, DS discusses only the accommodations that are needed, not the
disability itself.
Women’s Center: All students are welcome at the Women’s Center! The Women’s
Center provides support for students who need guidance and support, including
housing referrals, information about counseling resources, and guidance though
many other bureaucratic barriers. The Women’s Center is next to the Advising and
Counselling Center. Contact Chilan Ta at (206) 934-3696.
Services:
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Referrals to the OCE&E: Public Health Nurse, Domestic Violence Advocate,
Mental Health Counselors, and Career Navigators
YWCA’s Dress for Success and Working Wardrobe vouchers for professional
clothing (income limits apply; vouchers available once per quarter)
Free male condoms
Free disposable pads & information about alternatives to disposables
Recommendations for books and DVDs LibGuides
Connections to campus life, student activities, and clubs
Support and sponsorship of campus events, speakers, programs to expand
conversations on gender, patriarchy, homophobia, sexism, racism, and cultural
literacy
Veteran’s Services: The Office of Veterans Services at North Seattle College offers a
range of assistance to veterans, reservists, active duty personnel and eligible family
members who receive Veteran’s Administration education benefits. Please go to
https://northseattle.edu/office-veterans-services for more details.
The Page One Writing Center: Visit the Page One Writing Center to get help during
every stage of the writing process from brainstorming and outlining through the
final polishing phase. The Writing Center is located at the east side of the Health and
Human Services Building (behind the Grove). You'll find more information at
https://northseattle.edu/tutoring/page-one-writing-center
Library: The library is a phenomenal resource to use if you have questions about
research or sources—or really questions about anything. We will head to the library
a few times as a class so that you can become more familiar with all that it has to
offer. You can find useful information at https://library.northseattle.edu/
E-MAIL
E-mail is usually the most effective way to get a hold of me. Please e-mail me at
any time with any questions that you may have about the course. I will have
office hours each week, but feel free to e-mail me if these hours do not work for
you, and we can set up a different time to meet. We can also arrange e-office
hours (over the internet) if it becomes difficult to meet in person.
In this class, we will focus on developing effective rhetorical skills; therefore, I
expect your e-mails to be written in clear and communicative prose and
proofread for mistakes.
A NOTE ON (AND AGAINST) PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is the intentional use of someone else’s words or ideas without giving
that person credit. This includes submitting someone else’s essay in its entirety
or in parts as your own, using any words, phrasing, and/or ideas from a source
(this includes the Internet) without proper citation, having someone else write
your paper or assisting so much that the phrasing and ideas are no longer your
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own, and re-submitting an essay previously written for another class. Plagiarism
is absolutely prohibited and may result in receiving a “0” on the paper and/or
discipline on the part of the college administration.
One of the primary objectives of this course is to learn and implement proper
methods for documenting sources so that you can avoid accidental plagiarism,
both in this class and in your other courses.