David J. Schroeder
Professor, M-DCC Kendall Campus
ENC 1102 Syllabus
ENC 1102 is a composition class focused on a CLAST essay review, and
analytical essays. Assignments will be based on the careful reading
of short stories, then forming opinions and judgments warranted by the
text. MLA documentation of researched materials will be included in
all assignments, except the CLAST essay.
[ ] Journal: Three ring binder. Sections will include:
handouts, class notes, free-writing, a reading log, graded papers
and revisions, and scholarship and occupation research. Quantity
and organization are the basis of your grade. ONE LETTER GRADE.
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Library assignment: ONE LETTER GRADE.
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CompClass exercises: ONE LETTER GRADE.
[ ] Assignment # 1 A practice CLAST essay written in class. ONE
LETTER GRADE.
[ ] Assignment # 2 Read John Steinbeck's "Flight." Write a thematic
analysis based on the rhetoric of plot and symbols. ONE LETTER GRADE.
[ ] Assignment # 3 Read Joseph Conrad's "An Outpost of Progress,"
Somerset Maugham's "The Outstation," and Nelson Algren's "A Bottle of
Milk for Mother.” Write a thematic analysis of plot and setting. ONE
LETTER GRADE.
[ ] Assignment #4 Read James Thurber’s “You Can Look It Up,” and
James Joyce’s ‘The Boarding House.” Write a thematic analysis of plot
and irony. ONE LETTER GRADE.
[ ] Assignment # 5 Read Katherine Mansfield's "Marriage a la Mode,"
Irwin Shaw's "The 80 Yard Run," D.H. Lawrence's "The Horse Dealer's
Daughter," and William Faulkner's "Barn Burner." Write a thematic
analysis of plot and character, focusing on the protagonist. TWO LETTER
GRADES.
[ ] Assignment # 6 Amnesty paper is an optional assignment that
replaces your lowest grade. This in class written essay will be based
on the reading of H. H. Monro's "The Open Window." REPLACES ONE LETTER
GRADE only.
There will be quizzes on all of the reading. All essays written at
home will be 2 1/2 -- 3 pages, typed double-spaced. No cover page;
name/ course, days and starting time/ and assignment in the upper left
hand corner. The first three papers and a journal will count one
grade each. The following papers will count double.