EN 162: English Composition II
- Students will apply standard writing conventions, including grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage, capitalization, and sentence structure when composing sentences and paragraphs.
- Students will generate professionally written assignments.
- Students will apply writing conventions and utilize professional vocabulary in their assignments.
- Students will practice writing conventions through systematic testing and/or class projects.
General Education Objectives:
- Students will be able to research accurately.
- Students will be able to consider alternative points of view.
- Students will be able to comprehend material with clarity.
- Students will be able to make ethical decisions.
Henry, D.J. Writing for Life: Paragraphs and Essays MLA Update, 4th edition. Pearson: 2017.
OWL at Purdue, Cabell County Public Library, and other teacher provided resources
For this class, you will need Microsoft WORD. Using WORD will allow you to save using your last name first. And upload it to me in the class. I will grade and send the graded assignment back to you.
Only a few basic skills are needed to write papers:
- How to set the font and font size
- How to double-space
- How to center
- How to bold a word(s).
- How to copy and paste
- How to write an email with an attachment
- How to search a search engine, such as Google
- How to use the “save as” option
- How to write an outline with the instructions that are given
- How to use spelling and grammar check
- How to set line spacing
- How to indent a paragraph
- How to view Power Point presentation
- How to read, save, and print Adobe documents in PDF
Etiquette on the internet is called netiquette. The expectations for all written work is that the writer consider the reader and do to them as you would like them to do to you. You can review excerpts from “The Core Rules of Netiquette” from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea here: http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
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All work is due on Sundays by 11:59pm, Eastern Standard Time, unless otherwise noted. If you submit by Thursday, you can earn five extra points per assignment. No finals will be accepted after Thursday of final week. Please plan accordingly.
Your grade in the class will be determined by the papers you write (worth 100 points each), and the forums (varying points). Work is due on Sundays at 11:59pm (unless otherwise noted). For each week, there are listed resources in addition to the text. Below the announcement of the due date, there are listed the assignments. Please do not attempt the assignments without reading the resources and text. Following the format specifically is extremely important.
Grading Scales
A = 90% - 100%
B = 80% - 89%
C = 70% - 79%
D = 60% - 69%
F = below 60%
Emails will be responded to no later than 48 hours or by the end of business on Monday for mail received over the weekend.
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