This is Ann Warren's On-line English 102
This class is an on-line version of Los Angeles Harbor College\'s English 102, Introduction to Literature. To register, or for more information, contact L.A. Harbor College.
In English 102, we\'ll read and analyze short stories, poems, plays, and even a couple of novels. The reading will introduce you to a wide variety of literature, and the analysis will improve your thinking and writing skills.
This course is fully transferable to CU and CSU.
General Nature of the Course
This course functions very much like a correspondence course; the chief difference is the electronic environment and your relatively immediate access to your instructor (me). The online version of English 102 involves the same readings, writings, exercises and information as the traditional English 102 course; only the delivery system has changed. Instead of submitting hard copy essays which will be read, commented on, scored and returned, students will submit assignments and have them returned via e-mail; lecture material, course deadlines, and assignment information are available via the Internet.
You will need to regularly keep track of assignment (reading and writing) due dates by referring to the Class Schedule. It is up to you to keep up with assignment deadlines, especially since late work will be penalized (see note under Assignments). Specific Writing Assignment instructions can be reached through the links on the Class Schedule. Read these instructions carefully, and always e-mail or phone or visit me with any questions you might have.
There is also a series of Lectures on topics related to your reading and writing. Be sure to read the lecture material for each week because this should help you to understand the readings, and will give you valuable information to help with the writing assignments. Lecture information can be reached through links in the Class Schedule, and in the Writing Assignments.
So it\'s up to you to keep up with the reading, to turn in assignments on time, to look at online lecture material and to ask questions when you don\'t understand what we\'re doing. I will read the written work and questions you e-mail to me, and I will respond (also via e-mail) with comments, corrections, discussion items, and (I hope) useful answers.
Required Texts:
Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing, 3rd edition, Kirszner and Mandell, eds
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
All texts can be found in the college bookstore under my name and the course title.
Assignments:
3 essays: 100 points each
Final exam: 100 points
Discussion questions: 20 points each.
At the end of the semester, your grades will be averaged to determine a final grade for the class. For example, if you have turned in all of the assignments, you will have a maximum of 500 points for writing assignments, and 200 points for discussion questions, for a total of 700 points--or the equivalent of 7 papers. So I will add your points and divide the total by 7. Writing assignments are due on the date assigned on the schedule. Late papers and discussion questions will be penalized 10 points, and will not be accepted at all after one week.
Grading Scale for Writing Assignments:
100-90=A
89-80=B
79-70=C
69-60=D
59-0=F
How to submit your work:
Most of your assignments will be submitted to me via e-mail. That\'s not quite as easy as it sounds, but after some trial-and-error, it should work out fairly well.
Here\'s the basic problem: unfortunately, when you attach most word-processed files (something you wrote in WORD 6.0, for example) to an e-mail, the file appears as garbled gibberish when it reaches its destination (Me). To avoid that problem, before you attach any file to your e-mail, you will want to save that file as a "Rich Text Format" file, or if that is not available, as a DOS-TEXT file (sometimes called a "Text" or "Text Only" file); then attach that version to your e-mail and send it. But then there\'s a second problem. A file saved as DOS-TEXT loses all of the special formatting (double spacing, indentation, underlining, etc.) which you set up when you typed the document on the word processing program. Arrrrggghhh!
I am concerned about academic standards; you must be aware of MLA conventions for your college-level writing assignments. But I also want to make this course run as fluidly as possible. So until a major rich-text e-mail system is available to all students, this is what we\'ll do: the written work you send me will be in the form of Rich Text or DOS-TEXT files which you attach to your e-mail. The e-mail message should include your name, the class number (English 102), and the name of the assignment which is attached (to be safe, the same heading information must also be on the attached written assignment, at the top). You need not worry about format for these assignments, but you do need to separate your paragraphs, and you need to make sure that you eliminate spelling, grammar, etc., errors from your writing. Send your e-mail to me at warrena@laccd.edu.
NOTE: always keep copies of all of your assignments. If there is a problem with e-mail, you will need that copy to re-send for credit.
For more information, use the links below to go to any of the Class pages you want to see; I\'ve also given you a page of links to other literature sites.
To get in touch with me, use my e-mail, or call me the old-fashioned way, on the phone: (310) 522-8332.