Composition II
This is a fully online class with no face-to-face meetings.
Mandatory online orientation starts on ___and orientation must be completed by ____ by 11:59 PM for Session 1 class
You must complete the online orientation by the due date or you will be dropped from the class.
You must complete the online orientation by the due date or you will be dropped from the class.
Faculty Introduction
Welcome to ENC 1102: Composition II. I'm Ana Cowo and I'll be your instructor for this course. I'm a full-time faculty member on North Campus and teach several Composition, Technical and Professional Writing and Business Writing courses. I look forward to working with you this semester.
Course Description
This course stresses structural and analytical writing, including narration and argumentation. The course introduces the student to three genres of literature: fiction, drama and poetry. It will emphasize student interpretations, analysis and evaluations of various types of literature.
BC Catalog Course Description
A composition course stressing structural and analytical writing, including narration and argumentation. Selected readings in prose, drama and poetry supplement the course and provide topics for discussion and written assignments. Students usa a variety of research adn investigative techniques to produce an in-depth documented paper. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the writing requirements for BC.
Methods of Instruction
This is a three credit hour course that meets fully online for 16 weeks (session 1 class), or 12 weeks (session 3 class).
The student is expected to participate online several hours each week. Participation is required.
The course consists of such assignments as discussion forums, group projects, short response papers, documented research papers and exams. The research papers will incorporate a balance of direct quotations, summary and paraphrases from a variety of sources. The borrowed ideas will be correctly cited and documented. The exams may consisit of multiple choice, matching and short and long essay questions.
Learning Outcomes
Writing is an important skill for you to obtain. In this course, you will learn to write more clearly adn critically in response to literature. You will learn to understand literary devices such as plot, character, setting, tone, mood, and point of view. These devices will be incorporated into your projects. Research will consist of using the various electronic sources to rpovide information and support for your analysis and evaluation. The documented papers will refine research skills acquired in ENC 1101.
Upon completion of this course you will:
- demonstrate writing as a learning mode and as a tool for critical thinking
- employ the process of writing into a multi-paragraph essay
- integrate paraphrases, summaries and quotations smoothly into essays
- generate limited, precise thesis appropriate to essays and develop the thesis without wandering
- define, recognize and discuss literary terms adn concepts, plot, theme, irony, symbols, setting, theme, etc., and apply those terms in analysis of a literary work(s)
- define the general features of major types of literature, e.g. short fiction, poetry, drama, etc.
- demonstrate the process of writing an interpretive paper by developing ideas with specific evidence from the literary work(s)
- write a documented literary research paper employing correct MLA documentation
- Text: Literature and Its Writers, Fifth Edition by Charters and Charters
- Access to Microsoft Word Processing software; all papers muct be submitted as a Word document (doc, docx).
- Other: You may be required to view a few films. If you cannot check the video out of a library, you will have to rent it from a video store (approximate cost is $9.00)
Please visit myBC website for student information.
Students must pay for the course before they will be able to log into the course.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this course, email me at acowo@broward.edu or call me at 954-201-2293.
How to access this course once you are enrolled in this course
Please Note: the only people who will be permitted to login are those students who have registered and paid for the course. There may be a delay of up to 24 hours from when a student registers and pays before D2L login is activated.
- Obtain BC email user ID and PIN code before attempting to login to D2L. At BC email address site, click on "ID Lookup", then enter your Student# (or INTL Student ID#) and PIN code (2 digit birth month and 2 digit year). Write down your email ID (not the @mail.broward.edu part), which is your D2L User Name.
- Your D2L User Name is the same as your BC email ID.
- Your D2L password is the same as your BC email PIN code
