Required on campus sessions:   NONE

Special labs or practicum:  Group work and research with classmates required.  Participation in discussions is standard.  Students may be asked to contact and visit local community agencies.

Number of assignments:  4-5 essays of no less than 4 pages; several shorter writing and documentation assignments; approximately 25 activities and assignments, including research notes, essays, and discussion board activities.

Estimated time per week:  For a full semester class of 15 weeks, students need to plan to work offline 6 hours and be online 3 hours per week. For a 6-8 week summer class, student need to plan to work offline 10 hours and be online 6 hours per week 

Group interaction required: YES 

Scheduled activities or self paced: Scheduled activities with due dates for completion.

KCC Core Abilities and Learning/Course Level Outcomes

• Demonstrate knowledge of the implications of living in a culturally diverse society and contemporary global community (Assessed:  3-5 presentations, writings on cultures, writing responses to questions examining culture, essays synthesizing new learning or knowledge).

• Demonstrate written, verbal, nonverbal, computer, and listening communication skills. (Assessed: 4-5 papers, class participation, blackboard posts, and peer feedback).

As a student at Kellogg Community College, success in your courses, including English 152, that help you achieve the following skills and core abilities

• Demonstrate the ability to discover, process, and communicate ideas and information from sources with various cultural backgrounds values and beliefs. (Assessed:  4-5 papers, class discussion, research documentation, written and oral responses to various media).

• Read and comprehend at the college level (grade 13/14) (Assessed: Reading response posts, writings synthesizing information from reading material, class participation in discussions of media)

• Write clearly, accurately and effectively in a variety of contexts and formats.  (Assessed: 5 papers, class participation, blackboard posts)

• Express ideas verbally in a coherent, organized and effective way. (Assessed: classroom participation, and oral presentations)

• Comprehend spoken messages using active listening skills. (Assessed: classroom participation; feedback to oral presentations, written responses to oral/audio presentations)

• Demonstrate computer literacy in the retrieval, processing, and delivery of information (Assessed: blackboard posts, electronic files storage and retrieval assignments, PowerPoint, or other software, presentations)

• Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of non-verbal communication behaviors (Assessed: peer review, viewing of film or various forms of art and presentation).

Further, upon completion of ENGL 152, students should be able to complete the kinds of practical writing projects often required in both the academic and the professional world. How do the following compare to when you teach the course?  How do you know student's learned?  Successful students will:

• Locate sources of information describing or demonstrating different cultural beliefs and values

• Write or present essays or presentations on American culture and society

• Critically read and review essays, broadcasts, films and literature examining a variety of cultural beliefs and values

• Read and respond verbally and in writing to assigned readings

• Read and synthesize researched information and ideas on assigned topics into written communications.

• Critically read and review essays, broadcasts, films and literature examining a variety of cultural beliefs and values

• Demonstrate the ability to write essays that utilize thesis sentences, idea development, unity, coherence, patterns of exposition, and educated usage.

• Construct thesis representative of the essay's content

• Use transitions and other strategies to achieve continuity and coherence

• Prepare and deliver a presentation of ideas and new knowledge or learning

• Write various kinds of essays for a variety of audiences

• Practice creating an individual writing style and greater self-confidence in communication

• Read aloud and present your writing in class

• Organize and prepare outlines of essays and presentations

• Participate in class discussions over reading and visual materials

• Observe and takes notes on lectures, presentations, audio presentations and visual presentations

• Synthesize information from audio and visual sources into your writing

• Interpret, in writing, information from a textual, audio or visual source

• Write a researched essay (min. 2 sources) with appropriate documentation

• Prepare electronic files containing notes on researched information

• Prepare all essays in a word processing document and properly format and save it as an electronic file.

• Save and attach electronic files to share with peers and classmates in Blackboard

• Give and receive feedback to and from multiple readers

• Observe and discuss images in film, photography and the arts

• Use images and graphics to communicate information and ideas as part of a presentation 

You need to revise and redraft prior to turning in a preliminary draft to me. Writing is a mode of thinking; the composing process only gradually brings together ideas that initially exist only half-formed in your mind until the act of writing gives them shape. The drafts I read must represent ideas and opinions that have already been coherently shaped and formed. The majority of your assignments will be graded the first time that I read them. For the final research paper, you will be given the option of using a late slip to revise your paper for a higher grade. All drafts that are handed in to the instructor must be done on a computer.

Expectations for your papers are clearly explained in the  course reading material, and questions will be answered in the bulletin board forum and during office hours. Students who log on regularly and who complete their readings rarely experience difficulty in writing or in structuring their papers.

Grades will be computed on a point system. At the end of the semester, the total number of points earned will be divided by the total number of points possible to determine a percentage.

100-93% = A            92-89% = A-

88-87% = B+            86-83% = B              82-79% = B-

78-77% = C+            76-73% = C               72-69% = C-

68-67% = D+            66-65% = D               64-63% = D-

62% and below = F

ENG 152 is a course in English composition. Consequently, the grades your writing assignments receive represent your instructor's estimate of how well each assignment demonstrates your mastery of the composition skills appropriate at that point in the course. The following briefly describes the general requirements for each grade level.

CONTENT - contain a central idea that is clearly defined, developed with originality and careful thought, and supported substantially and concretely   
ORGANIZATION - follow a plan that progresses by clearly ordered and necessary stages   
STYLE - contain paragraphs that are unified and developed with unusual effectiveness, transitions within and between paragraphs that are clear/effective, and paragraphs and sentences that are coherent and effective 
DICTION - utilize language that is appropriate, fresh, accurate, concise, and idiomatic

CONTENT - contain a central idea that is defined with more than usual care and clarity, developed fully and with consistent attention to proportion and emphasis, and supported with sufficient and consistently relevant detail  
ORGANIZATION - follow a plan whose purpose and method are consistently apparent & completely fulfilled   
STYLE - contain paragraphs that are well-developed and unified, transitions between paragraphs that are explicit and effective, and paragraphs/ sentences that are coherent and emphatic  
DICTION - utilize language that is appropriate, clear, carefully chosen, and idiomatic

CONTENT - contain a central idea that is adequately defined but trite, trivial, or too general; or that is developed adequately but with occasional disproportion or inappropriate emphasis; or that is supported adequately but with occasional repetition or sketchiness                                                  
ORGANIZATION - follow a plan whose purpose/method is apparent but fulfilled unimaginatively or incompletely                                                        
STYLE - contain paragraphs that are unified and coherent but occasionally ineffective in their development, or utilized transitions that are abrupt or mechanical, or contains sentences that while coherent are occasionally monotonous, un-emphatic, or ineffective in structure                              
DICTION - utilize language that is often inappropriate, vague, trite, or unidiomatic

Cheating is NOT permitted. Any students caught cheating will receive NO points for the exam, quiz, or writing assignment in which the cheating occurred, and/or will be subject to the disciplinary procedures of Kellogg Community College (at the discretion of the instructor).