IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR SPRING 2006:

The ENG 102-770 course has been transferred to the new Desire2Learn course management software system and we will NOT be using this website. I have asked that it remain in place as an emergency backup and as an indication of basically how the course is organized.

Do NOT do any of the assignments found on this website; the course has been extensively redesigned so you will need to follow the directions on the D2L ENG 102-770 website.

You will receive a user name, password, and link to the new D2L website from Christian Zehelein in the ECC Distance Education Office by the first scheduled day of class. If you have registered and not received that, contact him at czehelein@elgin.edu.

If you have received the email from the Distance Education office telling you that you have been registered in ENG 102-770 for SPRING 2006, then you may use the following link to go straight to the log in page for ECC/Desire2Learn.

https://ecc.desire2learn.com/index.asp

Thanks,

Professor Sarah Dye

DESCRIPTION OF ENG 102, Composition II: The course is the next to last course in a six-course sequence of English classes offered at Elgin Community College. The sequence begins with three developmental writing courses, ENG 094, ENG 097, and ENG 098, and continues with ENG 101, a college credit academic writing course; some students follow up ENG 102 with the final course in the sequence, ENG 109.

The focus in ENG 102 is on referential writing, that is writing projects based on the use of outside sources.
Writing Project #1: Summary, Paraphrase, Direction Quotation, and Plagiarism Exercise.
Writing Project #2: Shorter referential argument paper which includes information gathered through a personal interview with a Works Cited page and documentation in MLA style (600-800 words). You also need to do the traditional library research to supplement the information that you have gathered through the personal interview with a person knowledgeable in the subject matter.
Writing Project #3: Longer referential argument paper which includes information gathered through library research with a Works Cited page and documentation in MLA style (The essay itself should be 2000-2500 words.) The final version of WP#3 should be preceded by a topic proposal, thesis sentence, formal outline, and minimum 10-item bibliography of potential sources listed alphabetically in correct MLA Works Cited format (submitted to your instructor at least two weeks before you submit the final version).
Writing Project #4: Critical review of a full length feature film on videotape or currently playing in a local theater (600-1000 words) with a works cited page in MLA style accompanied by two professionally written, published reviews of the same film.

Division of Communication Arts and Behavioral Sciences

Elgin Community College

English Department

1700 Spartan Drive

Elgin, Il 60123

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