Mickey Marsee, Instructor
Humanities 268 MW 2-3:30
phone: 277-6410
email: mickeyl@unm.edu
I will assume that you are entering 102 with a satisfactory command of standard written English and can organize ideas into an academic essay. Thus, the goal of this course will be to master the analytical and argumentative essay.
The class assignments require reading difficult texts, understanding those texts, evaluating and putting their material into some context, then reporting in an analytic or argumentative essay, and polishing your text through extensive revision. To help facilitate the writing and revision process, we will conduct class in the Johnson computer Pod and learn how the computer can be used as a tool to help the writing process.
Your responsibilities include coming to class prepared with the texts read, papers written, and ready to participate. After all, the class will be as interesting as you allow it to be.
Your final course grade will be based on the following: Essays 60%, Workshops 10%, Summary 10%, Final 20%.
Each student in class will sign up for one of the class readings listed on the syllabus. Using the summary format (see attached), you will be required to write a summary for that reading, due by the end of the second week of class.
I will load all the summaries into the lab's main server so anyone in this class or the other 102 section can access summaries to the readings if they have questions or difficulties with the text.
You will be required to write 6 essays (roughly 700-1,500 words each), both in and out of class. The essay topics will relate directly to the readings we discuss in class and will ask you to either create an argument or an evaluation/analysis of an author's essay.
All in class essays will be written in a 8 1/2 X 11 blue book. All out of class essays will be word processed with 1 inch margins and double-spaced, and with cover memo (see below). As you know, this class will be held in the computer lab; as a result, I will only accept word-processed writing from you. There are computer labs scattered all over campus and they are open all week long--at least one lab is open 24 hours a day. Keep a copy of everything you give me. I will not be responsible for misplaced papers or data loss on the floppy disks that you give me. Be prepared. Save often.
You are required to turn you out of class essays (not in class) with a typed cover memo. I will pass examples of this memo and explain it in more detail in class.
Mickey Marsee
Send comments to: mickeyl@unm.edu
URL: http://www.unm.edu/~mickeyl/102.html
last revised: September 30, 1995