All World Literature II - English 2333 syllabus information, course activities, response paper and essay prompts, and related web resources exist on this site. Please read the basic syllabus or click on the various parts of the syllabus (left menu) for specific information about the course and activities (right menu). As a reference, the syllabus is also available as a Word document: World Literature Maymester 2008.

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Calendar

The "CALENDAR" link (right menu) provides a weekly readings structure to the course to aid your responses and web activities (including sites and response and essay assignments for all authors). As it outlines your readings and writing assignments, follow the calendar with consistent effort and energy. Keep to a strict writing schedule with the assigned papers and essays. Click on the week number for specific assignments and readings during the course.



 

Grades: essays, response paragraphs

Last Day to Withdraw from Classes: Tuesday, May 20.

In Order to Pass this Course, You Must Submit and Receive a Grade for All Three Major Essays.

Read this policy carefully: Based on the assignment date/calendar, I will reduce the grade on any essay or response paragraph by 10 points for the first day beyond the assignment due date (listed below each day and author on the calendar); after two days, I will not accept an essay or response paragraph. Be responsive to the calendar and readings.

10%:  Daily Quizes over the readings - 5 to 10 short quizzes over the primary material (literature) and secondary materials (period introductions and biographies).

30%:  Response papers (400+ words) to specific assignments attached to author hyperlinks on the web resources page (left menu) and calendar day (right menu); these written responses (in short essay form) will involve a close reading of the literary text and some argumentative response. You may include any synthesis of ideas and discussion with support from information at various internet sites. These exercises prepare you for the longer, more fully-developed essays.

60%:   Three essays (600+ words) over authors from three separate periods of literature during the course - topics available on-site (right menu -"Essays: 1 2 3 topics"). Please provide at least one secondary source in the form of literary criticism from the textbook (biographical or introductory information from each literary period) - or a website source (hyperlinked to the source), or any other printed secondary source (periodical, magazine or book) with appropriate MLA documentation. If you need to polish your documentation skills, I have written an MLA Tutor to refresh your memory of this style of documentation.

I mark responses according the revision guidelines (print out and proofread with them for each response paragraph or major essay) - they appear in the left menu and with any assignment in the course and I follow them religiously as to what I mark in your writing - nothing more, nothing less.

As the textbook materials (general introductions, timelines, biographies) are sufficient sources for the course, this course does not require external research. Unless the prompt asks for a specific external reference (such the Web-based exercises for the poets Blake and Baudelaire), please avoid secondary sources (Web-based or print) in your submissions. This course measures your own critical thinking and analytical skills, not those of others (see course policy on  plagiarism). Support your response to the prompts by reviewing and correlating my markings with the revision guidelines. If you include outside sources (Web-based or print), document them carefully and thoroughly to avoid failing the course as a result of  plagiarism.


 

Objectives (Expected Outcomes)

genres

Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the scope and variety of works or genres from each literary period.

critical skills

Demonstrate an ability to interpret literature through critical and argumentative analyses.

context

Demonstrate an understanding of literature as aesthetic expressions of individual and human values within a historical and intercultural context.

format

Practice appropriate conventions of documenting work with the MLA format.



 

Plagiarism

originality

Other than sources documented and cited according to MLA standards, all work submitted for a grade must be your own original work and never before submitted for a grade in any previous course.

submissions

Submitting previous course work or work by other writers (including Web-based sources) as one's own original work in this course, i.e. plagiarism, constitutes a ground for failure in this course (see The New Century Handbook, 3rd ed., 11a, 246-249, MLA Handbook, Chapter 2).



 

Textbooks

Lawall, Sarah, and Maynard Mack, gen. eds.,
The Norton Anthology of World Literature, 1650 to 1900.

Volumes D, E, F. 2nd ed. (Package 2 in the textbook site description)

Volume D: ISBN: 0-393-97758-7



Volume E: ISBN: 0-393-97759-5



Volume F: ISBN: 0-393-97760-9





Hult, Christine A., and Thomas N. Huckin, eds.
The New Century Handbook, Pearson, Longman, 3rd ed.

ISBN: 0-321-23392-1





Joseph Gibaldi,
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed.

ISBN: 0-87352-986-3





(recommended: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary)