English 103

English 103

Robin Pruter

M 158

W 7:00-9:50

pruter@cdnet.cod.edu

(630) 941-1060 (emergency only)

Composition 3

Course Description:

English 103 is the third in the three-course composition sequence. The goals of this course are to aid students in learning a variety of research methods and in learning how to incorporate various sources into an extended, thesis-driven research paper. Additionally, students are required to read a literary text and write an interpretive essay on it, incorporating outside research.

Readings:

Shakespeare. Play to be selected by you.
Maimon and Peritz, The Writer’s Resource
Other handouts and online readings as assigned.

Course Requirements:

50% Research Paper, Research Paper Drafts
20% Annotated Bibliography
10% Online Database Tutorial
10% Web Evaluation Tutorial
5% Presentation
5% Class Participation
Research Paper: Your final research paper should be 11-13 pages long (double-spaced, one inch margins, no more than 12pt font) and incorporate at least ten sources, which must include some scholarly sources (journals and scholarly books).
Research Paper Draft: You must turn the draft; failure to turn in the draft will result in your final grade for your research paper being lowered one half grade. The draft will not be graded. Expect to share your draft with your classmates.
Annotated Bibliography: The week before your research paper is due you will be required to turn in an annotated bibliography of at least thirty sources. (You will not be required to use all of these in your final draft.)
Online Database Tutorial and Web Evaluation Tutorial: These exercises will help you learn research skills and help you research the topic for your final paper.
Presentation: In the final week, you will present your research paper to the class.
Class Participation: This portion of your grade will be determined by your participation in class discussions and activities and your attendance.

Deadlines:

All assignments are due in class on the date listed. Late papers will be marked down one letter grade for each day (not class day) late. No assignments will be accepted more than a week late. Exceptions, at the discretion of the instructor, will be made for documented emergencies. You must turn in your research paper in order to pass this course.

Attendance:

Since this class meets only once a week, I expect you to attend every class session. You will be allowed one absence. For each missed session after that, your grade for the course will be lowered by a half letter. No kidding. Use your absence wisely.

Academic Integrity:

The goal of this course is to improve your writing. Thus, you will only benefit from the course if you turn in your own work. Turning in someone else’s work as your own is a violation of COD’s plagiarism policy and will result in failure of this course. We will discuss how to incorporate source materials into your paper and document them during this course. Should you have a question regarding using sources, I encourage you to visit the writing center and/or see me.

Extra Credit:

I do not regularly allow students opportunities to use extra credit to make up for missed class sessions or assignments or for poor performance on regular assignments. By completing the regular class assignments to the best of your ability, you should have no problem getting the grade you want.

Withdrawal:

I will give my permission to withdraw throughout the quarter for any reason. If you don’t think you can complete the class, I would hope you would drop within the first few weeks, so you don’t waste my time and your money. If you remain in the class until after the last day for automatic withdrawal, I would hope you would have the fortitude to complete the class.

Course Schedule

Wednesday 7:00-9:50

Subject to change

January 7

Introduction to Course and Research

Go Over Research Paper Assignment

Plagiarism

First Week Assignment: Send e-mail requesting topic

January 14

In-class activity with plays

Reading Due: Play; Plagiarism Website

January 21

Library Day (Meet in Library, Rm. 2640)

Reading Due: Maimon and Peritz Tab 5

Scholarly Sources

Online Database Tutorial Due

January 28

MLA Documentation

Reading Due: Maimon and Peritz Tab 6

February 4

Writing with a Thesis

Interpretive Essays

Reading Due: Maimon and Peritz Tab 2 (all) and Tab 3 (part 11 only)

Web Evaluation Tutorial Due

February 11

No Class—Draft Conferences

February 18

Style—varying sentence length and structure, eliminating wordiness

Reading Due: Maimon and Peritz Tab 10

February 25

Draft Workshop

Research Paper Draft Due

March 3

No Class—Draft Conferences

Annotated Bibliography Due

March 10

Film TBA

Reading Due: Maimon and Peritz Tab 9 (part 36)—use to polish paper

Research Paper Due

March 17

Class Presentations

Topic List:

1) Movie: As You Like It (dir. Paul Czinner). Play: As You Like It. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

2) Movie: Hamlet (dir. Laurence Olivier). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

3) Movie: Hamlet (dir. Tony Richardson). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS).

4) Movie: Hamlet (dir. Celestino Coronado). Play: Hamlet.

5) Movie: Hamlet (dir. Franco Zefferelli). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS).

6) Movie: Hamlet (dir. Kenneth Branagh). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS).

7) Movie: Hamlet (dir. Michael Almereyda). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS).

8) Movie: The Lion King (dir. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

9) Movie: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (dir. Tom Stoppard). Play: Hamlet. COD Library (VHS).

10) Movie: Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff (dir. Orson Welles). Play: Henry IV, Part One or Henry IV, Part Two. COD Library (VHS).

11) Movie: My Own Private Idaho (dir. Gus Van Sant). Play: Henry IV, Part One. COD Library (VHS). Selected

12) Movie: Henry V (dir. Laurence Olivier). Play: Henry V. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

13) Movie: Henry V (dir. Kenneth Branagh). Play: Henry V. COD Library (VHS).

14) Movie: Julius Caesar (dir. Joseph Mankiewicz). Play: Julius Caesar. COD Library (VHS). Selected

15) Movie: King Lear (dir. Jean-Luc Godard). Play: King Lear.

16) Movie: Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa). Play: King Lear. COD Library (DVD). Selected

17) Movie: A Thousand Acres (dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse). Play: King Lear.

18) Movie: Shiner (dir. John Irvin). Play: King Lear.

19) Movie: The King Is Alive (dir. Kristian Levring). Play: King Lear.

20) Movie: Love’s Labour’s Lost (dir. Kenneth Branagh). Play: Love’s Labour’s Lost.

21) Movie: Macbeth (dir. Orson Welles). Play: Macbeth. COD Library (VHS).

22) Movie: Macbeth (dir. Roman Polanski). Play: Macbeth. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

23) Movie: Throne of Blood (dir. Akira Kurosawa). Play: Macbeth. COD Library (VHS).

24)Movie: Teenage Gang Debs (dir. Sande N. Johnsen). Play: Macbeth. COD Library (DVD).

25) Movie: Men of Respect (dir. William Reilly). Play: Macbeth.

26) Movie: Scotland, PA (dir. Billy Morrissette). Play: Macbeth.

27) Movie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. William Dieterle and Max Reinhardt). Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. COD Library (VHS).

28) Movie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Adrian Noble). Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Selected

29)Movie: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (dir. Michael Hoffman). Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. COD Library (VHS).

30) Movie: Get Over It (dir. Tommy O’Haver). Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. COD Library (VHS). Selected

31) Movie: Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Kenneth Branagh). Play: Much Ado About Nothing. COD Library (VHS and DVD). Selected

32)Movie: Othello (dir. Orson Welles). Play: Othello. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

33) Movie: Othello (dir. Stuart Burge and John Dexter). Play: Othello. COD Library (VHS).

34) Movie: Othello (dir. Oliver Parker). Play: Othello. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

35) Movie: Otello (dir. Franco Zefferelli). Play: Othello.

36) Movie: O (dir. Tim Blake Nelson). Play: Othello. COD Library (VHS and DVD). Selected

37) Movie: A Double Life (dir. George Cukor). Play: Othello. COD Library (VHS).

38) Movie: So Fine (dir. Andrew Bergman). Play: Othello. COD Library (VHS).

39) Movie: Richard III (dir. Laurence Olivier). Play: Richard III. COD Library (VHS).

40) Movie: Richard III (dir. Richard Loncraine). Play: Richard III. COD Library (VHS). Selected

41) Movie: Looking For Richard (dir. Al Pacino). Play: Richard III. COD Library (VHS).

42) Movie: King Rikki/The Street King (dir. James Gavin Bedford). Play: Richard III.

43) Movie: Romeo and Juliet (dir. George Cukor). Play: Romeo and Juliet. COD Library (VHS).

44) Movie: Romeo and Juliet (dir. Renato Castellani). Play: Romeo and Juliet. COD Library (VHS).

45) Movie: Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zefferelli). Play: Romeo and Juliet. COD Library (VHS and DVD). Selected

46) Movie: Romeo + Juliet (dir. Baz Luhrmann). Play: Romeo and Juliet. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

47) Movie: Romeo y Julieta (dir. Miguel M. Delgado). Play: Romeo and Juliet.

48) Movie: West Side Story (dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins). Play: Romeo and Juliet. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

49) Movie: Love Is All There Is (dir. Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor). Play: Romeo and Juliet.

50) Movie: The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Sam Taylor). Play: The Taming of the Shrew.

51) Movie: The Taming of the Shrew (dir. Franco Zefferelli). Play: The Taming of the Shrew. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

52) Movie: Kiss Me Kate (dir. George Sidney). Play: The Taming of the Shrew. COD Library (VHS).

53) Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You (dir. Gil Junger). Play: The Taming of the Shrew. COD Library (VHS and DVD). Selected

54) Movie: The Tempest (dir. Derek Jarman). Play: The Tempest. COD Library (DVD). Selected

55) Movie: Tempest (dir. Paul Mazursky). Play: The Tempest. COD Library (VHS).

56) Movie: Forbidden Planet (dir. Fred Wilcox). Play: The Tempest. COD Library (VHS).

57) Movie: Prospero’s Books (dir. Peter Greenaway). Play: The Tempest. COD Library (VHS). Selected

58) Movie: Titus (dir. Julie Taymor). Play: Titus Andronicus. COD Library (VHS and DVD).

59) Movie: Twelfth Night (dir. Trevor Nunn). Play: Twelfth Night. COD Library (VHS). Selected

06-Jan-2004

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