Eng 740 Syllabus--Maner

Texts:	Beerbohm, Max. Seven Men. 1919. McLean, VA: IndyPublish.com, n.d.
	Dickens, Charles. Hard Times: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. 3rd ed. Ed. Fred Kaplan and Sylvère Monod. New York: Norton, 2001.
	Humphries, Rolfe, trans. The Satires of Juvenal. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1958.
	Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
	Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. Ed. Geoffrey Tillotson. 3rd ed. 1971. London: Routledge, 1989.
	Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. London: Penguin, 2000.
	Please do not substitute other editions of Juvenal. You may use substitute editions of the other texts if you wish, since they may be referred to by chapter, line number, or act and scene number. But you will be responsible for finding passages quickly as they are discussed in class, and using the listed texts is the best way to avoid inconveniencing other class members by slowing down the discussion as you search for passages.

Date	Topic (Key reminders and key classes are marked in bold.)	Reading
Mon 3/29	Introduction The ethos of the satirist Distribute syllabus and sample prospectus	None. For future dates, complete the assigned readings and exercises before coming to class.
Wed 3/31	Juvenal Discuss papers	Juvenal 7-62
Mon 4/5	Juvenal Some cheap stunt designed to boost my evaluation scores (toga! toga!)	Juvenal 63-134
Wed 4/7	Juvenal Sample examination questions Distribute handout Topic bibliography due	Juvenal 135-86
Mon 4/12	Pope, 1717 version The episode of Sarpedon Figurative language Hand back graded topic bibliographies	Pope 7-77; study notes closely on 67-68
Wed 4/14	Pope, 1712 version The rhetoric of satire	Pope 79-92
Fri 4/16	Last day to drop a class without a grade
Mon 4/19	The rhetoric of satire Another cheap stunt designed to boost my evaluation scores	Johnson 9-65
Wed 4/21	Johnson	Johnson 66-122
Mon 4/26	Johnson Term paper prospectus due	Johnson 122-50
Wed 4/28	Johnson
Fri 4/30	Last day to drop a class with a grade of "W"
Mon 5/3	Dickens Hand back graded term paper prospectuses	Dickens ix-85
Wed 5/5	Dickens	Dickens 85-165
Mon 5/10	Dickens	Dickens 166-222
Wed 5/12	Shaw	Shaw vii-113
Mon 5/17	Shaw	Shaw 114-53
Wed 5/19	Shaw Preliminary draft of term paper due (2000 words minimum [approx. 8 pp. of body text in MLA format using 12-point Courier New], with parenthetical MLA citations and accurate, complete bibliography, plus digital copy submitted on disk or as an e-mail attachment.) Note: the bibliography does not count toward the minimum length, which is 2000 words plus bibliography. Peer evaluation workshop See "Preliminary Draft Credit," below
Mon 5/24	Beerbohm "Enoch Soames"	Beerbohm 3-34
Wed 5/26	Beerbohm "Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton" "'Savonarola' Brown"	Beerbohm 71-109
Mon 5/31	Memorial Day Holiday No WSU classes
Wed 6/2	Review for final exam Course evaluation Term paper due (2000 words minimum [approx. 8 pp. of body text in MLA format using 12-point Courier New], with parenthetical MLA citations and accurate, complete bibliography, plus digital copy submitted on disk or as an e-mail attachment.) Note: the bibliography does not count toward the minimum length, which is 2000 words plus bibliography.
Wed 6/9	Final examination, 8:00-10:00 PM Multiple-choice, short-answer, and essay questions

Attendance
Your attendance grade will be based on the following scale: 0-1 absences, A for attendance; 2 absences, B for attendance; 3 absences, C for attendance; 4 absences, D for attendance; 5 absences, F for the entire course. There are no routine "excused absences" in this course other than the one absence allowed before the attendance grade begins to drop. Each set of two tardy arrivals will count as an additional absence. If you do not like this attendance policy, you may design any attendance policy you wish, but you must submit your attendance policy for my approval by the end of the first week of classes. If you tend to miss class or frequently arrive late, you may prefer to waive this 5% credit. You must do so during the first week of class, and then these points will be distributed across other requirements. After the first week of class, please do not give me any excuses for absences unless you provide documentation such as a subpoena for a court appearance or a funeral notice for a family member with documentation to show your relationship to the deceased. Finally, note that I carefully correct the attendance record at the end of each class period to mark tardy students present, but it is your responsibility to tell me that you arrived during the class period. I will not retroactively correct the attendance record later.

Computing Course Grades
Course grades are computed by multiplying weighted percentages times the numerical value of letter grades, using the following equivalents: A = 4.0, A- = 3.8, B+ = 3.2, and so on.

Preliminary Draft Credit
The grade for turning in a preliminary draft is either A or F. To earn the "A" credit for turning in a preliminary draft, your paper must be handed in on time at the beginning of the hour on the due date; it must meet the minimum length requirement; it must contain complete parenthetical citations and a complete list of works cited; it must be accompanied or preceded by a digital copy submitted on disk or as an e-mail attachment. If it fails to meet any of these requirements (by being, for example, only a few minutes late or only a few words short of the minimum length), it will receive a grade of F. This deadline policy is designed to reward students merely for meeting basic obligations and to enable me to conduct prompt evaluations. Once deadlines and minimum criteria have been established, they must be enforced consistently. If you prefer to waive this 5% credit, you may do so during the first week of class, and these points will be distributed across other requirements at that time.

CLASS POLICIES

1. Papers and prospectuses are due at the beginning of the class period on the due dates indicated above. I will evaluate preliminary drafts submitted after the deadline, but no "preliminary draft credit" will be given for them. Late work (other than the term paper final draft) will receive no credit, so if you must miss class on a due date, be sure to fax me a copy of your work. (See Class Policy #9, below.) Late final drafts of the term paper will be subject to the following reductions: work turned in after the beginning of class but by 7:45 PM on the due date will be penalized 5 points (on a 100-point scale). For each day or portion of a day thereafter, the penalty will be 10 points per day.

2. Papers shorter than the assigned minimum length will receive grade reductions of 5 points for each unit of 100 words by which they fall short.. Please do not try to evade the length requirement by fooling around with large fonts and margins. A page using proper MLA format should have 1" margins on all sides, 1/3" line spacing, 27 lines to the page (unless over-ridden by widow and orphan control), plus a page header. Properly formatted MLA templates are available at
<http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/rptemp.htm>.

3. I will not give a make-up final examination unless arrangements have been made before the regularly scheduled examination has been given.

4. Assistance on written work should be limited to the instructor, library reference personnel, and Writing Center personnel. Automatic penalty for any form of plagiarism (defined as passing off the work of someone else as if it were your own): F for the course, written notification of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the English Department Chair. Your papers for this course must be exclusively your own and exclusively for this course. You may not submit a previously submitted paper, nor a paper simultaneously submitted for another course.

5. I normally do not grant "I" grades, since they usually cause more problems than they solve. If you miss an assignment, your grade will be computed on the basis of the work you completed, with the missing assignment counted as a zero.

6. Please do not ask me what you missed. You are responsible for making arrangements with a classmate to supply you with information about classes you missed. If questions remain, see me.

7. Mid-course changes in the syllabus (assignments, readings, grading policies) are sometimes necessary, though I will always try to provide sufficient advance notice of such changes.

8. My office is 441 Millett, telephone 775-2639. You may leave messages for me with the department secretaries at 775-3136. Another convenient way to have individual conferences is via e-mail. My e-mail address is listed at the top of the syllabus. I check my account daily. Note, too, that this syllabus is posted on the Web at <http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/ENG/maner/MANER.HTM>.

9. Sending a fax copy to meet a deadline is acceptable. The departmental fax number is 775-2707. However, it is your responsibility to follow up the fax transmission by calling 775-3136 to confirm that the fax copy was received. You should always "chase" a fax copy with a regular printed copy as soon as possible, since fax copies are flimsy and often only semi-legible.

10. Since the early weeks of the course are focused mainly on getting started in library research, you will have accumulated only a few percentage points of graded credit by the time the last drop date arrives. Probably the best way to estimate your likely performance in this course is to ask yourself the following questions: a) Have I spent at least 8 to 12 hours of well directed work on the assignments for this course, particularly the term paper, during the opening weeks? b) Have I become familiar with the essential research tools such as bibliographies, indexes, online resources, and library catalogs? c) By the time the drop date arrives, have I found and listed virtually all the available English-language sources relevant to my topic?

Resources

Online Research Tutorial (in two parts):
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/eval01.htm (Finding and Evaluating Sources)
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/act06.htm (Gathering Information Online)

Guide to Essential Tools for Research in English Literature:
http://www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/ENG/maner/701LIB.HTM

MLA Online Guide to Documentation:
http://www.mla.org/

Using Search Engines to Find Web Resources:
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/search_engines.htm

Online Resources for Research Writers:
http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/eng344.htm

Links to Resources in Literature and the Humanities:
http://www.cola.wright.edu/Dept/ENG/lit_links.htm

E-Mail Links:
         Martin Maner
         Charlotte Droll (Humanities Reference Librarian)
         Martin Jenkins (Humanities Reference Librarian)

Evaluation	Prospectus for term paper	15%
	Topic bibliography	15%
	Preliminary draft submitted on time	5%
	Term paper blending research and critical analysis	35%
	Final exam	25%
	Participation and attendance	5%