Texts:

Beerbohm, Max.  Seven Men and Two Others.  1919; 1950.  London: Prion, 2001.

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times.  3rd ed.  New York: Norton, 2001.

Humphries, Rolfe, trans.  Satires of Juvenal.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1958.

Johnson, Samuel.  Rasselas.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.

Pope, Alexander.  The Rape of the Lock.  London: Routledge, 1971.

Shaw, George Bernard.  Pygmalion and Major Barbara. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000.

Date

Topic

Reading

Introduction
The ethos of the satirist

Evaluation

Prospectus

  15%

Midterm exam

  20%

Final exam

  25%

Term paper

  30%

Participation and attendance

  10%

Attendance
Your attendance grade will be based on the following scale: 0-1 absence, A for attendance; 2 absences, B for attendance; 3 absences, C for attendance; 4 absences, D for attendance; 5 absences, F for attendance; 6 absences, automatic 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 arrive after attendance has been taken, it is your responsibility to tell me at the end of the class that you are present; I cannot later make retroactive changes to the attendance record.  If you do not like this attendance policy, you may design any attendance policy you wish and set up excused absences in advance, but you must submit your proposed attendance policy or request for exucsed absences 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 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 to show that a genuine emergency has taken place--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 the portion of the grade for "Participation and Attendance" will be reduced for rude and distracting behavior (such as talking to a neighbor, web-surfing during a lecture, or leaving immediately after a quiz or roll call).

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.

"Writing Intensive" Component Grades
Two grades are submitted for this course: a grade for the course itself, and a grade for the "writing intensive" component.  The writing intensive grade is "pass" or "fail," and you must attain a C or better in the course in order to receive a "pass" for this component.

CLASS POLICIES

1.  Papers and prospectuses are due at the beginning of the class period on the due dates indicated above.   Late papers will be subject to the following reductions: work turned in after the beginning of class but by 4:30 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.  Also, note that repeated late arrivals will lower your attendance and participation grade.

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 (including exercises) should be limited to the instructor, library reference personnel, and Writing Center personnel.  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  Exercises are to be done individually; you may not collaborate on them with classmates.  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 Office of Judicial Affairs and the English Department Chair.  The code of academic conduct at Wright State may be reviewed at http://www.wright.edu/students/judicial/integrity.html.

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, Monday through Friday.  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.  You may also submit assignments as e-mail messages or attachments in Word format, but you are responsible for knowing how to do this.  For example, if your e-mail software cannot handle attributes such as underlining, the absence of underlining will be treated as an error.  (It is unreasonable to expect your instructor to format your work and then grade it on the basis of his own corrections.)

10.  Work slipped under my office door during class will be considered late.  If you must miss class but wish to turn in a printed copy for full on-time credit, you must have the date and time recorded by an English Department secretary in 470 Millett in order to demonstrate that it was turned in on time.

11.  Due to the continuing decline of courtesy in American life, it is necessary to mention some things that should normally go without saying.  a) It is rude to e-mail someone anonymously, using only a screen name.   b) It is rude to leave voice mail messages without identifying yourself.   ("I am a student in your morning class" is not adequate self-identification.)  c) Unless there is a genuine emergency, it is rude to bring a beeping watch, or cell phone, or other digital device to class without turning it off first. If there is a genuine emergency requiring you to have your cell phone turned on, you should tell the instructor in advance that the class may be disrupted.  d) It is rude to bring a child to class with you without asking for the instructor's permission.

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/~martin.maner/essential_tools.htm

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.wright.edu/cola/Dept/eng/lit_links.htm

E-Mail Links:
         Martin Maner
         Piper Martin (Humanities Librarian))