ENGL 1623 English II Syllabus 020 Fall 2026

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Credit Hours 3.00 Lecture Hours 3 Clinical/Lab Hours 0
Type of Credit
Baccalaureate/Transfer
CIP Code
23.1301
Course Meeting Time

Mondays & Wednesdays from 9:30-10:45am 

D326

Course Description

The student will continue to develop the writing skills studied in ENGL 1613. This course is designed to prepare students to write in multiple rhetorical situations including academic and professional fields of study. To receive credit toward the IAI General Education Requirements, this course must be completed with a grade of C or better. AAS: Communications elective.

Prerequisites

ENGL 1613 with a grade of C or better

Course Alignment

IAI Number
C1-901R
IAI Title
Writing Course Sequence 2
General Education Outcomes

General Education Outcomes are the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and behaviors that students are expected to develop as a result of their overall experiences with any aspect of the college, including courses, programs, and student services, both inside and outside of the classroom. The General Education Outcomes specifically learned in this course are:

  1. Communication
  2. Critical Thinking
  3. Responsibility

Faculty Contact Information

Faculty Name
Jess Jaenicke
Faculty Email
jjaenicke@kcc.edu
Faculty Phone
x8714
Faculty Office Number
L328
Faculty Student Support Hours

Mondays & Wednesdays:  1:50- 3:20pm

Tuesdays:  10:00am -12:00pm virtually (in-person by appt.) 

Faculty Information

Professor Jess Jaenicke

Course Information

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Refine the writing and research skills established in ENGL 1613
  2. Demonstrate audience awareness when making rhetorical choices, including choices related to style, tone, and diction
  3. Demonstrate an awareness of rhetorical appeals in students' own texts
  4. Analyze the values and writing conventions of their discipline
  5. Create multiple pieces of formal writing which contribute to a final academic research text
  6. Create and share a multimodal presentation
Topical Outline
  1. Rhetoric: Style, strategies, devices, tools, and appeals; relationship to audience
  2. Research: Credibility, integration, citation and documentation, research as inquiry, types of sources, role of research librarian
  3. Composition: Focus, coherence, development, grammar, spelling, and punctuation, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions
  4. Reading: Engagement with texts: annotation, outlining, vocabulary; critical analysis of texts including non-fiction, academic writing
  5. Criticality: Intellectual empathy, originality in thought, context of social and cultural contexts, diverse viewpoints
  6. Multimodality: Integration of visual, textual, and oral elements; methods of engaging audience; rhetorical awareness
Textbook/s and Course Materials

No required textbook.  

Methods of Evaluation

Students will complete, at minimum, 3 papers and a multimodal presentation. This will help hone skills of observing, reflecting, making and supporting claims, and finding research for evidence/support, as well as help students learn how to write within professional and/or academic discourse communities. Source material should not overwhelm the student’s own voice. Page lengths are mandatory minimums, meaning a 4+ page paper must be four full pages or even onto the fifth page when double-spaced; the works cited page does not count toward the minimum length.

  • Article Analysis Paper: 4+ pages (or at least 1,200 words) & 1-3 sources
  • Rhetorical Comparison Paper: 5+ pages (or at least 1,500 words) & 4-5 sources
  • Extended Research-based Paper in a Specific Style: 6+ pages (or at least 1,800 words) & 6-7 sources
    • Associated prospectus materials must also be written for this extended paper assignment. Materials may include a proposal, annotated bibliography, abstract, audience analysis, research defense, self-evaluation, etc.
  • A multimodal presentation of the extended research-based paper
Assignments/ Homework/ In Class15%
Article Analysis20%
Rhet. Comp. Paper25%
Extended Research Paper 30%
Multimodal Project 10%
 100%

*You must complete the Rhetorical Comparison, Rhetorical Analysis, and Professional Article assignments to qualify to pass the class.

Scale: 90-100% A, 80-89% B, 70-79% C, 60-69% D.

Common Course Assignments
  1. Article Analysis Paper: 4+ pages (or at least 1,200 words) & 1-3 sources
  2. Rhetorical Comparison Paper: 5+ pages (or at least 1,500 words) & 4-5 sources
  3. Extended Research-based Paper in a Specific Style: 6+ pages (or at least 1,800 words) & 6-7 sources
    1. Associated prospectus materials must also be written for this extended paper assignment. Materials may include a proposal, annotated bibliography, abstract, audience analysis, research defense, self-evaluation, etc.
  4. A multimodal presentation of the extended research-based paper
Academic Division

Liberal Arts & Sciences

Dean, Jennifer Huggins; 815-802-8484; R310; jhuggins@kcc.edu; Division Office- W102; 815-802-8700

Course Policies

Student Support Hours: I encourage all of my students to reach out to me when they have questions, concerns, or a desire for additional support in my classes. If you need to meet outside my scheduled times, please email me to request a weekday appointment (with at least 24 hours advance notice). Also let me know if you prefer to meet virtually) or on-campus.

Academic Honesty: Students are expected to do their own original work in this class. From brainstorming ideas and reading assigned texts to communicating their ideas in their own words – all the work students do in the process of completing assignments should be their own. If students are struggling with any part of an assignment, I would encourage them to request support from a KCC writing tutor and/or me (the instructor). Tutors and the instructor will help guide students through the process without doing the work for them. While AI-assisted tools might be tempting to use (and even appropriate for these tasks in other circumstances), using them for assignments in this class is prohibited and will be considered a form of cheating or plagiarism. Cheating, plagiarism, misrepresentation, fabrication, etc. are all forms of academic dishonesty and they will not be tolerated in this class.
 
Cheating can take many forms in this class: copying or using another student’s work, adjusting format to make papers appear longer (a form of misrepresentation), working in groups on individual assignments (whether openly or in secret), sharing or stealing answers for tests or assignments, using AI to develop part (or all) of an assignment, making up “research” (a form of fabrication), etc. Section 17.6B of the Student Code of Conduct explains that cheating also includes, “Submitting the same paper, report, or other assignment for more than one course without the expressed permission of the faculty member. If a student believes that he/she can complete an assignment that meets the requirements of two or more faculty members, he/she should obtain prior approval from all faculty involved.”
 
Plagiarism is also defined in section 17.6B of the Student Code of Conduct: “Taking, reproducing, and/or using as one’s own, without proper attribution, the ideas, writings, paraphrases, data, reports, graphic designs, or computer codes of published or unpublished work of another person in completing an academic assignment. Prohibited conduct may also include the unauthorized submission for credit of academic work that has been submitted for credit in another course.”
 
Plagiarism in this class includes but is not limited to:
  • submitting someone else’s work and/or AI-generated or AI-assisted writing tools
  • using published material (including materials published online) without proper attribution
  • paraphrasing or quoting someone without attributing the quote in your paper with a correct in-text citation, even if the source is included on the works cited page; improper paraphrase (sometimes referred to as “synonym swapping”) may also be plagiarism if the attempted paraphrase too closely imitates the writing style (including syntax) of the original source
  • failing to clearly indicate when you are using quoted materials by not including (or properly formatting) quotation marks
  • working with someone (without my permission) to write your paper and presenting it as your own
If you are in doubt, ask me or visit the KCC Writing Studio before you submit your assignment.
No form of academic dishonesty is acceptable. Cheating, plagiarizing, misrepresentation, and/or fabrication on any assignment in this class will have consequences and will be assessed on a case-by-case basis. The severity of consequence (from automatic failure on the assignment to possible immediate failure of the course with no opportunity for the student to withdraw) depends on the instructor's judgment of intentionality. The violation of this course policy will be reported to the Director of Student Success. If the student has a repeated instance of academic misconduct reported to the Director of Student Success, the student may be suspended from the institution.
 
Attendance and Participation: You will find success by showing up and putting forth effort! This is a course where regular and active participation is of critical importance to your learning and to the experience of your classmates. Additionally, research has shown that regular participation (in this class and all your classes) is a strong predictor of your academic success. Therefore, you are expected to actively participate online with course content, your peers, and your instructor. Please note that in accordance with the college’s Code of Campus Affairs and Regulations, item 3.3, the instructor has the right to record the grade of “F” for the course, reduce a student's grade, or submit an institutional withdrawal request to Admissions and Registration if a student has excessive absences as defined in the course syllabus. I will consider 4 or more absences excessive. I will be taking attendance at the start of class; in order to be counted “here,” you need to be on-time and stay the length of the class.
 
Late Work: I don’t accept late work in this class; from small to large assignments, everything is due at the indicated date and time in the course calendar or as instructed by me, the professor. Be prepared and manage your time wisely. Any extensions to due dates have to be agreed upon with the instructor before the assignment is due (email me to make the request); extensions are never guaranteed, but you may request one so long as you don’t abuse this privilege. Note: in-class workshops and replies to discussion boards are never acceptable late.
 
Minimum Requirements: Be aware that papers that fail to meet minimum requirements (such as required page length, number and types of sources, type of paper or off topic), may receive a zero. You are in college; partial work does not necessarily receive partial credit. Also note that Works Cited pages do not count toward page requirements and block quotes (quotes of four lines of text or longer) may not be used in papers. Finally, simply meeting the minimum length and source requirements does not guarantee a passing grade.
 
Revisions: You will be given the opportunity to revise your three main papers for a higher grade. Such revisions must include substantial revision to be considered (such as more narrowly focusing your topic or further developing major points.) Making surface-level changes (such as xing spelling, punctuation, or grammar mistakes) isn’t typically considered “substantial”. If you submit a revision, be sure all changes are highlighted. Revisions can’t receive higher than a 90%.
Expectations for Classroom and Online Behavior

RESPECT.

Yourself, your peers, me, our time, your opportunity to learn, ALL OF IT!

Course Calendar

Course Calendar- * Subject to Change

 Module 1: Journal Analysis/Rhetorical Comparison Paper 

Week 1 Introductions and course expectations. Scholarly vs Popular Sources Introduction Article Analysis Paper. 

Week 2 Review conventions of MLA and APA Style in Writing/Audience. Journal Analysis Paper is due. 

Module 2: Rhet Comp Paper

Week 3 Introduce Rhet Comp.:  Find sources, outlining 

Week 4 Finish Rhet Comp

Module 3: WID Paper 

Week 5 Review WID Paper. Review examples. Review possible paper types. 

Week 6 Formatting and design. 

Week 7 WID Paper is due. 

Module 4: Multimodal Project 

Week 8 Introduce Multimodal Presentation Assignment. Review required/recommended technology. Multimodal Presentation is due

College Policies, Resources and Supports

College Policies

For information related to the Student Code of Conduct Policy, Withdrawal Policy, Email Policy, and Non- Attendance/Non-Participation Policy, please review the college’s Code of Campus Affairs and Regulations webpage, which can be found at catalog.kcc.edu under the Academic Regulations & Conduct Guide. 

Resources

KCC offers various academic and personal resources for all students. Many services are offered virtually, as well as in person. Please visit Student Resources - Kankakee Community College to access student resources services such as:

  • Clubs and organizations
  • Counseling and referral services
  • Office of disability services
  • Student complaint policy
  • Transfer services
  • Tutoring services, etc.
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|Course syllabus/calendar is subject to change.