How to write ENG 102.

This course is a research course more than a writing course.

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At a glance

30%research paperthe heaviest single item of the term; 40% together with the outline

35%oral workOral Presentation 20% and End of Course Interview 15%

nonefinal examthe passing requirement is one line in the syllabus: 90% attendance, no final. Points lost do not come back.

weeks 3-5Library Skills Taskdone after the library session and after the essay has been assigned

1umbrella subjectyour section's Broad Subject area is written on the assignment sheet; the question comes out of it

90%attendance7 hours out of 70; a medical report does not erase an absence

How the assignment runs

Start to finish. Every step says what you hand in.

01Find out the umbrella subjectweeks 1-2nothing to submit, but it countsThe Broad Subject area line on the assignment sheet. The library visits are in these two weeks too. Every choice made without knowing the umbrella is made in mid air.
02Library Skills Taskweeks 3-5the completed form, PDF5% of the grade, with its own rubric out of 10. Citation fields for three DIFFERENT source types, the full citation of the source you chose, and a 250-350 word paragraph justifying it.
03Academic Essayweek 5a text handwritten in class, and the typed up version the next day20% of the grade in a single sitting. In the file we measured, the essay was handwritten across four class hours, 6 pages; the typed version of 1597 words was uploaded by noon the next day.
04Narrow the research questionweeks 4-5topic selection formThe form asks three things: what your area of interest is, how the topic relates to the course umbrella, and how the topic can be argued. The third one is what eliminates people.
05Annotated bibliographyask, not every section has ita summary and citation per sourceThe filter stage. In the file we measured, 6 sources were annotated and only 2 of them ended up in the draft's works cited.
06Research paper proposal presentationweeks 8-10the talk and the visuals20% of the grade. You are not presenting finished research, you are presenting the plan for research you have not done yet. It counts as an exam: missing the day is a zero.
07Research paper outlineweeks 10-11an outline with Roman numerals, at least 5 sources10% of the grade, with its own rubric out of 15. The outline tutorial, the one point in the chain where you get line by line correction, hangs on this.
08Draft, written feedback, final draftweeks 12-14the first draft on paper, the final draft together with the draftsThe feedback is given on paper. If the final draft is submitted without the earlier drafts, the paper does not get read at all. The End of Course Interview is in the same week.

What the grade is made of

The heaviest item is highlighted. Spend your time there.

Research Paper%30

week 14; submitted together with the draft chain

Oral Presentation (proposal)%20

weeks 8-10; counts as an exam, missing it is a zero

Academic Essay%20

week 5; written in class, not taken home

End of Course Interview%15

week 14; you defend your own paper

Research Paper Outline%10

weeks 10-11; its own rubric, out of 15

Library Skills Task%5

weeks 3-5; its own rubric, out of 10

Where points actually go

None of this is about writing well. Most people lose these points because nobody told them.

Rule	What it costs	Source
A zero on the Task Requirements item: if the paper is completely off topic, or if the final draft was submitted without the earlier draft(s)	the paper is not read at all, the final grade is zero	Essay Criteria and Research Paper Criteria, the same two line note
If the paper is on topic but does not answer the question asked, or is under the word limit	again a zero, but the paper is read and graded. The word limit is not a scoring item, it is a pass or fail gate	the same two documents, one item down
Citing a source incorrectly, or presenting text someone else produced as your own work	the task gets a zero and becomes a disciplinary matter	the Library Task prompt's own zero rule
Missing the day of the presentation or the interview	that item is a zero. Since there is no final exam there is nowhere to make it up either: 20% or 15% goes straight out	the FAE section syllabus, presentations count as exams
The AI percentage in the final draft's plagiarism report coming out above zero	the submission is asked for again, as Word instead of PDF if necessary	a course announcement

Raw material

Not buried in the page, one click away. Plain text files open on a phone too.

txtSyllabus (raw text)The common ENG 102 syllabus on STARS: catalog description, assessment items, passing requirement, the 14 week plan, learning outcomes. It is not your section's own syllabus.txt39 item checklist to run before you submitPlain text, it opens on a phone too. Go through it in order, do not skip.txtWorks cited: 206 entries, plain textThe sources behind every entry in the topic bank. Every book was searched one by one in the Bilkent catalog, and every DOI was tried.tableThe real fields of the Library Skills Task formSeparate field sets for a journal article and for a book chapter, the rubric out of 10, and the inside of a form that was actually filled in.list23 real research questions out of the same umbrellaQuestions shared in the same class on the same day. No names, only the question texts.tableThe item names and point ranges of the four rubricsAcademic Essay out of 22, Research Paper out of 23, Outline out of 15, Library Task out of 10.

Which door has the detail

Successful examplesA whole term measured from one student's file: how many sources got cut, when each document appeared, and exactly what changed between two drafts.What you are graded onSix items, four separate rubrics, no final exam. There are two situations where the paper gets a zero without being read, and both are about the mechanics of submitting.Choosing a topicThe umbrella subject is written on your assignment sheet. The work is getting from there down to a question that takes a side.Where you find sourcesThe real structure of the Library Skills Task, the source doors for your umbrella subject, and how to check a citation before you submit.2 sayfa AI promptsThere is no model on our server. These prompts do not write for you, they ask questions about what you wrote.The long guideThe thesis statement, the outline, tying a source into your text, the counterargument and the oral part. The detail of the course, section by section.

Sections, instructors, letter grades

This page is about the assignment. The course has its own page.

ENG 102 course page →

Sources: the course syllabus, the coordinator's own pages and numbers measured from the archive. If something here is wrong or missing, write and I'll fix it.