WEEKLY WORK IN 305

These are time sensitive. You do not receive credit if you write them after the deadline each week. Furthermore, if you are in the habit of writing everything on Saturday you will not receive full credit. Why? There would be no time for others to interact with your writing. Write early; write often! Right? Right!

First, there's a blog entry (about 250 words) which will have you respond to a hopefully thought-provoking question. Each week, you must do the blog entry with enough time left in the week to be able to enter into dialogue online with your classmates. Write, reply, write more, reply more, and then write and reply more.

Second, there's a reading. There’s no blog entry associated with this. Just read.

Third, there's a written response to the reading. Your reading and writing on the blog must be completed by the SATURDAY (by midnight) of the week in which the reading falls. This entry should be a long paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO OTHER STUDENTS' PART THREE EACH WEEK.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

HOW TO GET STARTED IN THIS COURSE


This was also emailed to you, but just in case, here it is:

Well, this information will help you get started in English 305. The first thing you should do is to go to the blog for the course: Here it is: http://english305spring2014.blogspot.com

We do not use Blackboard for this course.

You will need to access the blog every week. It is sometimes problematic accessing the blog from an ipad, but almost every other method is fine. You should go to the blog to sign in with your yahoo or google or other account. This should not be difficult for you since you chose to take an online course, but if you have trouble, let me know. Once you are signed in, you can click on the comment box to write your entries. Be sure you are signed in before you comment or you may lose your work.

Each week you will accomplish three tasks on this blog.
You will
1. write a short blog entry and respond to your classmates' entries;
2. read a short selection, and
3. respond to what you have read in a slightly longer writing.

That is the bulk of the work for this course. Each week, then, you will see that there is an entry on the blog titled something like this: WEEK ONE BLOG ENTRY. Or , WEEK ONE READING. Or, WEEK ONE RESPONDING TO WHAT YOU READ.

Each week, you must complete these three tasks by Saturday night at midnight. No responses will be counted after that. Also, to get full credit for this writing, you need to respond to what other classmates have written. Do not leave that part until Saturday night. This blog is supposed to form a class dialogue, so if you find yourselves quickly responding just to get it done, think again! Do this writing and reading throughout the week so that you get full credit and so that your classmates get the full weight of your fabulous ideas.
We have a few essays, but the weekly reading and writing and interacting that you do on the blog is the most important factor to keep up on each week.

We also have two books: Tortilla Curtain and The Tipping Point.  Buy those now.

So, for the first week, go to the blog and read the class information, the graded assignments, and other information that is there. Make sure you sign in and get started.

Welcome to English 305. Happy writing!

Dr. Schmoll
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