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INSTRUCTOR: Debra Hadaway

INSTRUCTOR E-MAIL: debra.hadaway@gvltec.edu

INSTRUCTOR'S NOTE: This is a 10-week course, and it's going to require a commitment of time. If you already have vacations planned during the summer term and know you will miss a week or two of class, this is probably not the course for you--wait until you have more time to devote to class. There will be reading to do--both in your texts and online. In addition, writing assignments are due more often than once a week--informal as well as formal--so be prepared to write several pages of thoughtful prose per week. Most of your assignments will require MLA documentation. Your instructor is going to assume that you are devoting about nine hours of time to class each week--three hours "attending class" and six hour doing reading and homework assignments. Class work will include 4 essays, including a research paper 3 tests 9+ discussion posts 8 or so journal entries final exam --all in 10 weeks. English 102 is a complex and delightful course designed to help you become a better, more sophisticated reader, thinker, and writer. Together, we will explore drama, fiction, and poetry--some authors you are already familiar with; others may be new to you. We will look at what makes them work, at how the authors both engage us and instruct us about human nature and ourselves. As we explore, we will write. Our compositions will require the ability to read and analyze literature. Consequently, the class will read and analyze together, looking at genres, figures of speech, structure, style, and the like. We will practice writing about literature in our Discussion posts, then end each unit with an essay on the particular genre we've been studying. You will apply your new-found knowledge to the essays you write. This is a composition course that will prepare you for the rigors of thinking and writing about literature, including the methods of documentation associated with such wr! iting. Better yet, we will delve into the literature itself, to see what it has to offer us. As you will come to the course with a willing and open mind, your instructor will bring to it energy, experience, and desire to help you succeed in becoming a better reader and writer. BE SURE TO LOG IN TO THE COURSE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE TERM BY GOING TO college-online.com.

DISTANCE LEARNING ATTENDANCE POLICY: In order to avoid access denied status, students should make contact with their instructor within the first three days of class. Attendance in an online class is defined by correspondence and the student is expected to demonstrate, at least once a week, that he/she is actively involved and is corresponding in the class. Examples of activities that can be used to demonstrate this involvement include, but not limited to the following: posting/receiving e-mails, participating in online course discussions via bulletin boards and chat rooms, and completing and submitting course assignments.

Students not meeting the minimum attendance/correspondence requirement may be withdrawn with a grade of "W" or "WF" based upon the student's academic standing at the last date of attendance/correspondence. Email through WebCT will be the primary means of communication, especially when the student is having difficulty answering a question or solving an exercise or a problem. For your instructor to help you effectively, please provide as much information as possible when communicating and it is the student's responsibility to check all virtual correspondence (email, bulletin board) regularly. College Online strongly encourages communication with your instructor.

WITHDRAWAL POLICY: Students are responsible for completing the required forms for dropping/withdrawing from course(s) and failure to do so will result in a performance grade, usually a grade of" F ". Click here for the last day to withdraw: Important Dates