ENGLISH 299 CLASS POLICIES
ALL STUDENTS ARE REQUIRED TO READ
AND MEET THE REQUIREMENTS ON THIS PAGE! THEY ARE WRITTEN IN
STONE!
Regarding Students whom the Class Roster/
Registration shows as enrolled, Lacking
Course Prerequisites and/or Students Wishing to Enroll following the First Week
of Classes:
In
order to enroll in, or continue in, the class, you must print out, fill out,
sign, and submit the Student Recognition of
Responsibility Form, located by following this link or from the Homepage.
No homework of any kind will be graded until
the completed, signed form is turned in to the instructor.
REGARDING ONLINE SYLLABI, POSSIBLE CHANGES IN SYLLABI, ASSIGNMENTS, REQUIREMENTS
FOR HANDING IN
AND PICKING UP
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION
POLICY FOR MEETING ASSIGNMENT DEADLINES
You Must Submit the Student Questionnaire in the first week of the Quarter.
**It is the student's responsibility to read, and become familiar with, the Communication Skills Departmental Syllabus and the Weekly Syllabus and to meet all requirements for the course. It is further the student's responsibility to read his/her E-Mail, the English 299 Bulletin Board for any changes in coursework, due dates, or other rescheduling and the English 299 Board Room on a daily basis. It is the student's responsibility to contact the instructor by means of phone, voice mail, E-Mail, Fax, or any of the other means provided about any questions regarding assignments, requirements, or deadlines. In short, ignorance of the law will not be an acceptable excuse for incomplete assignments or failure to meet requirements. NO INCOMPLETES WILL BE GIVEN FOR THIS COURSE.
Each student is to do all assignments and
meet all requirements for the course. Failure to do any
of the assignments and/or failure to meet any course
requirements or due-dates could result in failing the course.
There are General Essay Requirements that must be read and met as
well as requirements for each
individual essay assignment. It is the Student's Responsibility to read
and meet all requirements. It is the Student's
Responsibility to do the review work necessary to correctly document essays
according to the MLA rules for primary analysis or research essays. This is not
taught in this course and has been taught through the prerequisites for this
course.
ENGLISH 299 Virtual Office
(chatroom). There will be times set up during the quarter
for discussions. As this is an online course, I can only tell you when those
times will be: I can't really require you to be there. Those discussions will
not be "gossip" sessions. They will be used to discuss issues
regarding the readings assigned for the course or other course-related items
normally covered in the classroom. I will use the Bulletin
Board to announce the times for the discussion sessions. You are to create
a "handle" each time you enter the discussion
area, and that "handle" should be at least your last name.
ENGLISH 299 BOARD ROOM. This is yet another means for me
to contact you and for you to
contact me or other students if you wish.. It enables you
to post a message for me or for the class in general that will remain accessible
for several days. It also enables the user to post an answer to the information
given in the Board Room on site. Be sure to check this
daily. It's only a click away.
ENGLISH 299 IS AN UPPER-LEVEL LITERATURE COURSE
English 299 is an upper-level literature course that uses critical analysis as a tool for generating topics and discussion. It is not a literature course in which a little writing is occasionally assigned, where the writing is of no real significance. Excellent writing skills and quality of presentation are expected. As a consequence, students are expected to have mastered the basic writing and research skills taught in lower-level composition and literature courses. All writing skills from spelling and punctuation, to usage, to organization and development of details, to basic essay structure and MLA documentation must be good to excellent and must be presented using edited American English. You will be expected to know how to look up the MLA bibliography models and apply them correctly. NO handwritten corrections or additions are permitted on final drafts: PROOFREAD YOUR WORK. Appearance and quality of presentation are also important. In short, writing (including stylistic matters like wordiness, redundancies, etc.) and documentation skills will count heavily toward a final grade, and all assignments must be of college-level quality. Those students that have basic writing skills and documentation problems will be expected to make appointments with tutors at the Writing Skills Lab to eliminate those problems. The basics of 100-level composition courses, including how to use basic essay structure and how to properly document literary and research essays and create Works Cited pages will not be taught in English 299: that is supposed to have been mastered in the prerequisite courses.
HANDING IN ASSIGNMENTS
WARNING! No handwritten additions or corrections are permitted on final drafts of any assignments.
CRITICAL WRITTEN RESPONSES TO THE INFORMAL HOMEWORK: OUTLINES, POETRY PARAPHRASES, CRITICAL FICTION QUESTIONS, CRITICAL DRAMA QUESTIONS, ETC.
These assignments can be sent in either using my E-Mail address or faxing the material to the Communication Skills Department, or by using e-mail attachments, drop-off, or the U.S. Mail, so long as you meet the deadlines. See your syllabus. Sending these assignments as you would an ordinary e-mail message will work.
Since
I have been sent viruses over the quarter in e-mail, you are
required to do a virus scan and eliminate any viruses prior to sending
any kind of e-mail message to me. In Windows, your virus scanner can
usually be located in Properties, Accessories. Any message I receive which
contains a virus will be deleted immediately without opening it. That should
handle e-mail attachments. But it will not handle viruses sent as
simply e-mail messages, so do the scan.
ALL
OTHER WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: FORMAL HOMEWORK
I would prefer that these assignments be
sent by email attachment, but I will not
require you to do that. You would be responsible for the formatting requirements
holding up and for the attachments opening at this end. You can drop them
off or mail them in as hardcopy if you want, so long as the due dates are
met.
Both short Critical Essays, the Midterm Essay, and the Research Essay must not be sent as ordinary e-mail messages because of formatting requirements, grading practices, and appearance. They can be sent by e-mail attachments, so long as the student accepts the responsibility for attachments opening and holding the format at this end. It is not CSCC's responsibility to find a way to open student attachments. Since CSCC is set up to work with Word 2000, attachments will normally open that are created in Word and Works; however, the student should realize that Microsoft's program will not allow attachments to be opened in MS Works or Word 95 (6.0) that are returned by, or sent from, Word 2000. You might send something as a test attachment before you send anything online for a grade. Students can also send assignments by U.S. Mail, so long as the deadlines are met or drop off hardcopy versions of these assignments. If you drop off the assignments, they must be either delivered to my office, to my mailbox in the Communication Skills Department (420 Nestor Hall), or to the file box identified for Drop-Offs (outside of 463 Nestor Hall).
Since
I have been sent viruses over the quarter in e-mail, you are
required to do a virus scan and eliminate any viruses prior to sending
any kind of e-mail message to me. In Windows, your virus scanner can
usually be located in Properties, Accessories. Any message I receive which
contains a virus will be deleted immediately without opening it. That should
handle e-mail attachments. But it will not handle viruses sent as
simply e-mail messages, so do the scan.
PICKING UP ASSIGNMENTS
I keep the written critical responses to our reading assignments for the entire quarter as a part of my records, if they are dropped off in hardcopy form. If these assignments are sent to me via e-mail, I respond to them at the time and e-mail you that response. These are completion exerecises that do not receive a letter grade, but do comprise 10% of the total grade. Thus, if you turned in 85% of these assignments, and you received no word from me that you were doing the work inadequately, you'd have a "B" for 10% of the total course grade. When it comes to responding to the readings, I will let each student know by E-Mail if the assignments are not being done critically or throughly enough. Again, hardcopy responses will not be returned. However, all other written assignments will receive a letter grade. It normally takes me 7 working days from the time the assignments are turned in until I have them graded and ready to return. I am presently working on a method for returning your assignments to you online. It is not in place yet, and I will notify you when it is. Until then, there will be a separate, gray Filebox across from my office door, identified for Graded Paper Pick-Ups. You will find a hanging file with your name on it in the box. You can/should pick up those assignments any time you choose, once those 7 working days are over.
NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
**IT IS THE STUDENT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW AND MEET ALL DEADLINES.
If there is a legitimate reason why an assignment has to be delivered late (and other coursework, wordprocessing, or printer problems of any kind are not acceptable reasons for trying to turn in late assignments), I can work with you under the following conditions:
That it does not become a Habit
That you immediately contact me with the reason for being late
That you E-Mail or Fax me documentation for the reason you're late
That you not only can get my E-Mail or phone response, but also
the new deadline
That you realize it is not my responsiblity to see to it that you use
your syllabus, meet deadlines, or to ask questions about assignments or
deadlines WELL AHEAD OF THE DUE DATES.