Your first Journal Check will be Feb. 23.

You are not given a letter grade on journal entries and exercises. Your Journal does, however, constitute your Class Participation grade (20% of your overall semester grade). I will give you a ‘check’ system, noting completion is satisfactory.

What is in your Journal?

Any and all of the in-class writings, the Do Now early class exercises, the homework. If you don’t come to class on time to do the Do Now writing, you should be prepared to show extra effort here. I will collect the journals, and then give them back to you.

I suggested, at the start of the semester, that you have not only a spiral notebook or two, but that you have a place to put these pages together with any handouts (namely, a folder dedicated to English 1101) so that I don’t have to hunt. I use a 3-ring binder myself. Once I’m done writing in my spiral notebook, I put those pages into the binder; my binder also has a pocket folder.

Right now, you have had no handouts/photocopies…however, you should plan for a system like mine, above.

C U on the 23rd!

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If you don’t already know, this is a great place to know:

how to write a footnote? how to cite a source?

or even — how to practice your weakest grammar points.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

Remember, you still have a grammar textbook, but this source, above, is Online and comprehensive.

…so you get a little extra sleep that day. And you don’t come to our classroom that day.

Every Freshman English section gets an orientation session, led by a librarian. Ours meets Feb. 18. Please show up outside the Ursula C. Schwerin Library on the fourth floor where we will take roll at 8:30AM sharp. We will then go inside the library and get our research tour, which is scheduled to last the rest of class time.

C U!!

(Above, a still from the video installation by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Sea of Buddha,” 1997, on view soon at Pace Gallery, Manhattan. Hopefully, we will look as calm on Library Day.)

Highlighting pens in four colors: pink, blue, yellow, and orange  (If you can’t find orange, green is also fine.)

Pens/pencils, and lots of paper in spiral or other notebooks (preferably with 3-hole punch)

Regular sized notebook (10.5″ x 8″ approx.) for writing your assignments in class and at home, taking notes…

Small, portable notebook — preferably without lines, but with lines is also okay

A folder or folders

A formal notebook or 3-ring binder you will use to submit your Journal entries to the Professor. It is best to have a notebook/binder that includes folders in it, as well as space for written paper, so that I can easily see what you have written and read on a weekly basis. You can cull your writings from your daily notebooks into this larger Journal, periodically.

The Textbook, “Rules of Thumb: A Guide for Writers” by Jay Silverman, et al.

You are in the right place, 1101 Students. Let me direct your attention to the nav bar, above. “Course Profile” will give you a box in which you can view Documents associated with this course — things like grading rubrics (I’ve also put rubrics under “Policies”), overall info…so please check, again, the box under “Course Profile” that reads “Documents.” Check “Assignments,” above,  periodically (hint: you have at least one, right now!). Check “Readings” periodically. And, as you see, your Syllabus has been uploaded here. Welcome. We are glad you came.

[diabolical laughter; fade to black]

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