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Composition I
ENC 1101
Fall Term 2010
Professor Naylet Leon
This is an e-learning online class with no on-campus meetings. Complete a mandatory online orientation between August 23-25, 2010 consisting of posting an introductory discussion, an assignment and a quiz based on the syllabus. If the orientation is not complete by August 25, 2010 midnight please drop the class for full refund by August 30, 2010.
Faculty Introduction
Welcome to ENC 1101! I have been teaching composition, literature, and grammar for almost 10 years and I enjoy helping students become better writers. Hopefully the knowledge you will learn and the activities you will complete will prepare you for the rigors of college writing and/or writing in your profession.
Course Description
This course is not only a general education course in which students are required to write on expository themes in various modes as well as adopt effective research methods and library skills to produce a well-documented paper. This course will allow students to also acquire successful reading and writing strategies as well as critical thinking methods that will help them produce writing on topics that relate to their majors or scholarly interests.
Methods of Instruction
This is a 3-credit hour course. Normally, a 3-credit hour course would meet two times each week (during a 16 week term) for a total of 3 hours per week or 48 hours per term. In this class, we will meet once a week for at least 1.5 hours, and you will engage in structured out-of-class or online activities for the remainder of the class time. Aside from the diagnostic essay, students will have to brainstorm, produce, and revise 5 writing assignments as well as post to weekly discussions, read online articles, and complete exercises and quizzes demonstrating their knowledge of the course material.
Learning Outcomes
Unit 1--Essay Development: The student shall be able to compose units of discourse and provide ideas and information suitable to the purpose and the audience.
Unit 2--Conventions of Standard American English: The student shall be able to transmit ideas and information in effective written language by employing good diction, conventional sentence structure, and standard written American English grammar and usage.
Unit 3--Research Skills: The student shall be able to locate and evaluate primary and secondary sources and incorporate the relevant information into a paper documented internally and bibliographically.
Unit 4--Reading Critically: The student shall be able to read assignments with a view to their artistic merits, content, logical progression and thoroughness of citations (if any).
Course Requirements
This is where you list key course requirements: Those written in bold are required and must be included in the Course Preview Page.
•Knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
•Familiarity with Turnitin.com.
•New to e-learning? Take the e-learning orientation before enrolling in any e-learning course.
•Before enrolling in an e-learning course review computer requirements.
•There are no required meeting dates for this course.
•All students must obtain their BC email address. It is used for course login.
•Familiarity with searching library materials. For information on how to obtain a Broward county public library card, CLICK HERE.
Course Materials
Below is the required textbook for this course:
Ruszkiewicz, John J. How to Write Anything: A Guide and Reference. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2009.
This textbook is available at the South Campus bookstore. For directions to the bookstore, CLICK HERE.
How to Register for this Course
If enrollment in your course is restricted, let students know how they can sign up. Otherwise, please refer them to students' myBC website . Students must pay for the course before they will be able to log into the course.
Information Contact
If you are interested in registering for ENC 1101, please contact me at nleon@broward.edu.
How to Access this Course once you are Enrolled in this Course
Once you are enrolled, Login to your course should be available August 23, 2010. Normally, the login date should be the first day of the session in which the course is scheduled. Make sure that you understand that the only people who will be permitted to login are those students who have registered and paid for the course. There may be a delay of up to 24 hours from when a student registers and pays before Blackboard login is activated.
•Obtain BC email user ID and PIN code before attempting to login to Blackboard.
•At BC email address site, click on "ID Lookup", then enter your Student# (or INTL Student ID#) and PIN code (2 digit birth month and 2 digit year). Write down your email ID (not the @mail.broward.edu part), which is your Blackboard User Name.
•Your Blackboard User Name is the same as your BC email ID.
•Your Blackboard password is the same as your BC email PIN code.
Links to help students get connected to Blackboard/e-learning course(s) at BC
•BC Blackboard/e-Learning login page The direct link for Blackboard login is https://elearning.broward.edu.
•Student e-learning Resources
•Blackboard Helpdesk is available if you need any technical assistance using or logging into Blackboard.
