{"id":985,"date":"2017-06-16T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/englishcomp1-91\/?post_type=chapter&p=985"},"modified":"2017-07-14T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T21:00:04","slug":"course-learning-activities","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-enhancedwriting\/chapter\/course-learning-activities\/","title":{"raw":"Course Learning Activities","rendered":"Course Learning Activities"},"content":{"raw":"Course Learning Activities<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nThis is a college writing course; in fact, it's an \"enhanced\" writing course, which just means it's worth 3 credit hours, but it meets for 4 contact hours each week--giving you some extra help to insure a good grade and a successful experience. You may think that 15 pages of informal prose and 10 pages of formal prose sound like a lot.\u00a0 You will AMAZE yourself at how much you will produce, and how relatively painfree writing becomes for you.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nThe course is divided into SEVEN Learning Modules. In each module there is a discussion forum, a writing lab exercise\/assignment, and an essay or paper. The various learning activities are detailed below.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nEssays and Papers are worth 50%<\/strong><\/span><\/span> of your final grade.\u00a0 I will try to give you much leeway in choosing topics that mean something to you.\u00a0 I don't believe in assigning essays on \"how I spent my summer vacation,\" or \"why marijuana should be legalized.\"\u00a0 These topics have been exhausted long ago, and both writing about them and reading about them would be boring.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nDiscussion forums will make up 25%<\/strong><\/span><\/span> of your final grade.\u00a0 Each discussion will be worth 100 points, and these points are \"guaranteed\" to you if you follow the discussion directions and post the required number of times.\u00a0 Discussions are a way to connect with your classmates and with me, since I will participate in these forums.\u00a0 Commenting on your peers' writing efforts is VERY helpful to them, and the feedback they provide on your writing can be very worthwhile.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nWriting Lab exercises and assignments will make up 25%<\/strong><\/span><\/span> of your final grade.\u00a0 Because this section of College Writing has an extra contact hour each week, you will have extra help and practice working on your individual strengths and weaknesses.\u00a0 It is very important that you and I work together to identify what you do well and what areas of your writing need extra attention.\u00a0 For example, it makes no pedagogical sense to assign the whole class work on sentence fragments if only three of you ever write sentence fragments.\u00a0 Or, maybe six others have trouble with subject\/verb agreement.\u00a0 So those six should focus on that issue<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nIn your online FREE text, there is a whole section at the end that should help you work on your weaknesses once they have been identified.\u00a0 Here is a list of some mini-lessons you may find helpful:<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nGrammar\/Mechanics Mini-lessons\r\nMini-lesson: Subjects and Verbs, Irregular Verbs, Subject Verb Agreement\r\nMini-lesson: Sentence Types\r\nMini-lesson: Fragments I\r\nMini-lesson: Run-ons and Comma Splices I\r\nMini-lesson: Comma Usage\r\nMini-lesson: Parallelism\r\nMini-lesson: The Apostrophe\r\nMini-lesson: Capital Letters<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nTo sum it up, I will help you figure out what specific areas of your writing you need to work on most.\u00a0 Then, you will be assigned some exercises\/activities to complete.\u00a0 Finally, you will go back to your own essay\/paper and \"fix\" just the specific problem you're focusing on.\u00a0 This is GOOD NEWS. You will focus on only a few of your major weaknesses--and you will learn that you also have major strengths in your writing.<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nYou will find many practice exercises in your online textbook.\u00a0 For example, near the bottom of the Table of Contents you will see the following:\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n

Grammar Practice \u2013 Interactive Quizzes<\/h1>\r\n
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\r\n\r\nFor additional grammar practice, choose the topic(s) you want to develop by taking interactive quizzes from the Guide to Grammar and Writing<\/em> on the following site.\r\n\r\nClick the link to access the site: Grammar Practice Site<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n.","rendered":"

Course Learning Activities<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is a college writing course; in fact, it’s an “enhanced” writing course, which just means it’s worth 3 credit hours, but it meets for 4 contact hours each week–giving you some extra help to insure a good grade and a successful experience. You may think that 15 pages of informal prose and 10 pages of formal prose sound like a lot.\u00a0 You will AMAZE yourself at how much you will produce, and how relatively painfree writing becomes for you.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The course is divided into SEVEN Learning Modules. In each module there is a discussion forum, a writing lab exercise\/assignment, and an essay or paper. The various learning activities are detailed below.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Essays and Papers are worth 50%<\/strong><\/span><\/span> of your final grade.\u00a0 I will try to give you much leeway in choosing topics that mean something to you.\u00a0 I don’t believe in assigning essays on “how I spent my summer vacation,” or “why marijuana should be legalized.”\u00a0 These topics have been exhausted long ago, and both writing about them and reading about them would be boring.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Discussion forums will make up 25%<\/strong><\/span><\/span> of your final grade.\u00a0 Each discussion will be worth 100 points, and these points are “guaranteed” to you if you follow the discussion directions and post the required number of times.\u00a0 Discussions are a way to connect with your classmates and with me, since I will participate in these forums.\u00a0 Commenting on your peers’ writing efforts is VERY helpful to them, and the feedback they provide on your writing can be very worthwhile.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Writing Lab exercises and assignments will make up 25%<\/strong><\/span><\/span> of your final grade.\u00a0 Because this section of College Writing has an extra contact hour each week, you will have extra help and practice working on your individual strengths and weaknesses.\u00a0 It is very important that you and I work together to identify what you do well and what areas of your writing need extra attention.\u00a0 For example, it makes no pedagogical sense to assign the whole class work on sentence fragments if only three of you ever write sentence fragments.\u00a0 Or, maybe six others have trouble with subject\/verb agreement.\u00a0 So those six should focus on that issue<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In your online FREE text, there is a whole section at the end that should help you work on your weaknesses once they have been identified.\u00a0 Here is a list of some mini-lessons you may find helpful:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Grammar\/Mechanics Mini-lessons
\nMini-lesson: Subjects and Verbs, Irregular Verbs, Subject Verb Agreement
\nMini-lesson: Sentence Types
\nMini-lesson: Fragments I
\nMini-lesson: Run-ons and Comma Splices I
\nMini-lesson: Comma Usage
\nMini-lesson: Parallelism
\nMini-lesson: The Apostrophe
\nMini-lesson: Capital Letters<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To sum it up, I will help you figure out what specific areas of your writing you need to work on most.\u00a0 Then, you will be assigned some exercises\/activities to complete.\u00a0 Finally, you will go back to your own essay\/paper and “fix” just the specific problem you’re focusing on.\u00a0 This is GOOD NEWS. You will focus on only a few of your major weaknesses–and you will learn that you also have major strengths in your writing.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You will find many practice exercises in your online textbook.\u00a0 For example, near the bottom of the Table of Contents you will see the following:
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Grammar Practice \u2013 Interactive Quizzes<\/h1>\n
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For additional grammar practice, choose the topic(s) you want to develop by taking interactive quizzes from the Guide to Grammar and Writing<\/em> on the following site.<\/p>\n

Click the link to access the site: Grammar Practice Site<\/a><\/p>\n

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