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Class Information
Objectives:
Advanced Composition is a course designed to help students develop professional and creative interactive writing skills as they learn and practice various computer applications. At the end of the class, students will have significantly polished their basic writing skills and become comfortable with the very latest content-driven codes and computer applications in the technology world.
How the course works:
Because it is essential students understand the plurality of the interactive world, they will be required to navigate three user-friendly content management systems or platforms for the course. They are beyondambiguity.com, the main class area, Moodle the leading open-source code course management system, and the university system, WebCT, which is accessed through Uconnect. (Simply click on "My Courses" and then our class once you are on Uconnect.) Students are required to log-on to each of these systems with their university username. Students create their own passwords for beyondambiguity.com and Moodle, following easy registration instructions, and use their university pin number for WebCT. Students must access these sites immediately in order to complete the requirements of the class. Students will submit their essays to Turnitin.com.
Online caveats:
Many of you have never taken an online course before. Here are three things to keep in mind as you begin the class. (1) Online courses, like this one, tend to seem overwhelming at first because all the information and assignments must be read and scrutinized alone outside a traditional classroom. There is no one standing in front of you to give you perspective or fellow students asking questions. Remember, you can always ask me questions through emails and telephone. (2) All the assignments requiring html code can be completed quite easily using systems such as geocities.com. though it is better to learn how to write basic html. I understand that many of you might be creating web pages for the first time. My purpose is to help you, not grade you down. Good effort and the willingness to learn will earn "A" grades on these assignments. (3) Because online courses lack f2f (face to face) contact, it is important we practice netiquette when communicating with one another. Without body language (a smile, a nod of the head, etc.), it is easy to be misunderstood
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Assignments
Essay One, 50 points
Essay Two, 50 points
Blog, 50 points
Research Paper, 100 points
Discussion, 100 points
Discussion Moderation, 50 points
Web Page, 50 points
Team Project, 50 points
(Be sure to click on the above assignments.)
Final Grade based on 500 points possible: 450-500 A (Excellent); 400-449 B (Good); 350-399 C (Average); 325-349 D (Below Average); 324 or below F (Failure).
Basic course requirement: Students must access the course on at least four days of the online week from Monday through Sunday. In addition, students must post on the various discussion boards at least eight times during the week.
Class Schedule
Professor Email
Top Ten Tips For Class
beyondambiguity.com
Moodle
Uconnect, WebCT
Professor's Profile
Okie Funk
For Fun
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Nation
Tom Paine
Media Matters
Common Dreams
Air America Radio
Salon
Slate
The New Republic
The New Yorker
New York Review of Books
Dallas Morning News
Los Angeles Times
The Smoking Gun
Your country needs your help now! Please participate in UCO's American Democracy Project. You can earn extra credit for this class by doing so.
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