Course Information
This is a Zero Textbook Cost course, which uses OER (Open Educational Resources) in lieu of a textbook. All required materials can be accessed in the Weekly folders.
This course is an 8-week intensive, synchronous online course, which runs from Tuesday, March 24th, through Tuesday, May 20th. The workload is equivalent to that of a full 15-week course. There are two 4-hour Zoom sessions each week (Monday and Wednesday 10:00 a.m. to 1:55 p.m.). These are lengthy sessions […]
Celeste Conway is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: My Meeting ENG 101 Time: Mar 25, 2026 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every week on Mon, Wed, until May 20, 2026, 17 occurrence(s) Join Zoom Meeting https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/87823575187?pwd=JcO4rwz5oaiAwXrnkFThKUR34MJhkG.1 Meeting ID: 878 2357 5187 Passcode: 006131 — One […]
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The High Cost of Plagiarism Plagiarism will be dealt with firmly. A student who plagiarizes will receive a permanent grade of zero (0) for the essay or discussion in question. All essays will be submitted through Turnitin, which features plagiarism detection capability. Suspected plagiarism, even if it passes the Turnitin […]
Essay Due Dates Essay 1: Due Sunday, April 12 (See Week 1 for details) Essay 2: Due Sunday, 4/26 ( See Week 4 for details) Essay 3: Due Wednesday 5/6 (See Week 5 for details) Essay 4: Due 5/17 (See Week 6 for details)
How to View Instructor Comments on Written Work It is very important that you review instructor comments on your graded essays. This way you can correct errors and do better on future essays. To see your grades, navigate back to your Brightspace course and follow these steps: On the Brightspace […]
BMCC Grading System A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F 93 – 100 90 – 92 87 – 89 83 – 86 80 – 82 77 – 79 73 – 76 70 – 72 67 – 69 63 – 66 60 – 62
A Message from the Writing Center The Writing Center supports writing across the curriculum by working with students and faculty to maximize the effectiveness of writing projects and student awareness of best practices. We work with all students who have writing projects, including those from the Social Sciences, Critical Thinking, […]
The Advocacy and Resource Center (ARC) offers free service to students to ensure that they have the support they need in order to focus on their studies. Services include: food assistance, emergency grant assistance, health insurance, and legal services. Click here to access the ARC website.
ACADEMIC COACHING Academic Coaches offer 1-on-1 sessions that help students identify their academic skills, strengths, and needs. Coaches work with students to develop transferable skills that they can use throughout their academic career and beyond and we want to share our services with you and BMCC students. We also offer free study […]
Help with Sentence Structure Run-on sentences, comma splices, and sentence fragments are the most common errors in essays. Please review the quick guide below for correcting these mistakes in sentence structure. For correcting run-on sentences and comma splices, review this PDF file. For correcting sentence fragments, click this link for a short video. Sentence […]