Class participation via the discussion board makes up a significant percentage of your overall grade (20%). How to receive full credit (100%) for each weekly discussion board. Submit your first post by Friday of each week at the latest. This is worth 80% of the weekly grade. Respond to the […]
Celeste Conway
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Essay Due Dates Paragraph Writing Assignment due: Sunday, September 17 (See Week 1 for details and submission link). Essay First Draft due: Sunday, October 1 (See Week 2 for details and submission link). Essay Final Draft due: Sunday, October 8 (See Week 4 for details and submission link). In order to […]
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 Blackboard course and follow these steps: Navigate to Essay […]
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
All quizzes (except for final) must be submitted by 5:00 p.m. on Sunday of each week. Quiz 1: Thesis Statements – Due Sunday, 9/10 Quiz 2: Formatting – Due Sunday, 9/17 Quiz 3: Literary Terms – Due Sunday 9/24 Quiz 4: Ancient Greek Theater – Due Sunday 10/1 Quiz 5: […]
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 […]
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 skills workshops. […]
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 […]
Prompt: In her critical overview of “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (Activity 2) scholar Rena Korb discusses several different interpretative views of the story. One interpretation mentioned in the article by Korb reads the story as a sort of “inverted fairy tale.” With specific reference to the […]
This is quote from the reading in Activity 1, “How to Read Poem” by Edward Hirsch. “Reading a poem is part attitude and part technique.” Please answer both 1 and 2. 1. Restate this in quote in your own words. 2. With specific reference to one of the week’s sonnets, […]
COVID was a plague that affected the modern world. Think back to those days and compare/contrast the behaviors of the American population that you witnessed during this plague with the behaviors of the people of Thebes as seen in Oedipus the King. Refer to specific scenes from the play, but […]
Prompt: How is the theme in the nineteenth-century Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Wife” echoed in the twentieth-century story “Another Evening at the Club” by Alifa Rifaat? In your response, use quotes/reference to specific scenes from the story and quotes from the poem. To submit your post, follow the steps below. […]
