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Syllabus
Click this link to access the syllabus for Section 0501 (asynchronous)
Click this link to access the syllabus for Section 1013 (synchronous)
Weekly Office Hour
Section 0501: Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/83008841058?pwd=UlpCNmlsaWRzdUcvS0ladTlZU01qQT09
Meeting ID: 830 0884 1058
Passcode: 218310
Section 1013: Monday 11:45 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. (Office hours begins immediately after Zoom class)
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Meeting ID: 817 6880 2225
Passcode: 345814
CAMERAS DURING ZOOM MEETINGS
Students are required to turn on their cameras and be visible during Zoom sessions of our class. This aids in learning and helps foster a sense of community. However, students are welcome to use Zoom’s virtual backgrounds. Students who are uncomfortable with this policy are encouraged to switch to a course in which video presence is not required.
Textbook Information
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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.
Mandatory E-Learning Orientation
Please visit the Blackboard home page for your section and access the E-learning Orientation on the gray navigation panel. This is a mandatory assignment and should be completed by the end of the first week. A 20-question quiz at the end of Week 2 will include material from the Orientation.
BMCC Grading System
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For access to the grading rubric, click here.
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Commonlit Sign-up Directions
Click here to create an account with Commonlit. This is a zero textbook course (ZTC), and many of the assignments will come from this interactive website. Please create your student account right away so that you do not miss any assignments.
Your passcode is: PWEVQ8
The name of the class is: Introduction to Literature Fall 2021
Thank you for your cooperation.
How the Online Class Works
If your section of the class is synchronous, you have a weekly Zoom meeting. If your section of the class is asynchronous, there are no Zoom meetings. Either way, you are responsible for completing 4-9 tasks. The tasks are varied and include reading, listening, viewing, and discussing activities. In the synchronous section, we will complete some of these activities. You will be graded on your responses to the discussion board, quizzes, and of course, on your essays. From time to time you will be directed or linked back to the Blackboard platform.
Information about Discussion Boards (DBs)
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Even in an online course, lively discussions are at the heart of an interesting class. Please lend your voice and ideas to all discussion boards. These are the main forums for interaction in an online course and are also the primary means of showing your presence in the class.
Discussion Board Etiquette
Please respond in full sentences in correct English (not in texting language)
Please use upper and lower case.
Disagreement with the opinions of others is fine–even admirable—but please show respect for fellow classmates in your responses.
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Discussion Board Grading
Class participation via the discussion board makes up a significant percentage of your overall grade (20%). To receive credit (partial or full), comments for the weekly forum must be posted by midnight on Sunday of that week.
• Each DB is worth 100 points
* Your initial post, which should be at least 150 words in length, is worth 80% of the week’s grade.
* To receive full credit, your first post must be submitted by Friday.
* Your follow-up responses to at least one other student should be 75-100 words in length.
* Follow-up comments are worth 20% of the week’s grade.
* Posts that are submitted on the weekend will not receive a grade higher than 75%.
* To receive credit, comments must be substantive. Remarks such a “nice post” or “I agree” will not receive credit.
* Posts submitted as Attachments will not be opened.
* Discussion Boards cannot be “made up.” (This is because there will be no one with whom to discuss anything in a closed DB).
As I’m sure you can understand that, with nearly 80 participants in our OpenLab group, it is not possible for me to respond individually to every single post. However, I assure you that I do read every post. I will, of course, be jumping into the forum from time to time, usually in the first few days of the week. This discussion board really belongs to you and your colleagues.
I will usually respond personally to posts submitted early in each week. I will make every effort to post grades for each DB by Tuesday of the following week.
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 detection function, will be turned over to the Student Life Manager for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity. If you hope to pass this class, do not plagiarize.
Every student is required to view the short plagiarism video in order to have a complete understanding of what plagiarism is. This will preclude the excuse that anyone has “accidentally” plagiarized.
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Essay Due Dates and Submission Links
Essay 1 due: Sunday, October 3 (See Week 5 for details and submission link).
Essay 2 due: Sunday, October 31 (See Week 8 for details and submission link).
Research Summary due: Sunday, November 7, (See Week 10 for details and submission link).
Essay 3 due: Wednesday, November 24 (See Week 11 for details and submission link).
In order to be reviewed all essays must contain a signed Academic Integrity Pledge. Below the Work Cited page, please type the following and type your full name.
I hereby pledge that the information in this essay is my own original work and that all phrases or quotes taken from other sources have been correctly identified via quotation marks/in-text citation. YOUR NAME
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:
Go to TOOLS
Click on MY GRADES
Scroll down to the assignment you want to view and select.
Click on ASSIGNMENT MATERIALS
Click on MY PAPER
OR:
Go to BLACKBOARD
Click on ESSAY SUBMISSION LINKS
Click on the essay you want to view
Click on VIEW/COMPLETE (in the third panel on the bottom)
CLICK on VIEW
When you get to your essay, you will see my comments on the essay itself. Then, on the right-hand side, click the icon that looks like a piece of paper with a pencil on top of it (the third blue icon down). My written comments to you will appear in a small window to the right of this. Above this, you can click to listen to my Voice Comments.
Below is additional information about Turnitin assignments.
Click here for directions for reviewing both text and voice Essay comments submitted through Turnitin.
Directions for voice comments follow the directions for reading text comments. (Click “Next”).
How to Check Quiz Answers
Go to TOOLS
Click on MY GRADES
Scroll down to the quiz you want to review and select.
Under CALCULATED GRADE, click the blue score. The quiz will open and show answers.
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 and Writing Intensive courses.
Early in the fall semester, students are invited to join us for an orientation, in which they can learn more about the resources we offer and how to access them.
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 Structure and Grammar Exercises
Click this link to access the OWL at Purdue Writing Center “Sentence Structure” Page. On the navigation panel on the left of the screen, you can choose from a number of lessons and practice exercises.
BMCC Writing Center Tutoring
Click this link to access online tutoring with the BMCC Writing Center.
Click this link for online tutoring schedule for this semester.
