To get your "1114 Course Packet," first read and follow these instructions. 

Then click on the correct course packet in the yellow box below:

        What is the course packet?  The beginning of it includes basic information necessary to starting the course and figuring out your assignments at a glance.  The rest of it is a series of forms that you must fill out and attach to your formal papers in this class.  You are required to print out these sheets and attach them to each formal paper.  You should do this printing right away.

1. Finding it: Click on the correct link--the correct semester and year--below.  You'll find an MS Word file.  Please use MS Word to print it.  Do NOT use MS Works--it may mess up the format/layout/margins.  
             

2. Saving it: If you are on your own computer or have a disk, save the file to a place you'll remember.  If you can't save the file, that's okay: go on to step "4."
             

3. Standard Warning: Don't stop at this point! If you save the file, go on to step 4 and print it right away!  Printing is required, and credit is given for printing it. Do NOT plan on saving it now and copying each sheet as you need it: trying to copy it into a paper you already have written may wreck the formatting/margins of these pages.  You also need to have printed copies with you in class for two reasons: (1) we will discuss or use many of them in class, and (2) having them in class will allow for faster turning in of your papers.  (Laptop users, do not just plan on bringing the papers to class on your laptop: you, too, need to print out and carry them physically.)  
             

4. Printing it: Print the entire course packet: Physically print it: don't just save it!
                  

   EASY WAY:	Print 2 complete copies.  Carry one (or both) to class each day.  You'll need one in class for notetaking, and at least one clean copy from which you will remove "Cover Sheets" and attach them to the graded papers you turn in. You probably will need to go back to the web site and make copies of a few of the "Cover Sheets" if you don't have enough unmarked ones.  ALWAYS carry AT LEAST ONE COPY to CLASS EVERY day.  (Consider printing 1 original and then xeroxing or printing 1 two-sided copy for less carrying weight.)
   FORGETFUL WAY &      CONSTANT NOTE-TAKER WAY:	Print 3 copies if you tend to lose papers or you like to write lots of notes on papers.  You may or may not need to go back to the web site and make another copy of some "Cover Sheets."  (With 3 copies, you almost always will have a clean copy with no notes on it to attach to your graded papers.)  ALWAYS carry AT LEAST ONE COPY to CLASS EVERY day.  (Consider making 1 two-sided copy for less weight.)
   FUTURE-PLANNER WAY:	Print 1 more copy (4 copies total).  Have plenty of copies around for putting a clean copy of the "Cover Sheets" on your graded papers.  and save an extra as a set of reference pages for future writing assignments in other classes and years.  ALWAYS carry AT LEAST ONE COPY to CLASS EVERY day.  (Consider making 2 two-sided copy for less weight.)

                                     

5. Click the link to your "Course Packet": (Questions or Problems?  See "6. Frequently Asked Questions--Troubleshooting Your Problems" below.)

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6. Frequently Asked Questions--Troubleshooting Your Problems: 
                   
   (a) Confused?  Then just click on the link in larger letters in the yellow box above, and then print 4 copies of the whole "Course Packet" file.  Always bring at least one copy to school.
                        
   (b) Contents cut off?  Do your printed sheets have page numbers or other contents cut off at the top, bottom, or sides?  Simple solution: Find a different computer--for example, at school.  Complex solution: Have someone adjust your printer's software program (not the MS Word printing program) for narrower margins: no more than .15" on all four sides.  
                
   (c) Print faded?  Definitely change the ink or use a different printer so both you and I can read everything.  You'll be attaching many of these sheets to your formal papers!
                
   (d) Out of Time?  Do it tomorrow.  Usually when I assign something, it has to be in on time.  However, I really badly want you to do this one, so I'll give you extra time to show it to me.
                
   (e) Do you seem to need more than 4 copies?  Do not attach a new set of cover sheets every single time you turn in another draft.  You should never need more than 1 set of the Draft 1 cover sheets, and never more than 2 sets of the Draft 2 and Draft 3 cover sheets.  If you have turned in a draft but have not yet received your X's for it, then keep using the cover sheets on which I have written comments.
   
   (f) Do you only want to print one or two pages and you don't know how?  Do NOT click on the printing icon.  Here's how to print just the pages you want. 
    
             i.  Open the "Course Packet" and look at the first page.  It shows you the contents.  
     
            ii.  Find the page numbers of the pages you want to print (and write them down if you need to). 
     
           iii. Do NOT click on the printing icon.  Instead, click in the upper-left corner on "File,"
                and then in the list that appears, click on the word "Print" in that list. 
    
           iv.  Then, the form that appears, find "pages" and type into the box the page numbers
                 that you want to print (e.g., "5-7" or "5, 6, 7"). 
     
            v.  Then you may click on "OK," and the pages you want to print will be printed.
                        
   (g) Lost your Packet?  You may print out just the part you still need.  (See "f" above.)

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