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English 1114 with Richard Jewell - Inver Hills Community College
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Office: Business 136 |
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What Eng 1114 Involves à How To Use This Page à Contact Richard à Shortcuts: right column à Course Packet ↓ Helpful Info When Starting ↓ Tips--see below. ↓ --------
Course Packet - Required - Please click on this, read the directions, and print copies.
Helpful Info When Starting
Syllabus (Summary of This Web Site) --------
Tips: (1) Handling All the New Information
There is a lot of information in this Web site. It's purpose is to give you more thorough explanations of what is expected--and more places and ways to get answers to your questions. It can be overwhelming at first and make the course seem much harder. However, after a few weeks, most people begin to understand how to access the information - where to find it. From that point on, instead of seeming like a problem, the information becomes a big help.
(2) Activating/Updating Your Metnet Account
Please activate your free school email address by completing the four steps at www.inverhills.edu/accounts. Then check your address (name0000@metnet.edu) at least once per week for messages from school.
If you already have it activated but you haven't used it in a while, please update it: open it and clear out old junk email to prepare it for use this term. You should check it at least once per week.
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What does Eng 1114 involve?
As you may know, this course is the longer of the two available Composition II courses--this one is three credits (while the other one is only two credits). Both Composition II courses involve learning to write research papers. However, this one is more oriented towards those who plan to go on to a four-year college degree or more - or are expected to do additional research in your coursework. In addition, the extra, third credit added to this course is for the time it takes to also read a book as a class and research subjects about the book. This kind of semester-long project, research shows, is the type of learning that students remember better and, years later, the type of learning that students say really helped them.
I have been teaching courses like this one for over twenty years, and I still very much enjoy teaching them. In fact, composition happens to be my special field of English. I have published several articles in academic journals and have made two or three dozen conference presentations about the teaching of writing. I also have had over 100 publications of popular-magazine articles and fiction stories, scholarly essays, photographs, and even a few poems in magazines and journals. (Click here for my resume or a sample fiction story.) As you can guess, I really love writing--and I love teaching writing, too.
If you ever have any questions, just ask me before or after class, email me, come to my office, or call me at home. I look forward to working with you!
Take care,
My easiest-to-remember email address is "richard at jewell dot net." (Convert this to regular email form: e.g., sue@smith.net. [Why am I printing it this way? There are software programs called "spiders" that automatically find email addresses on Web sites and sell them to junk-email advertisers. I'm already receiving 400-600 junk emails per week (many of them--but not all--blocked). Printing my email this way on a Web page helps me avoid more junk email.] |
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How To Use This Page
Use the links in the small, yellow, horizontal bar above to navigate this web site. Use the left-hand, light-blue column to see what is on a single page and to navigate that page.
On this page, see also the left hand column's list of "Helpful Info When Starting"--things to look at that may help some of you as individuals. In this same list is also the web site's general index.
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Contact Richard
You may always click on my picture and Web address on any of these pages in the upper-left corner to find out more about me. And you may always click on "Email/Call Richard" in the upper-right corner of any of these pages in this course web site to get my contact info. My name is "Richard," and my home phone (the easiest way to get me) is 612.870.7024 9 am-9 pm. My email address is below in the middle column. --------
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Subject Index for This Web Site
Building & Room: See IHCC Schedule of Courses
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Most recent update of this page: 1 Aug.. 2008
You may always return to the home page by clicking on "Home
Page" on the left-hand side of the bar at the top. You also may click on the
picture to the right. You also may Google "richard.jewell"
or "richardjewell" to find a link to this site. Images courtesy of IHCC, Barry's Clip Art, Clip Art Warehouse, Clip Art Universe, Clipart Collection, MS Clip Art Gallery and Design Gallery Live, School Discovery, and Web Clip Art First date of publication: January 1, 2005. Graphics
redesigned June 3, 2007 & Aug. 1, 2008. |
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