First Day

Welcome to your English 0099 course! I hope this semester will be both fun and challenging for you! Your professor's name is Dr. Matthew Horton (that's me!), but you can call him Dr. H. I have high hopes that this semester will help you improve the skills you need to handle college-level writing courses!

Click on these icons and see what you can do! This course is about writing, sure, but it is also about using technology to help you discover new possibilities with writing. Writing's not all just about typing papers and turning them in. In fact, this course strives to be as PAPERLESS as possible! This might be a little scary for some of you, but I assure you, the skills you'll learn will be just as important as effective writing!



Also, go ahead and look through some of the most important resources on this course website:

Read the syllabus
Check the agenda
Using Google Drive

Additional resources are available by clicking the tabs across the top and various links in the right-hand margin. As much as you can, familiarize yourself with this course website. My contact info is in the right-hand margin at well, towards the top.

Syllabus

Your Goals for the Course

• identify obstacles and gateways to success in college academics
• cultivate motivation to participate in higher education
• recognize ethical and financial value of skillful, authentic communication
• demonstrate personal responsibility in content, presentation, and quality of work
• develop writing process to meet demands of college writing
• practice fundamentals of sentence, paragraph, and essay writing
• orchestrate parts of an essay to construct a unified discussion
• compose, revise, and format standard college essay using Google Drive
• communicate feedback on peer writing performance using Google Drive
• follow personalized learning plan to practice grammar conventions
• navigate UNG website for essential student resources

Calendar

Please note that some assignments are due on days that we do not actually meet in person. Assignments that are due on class days must be finished and turned in at the beginning of class, unless noted otherwise in the agenda description. There is no particular time for assignments on the other days, just sometime that day (or night).

Assignments

• Paragraphs
• Essays
• Personalized Learning Plan

Here is a checklist, in case you want to work ahead and finish the course early:

Paragraphs

Cause-Effect paragraph

Process paragraph

Contrast paragraph

Beginning paragraph

Ending paragraph

Essays

"Interpret an Experience"

"Clarify a Process"

"Highlight a Difference"

Final Exam Essay

Personalized Learning Plan

432 Mastery Points

Writing Guides

• The Writing Process
• Parts of an Essay
• Outline and Write
• Revision Guide
• Editing Guide
• How to Write an Email to Your Teacher