Lecture topic: Opening Remarks

I want to welcome all of you to class, and let you know that I am happy you have decided to enroll in this course. My goals for you are very straightforward, and I believe you should adopt them as your goals. You should demonstrate improvement in your writing, research, and documentation skills. With regard to your writing skills your work should be progressively free of sentence level errors that involve punctuation and grammar.

Work closely with lecture 2, for it is a quick way to square your prose with the style I am teaching, and it will lead to much higher grades. I will also spend time in class covering this.

The research and documentation part of this course simply means that for some of the later assignments you will locate outside sources that relate to your essays’ topics, and use MLA Style Guidelines to document them in your essays. The research and documentation aspects of this course are quite important, for 1302 is the Temple College course that teaches students the fundamentals of research and documentation.

Finally, I look forward to working with you this semester, and please do not hesitate to contact me with questions or concerns. My office location, phone, and hours are on the course syllabus. Feel free to make an appointment in advance, or just stop by without an appointment, but always try to bring a copy of your work in progress.