Frequently Asked Questions

 

 

This page will address the questions you email me. I’ll answer your question in a return email to you and post some of the general interest questions here with the answers for other students to see because they might be thinking the same thing, but haven’t asked the question yet.

 

The most recent questions will be at the top of the list.

 

Question: I haven’t heard from you this week – am I still in the class?

• Answer:       If you haven’t dropped yourself and you are keeping up with the work, there is no reason that you would be dropped from the class. Since this class is largely a “self-paced” class with deadlines, you may not hear from me every week. I try to contact the class through a class email, but I have the same problems you encounter in your life, i.e. illness, computer failures, other classes to teach. Remember this though: I’m only a phone call away (223-3236) call me and I will return your call as soon as possible.

 

Question:     What is the policy for late work? And how does late work affect my grade?

• Answer:       Each student is allowed to turn in 2 two late assignments. However, they must be turned in within one week of their original due date.  The third late assignment will not be accepted for credit.

 

Question:         Can I turn in the next unit before revising the previous unit?

Question:     Some of the pages don’t have anything on them or the links don’t work.

 

• Answer:       Some of the pages are still under construction or are on hold until they are needed at the end of the semester – an example would be the Ezine.  

Question:     I’ve gone to your orientation page several times and have been unable to find anything to fill out or send to you, other than test #1.

 

• Answer:       One of the most important tools for recognition of “links” is the way they look in the typed web page document. When there’s a hyperlink or something that needs to be filled out and sent in, you will see the “word or title or sentence” in a different color or underlined. Additionally when you touch it with the cursor, the cursor becomes a “pointing hand,” an indication that the “word or title or sentence” is a “link” to something else. There is a registration form for the course due before you send in your first assignment, Test 1, and the poet and book you will use this semester for your reader.

 

Question:     Is there a textbook for this class?

 

• Answer:       The web site serves as the primary text for this class. Also you are expected to read a book of poems by a poet that you admire; this book is your reader for the semester. And it is recommended that you use a book on creative writing to help motivate you during the semester. 

 

 

Question:     In some of the examples, you ask, “what do you think?” Are we supposed to send a response to you in these places if there’s not a link?

 

• Answer:       While it is not “required,” I would love to hear from you about what you think when I ask those questions. In a regular classroom, I would expect a response from the class. This sometimes can help me clarify for students something they do not understand. For example, let’s say I ask what do you think the poet means in the last two lines of the poem. You may think about it and not understand, or you may think about it and only think you understand. If you send me what you think the poet is trying to convey in the last two lines of the poem and I have another answer, you might see something different in the poem after reading my response.