English 101 – Fall 2009 Professor Jessica Mintz Welcome English
101 students. I invite you to enjoy a new learning experience as
we journey through this online course. Our focus will be on
language – how to use it, read, it, analyze it, write it, and
hopefully, come to a greater understanding of its power and
influence in all that we do. If you have taken an online class
before, then you know how it works. You understand that the
entire class is conducted without actually meeting face-to-face,
that we have ‘discussions’ online, that assignments are
submitted online (NOT via email), that the technology is
durable, exciting, and flexible. But for those of you who have
never taken an online class before, the idea that we never sit
in a classroom together, that you never see me ‘lecture’ at the
front of the room, that no paragraphs or essays or assignments
are actually ‘handed’ over to me, may all seem like a foreign
concept. I suppose it’s like explaining an iphone to someone
from the 19th century: “Yeah, it’s t