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- What is papyr.com? What are the HyperTextBooks?
- Are these courses free?
- Are these courses accredited?
- Do these courses earn college/university credit?
- Do these courses transfer to other colleges/universities?
- Are there prerequisites for your classes?
- How do I register for your classes?
- Must I use my COD-assigned email address for class?
- Do we use Anlon or Blackboard (the College's student management systems)?
- How do I log in to the course and/or the message board?
- Must I log in?
- Why does nothing happen when I click on the "Log In," "Chat," or "Change Name & Email" (etc.) links on the web site?
- How do I use the note taking feature?
- How do I use the 'My Bookmarks' feature?
- What is your privacy policy?
- How do I get started?
- How do I follow the course in the HyperTextBooks? I feel lost!
- How do I find my assignments?
- What textbooks do I need?
- How do we use eForum (the message board)?
- When do we chat online?
- Must we use the chat or message board?
- When are assignments due?
- How and when do I take my tests or exams?
- Is there any penalty for late work?
- Can I revise my work?
- How long do I have to revise my work?
- Is there any extra credit work for class?
- Must I do all the work for this class?
- How do I send my assignments to you?
- How do I know you are receiving my assignments?
- What style (or format) should I use for my assignments?
- How do I check my grades?
- How do I get my grades or transcripts when the course is completed?
- Do I start the course any time I wish?
- What should I do if I fall behind in my work?
- How do I access the library databases?
- How do I troubleshoot library access problems?
- Must I use the College of DuPage library?
- Why did the college move from quarters to semesters?
- I have an incomplete from an earlier term (on the quarter calendar). Where's my old course?
- How can I get more help?
- Do you teach modern English grammar online?
- Where can I find ______ ? (Is there a search facility?)
- Where can I find more information about College of DuPage Online?
- What is your mailing address? office location? phone number? fax number?
- May I use your materials? / What are your terms of use?
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions about my online courses.
- What is papyr.com? What are the HyperTextBooks?
- Answer: Papyr.com is my internet domain, on which I offer my English grammar, linguistics, composition, rhetoric, and other academic resources for free. I create the content and the graphics. I also do the programming here. Although I am a professor of English and linguistics at the College of DuPage, and have taught there since 1986, I alone am responsible for these web sites and wish to separate this material from the materials I created for the college. Those other materials are housed on the college's server.
I created these web sites as the primary texts for my online courses, courses that employ networked computing not only as the medium of instruction but also as a tool to learn about the art of writing itself. TheHyperTextBooks began in my filing cabinet. After twenty-five years of teaching composition and English language studies, I had amassed a collection of handouts, exercises, notes, conference papers, and publications that became the core of these textbooks in hypertext, the HyperTextBooks.
In the early 1980s, I began to use and think of computers as writing tools, helping to establish the first computer aided composition classroom at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. By the late 1980s, I began presenting those classroom materials on the networked computers. Today, I remain fascinated by the link between the medium of instruction (writing, via the internet) and the object of instruction (increasing one's facility with language and writing).
I have been teaching online since 1988; the first complete versions of the HyperTextBooks went online September, 1993. Unlike some who argue that hypertext may destroy literacy, I am inclined to see hypertext as an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, move toward literacy.
- Are these courses free?
- Answer: Yes and no. Several web sites, such as Free-ed.net and other educational portals, list my sites as offering "free online courses." That is not quite true, however. Access to my course content is free, but earning college credit for the courses requires enrollment (and tuition to the College of DuPage).
I do keep all my course materials open access and public (with the exception of the tests). In that sense, my courses are free. I do not charge for access to my site, and I do not restrict any user from accessing my class content or academic papers and research projects. Students and guests are welcomed to read and use the materials any time. However, to earn college credit for my courses requires enrollment at College of DuPage, and enrollment means paying tuition and fees.
I am sorry if this created any confusion or disappointment. I want you to know, however, that I am not affiliated with any of those "free education" sites; I did not ask to be listed with any web site, such as Free-ed.net; nor did any of those sites ask for my permission before advertising my sites as free online courses.
- Are these courses accredited?
- Answer: Yes. College of DuPage is accredited by the North Central Association, one of the largest accrediting organization in North America. The North Central Association (NCA) is a non-profit organization, accrediting over 8,000 schools in seven categories, including college and universities at the tertiary level of education. Those 8,000 schools are spread out over 19 states and also include the Department of Defense Dependents' Schools overseas. At its heart, NCA is an accreditation and evaluation organization. To become a member of NCA, a school must meet NCA's standards, conduct a self-study, and adopt a model of continuous school improvement that focuses on improving student performance. To preserve its accreditation, the college maintains a continuous improvement process of planning, internal analysis, external review, implementation, and documentation that focuses on enhanced learning for all students. Furthermore, as a member of the NCA evaluation corps myself, I advocate open access to the educational materials of all online courses both to assure the quality of online education (by allowing for public and professional scrutiny of the educational materials) and to ensure that online courses maintain high standards and improve over time to meet accreditation objectives.
In fact, the Illinois Virtual Campus cited my online courses as one of the models of online, distance education. (The Illinois Virtual Campus is a state-wide initiative serving as a clearinghouse of information about, and access to, online education throughout Illinois.)
- Do these courses earn college/university credit?
- Answer: Yes. The College of DuPage grants 3 semester hours of credit for each class.
- Do these courses transfer to other colleges/universities?
- Answer: Yes. However, remember always to check with your school's registrar or transfer counselors first to ensure that these courses will transfer to your institution.
If you are thinking of transferring courses within Illinois, look at iTransfer.org for information about transferring credit between Illinois institutions of higher education.
- Are there prerequisites for your classes?
- Answer: Yes. Students wishing to enroll in English 1101 must take a mandatory placement test. See the page about pre-course testing information from the College of DuPage web site for details. English 1101 is the prerequisite for 1102.
- How do I register for your classes?
- Answer: Read this registration information from the College of DuPage web site. On that page, you can learn how to register for classes by phone, by fax, in person, or via your computer.
- Must I use my COD-assigned email address for class?
- Answer: Yes. Starting Fall 2005, the college is finally providing each student with an email address. Thank goodness. About time. For more than a decade, the college refused to consider the possibility of providing email accounts for students, despite requirements to protect student privacy. A college-generated email account helps to ensure that only the students themselves will see their grades, assignments, records, and such. This is great news and long overdue.
Secondly, I have another very important reason for you to use only the COD-assigned email address for class — my anti-spam filters. I have some very effective, very powerful anti-spam filters on my mail server. Those filters attack spam like pit bulls hopped up on a cocktail of steroids and cocaine. Yet if you send mail to me through your COD-assigned email address, your mail will always get through to me. However, if you send mail to me from your private email account, I can not guarantee that I will ever see it or know you even tried. So that is the best reason to use only your COD-assigned email address for class.
- Do we use Anlon or Blackboard (the College's old and new student management systems)?
- Answer: No. My classes (as well as several others) are not inside the Anlon or Blackboard systems. The College of DuPage Online web pages might lead you to assume that all online classes are inside Anlon or Blackboard, but that is not true. My students will never have to bother with the Anlon or Blackboard.
- How do I log in to the course and/or the message board?
Answer: To log in to the courses, you simply click the Log In Here link now, or you can click on the
Fig. 1: An screen capture of note taking in the HyperTextBooks Change Name & Email link to log in from within the notes and information box that appears on nearly every page of these web sites. (See the screen capture here for an illustration, and try the working example below.)
N. B.: If you log in on this FAQs page, you may not see your name updated until you completely reload this page or go to another page within these web sites.
Your name and notes will be carried with you from page to page as you move within any course site. Only you can see your name and the notes you write on these pages. Your name and notes are not shared with anyone else.
eForum, the message board for the HyperTextBooks, is beautifully easy to use. No log in or registration is necessary at all. As soon as you visit the board, you are ready to read and post messages. See the Getting Started page on eForum for more information.
- Must I log in?
- Answer: Yes and no. Yes, my students must log in. By logging in, you can take full advantage of some of the conveniences I have built into the course, such as pre-filling mail, quiz, tests, and lab pages with your name and email address. Secondly, by logging in, I can follow your progress through these courses, which could be helpful if ever an assignment gets lost. Logging in creates a record of what was done and when.
However, no, guests will not be blocked from any content if they choose not to log in. I encourage guests to log in too, for the same reasons mentioned above. However, I keep everything open access (with the exception of tests and exams).
I created this feature of the web site as a means of personalizing your visits and as a tool for you to record information while you work in the HyperTextBooks. This tool will record your name, the number of pages you have read or visited, and any notes you have created for yourself. Occasionally, I will also display news or special messages about the courses to you through this feature.
- Why does nothing happen when I click on the "Log In," "Chat," or "Change Name & Email" (etc.) links on the web site?
- Answer: This problem is due to Internet Explorer (IE) 7's integrated scripted window blocker, which is separate from the popup blocker and is enabled by default. When you click on one of those links, papyr.com opens a small window called a scripted window so that you can enter your name for the chat room or the web site. Since the scripted window is blocked in IE7, it is impossible to use those features.
There are two methods to allow scripted windows:
- Temporarily
- When a scripted window is executed, an Information bar will appear along the top of your IE7 window stating that a scripted window was asking for information and was blocked.
- Click on the Information bar. A short menu will appear.
- Select the Temporarily Allow Scripted Windows option.
- Permanently
Go to mozilla.com and download the most secure, technically advanced browser available (and what's more, it is free), or if you insist on remaining vulnerable and on being an easy target for hackers, trojan-pushing scammers, script-kiddies, pornographers, and cyber-criminals, then continue to use IE7 and
- Go to Tools in the menu bar.
- Go to Internet Options.
- Go to the Security tab.
- Click on Custom level....
- Scroll to the bottom of the window that appears.
- Look for the option labeled Allow web sites to prompt for information using scripted windows.
- Choose the Enable option.
You can now perform the action you were attempting when the scripted window was blocked. This time the scripted window will appear.
- How do I use the note taking feature?
- Answer: Taking notes is relatively simple.
Basic instructions:
- To add notes to these pages, click the
Add Note link near the notes headline. A dialog window will open to allow you to enter your note and displays your notes on each page of the HyperTextBooks. In fact, you will see your notes on each page that you visit within any of the HyperTextBooks.- Furthermore, you can also quickly save a piece of text on a page as a note by highlighting the information you want to save and then clicking the
Add Selection as Note link. You must first select some text on the page to add as a note. (Drag your mouse over some text to highlight it, and then click theAdd Selection as Note link.)- To delete notes, click the Delete link that will appear next to each note that you create.
- If you use Netscape 6+ or MSIE 5+ as your web browser, you can move the notes around on each page. Patrons with those browsers will see an icon
( just above the notes box. Double click and hold the mouse button down anywhere within the notes box, and then you can drag the notes box to any position on the page.Move notes)
The note taking feature is an extension of myJavaScript application, which records and displays your notes on your screen. Remember that only you can see the notes you write on these pages. Your name and notes are not shared with anyone else. Take Note!
These notes are stored as "cookies" on your machine. This keeps them private. However, there are some limitations to cookies:
To get around these limitations, see the My Bookmarks feature, discussed below.
- To use them effectively, you must use the same machine each time (meaning that you won't see them if you access the website from a different computer — say a computer in the library for example.
- Each note has a size limit of about 4000 characters (4 KB).
- How do I use the 'My Bookmarks' feature?
Answer: 'My Bookmarks' allows you to save your notes and links to your most important pages permanently on the server. My Bookmarks is a feature only available to COD students. It is password protected, and only the current and previous students of these courses have access to this feature. To access your bookmarks, click the 'Open' or "Bookmark this page' link and you will be prompted to enter your user name and password. Use your full, college-assigned email address as your user name and the PIN I sent you at the beginning of the course as your password — the same PIN you use for the tests and exams.
Basic instructions:
- My Bookmarks is located in the message/notes box found on each page. See example at right. There are two My Bookmarks links. One opens your bookmarks window; the other allows you to add the current page to your bookmarks.
Advantages of My Bookmarks:
- If you work at multiple computers, at home, at the library, at work, etc, then My Bookmarks is a way to store valuable information that is accessible only by you across different machines.
- As I mentioned above, for my students, this is a way of saving information about your most important pages and your notes about each page too, permanently. This feature will contine to function after you complete the course. Thus, the H:T/Bs can become an annotated reference work for you. 'Nuff said.
- What is your privacy policy?
- Answer: My privacy policy is simple and straightforward:
I will never share, sell, or use your name or any other information about you with anyone else. Ever.Detailed privacy information and technical information about site compliance with P3P can be found here. If you have any questions about my policy, please write to me.
Display your cookie if you would like to see what is stored in your system cookie. Only you can read the cookie on your system. Your information is not shared with anyone else.
- How do I get started?
- Answer: To learn online successfully, you need to start with both the "big picture" and with the "particulars" of your online classes. To see the big picture, read the materials about succeeding with internet courses from the College of DuPage Online web site.
Second, to learn about the particulars of my courses, read the orientation materials I prepared. These materials are listed at the top of the Table of Contents of your course web site, and include such resources as a Tour of the HyperTextBooks, the syllabus for your course, the welcome letter for your course, and the directions using our conferencing system, eForum.
- How do I follow the course in the HyperTextBooks? I feel lost!
- Answer: I have several mechanisms in the course to keep you on track and to avoid that feeling of being lost in cyberspace.
- the Course Calendar (this example is from the English 1101 course),
- the "What's New?" newsletter (this example is also from the English 1101 course),
- the Table of Contents (this example is still from the English 1101 course),
- the Remote Control (yeah, that's right, English 1101 again), and finally
- the online grade sheet (again from the English 1101 course),
- eForum.
First, look at the course calendar for your class. This is the major device I have to help you see what work you are required to do for each unit of the course. Secondly, look too at the "What's New?" letter that I post online each Sunday of the academic term. This newsletter outlines the course work for that week and gives you both a weekly agenda of readings and assignments and some advice about how to approach the materials. Thirdly, the Table of Contents outlines, organizes, and links you to all the parts of your course — the general information you need, the reading assignments, the writing assignments, the labs, the practice exams, and the exams. Everything. Fourthly, you can open a remote control for your course into a small pop up window. Keeping this remote control open in the background will provide you with an easy way to access any page in your course at any time, even if you have surfed far away from my web sites. Fifthly, the online grade sheet not only links you to each unit and assignment in your course, but it also allows you to record and save your grades as I return graded work to you. In this way, you always know which assignments are done and the grade you have earned on each.
Furthermore, I use two kinds of links in the HyperTextBooks: primary links and secondary links. Primary links, in bold, are the important, "must read" documents in each unit of work in your course. The secondary links, in regular font face, are background readings that are related, relevant information, but not necessary reading for that unit of work.
It's easy to develop a "chasing your own tail" feeling as you click through link after link in hypertext documents. I hope that these navigations aids will help you feel that you are in control of your reading as you work through the HyperTextBooks.
- How do I find my assignments?
- Answer: The assignments are listed in several places.
- To see all the assignments for the whole course on one page, use the Course Calendar. (This example is from the English 1101 course.)
- To see the current week's assignments (with some explanatory information), use the "What's New?" newsletter. (This example is also from the English 1101 course.)
- Both of those links above are also available (along with direct links to all the assignments) on the Table of Contents page. (This example is still from the English 1101 course.)
- All those links above are also available in the drop-down Navigation aid in the Notes box that appears on each page of the course (usually in the right-hand column beneath the page title). The Remote Control feature gives you the same Navigation aid in a separate window. (Yeah, that's right, English 1101 again.)
- What textbooks do I need?
- Answer: None. I wrote the texts you will use in my online courses, and everything is available online at my web site. Students in English 1102, however, will need to find a copy of George Orwell's novel 1984, available in nearly every library or bookshop on the planet. Several sites online have full-text copies of the novel as well. Quite rightly too.
- How do we use eForum (the message board)?
- Answer: eForum has both a message board on which you can read and post messages at any time and a chat room for real time conferencing with me or other students. I plan to use eForum regularly to discuss our class reading and writing assignments. I will send you notices regularly of "special topic chats" about our course work and details about their scheduled times. eForum is also how I will transmit any last minute changes to our course. When the course begins, I will visit eForum nearly everyday to answer your questions and to make suggestions. I will hold my "virtual office hours" in eForum's chat room (see your syllabus for my current schedule of office hours). To use the chat room, simply enter your name in the space at the bottom left of the eForum screen and press the "Log In" button. When you do, a new window will open with the eForum chat room in view. If people are in the chat room, you will see their names and chat in progress. You can communicate with them by adding your message in the space provided at the bottom of the chat screen and pressing the "Send" button.
- When do we chat online?
- Answer: Each academic term, I list my office hours on your course syllabus. My office hours are held in the chat room of eForum. I encourage you to join me and your classmates, to share ideas about the materials we are reading and the assignments we are doing. It is also an excellent place to get help about any problems that arise as you are working through the course.
- Must we use the chat or message board?
- Answer: Yes and no. One of my hidden agenda items (and motivations for teaching online in the first place) is to foster literacy both in its traditional and in its evolving senses. Given the importance of new communications technology in the the work place and in academics, we need to develop skills commensurate with the importance of these new communications media. To accomplish these goals, we need to learn to communicate with each other as individuals and as a class through the use of message boards and real time "chats."
However, I also know that many of us are taking online courses simply because our schedules or other commitments/issues do not allow us to attend "traditional" classes. I realize that many of us can only do course work on weekends or after the kids are asleep. Therefore I do not require that you chat with me or your classmates in real time according to a prearranged schedule. (That sort of defeats the purposes of flexible learning and negates the advantages of computer networks, doesn't it?) However, I do keep office hours online in the chat room so that we can talk about course work. I do encourage you too to share ideas about course work via the message board with your class mates. The message board is available 24/7. Stop by. Say hi.
Besides, there is a very practical reason why we should use the chat or at least the message board: there are really smart, cool, interesting people who sign up for these online courses. So if you have a problem with an assignment, or your computer, or with anything web related, very often someone in class knows exactly what the solution is.
- When are assignments due?
- Answer: Due dates vary from course to course, obviously. Always consult your Course Calendar to see the schedule of assignments and their due dates.
- How and when do I take my tests or exams?
- Answer: Tests and exams are all done online through password protected areas of my web site. The tests and exams are not done by email, nor do you have to come to campus for the tests or exams. Dates for the exams vary from course to course, obviously. Always consult the your Course Calendar to see when exams are scheduled. Your USER NAME is always your entire college-assigned email address, and your PASSWORD is the four digit PIN that I sent to your college-assigned email address at the beginning of the course.
USER NAME = your entire college-assigned email address
PASSWORD = the four digit PIN that I sent to your college-assigned email account- Is there any penalty for late work?
- Answer: Yes. I will not accept late work. Late work earns no credit for the course.
- Can I revise my work?
- Answer: Yes. Revision is a part of the writing process, just as drafting and editing are. I will encourage you to revise (and resubmit work for re-evaluation) during the course. I always will try to provide feedback to help you learn more about writing, about your approach to writing, with an opportunity to develop and to grow.
- How long do I have to revise my work?
- Answer: One week from the time I returned the work to you.
- Is there any extra credit work for class?
- Answer: No.
- Must I do all the work for this class?
- Answer: Yes. I reserve the right to fail any student who does not complete a substantial number of assignments required by the syllabus. Specifically, in 1101, this means you must complete 6 of 8 labs, 5 of 6 essays, and all exams on time to earn any credit for the course. In 1102, this means you must complete 8 of 10 labs, all of the writing assignments, and both exams on time to earn any credit for the course.
I will hold you to this. So, if, for example, a student does all the work but only half or two-thirds of the essays (no matter how many points the student has accumulated), I reserve the right to fail that student.
- How do I send my assignments to you?
- Answer: You will send most assignments, labs, and exams to me via my web site by clicking buttons on the web page. I have created several interactive exercises that you do online to help you learn about writing. Most of these online exercises are sent to me by clicking a button on the web page when you are done. Look at lab 8 from English 1102 as an example.
You can send documents to me (such as essay assignments) either through my contact form page or through your college-assigned account. You have the choice of either attaching the document file to the email, or you may copy and paste the document content from your word processor to the email message itself. I will accept any word processing document file. I try to keep enough current software so that I can open almost any word processing file.
My philosophy of course development is "any browser, any word processor, any time." That is, I do not want to force you to buy expensive software by requiring a particular word processor. Similarly, I don't want to limit accessibility to the course by requiring a particular browser. That does make life harder for me. However, I feel that even though the course uses communications technology as an educational medium, technology should not be your focus in the course. I realize too that forcing people to download, buy, and install new, unfamiliar software is an expensive, daunting task. So to make the course as accessible as possible and to make technology as "transparent" as possible, I developed the course with this philosophy in mind.
- How do I know you are receiving my assignments?
- Answer: If you use the contact forms on my web site, you will receive a confirmation email when your message arrives in my mailbox successfully. Furthermore, after using the contact form or other assignment on the web site, you should see this page (or another more specific confirmation page for some of the labs) whenever an assignment or message is sent successfully.
Secondly, when you are using your college-assigned email account, you can set an option when you send a message to "Request Receipt." The mail server at Papyr.com supports this notification feature and will send a reply to you to tell you that your email has been successfully delivered to my mailbox.
- What style (or format) should I use for my assignments?
- Answer: In the humanities, the MLA (Modern Language Association) paper format is the most commonly used style. See a sample paper in MLA format (rendered as traditional web page) or the same paper in MLA format (rendered in a PDF file). The PDF formatted version is better since it preserves the sample paper's layout more precisely, but you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer system to view it.
See also the Citing Sources: APA & MLA Styles resource at the College of DuPage Library for examples of how to prepare Works Cited entries for a variety of different resources. To use this resource, you simply click the link to the types of reference you need to cite, and you will see examples of both Bibliography entries (in the APA format) and Works Cited entries (in the MLA format).
- How do I check my grades?
- Answer: Use the online grade sheet (this example is from the English 1101 course) to review your grades as I return work to you. I keep the web site publicly available for almost everything. The exceptions are your grade sheet and your tests. Those are the only areas of the site where you will need a special USER NAME and PASSWORD to log in. For these courses, your USER NAME is always your entire college-assigned email address, and your PASSWORD is the four digit PIN that I sent to your college-assigned email address at the course. So to check your grades,
1. Pick your course from the list of courses on the grade sheet,
2. enter USER NAME = your entire college-assigned email address, and
3. enter PASSWORD = the four digit PIN that I sent to your college-assigned email account.- How do I get my grades or transcripts when the course is completed?
- Answer: The Records Office at College of DuPage will mail your grade report at the end of the term of enrollment. Transcripts can be ordered from the Records Office.
- Do I start the course any time I wish?
- Answer: No. Consult the college calendar for the dates that academic terms begin and end. Also, for each course, you must work steadily week-by-week to meet unit deadlines.
- What should I do if I fall behind in my work?
- Answer: First, don't panic. Write to me or call me (phone and office numbers are on your course's syllabus). We will work out a plan to help you get back on track.
- How do I access the library databases?
- Answer: You need a valid College of DuPage library card. That card has your name and your barcode, allowing you to gain access to the library's databases and reference materials while off campus. College of DuPage students taking courses online can request a library card from the library's web site.
- How do I troubleshoot library access problems?
- Answer: If you are having trouble accessing library materials, first consult the library's FAQs. If you still need more information or help, try the Ask a Librarian service.
- Must I use the College of DuPage library?
- Answer: Yes. Not all libraries are the same. Academic libraries, such as that at the college, will have more materials for your academic research and writing than will general, public libraries. I am not forbidding you from using other libraries. I am only saying that the College of DuPage library is your primary library for my courses.
- Why did the college move from quarters to semesters?
- Answer: I don't know. However, the college has information available about conversion to semesters at its Semester Conversion website.
- I have an incomplete from an earlier term (on the quarter calendar). Where's my old course?
- Answer: You can still finish the assigned incompletes. The old tables of content (TOCs) and syllabi for the old quarter calendar classes are here:
The old course materials have been reorganized/rewritten for the new semester calendar, but the content remains largely as you knew it before. You will notice some differences, however: the course pages have been rebranded as English 1101 or 1102, links in the semester material will refer to semester syllabi, semester course calendars, etc, so you will have to bookmark and refer to the old tables of content and syllabi yourself to keep track of what you need to finish the old course.English 101 TOC (Quarters) English 101 Syllabus (Quarters)
English 102 TOC (Quarters) English 102 Syllabus (Quarters)
English 103 TOC (Quarters) English 103 Syllabus (Quarters)
- How can I get more help?
- Answer: There are several resources available to you online and on campus should you wish more help with your writing projects. eForum is the first place to turn if you have questions related to our course. There you will find help and support from me and your classmates. You may also email me, call me, or visit me on campus during office hours. See your syllabus for numbers and times.
Further help for all your writing projects is available on campus at the Writing Center. Consult the Center's web site for times and locations.
For academic counseling and advising for online students, consider a visit to the Online Links to Support Services page and the Student Support Services for Distance Learning Students web site. If you have more general academic or personal counseling needs, remember that the Counseling, Transfer, and Advising office has many services available to you at no charge.
- Do you teach modern English grammar online?
- Answer: Not yet. I do have a complete overview of the structure of Modern English online; however, I wish to prepare more content covering English usage issues and more interactive exercises and quizzes before I teach modern English garmmar online.
- Where can I find ______ ? ( Is there a search facility?)
- Answer: If ever you find yourself searching for something — a word, phrase, or concept; a particular document; or a helpful message posted by a classmate — remember to use the search engine for Papyr.com and eForum. Like general search engines, the search engine for Papyr.com will allow you to search for information by key word, URL, phrases, or boolean operations. Unlike general search engines, however, the search engine on Papyr.com does not scan all of the internet. My search engine will provide you only with information from my web sites and online courses.
- Where can I find more information about College of DuPage Online?
- Answer: Visit the College of DuPage web site and especially the home page of College of DuPage Online. There you can learn about the courses offered by the college and which are offered online. You can access useful information to help make your online education successful. I highly recommend reading the COD Online's Succeeding in Internet Courses page.
A note about COD Online in general:
You should look carefully at course requirements. Some online courses at College of DuPage are taught completely online, such as my composition courses; other online courses may require some labs, exams, or other work on campus. - What is your mailing address? office location? phone number? fax number?
- Answer: Send surface mail to
Daniel KiesMy office is M115e, in Building M (see also maps and directions or 3-D map of campus).
Department of English
College of DuPage
425 Fawell Boulevard
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-6599 USAOffice phone: 630-942-2415
Office fax: 630-942-4472- May I use your materials? / What are your terms of use?
- Answer: Yes. I ask only that you follow the terms of use.
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