Dear Summer ENG101 Students:

I am Dr. Alisa Cooper, your professor for the summer online session of ENG101. I wanted to contact you early to give you some information about the course and give you some tips on how to do well. Please seriously consider my advice before continuing on in this course.…

Grades are due on Monday, and I am currently working on them. Your class was my last to grade. I had to make Blackboard unavailable while I grade since there is no way to keep you all out of the writing portfolios until I'm finished. I've had students in the past continue to make changes as I was grading, and then accuse me of not grading correctly. I'd go back to check and discover new stuff and wonder how I missed that. Well, I was glad to discover I wasn't going crazy. Anyway, I now close…

Congratulations! You finished a long and grueling semester of ENG101. Hopefully it wasn't that bad and you learned enough to get you ready for ENG102. This week is finals week, so I will be grading your final exams on Thursday. Take a few minutes to go back into your final writing portfolios and make sure everything is there and that it looks nice. Some of you just dumped files in the pages and they don't look that nice. That is not the best way to convince your instructor that you…

This week we are working on our final exams (10% of your final grade). But before we get to that, you have the opportunity to do one rewrite and one makeup assignment for half credit. First, many of you need to take a look at your essay #3 and consider how you can improve that. To view the comments on your graded essay #3, you have to access the essay from where you submitted it: MODULE IV > WEEK 12: (APRIL 5-11TH) > ESSAY #3

Make sure you make all necessary changes and submit…