MWF  -- Assignments for Week # 1 ENL 111 (Vavra)
Note: The links in the left column will not work for you. They take me to my class notes.
Due In-class
M
Jan 11
W1A
http://home.pct.edu/~evavra/ENL111/index.htm

[In Class: Int to College / Getting Help Why Write? ]

Welcome - Using the Web 
Questionnaire

Complete the Permission to Publish Form

W
Jan 13
W1B
1. Use the internet to get to and browse the site for this course: 
2. Print a copy of the course syllabus; Read it. Print your name and then sign your name on it. They will be collected in class.
3. Hand in a copy of  the daily assignments for week 2.
4.  Study the Assignment  for MP # 2. This is an MS Word document. For today, don't worry about the details in this assignment. Your objective is to understand what you will be expected to do (find a topic) for at least two and perhaps all of your papers for this semester. (You should start thinking about this now.)
5. On the printed assignments for week 2, write a  relevant question about today's assignment.
Collect: 
Copy of syllabus, & of W2A

Using the databases

Writing Sample

Q & A

Fri
Jan 15
W1C
1. Study They Say/I Say, pages ix - 27 (through Chapter 1) In two or three sentences, explain the major ideas of the first chapter. (Write these on the same paper as your question. See # 3, below.)

2. Get the Instructional Material and Exercises on Syntax. This is an MS Word document that we will be using throughout the rest of the course. (In case the web goes down, you may want to save this to your own computer.)
Read the "Introduction" and "Syntax and Major Paper Grades."

3. Bring a specific, written relevant question about this assignment to class.

Optional: Read "A Psycholinguistic Model of How the Human Brain Processes Language.

Overview of Instruction
in Syntax

Psycholinguistic
Model

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