1. Check to see that you can get online access to the course as listed on Turnitin. Go to the following site to create a student account and login:https://turnitin.com/login_page.asp - let me know if you have trouble with it.
2. Check to see that you can access my blog: http://composition-lape.blogspot.com/ - there you will find the Class Description (in Archives) you signed today. Please note that I amended it a little by adding the little mini-research paper that I will tell you about next time. Or you can read about it and the other papers that you will be submitting to the Turnitin site throughout the term. They are also described and archived at the blog.
3. I will email you all either individually or through the Farmingdale Oasis site where you are all listed as my class. Please respond to the email just so I know you can get emails and so I know you were able to access Turnitin and the LapeComposition Blog.
4. Then - with the new textbook that you picked up (also Homework) - go to pages 30-34 and get ready for the writing you will do on Thursday. Please be ON TIME. The title of the essay will be “The Essence of Me.” This essay will not be graded; it is what we call a “diagnostic” essay that I will read to get to know you a little, and not only about who you are as a person but how you write.
Think about what the “rhetorical situation” is in my asking you to write about yourself and do some free-thinking and scribbling about those aspects of you – your look, your personality, your life experience, background, strengths, weaknesses, interests, etc. that would be necessary to get across who you really are to someone who has never known you – me.
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