If you are not a already enrolled at Louisiana Tech University, you will need to enroll, either by coming to campus or else by enrolling electronically. 

• If you will be an on-campus student who will enroll at the Tech campus in Ruston or at the Tech Barksdale campus in Shreveport, you can find the needed information at the Enrollment Services WebSite.  To go to that site, click here.

• You may also register electronically as a student at Louisiana Tech University in one of the following classifications:

• Undergraduate Student
• International Undergraduate Student
• Graduate Student

Note to all English 303 Internet Students:  By the first class day, email Dr. Minor so that he will have your e-mail address.  If that address changes, email the new address.  Any communication that is about your grades must be sent either to your University email address or if to another email address, by a password-protected email attachment.  Such attachments can be sent in either Microsoft Word or Corel WordPerfect.

Check your email at least once per day.  If you will be traveling, consider getting an email service that you can access from anywhere, such as Microsoft Hotmail or Netscape Webmail or email from Excite or Yahoo. 

To go to a lengthy alphabetical list of free web-based email services, click here.

Dr. Minor's E-mail Address:  dminor@latech.edu
 

• There are no attendance requirements beyond having to write the first paper and take the final examination either on the Tech campus or in a monitored remote setting;

• It allows you to work on your assignments according to your own schedule;

• All of the class material in available to you on the Web site, in a form which you can print out rather than having to take notes;

• The Web site has its own search engine and contains several search engines to search the Internet;

• The Web site contains discussion of all the required papers and examples of all the parts of the Long Report, the major paper to be written; and

• Communication between the teacher and student can be done by email, telephone, FAX, or by personal conferences or a combination of all of these methods.  But it is not necessary for the student and teacher to be in the same place at the same time for the course information to be conveyed to the student.

But, this on-line course may present some difficulties for you, the student:

• You cannot be passive when taking this course; you must be actively involved in accessing the Web site, keeping up with the assignments given in the Syllabus, and must make a point of asking questions by email or some other means.  There will be no lectures or question/answer sessions as there are in classroom classes when information is conveyed to all students without active effort on the student's part.  As a consequence of all the material being on the Web and there being no class meeting, it will take as much or more of your time to take this class,as opposed to a class that meets on the Tech campus, because you will have to get all of your information off the Web site rather than getting it through class meetings.

• Because there are no attendance requirements, there is no specific time when the student must work on English 303.  You must decide on the times to work on the course; you may use as much time or as little time as you decide.  Your grade will be dictated by the quality of your work.  However, there is usually a direct correlation between the time spent on the work and the grade the work receives:  it takes longer to do a high-quality job than it takes to do a low-quality job.

• You must be able to view the explanations and examples on the English 303 site and then use that information to format and write your own paper. The instructions for writing various papers for English are given on the 303 web site.  When the textbook and the web material give two different ways of doing an assignment, the Web examples should be followed. Papers will be graded as to how well each student follows the web site instructions.  If in doubt, check with the teacher.

The Course packet gives information about many aspects of technical writing, and includes information about using Microsoft Word, Corel WordPerfect, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Inside the packet is a sheet entitled "Plagiarism Statement," which must be read and signed and returned to Dr. Minor either in person or by mail. 

Assignment:               Value:

Comparison  . . . . . . . . . 1X
Proposal    . . . . . . . . . 2X
Instructions  . . . . . . . . 2X
Sentence Outline  . . . . . . 2X
Long Report   . . . . . . . . 4X
Letter of Application 
     and Resume. . . . . . . .1X
Final Exam    . . . . . . . . 3X

F . . . 0-55 (depending on errors)
D-. . . 62
D . . . 65
D+. . . 68 
C-. . . 72
C . . . 75
C+. . . 78
B-. . . 82
B . . . 85
B+. . . 88
A-. . . 92
A . . . 95

0-59   =   F
60-69  =   D
70-79  =   C
80-89  =   B
90-100 =   A