WELCOME, 10101 STUDENTS

This is an exercise to test your facility with my website and your attentiveness.

My website is elmlsteach.org 

Please answer the following questions for me and send your answers in an email to my address, stapletm@pfw.edu  by Wednesday, 28 August, by 9 a.m.

1. On the Home tab of my teaching webpage, find the box that says, "Good for nothing else, be wise." Click on the Action button. What is the fourth word in the second paragraph in the essay on Rochester?

2. Click on the shakespeareinyourface tab on the website. Find the blog post named "Michael on Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." What is the typographical / grammatical mistake in the sentence beginning "And not only"?  (BTW, I'm not a grammar stickler. Just wonder if you can see the same thing.)

3. Click on the Writing tab. Go to the paragraph that begins, "Don't condescend to your audience." Near the end, there are two words in parentheses after "i.e." What does the second, beginning with "o," mean?

4. On the same page, find the section "Analytical Writing." In part d), there are some questions. What are they suggesting that a writer do?

5. Please go to our course page via the tab 10101 on the site menu. Visit the box on the syllabus about our Virgil unit and click on the illustration. Where did this picture come from, according to Wikipedia?

6. On the course page, under the heading PAPER FORMAT, what do I ask students not to do, expressed in BOLDFACE?

7. How many graded writing assignments does it say we have on the course page? How many are you allowed to miss without failing our course?

8. On the course page, under the heading COMMUNICATION, what do I strongly advise YOU to do regarding our email communication after YOU have sent ME something?

9. What does the blog post in this link ask you to do? When are you supposed to turn it in?

10.  In the same blog post, when does it say I'll be crafting your first writing assignment?