I was a little disappointed to learn that I’ve earned only a B+ in my English composition class at De Anza College, bringing down my GPA slightly. While De Anza counts a B+ as 3.3 points, most universities use only the letter for transfer credit, so it will transfer as a 3.0.
I’ve returned to school part [...]

This Washington Post article describes students protestiing their school’s use of Turnitin.com. It has been discussed on Slashdot as well. My ENGL 001A English Composition course at Mission College requires me to submit all of my papers to Turnitin, and I am unhappy about it, but I wasn’t aware that there is widespread [...]

Module 1 assignments 2 and 3 were to analyze the meaning of the student essay “Rick” from Reading Critically, Writing Well, and to analyze the writing. I posted my work just under an hour before the deadline. My response on the meaning of the essay was significantly different than those of the other [...]

After much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, I finally decided on a subject for the autoiographical essay, which as I’ve previously explained here must be about another person or a significant event (on a single day). Presumably the subject should be a person or event that has had a profound influence on [...]

Yesterday we had the initial orientation session for the online English Composition class I’m taking. The only meetings on campus aside from that session will be the sessions for the midterm and final exam.