ENGLISH 100 ONLINE
LOWER-DIVISION WRITING CLASSES, PROGRAMS, CENTERS:
A SAMPLING

Local Online Writing Centers and Sample Online English 100 Courses or English 100 Syllabi Online (Local= Near MiraCosta College)

• California State University San Marcos Writing Center.  Support services available, but no equivalent English 100 course offered online.
• Palomar College Writing Center.  Support services, plus English 100 course online: Chris Barkley | John Tagg.  English 100 online syllabi: Rocco Versacci
• UCI Composition Program (University of California, Irvine).  Includes a general listing of related Websites entitled "Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Programs on the Web: A Hyperlinked Compendium."  See also Writing 39C: Argument and Research.  Summer 1999.  Accessed 10 July 1999.dddddddd
• UCSD: Muir Writing Program  (University of California, San Diego)

Sample Online English 100 (or Equivalent) Courses

• Athabasca University, Canada English 255. Provides a basic syllabus online for English 255, Introductory Composition, offered for home study or self-pacing.  The course, with an essay test prerequisite to ensure enrollees have senior-high level competency in grammar and composition, "focuses on essay writing at the university level. In order to improve essay-writing skills, students study examples of good writing and write a summary and five essays, including an informal personal essay and four formal expository or persuasive essays."  (Updated 04 November 1998, accessed 07 July 1999)
• Barstow Community College English 1A Online. Fall 1998.  Heavy use of forms.   (Accessed 23 July 1999)
• Cerro Coso Community College.  Online summary of the course description, but no access to the course itelf.  Cerro Coso's English 1A class focuses on the investigation of writing strategies, the analysis and evaluation of expository and argumentative prose, and the study of imaginative literature--and requires significant participation in class discussions, in addition to the writing of several expository and argumentative essays and a 2,000 word research paper (for a class total of approximately 7,000 words). The course presumes that entering students should be able to do the following: 1.Use the conventions of standard written English including have a firm grasp of sentence structure and make no major errors in sentence fragments, run-ons, shifts, and mixed constructions or minor errors in comma usage.  2.Write coherent, unified, and well-developed paragraphs with clear topic sentences.  3.Know the difference between fact and opinion and between general, controlling statements (claims) and specific examples (evidence).  4.Work with the writing and thoughts of others, including being able to keep separate their own ideas from those of others and being able to attribute all outside facts, opinions, and arguments to their rightful sources. Axelrod and Cooper. The Concise Guide to Writing.  (Updated 06 July 1999.  Accessed 07 July 1999)
• Citrus College.  This "Technology Assisted Programs" page lists distance ed courses, including links to online summer 1999 English courses at these locations: English 100 (Fundamentals of Composition), English 101 (Reading and Composition), English 103 (Composition and Critical Thinking with Thomas Eiland), and English 103 (Composition and Critical Thinking with Marcelle Morris).  (Summer99.  Accessed 23 July 1999)
• College of DuPage.   Dan Kies' Distance Learning and the Internet with an English 101 Hypertextbook.  Copyright of 1999 on Hypertextbook (other pages updated between September 1997 and 1999).  Accessed 23 July 1999.
• Colorado State University CO150 Online.  Includes a framed, interactive course Website with this menu on page one: Composition Placement Exams | Course Overview | Course Assignments  | Class Pages  | Teacher Resources.  Copyright 1997.   Accessed 10 July 1999.
• Community College of Southern Nevada English 100 Online.  Summer 1999.  By Bradley Beck.  CCSN uses WebCT, with use primarily of email and MOO.  See also Beck's  English 102 Online, spring 1999.  Accessed 11 July 1999.
• Kapi'olani Community College--Online College Classroom.  Uses WebCT.  This listing of online English classes is outdated (last update in 1996), and most of the links are dead.   Elsewhere, some summary information about English composition classes taught by Judith Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor of English, is provided; most of her course development is password protected.  (Updated 15 May 1999.  Accessed 11 July 1999)
• Lake Tahoe Community College English 101 (Composition and Reading) Online. Spring 1999, a literature-based composition course.    See also English 103 Online (Critical Reasoning: Writing the Research Paper). Both are 5-unit quarter term courses.  Note graphic and navigational design. (Updated 24 July 1999.  Accessed 24 July 1999)
• Mountain Empire Community College: English 111 Online.  Fall 1998 (Accessed 11 July 1999)
• Mountain View College, Dallas Community College: English 1301.  Menu lists the following: Voice Message,  Orientation, On-line Services, Syllabus
  Letter, Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, The Honors Library, 1301 Message Board.   (Udated 2 September 1998.  Accessed 12 July 1999)
• North Seattle Community College.  Brief course description online strongly recommends one on-campus orientation meeting for the online English composition courses, English 101 and 102.  Prerequisite English Placement Test.  Requires a "Computer Learner Fee" of about $28. Few hotlinks available to view course materials.  (Fall 1998 and Summer 1999 Updates.  Accessed 07 July 1999)
• Ohio University Online Advanced Composition: English 308JW.  Rhetorical approach using 10 Lessons to teach the modes.  Updated 5 October 1998.  Accessed 11 July 1999)
• Pennsylvania State Lehigh Campus Internet Section of English 15 (Rhetoric and Composition). Requires Webfolios and MOO transcripts for student work. (Updated January 1998.   Accessed 10 July 1999)
• Pima Community College Writing 102. Summer 1999 syllabus is nicely designed, with hotlinks to the 3 major Units.  (Updated 10 May 1999.  Accessed 11 July 1999)
• Rio Hondo English 101: Approaches to Writing.  Ken Pierson uses the metaphor of the journey on the highway to organize his online English course, with phases and side-trips on the journey of writing an argumentative research paper on a topic chosen by the student.  (Updated 1 June 1999.  Accessed 12 July 1999)
• Salt Lake Community College Online English 100.  Summer 1999.  Salt Lake Community College offers an online Writing Center with resources for teachers and students.  The Course includes a Webboard and requires three portfolios.   (Updated June 1999.  Accessed 11 July 1999)
• University of California Berkeley Writing Program. This homepage leads to, among other things, the course description for College Writing 1A taught by Dr. Maggie Sokolik.  The class requires 7 texts (including Pinsky's translation of Dante's Inferno) and uses the Web as a supplement to a traditional class.   (Updated 18 November 1998.  Accessed 07 July 1999)

Other Related Websites at Notable Colleges and Universities (e.g., distance education classes, directories of online materials, other English resources, composition programs, writing assignment sites)

• Colorado State Composition Course Assignments and Class Pages.  Hotlinks available to a variety of composition courses, plus a menu including an index to the entire site.   (Updated June 1998.  Accessed 10 July 1999)
• Georgetown University.   Randy Bass's Spring96 English 511: A Bigger Place to Play, or, Text, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Electronic Age.  Nice graphic display for the menu and informative array of pages. "This Web site and some course materials were made possible by a Faculty Cooperative Grant from the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area."  (Updated 28 January 1996.  Accessed 7 July 1999)
• United Kingdom's Open University. Offers an English Language and Literacy Course, which involves 6 tutor-marked assignments and a final exam. Description: "This course takes a social perspective and will suit those who are interested in the nature and use of language, as well as those who are specialists in the English language. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the nature of oral and written English and the social, cultural and political processes behind its use; introduces seminal research into language and literacy and helps you to develop a critical appreciation of different approaches; explores the implications of recent research and theory for your own experience and use of language and literacy; and gives you opportunities to try out analytical approaches. Assessment includes a small-scale project."   Uses audio cassettes and specially prepared textbooks and workbooks.  Optional face-to-face group tutorials.  (Accessed 07 July 1999)
• University of Texas, CWRL.   The Computer Writing and Research Lab at the Austin campus provides links to resources and online composition courses.  Includes extensive links to the Writing Center, the Computer Writing and Research Lab, Faculty & Staff, Course Descriptions, Course Schedule, and Resources.  Over 3,000 student and faculty web pages online.  The site is maintained by the LabNet Project Group at the CWRL. Dr. Peg Syverson is the Director of the Computer Writing and Research Lab, which is a part of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition.  (Copyright 1998.  Accessed 09 July 1999).
• World Lecture Hall.   A listing and brief description with links to online materials for English, Writing, and Rhetoric classes.  (Updated 19 June 1999.  Visited 07 July 1999)

Overview Articles and Bibliographies.

• Randy Bass (Georgetown University). "Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History." Bass is Director of the Crossroads Project on American Culture; his ideas apply equally well to English studies in general, including English composition and reading and critical thinking courses.
• Computers and Composition: A Comprehensive Bibliography.  Last updated June 1999 (accessed 08 July 1999)
• Scott Kapel's "What's Going On Out There?"  A survey of writing and cyberspace projects, with links to Project Gutenberg, Epiphany, Composition in Cyberspace, Annenberg/CPB, etc.

Articles about Online English Courses

• Dorwick, Keith ( University of Illinois at Chicago).  "The Promise and Peril of (Virtually) Teaching the First-Year Composition Course to Computer Neophytes." Kairos 3.2. <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/response/abstracts/25_1f.html>   (accessed 10 July 1999). Abstract from C&W '98 November Online Conference. Discusses use of First Class software in the course.
• _____.  "Rethinking the Academy: Problems and Possibilities of Teaching, Scholarship, Authority, and Power in Electronic Environments." Kairos 1.3.   <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/archives/1.3/dorwick/toc.htm> (accessed 10 July 1999).  Hypertext table of contents for the article about choosing texts and evaluation in online environments.
• Kemp, Fred (Texas Tech University). "A Publisher's Armageddon: Creating the Classroom MultiText Through the World Wide Web."  Kairos 3.1.   <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/response/abstracts/35f.html> (accessed 10 July 1999).   Abstract from C&W '98 November Online Conference.
• Kraus, James (Chaminade University).  "Virtual Class."  Kairos 3.1. <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/response/abstracts/23.html> (accessed 10 July 1999).  Abstract from C&W '98 November Online Conference.   Addresses the questions 1. How do teaching / learning environments used in online, or virtual, compostion classrooms extend and transform conventional composition classroom practices? 2. How are these changing practices altering the broader cultural functions of the composition classroom?
• Randall, Neil, and Isabel Pedersen.  "Considerations of Ethos in Internet-based University Courses."  Kairos 3.2.  <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/response/abstracts/73.html> (accessed 10 July 1999).  Abstract.
• Ranieri, Paul W. (Ball State University, Illinois).   "Measuring Ourselves: Adapting a First-Year Writing Course for Distance Education."  <http://www.ihets.org/distance_ed/fdpapers/1998/5.html>.   Paper written in 1998.  Accessed 12 July 1999.
• Rogrigues, Dawn (The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College). "Models of Distance Education for Composition: The Role of Interactive Video Conferencing." Kairos 3.2. <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.2/features/rodrigues/overview.htm>     (accessed 10 July 1999).  This paper, presented at the 1998 Computers and Writing Conference in Gainesville, Florida, explores the question: "If you were asked to recommend the best model for an Online English course offered at a distance, what would you suggest?"
• Schelle, David (Hotchkiss High School).  "English Online: Concerns of Pedagogy and Design." Kairos 3.1.  <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/response/spotlight/devoncl.htm> (accessed 11 July 1999).  A Kairos Classroom Spotlight. 
• _____.    "English Online: Does Innovation Sacrifice Learning?" Kairos 3.1.  <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/response/spotlight/innov.html> (accessed 11 July 1999).  A Kairos Classroom Spotlight. 
• _____.   "English Online: Where "New and Improved" Really Means Something." Kairos 3.1.   <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/response/spotlight/spotlight.html>   (accessed 11 July 1999).  A Kairos Classroom Spotlight. 
• Selfe, Cynthia (Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University). "Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention."  CCCC/98 Keynote Address.
  <http://www.ncte.org/forums/selfe/index.html> (accessed 13 July 1999).   "As composition teachers, deciding whether or not to use technology in our classes is simply not the point--we have to pay attention to technology. When we fail to do so, we share in the responsibility for sustaining and reproducing a unfair system that, scholars such as Elspeth Stuckey (1991) and Mike Rose (1989) have noted in other contexts, enacts social violence and ensures continuing illiteracy under the aegis of education. . . .  we need to help all English composition teachers get more education on both technology use and technology criticism in pre-service and in-service educational programs."

Some Online Texts Useful for Development of English Online Courses

• The Houghton Mifflin Website support for the text Writing Online (formerly English Online) by Eric Crump and Nick Carbone.
• The W.W. Norton Website supporting the online text Web Works by Martin Irvine.
• Prentice Hall websites for
  • The Blair Handbook 2/E and The College Writer's Reference 2/E by Toby Fulwiler and Alan R. Hayakawa.
  • The Research Paper and the World Wide Web by Dawn Rodrigues.
  • Strategies for Successful Writing:  A Rhetoric, Research Guide, Reader, and Handbook 5/E by James A. Reinking, Andrew W. Hart, and Robert von der Osten.