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Thank you for your interest in this new WR 199 ONLINE course
being offered for the second time in Winter 2009.
See also Winter 2009 Credit Class Schedule - Writing: https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2009/200910/WRT.htm
Winter 2009 Online Course Schedule:  https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2009/200910/online.htm
COCC Online Orientation (Mini-Course) Information:  http://web.cocc.edu/onlineorientation/ 

Registered Students will be able to access this Winter 2009 Blackboard (Bb) course
beginning Sun., 4 Jan. 2009.
COCC Blackboard Login: http://bb.cocc.edu/
After you enter Bb, your Bb "My Courses" should list and link to:
WR199-11010_WI09: WR199-11010_WI09:Selected Topics: Documentation

As explained in the Brief Course Description: Mode of Instruction (below),
WR 199 Online is only a one-credit course and could be completed successfully in
as little as 6 weeks.  If spaces remain in this online course after Winter 2009 quarter begins,
Cora is quite willing to continue adding students through the end of Week #3
OR until the course fills (whichever happens first), providing
prospective students have already successfully completed the prerequisite
Online Orientation Units 1-5 (Mini-Course).
PLEASE CONTACT INSTRUCTOR CORA AGATUCCI TO INQUIRE:
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WR 199: ST: Documentation - ONLINE course - Winter 2009 CRN # 11010  - 1 credit - Instructor: Cora Agatucci (contact information given below) Brief Course Description (see also WR 199:ST:Documentation Course Learning Outcomes below): WR 199: Selected Topics: Documentation is a 1-credit Blackboard-based Online course providing focused short-term instruction in how to construct a bibliography of sources and how to cite in-text summaries, paraphrases, and quotations from these sources, using an accepted documentation style (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago-Humanities, AAA or Chicago Author-Date) correctly and effectively.  This course emphasizes what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it by applying college-level documentation practices in research-based term papers and other writing assignments across the curriculum.  Instruction also includes how to submit and interpret Turnitin.com originality reports, and use them to avoid verbatim plagiarism.   Credits: 1  (counts as transfer elective) Prerequisite: Successful completion of Online Orientation Units 1-5 (Mini-Course): Information:  http://web.cocc.edu/onlineorientation/    Sign-up: http://web.cocc.edu/onlineorientation/orientation_signup.htm Mode of instruction: This is a Blackboard-based Online course comprised of several sequenced lessons (equivalent to 10 lecture hours) and evaluated assignments, which enrolled students can complete successfully in 5 to 10 weeks, dependent upon such variables as how early in the term students (who have met the above prerequisite) register in this online course and begin its work, the pace at which students complete sequenced lessons and submit assignments for evaluation, and necessary preparation time that the instructor requires to post/update Bb lessons and evaluate students' submitted assignments.

Required Textbook for Winter 2009 WR 199: ST: Documentation (CRN 11010) Online course: Palmquist, Mike. The Bedford Researcher (Spiral Bound). 2nd (Sprl.) ed.             Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2006. [Available for purchase from COCC Bookstore]             ISBN-10: 0-312-43392-1 (spiral) paperback             ISBN-13: 978-0312433925 (spiral) paperback NOTE: If you have the newer 3rd edition of the above textbook, that will work also.

WR 199: ST: Documentation - Course Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete Winter 2009 WR 199: ST: Documentation, will be able to: Outcome 1:  Define what plagiarism is and explain how plagiarism can be avoided. Outcome 2:  Identify the essential purposes and common types of established academic and professional documentation styles (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago-Humanities, AAA, Chicago Author-Date, etc.) for citing sources in college writing assignments across the curriculum. Outcome 3: Demonstrate competency in constructing an alphabetized bibliography of several common types of sources (e.g. standard print sources, as well as online/electronic, field & other non-print sources), for each of which bibliographical entries are complete and correctly formatted according to ONE accepted documentation style (e.g. APA References, MLA Works Cited, Chicago-Humanities Bibliography, AAA or Chicago Author-Date References). Outcome 4:  Demonstrate competency in constructing several common types of in-text citations (e.g. summary, paraphrase, short and long "block" direct quotations indicating any necessary alterations with ellipsis and brackets,  indirect citations from sources, "unsigned" sources, "unpaginated" sources), each of which are correctly formatted according to ONE accepted (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago-Humanities end Notes, AAA or  Chicago Author-Date) documentation style and clearly matchable to corresponding complete, correctly formatted entries listed in a master alphabetized bibliography of all sources cited in text. Outcome 5:  Review and edit documentation in one current or previously prepared formal research-based writing assignment (that Cora will supply OR that you can supply if you have one), successfully applying above Outcomes 1-4 documentation skills and knowledge gained from this course.  NOTE: you do NOT have to write a new research paper for this 1-credit course! See also Online WR 199: ST: Documentation - Syllabus & Course Plan - Winter 2009: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/wr199documentation/WR199syllabus.htm