1. Welcome to Effective Writing Dr. Jill Singleton-Jackson
“I then said that writing wasn’t easy and it wasn’t fun. It was hard and lonely, and the words seldom just flowed.”
---- William Zinsser

2. How Do You Feel About Writing? Tell the truth!
You have to write a 10 page paper.
Think about how you feel about being given this assignment.
Do you think you write well?
Why or why not?

3. Who am I? Usually, I teach Psychology courses. Hmmm?
I do have a doctoral minor in English, specifically Technical Writing (don’t fall asleep!).
I have been known to read grammar books for fun (really!).
It may be my calling to lift you to higher heights of grammatical correctness (i.e., I really like to bug people until they write well).
I don’t really like to write, but I love it when I have written.

4. My Philosophy of Writing
Writing should not be scary. It’s not something that only a lucky or talented few can manage to do well – you can learn to do it well! You will have to write everyday, so you should be a competent writer. Writing well will always prove to be helpful in life.

5. Everyday Writing Look out --- here comes my personal agenda…
ALWAYS be aware of how you write. s
Especially the ones you send to your professors!
Letters
Memos
Notes to your neighbour
IN YOUR OTHER CLASSES!!!!
It really does matter

6. Effective Writing using MyCompLab
What is it?
A dynamic, interactive on-line writing course that allows students and their instructor to access rich on-line course materials, exercises, resources, and assessments. k

7. Our Experience Overwhelmingly positive Powerful platform Flexible
Efficient
Potential for growth from basic grammar to essay writing k

8. Students’ Experiences
Discussion Board Comment:
“ You think you know what you're writing especially when you're in university but I guess not!! I am surprised about how much of this stuff on grammer I have no idea about. It kind of surprises me. At first I felt a little stupid when I started to think about how i'm in university and don't know what a pronoun is, but after talking to my friends, I'm not the only one. It's funny how you can write a paper but have no idea about the technical things that make up that paper.” j

9. Recurring Themes in Comments
It will help me with the skills I need for classes and for work.
It’s convenient and works well as an on-line course.
I like the immediate feedback on exercises and assessments.
Need to add a larger writing component.
Everyone needs to take this course.
Wish I had it as a first-year student. j

10. The poorest performers improved significantlyj

11. Course Website http://www.uwindsor.ca/users/j/ jjackson/main.nsf
Course Outline
Check this site weekly.
Mainly we will communicate through the MyCompLab program
and the Announcements page

12. Today we will… Find out how to register for MyCompLab
Look at the features of MyCompLab
Review your first set of assignments
Find out about Exchange (another part of CourseCompass)
Answer your questions

13. Registering for the MyCompLab part of Effective Writing
To register for this on-line component you will need the following:
An address
The course ID: jackson00565
A student access code
The university postal code: N9B 3P4

14. MyCompLab Let’s see how it works… http://www.coursecompass.com
Register
Tour

15. QUESTIONS????