Welcome, Writers!I am so excited to have you here, as a student in this English 101 online course, AND joining us as a part of the Freelancers team. Freelancers is a dream I've had for my English 101 courses for quite a while, and I'm giddy to be getting it off the ground with all of you: the second team of writers to embark on what I hope will be a long history for our "organization." :)
In brief, Freelancers brings together various writers of diverse backgrounds and unique styles and abilities (YOU!). Instead of working together to create a common publishing project (a magazine, a newspaper, etc.) with a single audience and style, we support each other in pursuing and chasing our own publishing opportunities across the ever-expanding landscape of publications. At Freelancers, we believe that independent writers are elevated by the opportunity to collaborate and test their ideas in a communal space. You can begin by imagining it like this: you might be working on drafting a piece for the renowned National Geographic magazine while the writer "next" to you is drafting a letter to the editor for a local paper, writing for Dwell (an architecture and design journal), composing a Sports News release, or putting together a how-to article about a technical skill. We will start brainstorming and sifting through all of these possibilities together soon! Yes, Freelancers is fictional, and no, you are not required to actually submit your writing to outside publications ;) but how awesome would that be?! Working in a fictional learning environment is just one way we can energize our space and make the learning fun; I hope you'll embrace that fun and make this experience your own. |
With that, let's look at some basics of the "job" ahead:
As independent WRITERS, you will:
As community READERS, you will:
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HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED IN ORDER TO FREELANCE: |
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What about English 101?
Freelancers is merely a way to guide us through the English 101 experience: practicing first-year college writing skills including thesis discovery, development, support, organization, sentence mechanics, diction, style, formal academic documentation, and final editing to produce at least two "claim-driven essays," representing analysis, synthesis, and/or argumentation.
Here are the formal English 101 course outcomes that we will rely on to guide the writing and revision processes we use as members of the Freelancers team:
Here are the formal English 101 course outcomes that we will rely on to guide the writing and revision processes we use as members of the Freelancers team:
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***Degree and certificate students are also expected to develop the following “Global Skills” by the time they graduate from LCC: communication, critical thinking, quantitative reasoning and teamwork. The assignments you submit and any recorded discussions or other relevant work may be assessed for one or more Global Skills, but this will not affect your grade and is not shared with anyone outside the assessment team at LCC. Please contact me if you have any questions.
*The information in this syllabus is subject to change; you will be notified of any such changes.