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Students must send the non-interactive exercises of each module to daniel.janssens@ulg.ac.be either by using the answerform or by email (see point 4 below); the interactive exercises should be done interactively but NOT sent. The ULg server stores the names of the students who did the interactive exercises, which exercises they did and when, only if they click the button "Click here to do this exercise interactively". The Powerpoint Presentation I make at the beginning of the Academic Year can be downloaded here.
For more detailed instructions, see below. Pay special attention to points 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9:
In order for the answerform (answer.htm) to work you have to set up your mail server (click here for more information). This is the case in some computer rooms: when the answerform is used for the first time in Internet Explorer 7 students will be prompted to enter their email account details (nom complet, adresse de messagerie, serveur pour courrier entrant, serveur SMTP pour courrier sortant, nom du compte et mot de passe). If students do not wish to or cannot use the answerform, they may submit their exercises and essays as email attachments(see instructions below).
If you do NOT use the answer form of the Writing Skills site, follow these guidelines:
1) Heading on Assignments/Email Message Texts
Place a heading on the first page of your essay in the upper left-hand corner. The text must include the following information:
Last Name-First Name
Group
Date-Month-Year of submission
Number of Module
Example:
Janssens Daniel (Replace Janssens Daniel with your name and
first name)
Group Pagnoulle (use the name of your tutor)
December 20, 2011
Module 3
2) File Name
Save your file exactly according to this model:
JanssensDaniel-relsel (Replace JanssensDaniel with your name
and first name)
(IMPORTANT: the abbreviations for the modules are: link-relsel-sent-para1-para2-quote)
3) Sending me Email Messages
Identify your message type in the subject line of each
email (in French: "objet") you send me by including your name and first
name, and exercise module, just as you saved your file above.
Example:
JanssensDaniel-link (Replace JanssensDaniel with your name
and first name)
(IMPORTANT: the abbreviations for the modules are: link-relsel-sent-para1-para2-quote)
Though not recommended, working in groups (not more than FOUR students per group) is allowed. It is then compulsory for EACH INDIVIDUAL student to send in their exercises AND to mention in the headine on the first page of the exercises the names of ALL the students they worked with. I shall send the annotated exercises to each member of the group who has sent their work individually. When a student works with another student/other students, his/her work should start with the correction of his/her (own individual) mistakes (see also point 7 below).
Important: group-work means that students really work TOGETHER with other students as a group on ALL the tasks of one module; one student doing one task individually and then copying and pasting another task done by another student/other students is NOT considered as group-work. All the students of the group must be equally involved in doing all the tasks of one module.
It takes me on average up to four weeks to annotate papers, if received in time, and return them. I shall return them as email attachments to my response messages, in RTF and HTM format. RTF files can be read by most word-processors on most platforms. To open these attachments students should simply double-click on the attached file(s).
Papers received after the deadline will not be annotated, unless students can produce a valid excuse. In the latter case, annotations will not be sent back until all the other papers, which were received before the deadline, have been annotated; so delays are to be expected and patience should be exercised.
A student who has not received their annotated exercises by the time the next module is due should let me know as soon as possible: there must be a problem with their email account/address. I am available in room 6/40, 6th floor Place Cockerill, every Tuesday non-stop from 9:30 to 18:30 (often even later) from mid-October to mid-May. Appointments can also be made via email.
In the annotations sent to each student, one or more of their original sentences will be highlighted, which the student WILL HAVE TO TRY AND CORRECT, and SEND BACK, along with the exercises of the next Writing Skills Module. The(se) incorrect/to-be-corrected sentence(s) will be highlighted in blue, preceded by: "This is what you have to correct for next time (copy the following text and paste it into your next WS exercises)". They will contain some of the major grammar, vocabulary and/or stylistic problems encountered and commented on, and will be different from student to student and from module to module. Students need only correct what they are asked to correct.
Thus the WS exercises of each module, from Module 2 onwards, should start with the student's FULL original flawed sentence, followed by its "improved/corrected" version. For example: the Writing Skills exercises of Module 2 should begin with the attempted correction of the flawed sentence(s) highlighted in the annotated exercises of WS 1, the WS 3 exercises should be preceded by the correction of the highlighted sentence(s) in Module 2, etc. Click HERE to see an example of a student's file.
A student will be recorded as having completed the Writing Skills exercises of the module, from which the incorrect sentence(s) was (were) extracted, only if a correction has been attempted. Failure to comply with this correction task will be interpreted as students not having read their annotated work, hence ignoring valuable feedback.
When a student works with another student/other students, his/her work should start with the correction of his/her (own individual) mistakes (see also point 5 above).
If you cannot email your exercises, save your work on a usb-key, preferably in RTF format (see point 9.4 below). Bring that usb-key to me (on Tuesdays uninterruptedly between +/- 9:30-10 a.m. and +/- 6:30-7 p.m. in room 6/40) or leave it in my mail-box (Daniel Janssens) opposite the lifts on the sixth floor Place Cockerill. I can then annotate your exercises, save my annotations on your usb-key and leave it in the brown envelope pinned to the board outside the 6/40 room for you to collect on the Tuesday before the next module is due. Do not hand in papers. Do NOT use cd-roms or DVDs.
1. Students are strongly advised to use their ULg email address (name@student.ulg.ac.be). If another address is used (hotmail/gmail/yahoo etc...), students must make sure that they can be identified (real and full names should be used). Following these instructions will prevent students' email to be discarded as spam.
2. It is wise to keep a backup copy of the exercises sent.
3. ALL the exercises of ONE module should be sent in ONE file or attachment.
4. Students should NOT use colour, italics, fancy fonts or bullets, and should save their work ("Fichier->Enregistrer sous-File->Save As") as an RTF file (RTF -rich text format- is a word-processing format developed by Microsoft to allow easy exchange of documents between word processors. Most Macintosh word processors support RTF).
5. Browsers may treat the external links on our website as pop-ups (fenêtres publicitaires intempestives) and block them; in order to be able to see these external links, students need to specify which websites are allowed to open pop-ups. Follow the procedures specific to each browser.