It will cover basic grammar, MLA formatting, parenthetical citations, and Works Cited format. We can have discussions in real time, so that everything you enter into the computer appears on everybody else's screen, more or less as soon as you enter it. There are 15 of us, so discussion occasionally becomes ungainly. For the most part, though, you'll find that conversation is easy to follow and easy to participate in. We meet in the MOO for the full class period on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Attendance is absolutely compulsory.
This is departmental policy. Skipping class for a day at the beach and being genuinely, deathly ill in a hospital in Arizona both count as absences. Moo discussions are the main component of the class. Being active and considerate in, and sufficiently prepared for, discussion is very important. Check the daily syllabus for the day's discussion material and preliminary questions to answer as you do the reading.