Although we all have busy schedules, do commit to ALL weeks of this course. Your honest comments about the assignments are needed and valuable for all of us. Your final reports are based on submissions to all of the conferences. The key to COMM 394 is being an active participant throughout - from home, work, a cybercafe, or a computer of a friend or relative . Consider me as a writing coach or a course facilitator rather than a prescriptive grammar autocrat.
Feedback truly is a two- way street for successful communications.
If you turn in writing which is written by someone else or which closely resembles someone else's vocabulary or sentence structure, the UMUC procedures for dealing with cheating will be used. The University College Catalog statement of Academic Integrity and Academic Dishonesty apply to your work in COMM 394. Read carefully the Additional Policies section of the syllabus posted online in the classroom. I am an American raised in Ohio. Our teenage daughter left us in early 2000 to begin her college education in San Diego, our home port.