ENG 241: Survey of American Literature I

Judy Riggin

Your Responsibility

[Introduction] [Your Responsibility] [Syllabus] [Assignments] [Exams] [Resources]

ENG 241 - Survey of American Literature I is a sixteen-week course, and you need to get started immediately in order to complete the required course assignments and exams by the end of the sixteen-week period. See the Assignments section to view the suggest schedule for completion of assignments.

It is your responsibility to:

You need to understand what plagiarism is and avoid doing it. Plagiarism is the act of appropriating passages or ideas from the work of another individual, either word for word or in substance, and representing them as one's own work. This includes any submission of written work other than one's own. For more information, refer to the NVCC Student Handbook, which you will find at www.nvcc.edu/resources/stuhandbook . Failure to comply may result in expulsion from the college.

Your Email Account
You have been assigned a VCCS email address for use in this and other courses that you take through NVCC or other colleges in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The VCCS requires that you use this email account for any course-related email communication so that we can insure your privacy as required by law. If you don't know your VCCS email address, go to the Start Page and search for your address. You must use this account to submit all assignments in this course.

To log on to your email account and check for mail, click the Student Email tab near the top of this page. Enter your complete email address as your user name. Use the same password as you first used to log onto Blackboard (either the birth date you gave when you registered, or the last 4 digits of your student number). If you need help using the email account, go to the Email Login Page and click the link to "online documentation."

Please check your email regularly. That is how I will return graded assignments and send other private, course-related information. I will also reply to your emails at your VCCS account. I will not accept or respond to email sent by you from any account other than the one provided by the VCCS.