You are responsible for completing 10 MyWritingLab topics in conjunction with your English 80 class.  This requirement is worth 10% of your overall English 80 grade.  To receive full credit, you must (1) take the pre-diagnostic; (2) master approximately one topic per week, for a total of ten topics by the end of the quarter; and (3) take the post-diagnostic.  To master a topic, you must earn a score of 80% or higher on both the Recall and Apply sections for each of the following MyWritingLab topics:

pronouns
combining sentences
correct verb tense and form
the subject and the verb
subject-verb agreement
adjectives
adverbs
recognizing phrases and clauses
fragments
comma splices/fused sentences

For grading information about MWL and your class, please read your syllabus or contact your instructor. You should not wait until the end of the quarter to attempt to master all ten topics.  You will not receive full credit, and your essay grades may suffer as well. 

You will need a MyWritingLab Workbook, which you can purchase from Reprographics;  your code for the MyWritingLab, which is packaged with your Mosaics text; and a course identification number, which you can find on your syllabus

A time will be scheduled during your first or second week of class to help you register to the site and create your user profile, and you will need your MyWritingLab code and course identification number to do this.  If you have already registered to the site in a previous class, you do not need to register and create a new user profile.  Instead, you will need to login to the site, click on “join a different class,” and follow the directions from there. 

For additional information on MyWritingLab, view the power points at the following Web sites:

How to register for MWL
http://www.csub.edu/mwl/updatedmwlreg.ppt
How to switch classes in in MWL
http://www.csub.edu/mwl/mwlswitchclass.ppt
How to get around MWL for English 80
http://www.csub.edu/mwl/mwleng80.ppt

Note:  If you exhaust a topic before mastering it, let your instructor know, and he or she will have it “unlocked” for you.

Note:  To avoid double enrollment in MyWritingLab, students should not be enrolled in Humanities 277.1 while also enrolled in English 80.  If you are enrolled in Humanities 277.1, please let your instructor know immediately.