5. Course Requirements

• Service to the Seton Hill Community: Of course a student publication needs writers, but articles submitted to The Setonian need to be edited, fact-checked, proofread for Associated Press Style, laid out on the page, posted online, and delivered around campus. Selling ads, recruiting and training staff, and predicting and responding to changes in our community and the practice of journalism all take time.
• Resume Experience: The course asks you to develop your own skills by participating in the group effort to publish the voice of the student body.
• Work-Study Employment: Students holding positions of responsibility on The Setonian (or Setonian Online) may be eligible for work-study funding. If the work you get paid to do also helps meet your EL 200 requirements, that's fine with me.

This course expects you to use various learning tools. Just as students in generations past learned to carry an extra inkhorn and spare lamp wicks, there are certain common-sense strategies that will help you do the necessary work.

• Patience, and a positive attitude, will help you make the most of your learning environment. Our technology won't work 100% of the time.
  
• I will often send out bulk e-mails to the address on file for you in the GriffinGate system. If you check a different address more regularly, please use SHU's e-mail forwarding service so that you don't miss important updates.
• Submit your lab reports and exercises to Turnitin.com.
  
• All students will also have a SHU weblog, where they will post responses to assigned readings. Since journalism is rapidly moving away from print and into the 21st century, unless a homework assignment specifically mentions a printout, you may assume that I do not want a hard copy.

• Download or print out a copy of the course syllabus and the online readings, so that you can work on the readings even if the internet happens to be down. 
• Get in the habit of emailing drafts to yourself, so that you can retrieve them from your archives if you lose your USB drive. (Or consider a free service such as DropBox or Google Docs, that lets you store all your files online.)
• Unless the homework assignment specifically mentions a printout, you should assume that I don't want a hard copy. (I will give you instructions for submitting each assignment.)