Individual Learning Plan

In-Class Discussion Prompts
The following questions are designed to get us started on the background we'll need to cover before we can start writing our ILPs. (Please note -- your ILP is not just a collection of your answers to these questions. This is pre-writing brainstorming that will lay the foundation for our ILP.)

1. How important is writing to you, personally?
2. Name something that is just slightly more important to you than writing.
3. Name something that is just slightly less important to you than writing.
   
4. How important do you feel writing will be to your education?
5. How important do you feel writing will be after college (in your personal or professional life)?
   
6. What was your reaction to receiving your MyCompLab pre-test results? (In what ways were you surprised, and in what ways were you not surprised?)
7. What did your MyCompLab results tell you about your strengths and weaknesses in grammar?
8. Note that a multiple-choice grammar test is not a writing test.  Writing is much more than simply knowing the answers to grammar questions. With that in mind, what have your first two weeks at SHU told you about your strengths and weaknesses as a writer?
9. Spend some time familiarizing yourself with the resources available in MyCompLab.  (Select "Resources" from the top menu, then choose the "Grammar" tab.)  Select three exercises in areas that your pre-test identified as opportunities for improvement, and complete them as homework, by the next class period. These are graded instantly by the computer.  Your grades on all the grammar exercises you complete this term) will be 10% of your final grade. You are free to re-take any grammar exercise in order to improve your grade, and you are free to consult your notes or your textbook while you work.
   
10. Many of the exercises in the "Writing" section involve paragraphs that the computer expects you to submit to your instructor for a grade.  If you find these "Writing" exercises useful, you are welcome to include them as part of your ILP, but checking these submissions is not a routine part of my schedule for LA100.  (If you see a "0" for one of these assignments, don't panic -- it won't hurt your grade. I will be happy to make an appointment with you and give you oral feedback on any of the exercises you've submitted to MyCompLab.)