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This is where you come to find your English lessons for Vance's Academic Composition classes

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• Old assignments will be moved there 

During the first week in this class you were expected to set up

• your Google account
• and HCT email

Then you wrote a "good" paragraph

In the second week you were supposed to introduce yourself and write a simple statement about how students could best learn in Academic Composition class, despite being so sleepy. You were also supposed to complete a handout on topic sentences.

Each of these assignments has a mark.  You will find your marks in the sidebar (click on your class)

Academic Comp classes schedule this week

Your current week's work

Week 3 Nov 20-24

TASK 4 - Problem Solution, short essay

By now, after three weeks in the course and a week-long holiday, each student is expected to have a Google Account and to be in the HCT Network System.

In case you have not got around to creating a Google account, of if you've forgot your password ... 

You can complete this in GoogleDocs or Word.

Copy the first paragraph to a Google Doc or Word Document.  

• Share the Google Doc with vancestev@gmail.com
• or email the Word Document to vstevens@hct.ac.ae
  If you email it, send it from your HCT email account 
• or place it in your teacher's folder in the share drive 
  http://academiccomposition.pbworks.com/w/page/47968606/getsetup#HCTsharednetworkdrive 

This week you will write a three paragraph essay in Problem-Solution format.

The first paragraph is done for you ...

This is the start of a short essay on a common problem in English classes:

     Every Sunday, Cadets come to classes tired because they did not get enough sleep. This has become a problem for the instructors. There are several reasons for this. However, there could be a way to solve this problem.

Write two topic sentences that will start two more paragraphs.

• The first paragraph is on reasons for students being so tired in class,
• The second paragraph is about solutions to the problem.

Topic sentence 1

Topic sentence 2

Your task is in two parts:

1. Prepare to write: Complete the worksheet with two topic sentences and return it in your first class.
2. Give your essay a title, complete the paragraphs, and submit the 3-paragraph essay to your instructor by the end of your second class.

If printers have been set up in the classrooms by this week, students might copy their Google Doc into a Word Document, format it according to a simple template, and print it on the classroom printer.