See X193-219: Student Guide to Computer Services, Introducing Students to Internet Resources, Finding Poetry in the Net, and The Victorian Web: sample pages. To prepare for your Internet discussion, take notes as you read the assignments in the following manner. When you come across a passage to which you have a reaction -- emotional, intellectual or both -- quote at least two or three sentences of the passage. Supply quotation marks and document the title, chapter, page and/or line number of the passage. Then record your reactions: how your felt, what you thought as you read the passage, what you feel or think now as you reflect on it, etc.

Use your Internet discussions to demonstrate that you read ALL the assignments CAREFULLY. This is a way to prepare for the final exam by comparing nineteenth and twentieth century views and feelings about many different subjects. Tune in to how your right as well as your left brain is reacting as you read. This is a chance to increase your vocabulary of feelings as suggested in the course anthology and began to articulate and trust your intuitive side more. In addition to your intellectual responses,we will be looking for your awareness of and ability to articulate your emotional reactions to the literary work. This is not to be confused with your awareness of emotions in the characters in the book, and is not quite the same as speculation about how you would feel if you were one of the characters. Instead of talking about how you would feel if ..., talk about how you actually felt as you read the passage which affected you. Use the following format: "I felt" followed by an emotion, like those listed in the vocabulary of feelings in the anthology. Focus on how you felt when you read the passage or feel now rereading it, not just what you think about it. Surprisingly, such phrases as "I felt that ..." or "I felt like" can actually lead you away from feelings and into thoughts, especially "I felt that." Try to be aware of deep emotions of fear, sadness, joy and love rather than merely intellectual surprise, confusion, amusement, curiosity, etc. Be as specific as possible. It is good to note, "I felt moved," or "I felt touched," but better to specify exactly how you were moved or touched, exactly what emotion was touched or moved within you. In addition, you will be graded on how carefully you have read the assignment, how much you have learned about the nineteenth century, and how well you can relate it to your own life and times.

GRADES: To get an A you will need to write enough entries to add up to at least 3 pages of prose per 2 week interval. In terms of citations, you will need, usually, about 8 citations, though less if you do really in depth analysis And you will need good writing and/or good balance of left and right sides of the brain. To get a B you will need entries adding up to about 2 page s or so of prose, with about 6 citations, and good writing and/or good balance. To get a C you will need entries adding up to about  1.5 pages of prose with 3 or 4 citations. A D is a minimal effort.

REPLY whenever possible. Look over what has been uploaded so far and try to fit into the discussion.Make multiple entries rather than trying to pack different replies and different subjects into one entry. If you decide to start a new subject subject, first state the subject [not the work] and then the work if you wish, as in masks in the French Lieutenant's Woman, or relationships in the French Lieutenant's Woman. Even when writing about a new subject relate to previous entries as much as possible.

When you click on the appropriate discussion for the week, what will come up is a page with three frames on it. In the top frame is the discussion for the week. Click in that top frame and scroll down as needed, reading the discussion, and join in. If there is nothing in the top frame yet, go to the bottom of the page and click on "start a new thread." Then post the first message for that week.

SAVE COPIES OF YOUR WORK. If at all possible, every time you write a message copy it before you send it. By "copy it" I mean put the cursor on the upper left hand corner of the message and then holding the button down drag it to the lower right hand corner of your message. This will "select" the text to be copied. Then go to "Edit" in the menu and select "Copy." Then open a new document in a word processor and "paste" in your text. Name and save the document onto a diskette. Copy subsequent messages you write to the same document, adding them to the previous messages. When you have completed your writing for the two week period print out all messages in one document and hand it in to the Teaching Assistants. That way you can be sure they give you credit for all your messages and you can create material you can use later for the final exam

Please  do not send the same message over and over again. To see if it arrived, just wait a bit and then return to your place in the list and hit "reload" WHILE HOLDING DOWN THE OPTION KEY [on a Mac] if necessary.