LSCI 100: INTRODUCTION TO
INFORMATION RESEARCH
STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES
1.
CHECK YOUR EMAIL AT LEAST TWO OR
THREE TIMES PER WEEK.
Since this is an
online course, the instructor communicates with you via email. Therefore, check your email at least two or
three times per week to see your corrected assignments and check for other
messages from the instructor.
MAKE SURE THAT MESSAGES FROM THE INSTRUCTOR ARE NOT BEING
PUT IN YOUR “JUNK” FOLDER. Sometimes
email systems will place messages from new correspondents in the “junk”, “bulk”
or “spam” folder, so be sure to check in that folder if you are not seeing
messages from the instructor in your regular inbox. If you do a find message from the instructor
in the “junk” folder, identify the message as “not junk”.
If you change your email address, let us know immediately.
2.
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TURN
IN YOUR WORK ON TIME.
Although emails
will be sent to remind you when assignments are due, it is ultimately your
responsibility to turn your work in on time.
If you are not able to submit your work on time due to unusual
circumstances (illness, jury duty, family obligations, etc.), please advise the
instructor as soon as possible. It is
not acceptable to inform us several days after an assignment is due that your
work will be late.
The instructor will not send reminder emails after the due date.
3. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE CERTAIN
THAT YOUR ASSIGNMENTS REACH THE INSTRUCTOR.
If you
accidentally lose your work – through computer malfunction, carelessness, etc.
– it is your responsibility to remedy the situation. (To avoid losing your work, consider saving
your assignments on WORD, as explained during the orientation.) The instructor will help you with any
problems you may encounter in the process of completing and sending
assignments, but the final responsibility for getting your work to the
instructor rests on you.
If you do not receive a response from your instructor
within three days of the day you submit an assignment, please contact the
instructor immediately to be sure that your message was sent and received
successfully.
4. KEEP A COPY OF YOUR E-MAILED
ASSIGNMENTS.
As a safeguard,
keep a copy of your e-mailed assignments.
In the unlikely event your work goes astray, you will then have a copy
to re-send.
5.
KEEP YOUR CORRECTED ASSIGNMENTS.
Do not delete corrected
assignments after the instructor sends them back to you. You will often need to refer back to them and
it’s a good idea to have your own record of your scores. We suggest that you create a folder entitled
“LSCI 100” in your email account and keep all your work there.
6.
IF YOU ARE ASKED TO MAKE CORRECTIONS IN YOUR COMPLETED ASSIGNMENTS,
PLEASE DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Your score for each lesson is only credited when all the
work is done, including any necessary corrections. If you do not complete any required
corrections, you will not get credit for that assignment.
7. IF YOU PLAN TO DO YOUR WORK OFF
CAMPUS, GET A PLS LIBRARY CARD.
All of the
databases used in this course can be accessed from off campus. However, to access them, you will be asked to
type your Peninsula Library System card number (the 14-digit number on the back
of the card.) Type this number with no
spaces.
8. ABBREVIATIONS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
i.e. = id est (Latin)
= “that is”
e.g. = exempli gratia (Latin) = “for example”
a.k.a. = “also known as”
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