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Welcome to the ESL: Library Component
College
students quickly learn that reading is often linked to researching
and retrieving information in the library or on the World Wide
Web. The library component of this course will help you to do
this kind of research more effectively. As part of ESL4: Advanced
Reading, you will be learning to use the MVCC Library. Each week,
the class will focus on different ways of searching and on different
types of research material. This
Library Component is web-based. That means that the course materials
are available online. You may use the computers in PH212, our
classroom in the library, or any of the other computers on campus.
In addition, you may use your computer at home if you have access
to the web. The address is www.mvcc.edu/~esearles. During
each class, I will be there to answer your questions and to help
you understand the materials in each lesson, but you are responsible
for reading the on-line text and for completing the work of each
lesson on time. There will be weekly quizzes and assignments and
a final project to evaluate your progress.
Print copies of assigned "Tasks" will be distributed each week
and collected at the beginning of the following class. Assignments
will usually need to be completed in the library because they
often require the use of library materials in addition to those
available online.
Library and lab hours are posted.
In order to complete this library component successfully, each
student must do the following:
At the end of the semester, you will know many things about research
in the library and on the Internet. This knowledge will help you
to be a better student in all of your future courses at MVCC.
I hope you'll enjoy this learning experience and that you'll have
some fun along the way!