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You should sign on every Tuesday and Friday
-- new information will go online twice a week. You
will get an assignment on Tuesday that is due on Friday (via
email). Then you'll get an assignment on Friday that's due the
following Tuesday.
This is to your advantage. The students in my
classroom will get feedback from in-class writing exercises.
You'll get that same feedback from the work you do for Friday's
deadline.
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You should expect to work 4-5 hours a week on this course
-- sometimes more. That's about what in-class students do.
Even though you can choose your own hours to study, you are
expected to keep up with the class schedule, twice a week.
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This online course is not just a Web-based textbook,
with email assignments. Like any good class, it's a
relationship between you and your teacher (me). The
relationship will be via email instead of face-to-face, but it
will still be a relationship that we both have to work to
maintain -- mostly through email.
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You will need to use a word processor to send me
most of your assignments as Word documents. Therefore you'll need
to know how to use the "Attach File" option on your email. But I'm
not making a fetish of the Internet, and if you can drop off your
assignments as hard copies at the Marketing Communication
Department front desk, you're welcome to do so.
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I would like to meet you during the first week
of classes. Give me a call at 312-344-7603 (or 344-7600) to let me
know when you'll be on campus and we'll set a time.
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For your final exam you will need to come into
the classroom. You can come in the morning or the evening of
Wednesday, May 30, 9:30-11:30 a.m. or 5:30-7:30 p.m. If you have
other classes scheduled during both these periods, we'll find an
alternative time for your final.
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You are welcome to visit me in my office
whenever I'm on campus, which is most of the time -- but make an
appointment first, by phone or email, so you're sure I'm here. And
of course you can always contact me by email: use the "Email" link
on the navigation bar if you like -- my address is
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You are also welcome to visit my personal home page
at any time. It's at www.altonmiller.com (or just click on
the pencil logo at the top of each page). But you don't really
need to go there -- everything you need is on the Web site where
you are already reading this.
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Your next step now should be to check out the
syllabus by clicking on "Syllabus" on the navigation
bar. Give this syllabus a careful reading. Since I can't
discuss it in detail with you, I want you to take the initiative
to let me know if there's anything there you don't understand. Or
maybe there's something else you'd like to know about PR writing
that I don't seem to have covered. I want to make sure you get
what you need from this course -- and I want you to understand why
some topics are covered in such detail. So read it carefully and
email me with feedback. Then go on to the "Lessons".
