English 492

To complete this course successfully, you will need each of the items listed below. Unless they are identified as items you must supply yourself, these items should have been sent to you in the course package for English 492: Research and Writing Projects in Literature. If you find you are missing any of them, please contact the Course Materials department of Athabasca University as soon as possible. If you live in Edmonton or Calgary, you may call the Learning Centre in your city and use the automated telephone attendant to connect with Course Materials (the extension is 6366). If you live within Canada or the United States, but outside of Edmonton or Calgary, call the automated attendant by dialing 1-800-788-9041 (extension 6366). If you live outside of Canada or the United States, or if you do not wish to use the automated system, call (780) 675-6366. You may also email Course Materials; or write to the Tim Byrne Centre, 4001 Hwy 2 South, Athabasca AB T9S 1A4.

Textbook: Roberts, Edgar V. Writing About Literature, 11th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006.

Student Manual: The Student Manual provides essential information about the course and the procedures that you should follow to complete it successfully. Please read it from cover to cover before beginning your studies.

Forms: You will need the forms in your course package to submit assignments and to notify the university by mail about any change in your status as a student.

Course Website: English 492 has a website with many online resources for writing research papers. In order to use the online materials which supplement this course, students will need access to a high bandwidth Internet connection (56K or higher), and will need to have Macromedia Flash Player (version 7 or higher) installed in their web browsers.

This software can be downloaded here for free.