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Note: This online course's actual production involved a collective effort of people sharing millions of hours over many years in professional experience, personal development, and unpaid effort. As the course curricula specialist, I skillfully married an exceptional college text with an equally excellent computer grammar support program that can be installed from Internet on a personal computer free of charge for individual use. The course introduces, correlates, and supplements text chapters with lessons diagnostically prescribed for the entering college Freshman.
I, Mary Lula Welch, who set this course together, returned to college to earn a third Master degree in 1992--Master of Education with an emphasis in Reading, specifically, diagnostic curriculum development. This additional schooling was inspired by my teaching assignment at Ricks College as a part time instructor in both oral and written communicative competency for international students. Additionally, I worked summers since 1992 teaching composition for Ricks College Skills Seminar, a College Prep course for college oriented high school students. In 1993, I began teaching E111 Composition in the classroom. In 1996, I was assigned E111C, Composition in the computer lab and also E111C, Composition Online. I learned to enjoy fitting curriculum into new situations early in my life working as a choreographer of water shows, dance reviews, tumbling exhibitions, and athletic tournaments. I wrote and directed synchronized swimming programs used to dedicate new swimming pools in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Georgia. I wrote and produced numerous one act plays, Christmas programs, and Talent Fests for community and church groups in the years I left the professional ranks to serve as mom to five children. I have given 35 years as 4-H Project Leader and Leader's Council member which led me into correlating projects or outreach programs for 4-H youth in Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. I widened my curriculum development skills in literacy when required to do listening, speaking, reading and writing diagnostic evaluation with follow through remediation programs as a Resource Teacher/Coordinator for levels K-12 in a federally funded Migrant program. My Athletic Administration Master's degree and Health Administration Master's degree qualified me as Resource Teacher/Coordinator for this sizeable (Idaho Falls Districts #91 and #93) program since summer school duties included both health screenings and recreational activities while the winter classroom duties included the diagnostic testing, writing of the individualized remediation programs, writing accountability reports to the federal government, and purchase orders for remediation matched curriculum materials. When leaving the Migrant program to serve part-time piloting an oral and written curriculum for the International student at Ricks, I also worked part-time for Idaho State University training public school teachers throughout the state of Idaho in classroom Drug and Alcohol Abuse programs. I have been writing curriculum, juggling schedules, and fitting programs together for most of my life. It has been a joyful challenge to be able to utilize Rodney Keller's textbook expertise and Allen Hackworth's computer expertise in a shared vision of the development of online English 111C. More information can be viewed about my teaching philosophy, personal interests, and personal writing at: