Welcome to Advanced Composition Using Macintosh Computers, a course which satisfies the advanced writing requirement in the core curriculum at The University of South Dakota. The course is a writing studio where most of our work is on-line. To take the course, you need to have already completed English 101, Freshman Composition, and English 210, Introduction to Literature. You don't need prior experience with Mac computers, just interest in learning and writing with them.

The class meets in the Arts & Sciences Building, Room 22 "The Mac Classroom/lab." The instructor is Dr. Nancy Zuercher, whose office is 230 Dakota Hall. Her office hours are 9-9:50 a.m. MWF in the Maclab, 12-12:50 MWF in Dakota 230, and other times by appointment. Her phone number is (605) 677-5229, and her e-mail address is

More information will soon be available on these links:

Course Information includes expectations, texts, purposes of the course, attendance, and grading.

Calendar is a daily schedule of class activities and due dates for the entire semester.

Discussion Questions lists questions we raised in class that grabbed our interest and kept it.

Major Projects provides descriptions of our first paper, research project, and web project.

Resources contains links to web sources beyond this website. Here you'll also find lists of listservs and some helpful sites for writing throughout the writing process.

Created August 31, 1999