The heading for this thread is meant to draw attention to a crucial problem found in all subject areas in many online courses: the inability of supervisors, web and course developers, and administrators to put together courses that read well – i.e., good English – and stocked with a logical, clear, and easy-to-access set of assignments, lectures, discussion boards, et al. Again and again students will wander through a course and discover poor grammar and punctuation, spelling and proofreading errors, and vague content; assignments that are missing components, are not easy to understand, or don’t seem to match the readings; and a course layout that is arbitrary, illogical, and / or difficult to access. In cases like this it makes no difference how qualified or enthusiastic or available is the instructor; the students can be quickly discouraged, confused, and inattentive by the powers that be when they do not put enough care into the overall reading, structure, and layout of the course.