Final Grades for the course will determined as follows:
Blogs: 20 percent (Have the blogs been written? Do they respond rhetorically and in a timely fashion to the course and other bloggers?)
Narrative and Argument Assignments: 10 percent each, for a total of 50 percent
Final Project(10-12 page "paper"): 20 percent
Revision and Other Participation: 10 percent
Please read the Composition Office Grading Standards for further details.
Attendance
Class attendance is mandatory. According to Faculty Senate Policy 42-27 "the fact that classes are scheduled is evidence that the faculty believes instruction is important. It is implicit, therefore, that class attendance is important for the benefit of students." Attendance in this section of English 15 is required. While it is understood that emergencies / University-sanctioned activities may arise which result in your missing one or more classes, frequent absences may negatively affect your final grade. As a rule, one or two absences will have little impact on your final grade, assuming you participate enthusiastically when you are in class and realize you are responsible for all material covered during the missed class(es). In the event that your attendance, or lack thereof, becomes a problem, I will ask you to meet with me to discuss our options. These options may include a failing grade or a lower grade than you might have earned had you attended classes regularly.
Please read the Composition Office Policy on Attendance for further details.
Information Management
Please back up everything you write for this course. You should either write your wiki posts in a word processor and save before posting, or write directly in the wiki and cut and paste to an open word processing window as you go along. Information technologies are perhaps inherently volatile, so it is always good to have redundancy in your writing process: make copies and put them in different places!
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