November 25, 2005
Course grades
We have four unit papers in this class: the Unit 1 summary of Mike Rose's article; the Unit 2 paper; the Unit 3 paper; and the Unit 4 paper. Additional graded assignments are the November 9 summary; your preliminary draft for Unit 4; and your responses to classmates' drafts for Unit 4. To calculate your course grades, I'm planning to assign the following percentages, which I corrected on 11/27/05:
10% Unit 1 response to Lewin
10% Unit 1 summary of Rose
15% Unit 2 paper
15% November 9 summary
20% Unit 3 paper
05% Preliminary draft of Unit 4 paper
05% Responses to classmates' drafts of Unit 4 paper
20% Unit 4 paper
Posted by senioritis at 10:06 AM | Comments (0)
Grading criteria for responses to classmates' drafts
On December 1, 6, and 8 our class sessions will be devoted to responding to drafts of Unit 4 papers. On one of these days, your paper will be reviewed by your classmates. On the other two days, you'll be reading all the drafts for that day, and you'll be assigned to respond in writing to two drafts on each of those two days. (To see when your draft is scheduled to be read and whose drafts you will be writing a response to, see the Unit 4 homework schedule.)
After December 8 I'll give you a single grade for all your responses to classmates. I'll take into account how well-considered your written responses were; did they just focus on the small things like punctuation and spelling, or did they focus on the issues listed in the assignment? I'll also look at how well-developed your comments are: Are they just quick remarks, or are they really helpful conversations about the possibilities for the draft? I'll consider whether your written responses were ready on schedule, or whether writers had to wait for them past the due date. And I'll take into account how engaged you were in the classroom discussions of drafts: were you contributing only to the discussion of drafts for which you wrote responses, or had you read and prepared to talk about all of the drafts?
Posted by senioritis at 09:24 AM | Comments (0)
Grading criteria for preliminary drafts of Unit 4 papers
Preliminary drafts of Unit 4 papers are due on 11/28, 12/1, and 12/4; check the homework schedule to see which date is yours. I'll grade your preliminary draft according to how complete it is (it should be a full draft) and how well-developed it is (is it something you ripped off in an hour, or something you've really been working on?).
Posted by senioritis at 09:04 AM | Comments (0)