Attending class each week, on time and prepared, is an essential part of your learning, your preparation for the profession of writing, and your grades; this class is conducted face to face, in real time, and it is based on collaborative learning. Class time will be devoted to reports, collaborative invention and critique, collaborative writing, and discussion of readings.

Written work should include a Works Cited list, in MLA form. In the text of your report, use MLA style to cite quotations, summary, and paraphrase. Visible patchwriting or excessive reliance on quotation is unacceptable in final-draft doctoral work in composition and rhetoric--and in publications in the field, as well.

Proofread your written work carefully. Mechanical and grammatical errors such as comma splices, sentence fragments, dangling modifiers, incorrect punctuation, and misspellings are also unacceptable in the work of candidates for the Ph.D. in composition and rhetoric. All of us make such errors from time to time, but none of us can afford to become known for them.

Your grade for the course is an "A." If you don't do the work on time and well, it might slide. If you're concerned about the "well" part, talk to me. If I'm concerned about the "well" part, I'll talk to you.

http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Syllabi/611grading.html