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Attendance & Participation

Students are expected to attend all classes and be punctual; absences and lates will lower this portion of your grade. In addition, students are expected to work diligently on that day’s in-class work, whether from the handouts or in-class activities such as brainstorming and peer review.

Journal

This semester we will use our journals to respond and interpret a variety of different media: songs, poetry, articles, short stories, documentaries etc.  I will post various reading material for you as well as questions, prompts, and topics and give you time in class to free-write and organize your ideas.  In many cases, your weekly journals will serve as the material upon which you draw for your essays.  You will hand in your journal twice a semester.

Essays

Each essay is made up of six parts: 1.Brainstorming, 2.Research and Quoting, 3.Outline, 4.Rough Draft, 5.Peer Review, 6.Final Draft. When you have finished all six parts, you will organize them into different files and submit them to me over email for a final grade. I will grade each of the six parts, and your final grade on the essay will be the sum of all six grades. Note: for the peer review portion of your grade, you will be graded on other students’ comments!

Plagiarism

Plagiarism means copying the sentences, phrases, arguments, and/or ideas of someone else without quoting and citing them properly. It doesn’t matter if you take someone else’s sentence and rearrange or change a few words: it’s still plagiarism. If there is any plagiarism on any assignment, you will receive a 0 on the entire essay unit and I may fail you out of the class.

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