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Policies for Attendance, Homework, and On-Time Drafts in English 303
Both homework and review drafts of major assignments are important because they provide
you an opportunity to practice the rhetorical principles and writing strategies that
you're learning. Further, you must complete these assignments on time;
meeting deadlines is an essential discipline in the professional world, and I expect you
to practice it here.
Homework and assignment drafts will be graded on a Pass/No Pass basis:
Pass= the assignment is done reasonably well, is done completely, and is submitted
on time.
No Pass=the assignment is not done, is done incompletely or poorly, or is not
submitted on time.
You will be assigned a homework grade for the term based on the following scale:
A = All or all but one assignment completed on time
B = All but two assignments completed on time
C = All but three assignments completed on time
D = All but four assignments completed on time
F = More than four assignments late or missing
Homework and drafts of major assignments are due at the beginning of the class for which
they are assigned. This applies also to days when you take an excused absence and to
days when you are absent for a job interview or other event planned in advance. Late
homework will be accepted only in the case of illness or emergencies. Late
major assignments will be downgraded one letter grade per business day late.
Because class discussions and in-class activities are important parts of this course,
attendance is required. Please arrange your vacations and work for other courses or for
your employer so that they don't keep you from attending class. Certainly, if you
accumulate three or more absences over the course of the semester, your final grade is
likely to drop. According to English Department policy, more than three absences
from this class is grounds for a final grade of F. The department does not recognize
any "excused" absences; however, extended illness and/or college-excused
absences will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Portions of this site are borrowed or adapted from Paul Anderson's web
syllabus, by permission of the author.
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