Grading policies and procedures

Grading Scale
Grade	Score
A	1000 – 930 points
A-	929 – 900 points
B+	899 – 870 points
B	869 – 830 points
B-	829 – 800 points
C+	799 – 770 points
C	769 – 730 points
C-	729 – 700 points
D	699 – 600 points
F	599 or fewer points

Assignments and Grading:
Category	Point value	Percentage
Responses and Forums	200	20%
Quizzes and in-class work	150	15%
Peer Review	100	10%
Editing and Design panels	100	10%
Project part 1	100	10%
Project part 2	150	15%
Final project	200	20%
Total	1000	100%

Reading Responses, other hand-ins:

When we do readings for this class, I will usually ask you to write a short response to them. These responses guide your reflection on the reading and prepare you for discussion or other class activities. All homework assignments due at the beginning of class.

Forums:

We will use OASIS forums to keep our conversation lively between class meetings and to explore other notions of what visual rhetoric can be. Throughout the term, I will ask questions and suggest topics for discussion on our board. We may bring in class topics or discuss issues that never emerge in class. Each student is required to post on the discussion boards at least twice each week (before class on Monday). Posts must be added between class periods, and should be both thoughtful and substantive.

Quizzes:

On the occasions that I hold quizzes, I hold them at the beginning of class. This means that if you're late, you will miss the quiz and receive a zero. Only people who have excused absences will be allowed to make up quizzes.

Design and Editing Panels:

Two of the key elements for more advanced writers are design and editing. The editing discussions focus on getting you to think more about the sentence-level of your texts; the difference between good writing and great writing is often the ability to edit well. While design does not usually play a strong role in traditional academic work, this semester's work on the web will certainly tax your design skills.

Peer Review:

Peer Review plays a key role in our coursework. The more effort you make to return thorough, careful reviews to your peers, the more beneficial the process will be for everyone.

Project:

During this course, you will produce a single piece of sustained work researching a specific topic. That work will be produced in several parts, with each adding to the last. Your final "project" will be a blending of the previous three, concentrating more on synthesis, design, and editing than on new work.