430 / 857
with a response to your email as the latest that I will check email is 8 pm. Do not email me in the middle
of the night and expect a response the next morning.
Workshops/Revisions:
Peer-review is an important aspect in any composition course (an Accountant I
knew once put it this way, “it’s a lot easier to spot errors in someone else’s taxes than it is to spot errors in
your own”). Therefore, there will be four workshops throughout the course and each workshop will be
conducted before the final draft of the paper is due. During these workshops you will be required to
review two other students’ rough drafts. This will be accomplished via “workshop worksheets” – you
will be required to fill out one “workshop worksheet” for each student you review, hence every time we
have workshop you will be completing two “workshop worksheets.” Please note – I WILL BE
GRADING THESE WORKSHOP WORKSHEETS – at the end of the semester I will look at all of your
workshop worksheets and giving you a grade as to how much effort I believe you put into your reviews.
Simple “no,” and “yes” responses to the workshop questions will result in a very poor grade; to get a good
grade, then, each question should be answered with a two-three sentence response. The workshop
worksheets will be placed on Moodle on Mondays and you will be required to e-mail your answers to the
“workshop worksheets” to your instructor. Thus, in the “TO:” prompt of the e-mail you will type my e-
mail address and then the first student you reviewed; after sending that e-mail go ahead and do the same
thing for the second student you reviewed. If you, the student, do not receive a review for your own paper
then contact me via e-mail as soon as possible so as I can contact the peer who was supposed to review
your paper.
Computer Use
The College’s computing equipment, and computing resources are owned by the College. All messages
composed, sent, forwarded or received are retained by the College and are the property of the College.
They are not the private property of any student or other individual. Violations of this policy include, but
are not limited to, denial, revocation, removal of unacceptable data, or suspension of Internet/e-mail
rights, disciplinary action, including expulsion, and/or appropriate legal action. Refer to the Student
Handbook for additional details of this policy.
Paper Guidelines:
All papers must be double-spaced, Times New Roman, with 12 pt. font. and 1”
margins on all sides.
Late Papers:
Late papers will suffer a one letter grade drop.
Grading (on a 100 point scale):
Paper 1 = 10 points or 10%
Paper 2 = 15 points or 15%
Paper 3 = 20 points or 20%
Paper 4 (Research Paper) = 25 points or 25%
Narration Assignment = 5 points or 5%
Scavenger Hunt = 3 points or 3%
Workshop Reviews = 10 points or 10%
Primer Worksheet #1 = 2 points or 2%
Primer Worksheet #2 = 3 points or 3%
Primer Worksheet #3 = 3 points or 3%
Primer Worksheet #4 = 4 points or 4%
A 93 and above