I will grade Short Assignments and Major Projects as either complete or incomplete. I will not be assessing how “well” you write, but rather whether you have completed the assignment’s goals.

Your assignment will be marked incomplete if it...

Does not meet the spirit of the assignment
- ex. if I ask you to write a rhetorical analysis on an assigned text and you submit a paper that does no rhetorical analysis. Or, I ask for a complex claim and you do not make a complex claim.
- ex. I ask for 5 pages and you submit 4.5 pages (*Works Cited pages do not count towards the page count*)
Is inaccessible to me (aka corrupt file or inaccessible google doc)
Does not follow the MLA guidelines below
- Must have in-text citations (Last name Page number)
- Must have a Works Cited page that contains at least the author's name and the title of work
- Must cite texts correctly throughout the paper and the Works Cited page ("short stories" vs Novellas)

Late and/or incomplete assignments do not get feedback. If you submit an assignment late, I will count it as "complete." However, more than 2 late assignments will hurt your participation grade.

Here is what an MLA formatted page typically looks like https://depts.washington.edu/owrc/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Hacker-Sample-MLA-Formatted-Paper.pdf

Here are directions on how to format the standard academic paper: http://web.augsburg.edu/english/writinglab/Formatting_an_Academic_Paper.pdf

On your writing assignments, you can expect feedback from me on what to consider revising for your Final Portfolio.