Grading Policy for SAs and MPs

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 Links to an external site. 

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

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