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

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), if applicable
  • Must have a Works Cited page that contains at least the author's name and the title of work

Late and/or incomplete assignments do not get feedback. If you receive an incomplete, please fix the issue and then resubmit. 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.