Syllabus Spring

The scrutinys WI II cover all available material (recitals and lectures) and im break dance be made up of multiple choc ice questions. The final examen is optional. Your common chord elevatedest grades testament be calculated in your exam grades-?your final exam score go away replace your lowest exam score (or be door peed if your final exam score does not exceed any of your three previous exams scores). You may agenda a makeup exam without any penalty if you hire a verifiable egregious excuse (e. G. , written excuse from a doctor). Family vacations, your b ass requiring you to work on the exam day, entertaining visitors from outflow, extracurricular activities, etc. Re not valid excuses. Alternate exams must be scheduled out front the exam is administered as scheduled. broadcast (Toothsome) Exam (5%) There leave behind be a toothsome exam about the material to ensure that you visualize and the grads purpose, requirements, fittings and policies. This exam is not meant to be tall(prenominal) and is not worth many points, but by understanding the path at a high level before e you be much more(prenominal) likely to succeed, so please chance on it seriously. Plagiarism (Toothsome) Exam (5%) superstar goal of this course is to begin preparing every assimilator to be a scholar, boo h in thought and articulation of those thoughts.A first step toward this goal is understanding h owe to artic late *Please note this syllabus is subject to change throughout the semester. Plea your thoughts bit building on the thoughts of others and properly attribute Eng the ownership of all thoughts expressed. In other words, you must understand plagiarism and how to avoid it. While most Of you should have been taught this by now, this course will reinforce festinate the lesson. You will be given a toothsome exam that will require you to exhibit your sack edge of legalism and how to avoid it.You will have one week to complete the exam, and it will be collect at the origination of the figure on the deadline (see schedule). The following site s may help you with this assignment HTTPS//www. Ms. Deed/-?imbued/gastroenteritis)polycrystalline. HTML http//owl. English. Purdue. Deed/owl/resource/589/DO/ http//www. Plagiarism. Org/ PAP Toothsome Exam (5%) other important aspect of articulating your thoughts is ensuring that you c an find information and communicate your thoughts clearly to others, and particularly those read ins your work. One ay this clarity can be accomplished is through precise writing and support of your work.You will be given a toothsome exam to help you learn how to apply PAP style a s well as find information from the library/ library database and hone your critical reading skills. You will have approximately 1. 5 weeks to complete the exam, and it will be due at the beginning of the class on the deadline (see schedule for specific date). The exam will consist of cardinal parts-?the first part will have you entrust citing s pacific references and/ or construct a reference knave from sample resources the second part will res re you to go to the library (or library website) to seek resources to consecrate search wing for academic articles.Though it is a toothsome exam, you should work on and complete you r exam individually. However, you are welcome (and encouraged) to use neoprene res resources (I . E. , books, tutorials, online aids, librarians, etc. ) to complete your exam. Essay Assignments (20%) In order to provide you with practice of the skills learned in the toothsome ex. ms, there will be two essay assignments that are near related to the material we cover in class s. These assignments will be announced approximately 1. Weeks before they are due and will be due at the beginning of the class on the deadlines (see schedule for specific date).Assignments must be submitted via the TACTIC page in DEL, under Assessment TTS Dropped (under the assignment origin Your assignments will be checked for originality using academic honesty software. Do not include your soma or any other did notifying information on your submission (this info is logged automatically via DEL). Please do not email assignments unless prior arrangements are made with the e instructor unapproved assignments received via email will not be accepted. All written a assignments must follow PAP 6 style. I recommend you go here for help on this http// writing. Us. Deed/ Class Participation via Towpath (10%) attending -? of your mind as well as your person is expected of you at ever y lecture. To this end, you will be expected to use the Towpath website/ app to respond to discussion questions during to each one lecture. These questions will only be available (on Towpath) at the time the question is asked in class. In order to receive full involution credit for a lecture, you must respond to all questions asked on that day. Complaints, excuses, or entrapments will not be entertained when considers Eng these involvement points.It is your full responsibility to ensure that you access and respond on Towpath during the allot time period. You may miss a Max of 2 lectures of participation points without penalty, technological/financial/ romanticist issues included. Weekly Posts & Responses (1 0% + extra credit opportunity) In order to facilitate more interactive dispute with the course material, y o are required to post a response to the material presented each week (prompt here) on TOPCA t under Veek X Response Post, and then vote AND commentary on at least 2 of your class test posts.Initial posts are due at pm on Thursdays, updates and comments are due at 1 1 pm on Fridays. Each week, the students who have the turn over 10 updated posts (with classlessness ma trial) will receive 5 extra credit points in the class (given as . 5 SONS credits toward the credit Max, see below) Extra Credit SONS System (Up to 5%) Throughout this semester, you have the opportunity to earn extra credit point s toward your grade. This extra credit research participation is worth 5% or 50 points in this course. To earn these mints, you would need to complete 5 hours of research.Syllabus SpringClass participation in this course ill be assessed as the ability of the student to raise the level of the class conceptual knowledge by making a constructive contribution to the class discussion. There are several channels by which a student may contribute constructively to the class learning process relating course concepts from readings to the discussion commenting perceptively during class discussions raising topic-related questions conceptually expanding on classmates comments and, providing feedback to classmates presentations.Students cannot participate unless they are present in class. As such, attending class is a minimum fraction of the class partial option assessment. Students will be given a daily class score according to the following rubric O=absent, 50 = sleeping, testing or on t he computer, 75=present, 85=present + contribution and 100=present + raised the conceptual knowledge of the class. Standard scores will be computed based on the number of class meetings during the week and will be posted on Discovery.Students are expected to be on time for class out of respect for the instructor and their companion classmates. Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class. If you miss or are going to miss a class, you are required to notify the professor via email. For every absence more than 4 unexcused absences will result in a 1 point reduction in the course grade. Any student testing or using a laptop for anything other than taking notes will receive a O for class participation for that day. B.Course Evaluation All students completing the course for credit are required to complete an online course evaluation at the end of the course. Participation by all students is important, not only for our continued accreditation, but to assist in refining the co urse to insure quality instruction. The University will provide instructions to students via your campus email on how to complete the evaluation about two weeks before the course ends. You will be given extra class participation points if you complete the course evaluation C.