ENC 1101: Issues in Technology Course Policies

Assignments Your work represents you. Therefore, I expect everything you turn in to exemplify the very best of your professional self. Every assignment must be typed (word-processed) on white, wrinkle-free paper. Any hand-written assignments will not be accepted, period. Please plan ahead so that you have plenty of time to make your assignments as presentable as possible. Attendance Attendance will be taken at every class meeting. The university’s official attendance policy states that students may have only three (3) unexcused absenses before their grades are adversely affected. My policy is a bit more subtle. If you have excessive unexcused absenses (more than three), you will get the grade you earn. For example, if your final grade is 89.9 and you have more than three unexcused absenses, then you will receive a B. This policy is non-negotiable; do not test it. The only absenses that will be excused are hospital stays, doctor visits, family emergencies, and natural disasters. All of these excuses, excluding natural disasters, must be accompanied by appropriate documentation or they will not be accepted. Only written excuses will be considered by the instructor when attempting to excuse an absence. Students are encouraged to write the instructor, including appropriate documentation, immediately upon returning to request an excused absence. Excuses will be refused if they arrive more than a week after the absence. It is the student’s responsibility to discover what was missed in class and any assignments. I can best be contacted in case of contingencies via email. Only work missed during an excused absence may be made up; quizzes and in-class activites cannot be made up for any reason. Class Time Because discussion and active participation are integral to the learning process, I rarely lecture. Therefore, time in class will be spent on discussion of readings, student writing, and exercises with the occasional short lecture. Quizzes, practice essays, and lectures are designed to benefit the entire group while personal problems and concerns should be handled during office hours. Deadlines Late work is not acceptable and will receive a zero. Allowing for a single contingency, one late daily assignment will be accepted; this assignment cannot be more than a week late. After this limit, I can accept no late daily assignments. The reason for this: what you write for each class will create the class. If you write nothing, then the class does not exist. To ensure the existence of class, you are allowed only one late daily assignment. Plan ahead and turn in your work on time. Late essays cannot, for any reson, be rewritten for a grade increase. Course Books and Materials Course readings are integral parts of the class and should be brought daily. When readings are assigned to be discussed in class, please bring a copy of the reading with your reading notes ready to participate in the discussion. A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59 Table 1: Letter Grades Grades Final grades will be based upon a traditional ten-point scale, see Table 1. See Evaluation for grade breakdowns. Students are not in competition with each other; each student will receive the grade s/he earns. I do not transmit grades electronically at any time. I have no problem apprising you of your current standing in this class, but I will not do so over any electronic medium, including email or the phone. If you would like to know your official grade, you should see me during my office hours or make an appointment. Incompletes This course will strictly abide by University and departmental policy regarding Incompletes. An incomplete can only be given if a small portion of the course work is missing and the student is doing otherwise satisfactory work. “I” grades are not assigned automatically, but only upon consultation with me. The student has one semester to remove an “I” grade; otherwise it is changed to an “F.” Library Research Days At least one day during each semester is designated as a library research day (see Syllabus). These days, as evident by the name, are assigned for library research and reading on assigned topics relevant to the study of the course work. The specific time when class would normally be held should be spent in the library doing research or reading. Plagiarism The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as “the wrongful appropriation or purloining, and publication as one's own, of the ideas, or the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical, etc.) of another,” or “a purloined idea, design, passage, or work.” Plagiarism will result in automatic failure of this class and will be pursued to incite the utmost penalty for such dishonesty. Academic falsehood, in any form, will constitute class failure.

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