If you miss an exam without contacting me prior to the exam, you will be required to take a make-up essay exam and possibly the regular exam as well. The exams will consist of multiple choice, short answer, and essay questions. In addition, you will have one long research paper, due late in the semester. You will be given an assignment sheet for the long paper, further explaining the grading requirements. The dispute should be typed and be no longer than 1 double spaced page per item disputed.
Disputes are due at the beginning of class one week from the day a paper or exam was handed back.
A dispute should be a clearly articulated argument, not an opinion. If your thinking is good, you may receive points for the questions originally missed. All members of the academic community must be confident that each person s work has been responsibly and honorably acquired, developed, and presented. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to looking at someone s exam during a test, looking at notes during the test, turning in someone else s work as your own for a paper, plagiarizing from a printed article. If you are in doubt about whether a behavior you intend to do will be viewed as suspicious, please speak to me first.