If it is lower, the first grade stands. A re-written paper will not be accepted unless the student has had a conference with Laura on the first draft. Grammar exams and quizzes cannot be revised for a higher grade. Unexcused late stylistic exercises lose 3 points per day. Students who turn in all papers and exercises on time will have 1.5 points added to their final grade.
Attendance involves preparation as well as physical presence.
Both are necessary to the success of the class. Perfect, prepared attendance raises the final grade 1.5 points. Each absence after that lowers the final grade by 2 points out of 100. In general, I ask students who are chronically unprepared, or who miss more than five classes, to withdraw from the course. The only acceptable excuse for cutting a workshop or coming to one without a paper is a doctor-signed certification of bubonic plague.