The paper grade is based on the quality of the final version. All items are due at the beginning of class on their due dates. The final grade on the paper will be reduced by one point on a 100-point scale for every day the bibliography, outline, or sample section is late, and by two points for every day the draft or final paper is late. The purpose of this requirement is to accustom students to frequent informal writing, to promote discussion of the class topics outside of class, and to give me feedback on how students have understood the course material. This includes any in-class writing assignments.
Attendance is required.
Class participation requires you to be present in spirit as well as in body, having done the reading and prepared to talk about it. Repeated absence may result in a failing grade for the course, at my sole discretion, regardless of grades on other work. No extensions or incompletes except in case of serious, documented illness or family emergency. Margery Kempe, Geary 227-59. War, Famine, Pestilence, etc.