Readers will focus on these when considering your placement, using the third for additional information about your writing interests and abilities. You may be excused from two class periods, or one class period and one individual conference, or two individual conferences for any reason. Because this course is a workshop in which participation is vital, after two absences you will need to begin the course again. The only exception is absence for religious holidays or dire emergencies. Please inform me by phone or e-mail if you cannot attend a conference.
Conferences start a mid-semester.
Your placement on completion of this class will be decided according to the quality of your portfolio. Because your portfolios will be read by two ECB faculty members, all portfolios must be handed in on Dec. 6, the last class period. I assume that as adults, you will learn best if you are in charge of your own learning as much as is possible within a university setting. By choosing your own topics, finding your own sources, and using our individual conferences and e-mail conversations to ask me for help with what you want to work on, you will learn more deeply and meaningfully than if I did it all for you. The problem is getting my ideas from my head onto the page.