See Weekly assignments , below. There will be three short research projects during the course. These are described in more detail on a separate handout. All papers and discussion receive a letter grade. Grades are regularly posted to the class web site throughout the semester.
Final grades are the weighted sum of all grades.
Also, please do not use full-justification since it is difficult for me to read. All papers should be grammatically correct, spell-checked, clearly written, and structurally sound. Papers not meeting these requirements may be returned for rewriting. I receive many files over email and on disks from students and colleagues. If sending a computer file to me over email or turning it in on a disk, make sure that I can identify your file and anything I print from it.