The paper has very few and no serious mechanical errors. C Adequate writing on the college level will receive a grade of C. The C paper has a thesis stated and developed sufficiently to convey its purpose to the reader. Students may experience occasional problems with such things as sentence and paragraph construction, punctuation, spelling, diction, word choice, and awkwardness. Ideas may have logical problems or seem incomplete. The grade of D may indicate inadequate expression of ideas or partial fulfillment of an assignment.
Most D papers fail to organize a central idea logically or to develop it fully.
The paper may contain several serious syntactical or grammatical errors. The grade of F may indicate failure to state and develop a main idea according to the assignment. It may also indicate failure to avoid serious errors in sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Homework, In-class Writing, Quizzes I will give 5 or 6 of these assignments over the course of the program. Each assignment will be graded with a letter grade.