If your schedule does not allow you to attend each class session, please take another class. Homework and quizzes will be scored in terms of points. Handwritten work will not be accepted, not even the first time. Homework is due the class meeting after it is assigned. Later homework is worth nothing.
Papers are due when announced as due.
Late papers lose a letter grade for each day later than announced. Quizzes must be taken at the proper time. There will be no make-ups. You should expect to read some of the major pieces several times, slowly, underlining as you go, and you should expect to run any written work through several drafts in order to make it really good. You know the difference between work that you really think about and put real effort into and work you just toss off.