During the semester you will write four papers of varying lengths. You will revise the first two of these papers for a final paper grade. Failure to produce a good faith effort on a draft will result in a grade penalty on the graded version. Grades for further revisions will be counted as another paper grade, not substituted for or averaged with the first grade received. You must include the first, marked version of your paper with your revision to receive a grade.
Papers are due at class time or by the time and date listed on the syllabus.
When you turn in a paper, you pledge that the work is your own and that you have abided by the guidelines for documenting sources. Vanderbilt's Honor Code obliges you to cite the source of any idea that is not your own. If you quote, paraphrase, or use another's ideas, you must give credit to the person whose ideas you are using. The Bedford Handbook For Writers provides guidelines for MLA documentation. Your response paper may also include your personal response to the poem, or perhaps how the poem relates to others we have discussed in class.