Four absences means that you have missed one-fifth of the classroom work and your grade will be reduced by one full letter grade. More than six absences strongly suggests that you will fail the course. Plagiarism in an essay or response paper is a serious matter. See the Student Handbook for the University ' s policies on plagiarism. You will be given a list of possible topics from the text.
Writing is relatively free of serious grammatical and spelling as well as syntactical errors.
Writing skills reflect weaknesses in organization and development of ideas, may demonstrate serious grammatical and spelling, as well as syntactical errors. Treatment of issues and ideas often characterized as superficial and simplistic. Work may only address a part of assignment. Very poorly written in terms of organization and development of ideas, grammar and spelling, and syntax. This usually indicates that work was hastily done and without regard for requirements.