They may, if they wish, complete more than 1 essay. But they must complete at least one essay per chapter, making a total of 21 essays for the course. The essays are submitted via e-mail to the instructor. Furthermore, such exercises will illustrate to the instructor the student's growth and maturity. Timeliness of Assignments.
Students frequently procrastinate.
In this course, however, where students don't meet for classes and don't take traditional Midterm and Final examinations, the less than mature students tend to procrastinate even more than normal. I then begin to receive hundreds of essays during the last month of the semester and find myself overwhelmed with work. Further, the quality of the students' work suffers due to their need to finish quickly before the semester ends. Therefore, I have decided to penalize students who fail to pace themselves evenly through the school year. Rather, I can only suggest that students attempt to finish one quarter of the course during the first month, one half of the course by traditional midterm time, and three quarters of the course by the end of the third month.