Friday, November 21, 2008

CLASS UPDATES and About Being Late


I just finished putting in quiz grades, so all should be there as well as your annoted bib grades. NOTE: Many of you have pretty bad APA errors. I did not grade on the writing (kept the grades higher!), just that you did the research and you said enough about it. A 10 was easy to get.

If you didn't get a 10, it was late, your APA isn't ok, or you just didn't do much. I suggest coming by to get it and I can show you where your APA errors are so you don't do it on the final paper. If you have the same APA errors on your paper, you will have points deducted.

Your Worldview paper updates aren't in there unless you came by to meet with me. They won't be done until the very end. If you show up, I will take care of it right there in front of you :)

A few of you have been consistently late to class. It is being noted and may impact your final grade in the course. So, set your alarm 10 minutes earlier if you need to. It is unfair to the others in class who manage to make it on time, every day.

So for today, for example, you would have missed the announcement that you don't have to do the presentation since the class as a whole did such a great job with the chapter 2 material :) For those of you who didn't present Chapter 2, email me or stop by so we can discuss what this means for you (you were absent on your day to present...you don't want negative 10 points in the gradebook).

Basically, the great news is that if you presented back in Chapter 2, and you did your annoted bibliography, you just earned a pretty easy 20/20 with not much effort which WILL boost your grade significantly at the end of term.

That's it for now, have a great weekend!

Dr. Holmes

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