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Grading Policies and Assignment Point Breakdown
Grading Policies
Turning in Work- Course
Sequence and Assignment Deadlines
The course schedule is arranged so that assignments
build upon one another. This means it is important for you to
turn in work when it is due. However, as an online course, this
medium of communication should also give you some flexibility
to fit the work into an already busy schedule.
On the schedule, I've given due dates for
every reading, activity, and assignment as it would appear for
a six-week, four-day-a-week, two-hours-a-day face-to-face course.
Approaching the schedule on a day-by-day basis will help to spread
a very full schedule into manageable chunks. However, I will not
grade any of the week's assignments until Friday morning of that
week. Anything received after midnight on Thursday night will
be considered late. Please see below for an explanation on what
being late means for your grade.
Reading Assignments
and Posted Responses
The reading assignments and corresponding
posted responses play a dual role and are a central part of this
course. First, doing a written response to a reading helps you
to understand and consider the ideas in ways reading alone does
not. The prompts I have developed are designed to help you make
connections between the chapter or article and your professional
interests and work practices. I chose the Mason, Leavitt, and
Chaffee textbook because it has a focus throughout on issues of
professional communication in nursing and I think everyone in
the course should be able to relate to at least some part of it.
The additional readings are intended to supplement this text with
a more direct concentration on issues of written and visual communication.
Second, because this is a course without
a face-to-face component, your posted responses to readings and
other assignments take the place of in-class discussions and provide
a way to create a bit of community with your fellow classmates.
At several points in the schedule I ask you not only to post a
response to the discussion board on WebCT, but also to read and
comment on posting by other students. Even when I don't specifically
ask you to do this, though, looking at how others react to a reading
may help you to understand it in new ways.
Late Work
We all know that disruptive situations sometimes
arise and I am willing to negotiate those situations with you.
I will accept late work only if prior arrangements have been made.
To get an extension, you must email
me to ask for one. Failure to get an extension in advance
will result in a lowering of your grade.
Revision
I see the creation of any type of communication
as a process in which the overall message improves through gathering
research in multiple ways, through thoughtful attention to critique
and suggestions, and through attentive work on multiple drafts.
I encourage revision on all major course projects (this includes
everything listed below except for the final category), even after
a grade has been given. You may re-submit a course project one
time for consideration of a higher grade as long as it represents
a serious effort on your part to re-see or re-envision your approach
to an assignment’s rhetorical development.
Major Assignments and
Point Breakdown for Grading
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