Undergraduate Research Symposium

Questions about grading? ........

     The easiest way to talk about grades, to my way of thinking, is the

way it is written in the syllabus, so check that language again. To

compress it further, though, I would say this: each segment or unit of

the semester concludes with a portfolio, comprised of the same

elements each time. We have completed one portfolio, and, next week,

we will bundle our writing to explore efforts into a unit two

portfolio. This is timed so that we can "remix" our unit two

reflection into a midterm reflection, and bundle both portfolios

(which provide different views on your evolving project) as a mid term

portfolio. Then, at this time, we will have enough writing, and enough

writing of different types/modes (narrative, definition, cause and

effect, exploration, etc) to warrant the addition of a formal progress

report to the wide variety of feedback we manufacture via the

wiki--this evaluation will appear on the wiki and via the registrar's

office. Perpetual process, you will notice, is the wiki way, and it is

as easy to calculate participation/process scores as it is to notice

the correlation between a good blogging rhythm and good scores on the

unit portfolios. Again, the rubric for these formal checkpoints, from

the syllabus: rhetorical knowledge, critical thinking/reading/writing,

process, knowledge of conventions, and demonstrated capacity for

working in electronic environments.

MacKenzie would really like to know how to work this website. Mainly, how to make my license show up!

I got your licence to show up. You have to paste HTML under the "source" tab. -Adam