GRADING AND SPECIFIC CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION 
PERSONAL AND EXPLORATORY WRITING, ENGLISH 208 - 04, PASSANANTE

 Course Grading:

“A” papers will be excellent, not merely good, in every criterion.
“B” papers will be good in nearly every criterion.
”C” papers will be adequate/”average” in nearly every criterion.
“D” papers will have serious inadequacies in at least three of the criteria.
“F” papers will have serious inadequacies in at least four of the criteria. 

All papers are to be typed, double-spaced, names in upper right corner, word count at the top of the page under your name. 

15 percent--Short Assignments/ Class Participation
25 percent--Essay #1 (revised grade replaces first graded draft)
30 percent--Essay #2
30 percent--Essay #3
There will be no final exam.  

Criteria for Evaluating All Final Draft Assignments:

  Complexity of thought
  Development
  Specificity of detail in all description, including action
  Coherence
  Effective use of research
  Effective use of character development techniques, including dialogue
  Precision and originality of language
  Correctness in syntax, spelling, usage, and punctuation 

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HOW TO FIND JOY PASSANANTE 

Brink 203, joy@uidaho.edu, 882-1038 (home office), 885-6156 (message at UI), 885-7128 (Brink office phone, which I sometimes don’t answer if I am seeing students or working at home or teaching a class or participating in a meeting).