Hypertext:
Reading and Writing Online
Procedures, Requirements,
and Grading Policies
Fall,
2004
Vanderbilt University
- 4 hypertext papers
will count for 70% of the grade. Later papers will count more than earlier
papers (exact percentages are posted on Blackboard).
- Web projects and blogs
will count for 20% of the grade.
- Blog. Students
are expected to post entries to their own Blog no fewer than 3 times
a week. (Weeks run from Sunday to Saturday, so that it will be easy
to track postings on your Blog calendar. Entries on the readings assigned
by the professor will count as one of your 3 postings per week minimum.)
Students should also post a comment on one of their classmate's Blogs
at least once a week.
- Home page. Students
will design and maintain a home page.
- Group and individual
hypertexts. Students will create in collaboration online hypertexts.
Individual hypertexts may also be created.
- Class discussion will
count for 10% of the grade.
Learning to speak articulately about cultural issues is a valuable skill,
which literature seminars are designed to foster. Pushing oneself to voice
an informed opinion in public forces a person to think more deeply and to
respond to others, whereas listening passively can foster the tendency to
accept others' ideas rather than work out one's own position. Speaking about
specific features of the text also demonstrates that one has read the assigned
material carefully.
Class discussion grades will be calculated as follows:
- Attendance at
the great majority of classes will constitute the minimum passing standard
and will establish one's participation grade as a D.
- Speaking up only
a few times during the course of the semester will constitute satisfactory
performance and earn a grade of C.
- Entering the discussion
every couple of weeks will constitute average performance and will earn
a grade of B.
- Frequent participation,
which is intelligent, respectful of others, and clearly oriented toward
contributing to the class experience rather than scoring points or showing
off, will constitute excellent performance and will earn a grade of
A.
- If anyone thinks
he or she is put at a disadvantage by this policy, please come and speak
with me during my office hours. By prior agreement, students may substitute
weekly response papers of one-page in length for the class participation
requirement.
- Since this class is
a seminar, attendance is important. Students should have no more than 2
unexcused absences in the course of the semester. Excessive absences will
affect one's class discussion grade.