First Ledes: Your Grades

For our first graded assignment, I'm giving you all a break, as we ease into the graded portion of the semester.

First, as long as you had no fatals (that is, fact errors) and your work met the deadline, you received a 4.0 on this assignment. Each portion that included a fatal dropped that grade by 1.0. Missing the deadline earned a 0.0. I did not grade adherence to AP Style (because we haven't started learning that yet), but I did note it.

I am emailing you back your work, with a grade and instructor comments attached at the end. (some of the comments may be inserted in your work, in bold face and all caps.) Many more comments will be on the following blog posts, where I'm taking examples of our work (with names stripped from the work) and pointing out what worked well (and why), and what could be better (and how).

That's the method we're going to use in doing most of our learning in this class: we will work an assignment, and then we will deconstruct the assignment via blog and pick out and share whatever lessons we can learn from it.

Now, please keep in mind the way we're grading this assignment is a one-time deal. From here on out, you'll be graded more precisely on whether you're correctly executing the concepts we're reading and blogging about.

Having said that, most people were very proficient in this assignment. Even without the mercy grades, I think most people would have scored very well on this assignment. Kudos to you folks.