{"id":33,"date":"2012-06-08T15:52:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T15:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:21:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T13:21:31","slug":"nonnegotiables","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/nonnegotiables\/","title":{"rendered":"nonnegotiables"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Non-negotiable Requirements for Essays<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The requirements below are <em>non-negotiable<\/em>; that means that they are absolutely required for all formal writing assignments for my courses, even if they do not appear elsewhere on an assignment prompt or in a grading rubric. Failure to adhere to these guidelines will result in mandatory deductions from the overall grade on essays.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Papers must have <strong>titles<\/strong> and follow <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/submitting-assignments\/\">submission guidelines<\/a> exactly. Penalty: <u>paper returned unread and counted late<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Papers must be formatted correctly.\u00a0 Specifically, they must be <strong>double spaced without extra lines between paragraphs<\/strong>.\u00a0 Penalty: <u>paper returned unread and counted late<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Titles<\/strong> of literary works must be <strong>properly punctuated<\/strong>. Penalty: <u>more than two such errors in a paper will result in the deduction of 1\/3 of a letter grade<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Students must <strong>distinguish<\/strong> between the <strong>plural<\/strong> and <strong>possessive<\/strong> properly using apostrophes. Penalty: <u>more than two such errors in a paper will result in the deduction of 1\/3 of a letter grade<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Essays must be <strong>within 50 words of required minimum length<\/strong> (for 800+ word assignments). Penalty: <u>loss of one letter grade<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>At least <strong>2\/3 of the total number of sentences<\/strong> in a paper must be <strong>free of mechanical, grammar and spelling errors<\/strong>. Penalty: <u>the paper will not receive a grade higher than a D<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The paper must be <strong>a minimum of six paragraphs long<\/strong>, unless otherwise specified in the essay assignment prompt.\u00a0 Penalty: <u>the paper will not receive a grade higher than a D<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Failure to cite details from primary or secondary sources<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 Penalty:\u00a0 maximum grade on such a paper is a D, and that grade is only possible if the paper has not violated the Honor Code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Failure to use direct quotations from the literary text that is the subject of a paper<\/strong>.\u00a0 A paper on a literary work <em>must<\/em> use the words of that work to support the argument.\u00a0 Penalty: the paper will not receive a grade higher than a 50%.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The use of ChatGPT or any other AI \/ bot to compose any assignment, in part or in full, will be considered academic dishonesty in this course<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-negotiable Requirements for Essays The requirements below are non-negotiable; that means that they are absolutely required for all formal writing assignments for my courses, even if they do not appear elsewhere on an assignment prompt or in a grading rubric. Failure to adhere to these guidelines will result in mandatory deductions from the overall grade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wofford.edu\/grinnellns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}