Midterm Survey

July 23, 2007

Before you all have a heart attack because you didn’t get full credit on your last assignments, I want to inform you of an opportunity (one of only two ways to earn extra points) to earn 10 points. At the midterm I always give a survey to find out what kind of students I have in class, and what things are helping/hurting their progress in the course. If you complete the survey, you will earn 10 points. The survey is anonymous, so I won’t see your responses. So if you’re pissed off unhappy about the class or progress, you can express why in the survey. I will only see a check mark that shows you have completed it. You will need to complete the survey by Friday to earn the 10 points.

Also, I noticed that half of you were following the example assignment on Assignment #5 where it only showed one summary from the first book in the assignment, although the instructions required two. Yes, the example was wrong. You can do one of three things:

• Get all pissy at me for posting a bad example and penalizing you 2 points for it,
• Make the correction by doing a quick summary of a section in your book and submitting a rewrite, or
• Accept the opportunity to get 10 points by doing the survey, and forget about the rewrite. The survey is normally worth 5 points, but I add 5 to make up for this.

Every assignment in this course was carefully thought out and planned by a group of instructors to get the most out of our efforts while researching. It is important for the final paper to do all that is required, that is why I would prefer you read and summarize. The more you read, the more credible you will be in your argument.

REMINDERS:

• Working Bibliography should include every source you’ve located to date, not just the sources from the assignment.
• Rewrites for Module 2 are due by midnight Friday.

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