Midterm scores will let you know 3 things:

–your blog/participation score (30% of final grade)

–your Essay 1 status (whether or not it has been handed in)

–your overall Midterm Grade (P = passing / BL = borderline / U = unsatisfactory)

Essays will be scored as follows*:

A = significantly and effectively revised from first draft; fully engaging to read for a college-level reading audience; few to no sentence-level issues that interfere with the reader’s understanding

B = significantly and effectively revised from first draft; moderately engaging to read for a college-level reading audience; some sentence-level issues that interfere with the reader’s understanding

C = minimally revised from first draft; some sentence-level issues that interfere with the reader’s understanding

D = minimally revised from first draft; repeating sentence-level issues that interfere with the reader’s understanding

F = not revised since draft one

* = while it is only required that you submit your *revised* essays at the end of the semester, you have the option of submitting Essay 1 for a provisional (not final) grade by Thu 10/10.