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Guide to writing for assignments in CS3604: See this for expectations, writing guidelines, grading criteria, and other aids for planning and doing your writing.
The Writing Assignments
All due dates are on the course calendar. There are five assignments, some with multiple parts. See the Summary of Writing Assignments.
Plagiarism in your writing assignments is likely to be detected and will be prosecuted via the university Honor Court. See the course plagiarism policy.
For all assignments with multiple drafts (including this one), always hand in all previous drafts (the marked up copy with the grading form, not a newly printed one). Put the latest version on top, with successively older versions behind. We need this to grade you on how you improved with the iteration.
For help in understanding what the grader's editing marks on your graded papers mean, or for hints about common grammatical mistakes to avoid, see this page.
Please bring all late papers to class and give them personally to the GTA, or take them directly to the GTA between classes. Do NOT give or send late papers to the instructor. The GTA takes first pass at grading all the papers, and giving it to the instructor or putting it under his door will just delay getting it to the person who starts the grading.
Presentation
You are required to give a short presentation covering material in the book to the class (10 - 15 minutes for Mr. Wheaton's class, 15 - 20 minutes for Dr. McCrickard's class). You are responsible for understanding and identifying the key points of the topic in the book. You also must select at least two current relevant issues not in the book and integrate them into the presentation. You can use the book's website as a starting point, but you must go beyond the material there (also don't forget to cite your sources). You must also construct a discussion/debate based on the key issues/points.
Copies of the presentations will be listed on Dr. McCrickard's and Mr. Wheaton's section's respective cowebs. To this end, presenters must email their GTA's an electronic copy of their powerpoint (in pdf if possible) so they can put it online.
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Each class has a coweb, which is an editable website. The links are listed here: Dr. McCrickard's Coweb and Mr. Wheaton's Coweb
Grading
The grade sheet contains detailed information on what you will be graded on. A summary of the breakdown is:
40% Coverage of book material
10% Delivery
20% Integration of relevant issues (at least two)
20% Discussion (are other students in the class integrated?)
10% Conclusion/Observations