History of Science OnlineCourse Info: HSCI 3013 - section 995 - Fall 2008 |
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Web Project assignment grading
Unlike the other assignments for this class, where it is very easy to decide whether you did the assignment correctly or not, the Web Project assignments are much more complex. You are asked to do lots of different things for each Web Project assignment, and it is graded carefully, not just on effort. Don't be surprised at grade reductons for factual or grammatical corrections.
Remember that your grade on the web project is an average of many weeks, so no single weekly grade necessarily reflects the overall quality of your work. Some weeks you will earn perfect 10's, other weeks perhaps far less, but it is the overall average that counts.
On non-Episode weeks I will provide a personal response for each of the Web Project assignments, and this often takes me until the following Saturday. I really do get back to you as quickly as I can, but it is a big task for me each week! I respond to the Web Project assignments in the order that they are turned in.
Unlike other weeks, Episode grades will be assigned near the end of the semester, at the conclusion of Week 13, in order to allow you to take advantage of the feedback offered by your fellow students, and to make changes accordingly. For an explanation of Episode grading, see the Researching and Publishing Episode pages.
General comments. When I write back to you about your non-episode Web Project assignment, I will nearly always make comments of some kind. Very often these are just general comments! I respond to your ideas, share some ideas of my own, suggest websites for you to look at, and so on. Unlike corrections or REDO notes, these general comments are for your own benefit, and you may take them or leave them as you wish.
REDO comments. Some of the comments, however, will be prefaced by the word REDO in all capital letters. When there is a comment that says REDO, it means there is some kind of real problem that you need to think about, and that you should probably correct -- either by providing more information, or correcting a factual error, or something like that. When you see REDO, it means that you are going to keep losing some points on subsequent Web Project assignments unless you revise your assignment.
===>Writing errors and typos. I will point out writing errors and typos as I find them. They will be marked with ===> and will very often include a link to some of the writing resource pages that explain common writing and spelling errors. I expect you to correct all typographical errors that appear on your published webpages, and there are some "Clean-Up" weeks scheduled during the semester when you can do that. If you make grammatical and spelling errors you will lose points on the Web Project assignments, especially errors that can be caught with the spellchecker. Don't forget to spellcheck and proofread every Web Project assignment! Spelling and grammar count as part of the grade; see Writing Tips.
You are expected to do your best on these assignments. If you do not follow the instructions, forget to proofread, do not use the spellchecker, etc., then you will lose points on the assignment.
For additional info on the grading of episode research and publishing assignments, see the notes at the bottom of the pages describing those assignments.
"The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to do what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until finally you spend all of your time talking about nothing." (Augustine's Laws, 1983)
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HSCI 3013. History
of Science to 17th century
Many thanks to Mythology
and Folklore and other online courses developed by Laura Gibbs.
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