Electronic Writing Foss S11

Return to ENGL 335B, British Romantic Literature.

BRL ELECTRONIC WRITING: SUMMARY RESPONSES AND EXTRA-CREDIT CONTRIBUTIONS
Throughout the semester you all will be required to compose two official responses to one of your classmates’ Class Meeting Summary. You must both turn in a hard copy for each of these Summary Responses as well as posting them to our course wiki calendar/ repository. You may either upload your Word document file or simply cut and paste your Response into the repository, but these Summary Responses should be posted to the discussion tab page for any given class meeting date (which you will need to be logged in to see and access), not on the page for the date itself (which is reserved for Class Meeting Summaries). You may select which classmate summaries to respond to on your own.

Summary Responses should be 250-500 words each; there will be a penalty for work falling outside the parameters of these word count requirements. Each Summary Response will be worth up to 35 class participartion points. (As a point of reference, you typically may earn up to 5 class participation points for any given session.) Like the Class Meeting Summary assignment, I will go over in class some models of the sort of Summary Responses I want you to post to the wiki. Your thesis statement should be about the class Meeting Summary to which you are responding.

You will be graded on the accuracy of the content, as well as on all the basic qualities of a successful essay—including but not limited to clear thesis statement, strong organization, logical paragraphing, coherent and appropriately developed presentation, successful integration of quoted material where applicable, grammatically correct writing, and a mature sense of style.

You are welcome to post to the wiki more frequently than required; you are not limited to two summary responses. However, any work above and beyond the officially required two Responses only will earn up to 12 class participation points rather than up to 35 points. FYI: You will not be allowed to switch a more successful later extra response with one of the official Responses.

Finally, you also may earn extra class participation points for less formal electronic writing contributions to the wiki repository. You may post some brief additions/ corrections/further commentary to any Meeting Summary you wish. You also may add links to relevant outside webpages, or upload relevant audio and/or image files. All such contributions should be posted (like the Summary Responses) to the discussion tab page for any given class meeting date, not on the page for the date itself (which, again, is reserved for Class Meeting Summaries). Any contributions along these lines will earn up to 5 extra class participation points.

Click on Brandon Perdue's Word file for a sample summary response from my British Victorian Literature class 

Click on Elizabeth Scott's Word file for another sample summary response