GRADES ARE SUBMITTED;
PAPERWORK AVAILABLE!

I have submitted the grades. Please stop by my office (Bell 214) to pick up your papers/exams/etc. (If I'm not in when you come by, send me email or call me (645-3180 x 112) to find out when I will be in. If you're away for the summer, please stop by in the Fall.)

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY LEFT TOWN AND/OR WILL NOT BE HERE IN THE FALL, THEN PLEASE EMAIL ME AN ADDRESS WHERE I CAN MAIL YOU YOUR GRADED PAPERS. REMEMBER: IF YOU DON'T PICK THEM UP OR HAVE ME MAIL THEM TO YOU, I HAVE TO KEEP THEM FOR 3 YEARS!! :-(

Legally, I can no longer post the grades, even by last 4 digits of your person number, but they should be available from MyUB.

Here's how I computed your grades; the percentages were originally outlined on the syllabus. For details of my generic (3-point) grading scheme, see my webpage: "How I Grade"

1. Attendance (20% of final grade):

   There were 27 class meetings at which attendance was taken.
   I decided to allow 3 unexcused absences.
   I then assigned grades as follows:

   	4xx	both	5xx
   A		24-27		i.e., if you attended at least 24 times, you got an A for attendance
   A-		22-23
   B+		21
   B		20
   B-		18-19
   C+		17
   C	14-16		9-16
   C-	12-13
   D+	9-11
   D		5-8
   F		0-4

2. Participation (10% of final grade):

   Here, I focused on your participation as measured by the peer editing sessions. These were 5, on Jan 29, Feb 24, Mar 25, Apr 8, & Apr 20. I measured your participation by your class attendance on those days.

   If you attended:	Then your grade is:
   all 5 peer-ed sessions	A
   4	B
   3	C+
   2	C-
   1	D
   0	F

3. Reading Journals (20% of final grade):

   A = "good" journal; i.e., notes and comments on most of the readings

   C = any journal that is not clearly A or clearly D

   D = journal handed in, but looks like virtually no work was done for it

   F = no journal handed in

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   NOTE:
   BY DOING ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUT NONE OF WHAT FOLLOWS, THE MAXIMUM GRADE YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN WAS A "C". NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE CHOSEN THIS OPTION.

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4. Position Papers (25% of final grade):

   Here, I used the following "procedure" (I hesitate to call it an "algorithm" :-)

   drop lowest letter grade;
   assign ungraded papers a grade of "A";
   take the average of these 4 grades.

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   NOTE:
   BY DOING ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUT NONE OF THE FOLLOWING, THE MAXIMUM GRADE YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN WAS "B"; SEVERAL OF YOU TOOK THIS OPTION.

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5. Term Paper or Final Exam (25% of final grade):

   If you chose not to do either of these (thus aiming for a maximum grade of "B"), I assigned you an "F" for this item (which automatically gives you a "B" if you have an "A" average on items 1-4).

   The term papers were graded on my 3-item grading rubric as explained on my grading webpage, as follows:

   A = generally excellent paper
   C = generally medium-quality paper
   D = generally poor-quality paper
   F = not handed in

   The final exams were graded as follows:

   Each of the 5 questions was graded on the 3-point grading rubric as follows:

   0 = not done

   1 =

   poor-quality answer; typically given for an answer that did not discuss any of the papers we read and/or that consisted primarily of quotations (not always properly attributed) with little or no evaluations/comments

   2 =

   partial credit; usually given for an answer that was incomplete (i.e., that omitted one or more of the subquestions)

   3 =

   full credit for a generally good answer showing that you understood and assimilated the material.

   This yielded a total of 15 points, with letter grades assigned as follows:

   grade	points
   A	15
   A-	14
   B+	13
   B	12
   B-	11
   C+	10
   C	6-9
   C-	8
   D+	6-7
   D	4-5
   F	0-3

The class averages (and ranges) were as follows:

	CSE 510	PHI 498	CSE 410
	avg (range)	avg (range)	avg (range)
Item	(lo/hi)	(lo/hi)	(lo/hi)
Attendance	A- (16/27)	A (22/26)	B+ (3/27)
Participation	A- (C+/A)	A- (B/A)	A- (F/A)
Reading Journals	A (F/A)	A (F/A)	B+ (F/A)
Position Papers	A (B/A)	B+ (D/A)	B (D/A)
Term Papers	B+ (C/A)	C (C/C)	D (D/D)
Final Exams	B- (D/A)	B (D+/A)	C- (D/B)
Course Grade	A- (B-/A)	B (D+/A)	B- (F/A-)