All your graded informal writing–free writes, summaries, responses, reflections, revisions, etc.–will happen in your “Google Notebooks.” This a single Google Doc shared via Google Drive with me at [email protected]. (ENG201-Spring2019-YourName-Notebook.” The first page of each notebook must be a  “Table of Contents” (the bottom-most option in the “Insert” tab on Google Docs) and list page numbers (the left-hand option). Each assignment must: start on a new page; show titles and dates matching those in our “open” notebook; and be formatted as a Heading (that’s the field to the left of fonts in the Google Docs menu.) I’ll walk you through how this is done during our first week of class, and for your reference I’ll have a public version of our notebook with this formatting available here.

Because this is an ongoing assignment, grading policies will vary slightly from the policies for your other work. Each entry will be calculated on a scale of 1 to 3 for each assignment, with the remaining points to 100 being based on the peer edit draft of your end-of-semester reflection due on the last day of class. (This peer edit draft will serve as the “introduction” to your notebook). If there are 25 entries in your notebook at the end of the semester (for a total of 75 possible points), the reflection would be out of 25 points (the remaining points to make 100). If you’d gotten earned 65 points out of the 75 possible for the notebook, and 20 points out of the 25 possible for the draft, you’d earn a grade of 85 for this percentage of your grade.

Grades for individual entries (1-3) will be recorded as Comments in your Table of Contents, along with any actual comments I have for you. Occasionally, and anonymously, I will excerpt model student work from these assignments into the public notebook. Writers benefit from positive models, especially when the assignments vary as much as these will. Because we are using these notebooks in this way, late work cannot be made up for credit. This should be the easiest 10% of your grade to earn.