All About Attendance
These are the numbers of allowed absences for 2- and 4- days/week classes.
What are 4 days (for a 2-day/week class) and 8 days (for a 4-day/week class)?
This is the minimum number of major writing projects that should be included in an English 101 course sequence.
What is THREE?
The major writing projects must account for at least THIS percentage of students' the final course grades?
What is 80% (Other graded items like class participation and homework should not exceed 20%).
These steps should be taken before conducting research in the FYW Classroom.
What is submitting a research proposal to the Program Director and then, if approved by the Program Director and/or FYWP Council, completing an application for IRB approval?
These are the four areas of the FYWP’s “Evaluative Criteria,” by which instructors should assess student work.
Rhetorical Purpose; Logic and Argument; Textual Evidence; Formal & Stylistic Conventions
This is the number of class days a 4-day-a-week (MTRF) instructor can repurpose for conferences per major project.
What is TWO?
This is the number of major writing projects students must complete in order to pass English 101.
What is *all* of the assigned major writing projects?
How often are instructors expected to provide substantive written or oral feedback on drafts?
What is "as often as practicable"? There is no set number of draft reviews, but the program policy states that "instructors are expected to provide as often as practicable, substantive written or oral feedback on major projects during the drafting stages."
This is the policy regarding overrides/over-enrollment in FYW.
What is "not to override the number of available seats offered...in any section of our courses (ENG 100, ENG 101, and ENG 105)"? This policy is partly to preserve the low enrollment caps and to allow for the type of high impact practices utilized in FYW.
This is the FYWP’s official policy on Tardiness.
What is "there is no official policy"? (Although instructors can institute one as long as the policy and any penalties are explained on the Syllabus.
This is the minimum number of pages each student must write to pass English 101.
25
Instructors can allow students to revise final graded projects as long as THESE conditions are met.
What is "as long as it is done in an equitable fashion (made available to all students) and with relevant information available to all students through the course syllabus or another shared course document"?
This is the number of office hours instructors are expected to make available to students each week for each class they teach.
What is TWO?
Since all absences are treated as “excused” absences, this is how instructors should handle missed in-class work.
What is: Students must be allowed to make up missed work. Instructors will establish make-up assignments, standards for evaluation of such assignments, and a reasonable period of time after the absence for the student to complete the missed work. No matter what the cause of the absences, the student is responsible for finding out what material was covered, getting notes, being prepared for class on the day of return, and turning in subsequent assignments on time.
This is the minimum number of documentation styles students must practice in English 101.
What is TWO? (Most commonly MLA and APA, though sometimes also CSE and/or Chicago).
This is the maximum percentage of final grades that may be assigned to high-stakes, timed writing assignments.
What is 10%?
This is the person who should be contacted if you have to cancel class?
Who is Dana Horne?
This is the recommendation for students experiencing extended medical or family emergencies during the semester that require them to miss beyond the allowable number of class periods.
What is consulting with the instructor about a medical drop?
Multimodal projects and/or presentations may replace THIS MANY pages of the required page count for the course.
What is FIVE?
This is the final grade students must receive in ENG 101 to fulfill their university writing requirement?
What is a C-
The university asks that instructors post final course grades within THIS many hours of the section's final exam.
What is 48 hours?