B Contract Basics
This grade is the default grade students earn when they complete all required course labor and meet the contract expectations.
What is a B?
The Personal Essay requires this many drafts.
What are three drafts?
The B Contract requires meaningful participation in this many peer review workshops.
What are four?
To earn an A, students must complete this many A-tier activities.
What are three?
Each solid adds this many points to a student’s internal course-grade value.
What is 0.1 grade point?
The B Contract requires students to complete approximately this percentage of assigned homework and in-class activities.
What is 85%?
The Profile requires one handwritten draft and this many typed drafts.
What are two typed drafts?
Peer review participation includes written feedback and this other kind of feedback.
What is verbal feedback?
Each completed A-tier activity elevates the student’s course GPA by this many points.
What is 0.333 grade points?
Three solids can raise a 3.0 to this grade-point value.
What is 3.3, or a B+?
Students may submit no more than this many late assignments under the B Contract.
What are 10 late submissions?
The Proposal requires this many total drafts.
What are three drafts?
Students must actively participate in this many group presentations.
What are three?
Submitting a serious application to this SJSU event can count as an A-tier activity.
What is the First-Year Writing Digital Literacy Showcase?
A student who completes the B requirements and earns three solids receives this official letter grade.
What is a B+?
Each late submission under the B Contract must be turned in within this amount of time after the deadline.
What is 72 hours?
The Multimodal Essay for a Public Forum requires this many typed drafts.
What are two typed drafts?
One group presentation focuses on education and this divide.
What is the analog-digital divide?
Students may attend a pre-approved event and submit a reflection of this many words as an A-tier activity.
What are 300–500 words?
A student with a C-level grade of 2.0 who earns three solids reaches this grade-point value.
What is 2.3, or a C+?
Students may have no more than this many instances per semester of inappropriate technology use.
What is one instance?
The Writing Portfolio and Self-Reflection Essay requires one handwritten draft and this many typed drafts.
What is one typed draft?
The other two group presentations focus on Social Life and Community Concerns at this university.
What is SJSU?
Creating one of these for the class can count as an A-tier activity.
What is a lesson plan?
This contract describes uneven but adequate completion of course labor and requires participation in at least two of four peer review workshops.
What is the C Contract?