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Student Evaluation Students are evaluated based on tests, projects, major papers, homework, quality and character of class participation and involvement, and AP-style writing prompts. Students are evaluated on their ability to use the skills they are taught throughout the semester. For instance, after our unit on punctuation, students will be evaluated on their ability to reproduce effective uses of punctuation in their own writing. The teacher will provide both verbal and written feedback on students’ writing assignments, both before and after the students revise their work, which will help the students develop awareness of their purpose, audience, sentence structure and variety, organization and conventions. Students use the web site www.turnitin.com to submit most major papers. This web site allows the teacher to become more efficient by using digital macros (i.e. a quick key) to insert more meaningful comments in a shorter amount of time. It also allows students to participate in a class online discussion board, and a digital peer review that they can complete for one another at home. Student performance in connection with important course components contributes to each student’s final grade for the course in the following manner: Weighted Grade Categories
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