-- Be Responsible --
Check the course website for regularly. Arrive to class prepared. Use your technology to aid learning and discussion rather than to distract. Contact your instructor before being absent or leaving early. In emergencies, contact your instructor as soon as possible. Email assignments if you are absent.

-- Be generous --
Acknowledge that we are together responsible for the quality of in-class discussion. Share your ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. Help create a class where people feel welcome and encouraged to share their experiences and be vulnerable. Vulnerability often exposes injustice, reveals insecurity, and shows the political contexts of a personal problem. Provide attribution when possible. Give people the benefit of the doubt.

-- Be adventurous --
Speak up in class so everyone can hear. Ask questions. Do a quick web search when something catches your attention and share the results with the class. Try using words you’ve just learned. Disagree with your instructor and don’t let her off the hook until you’re satisfied.

-- Be Deliberate --
Copy-edit final revisions of main assignments until they conform to the conventions of edited, professional English.

-- Be Fair --
Treat students with respect. Evaluate based on agreed upon criteria. Explain decisions. Be consistent.

-- Be Reliable --
Teach class on time and with purpose. Respond to emails within 48 hours. Return assignments within a week (with exceptions for late work or revisions).

-- Be Helpful --
Provide thorough, practical feedback for improvement on written work. Teach MLA style and attribution practices. Follow-up on questions that can’t be satisfactorily answered in class. Be relevant. Relate the material to other contexts and classes. Post materials that intersect with  discussions. Seek student input when class doesn’t seem successful.

- Produce essays of at least A-level quality regardless of the number of drafts required (see Writing Expectations);

- Turn in all homework on time; with one (1) exception for a late assignment;

- Participate in all class activities, with the exception that one (1) day of unexcused non-participation is okay;

- Produce essays of at least B-level quality regardless of the number of drafts required (see Writing Expectations);

- Turn in all homework on time, with the exception that one (1) unexcused and one (1) missing assignment is okay;

- Participate in all class activities, with the exception that two (2) days of unexcused non-participation is okay;

- Produce essays of at least C-level quality regardless of the number of drafts required (see Writing Expectations);

- Turn in all homework on time, with the exception that three (3) missing or unexcused late assignments is okay;

- Participate in all class activities, with the exception that three (3) days of unexcused non-participation is okay;