Sociology 230: Internet and Society

As I said in class today, I'm grading your responses to the readings out of 10 points. Each individual response is worth 1% of your final grade. So far, I've given out a bunch of 10's, and a handful each of 9's and 8's.

• Papers that receive a "10" address the questions I asked by illustrating the writer's impressions of the assigned readings. They are of an adequate length and have no glaring grammatical/spelling errors.
• Papers that receive a "9" include a fair quantity of regurgitation of the readings (remember, I've read the same articles that I asked you to read - I know what they say!) along with the writer's own opinion, and may be a little too short or have a number of grammatical/spelling errors.
• Papers that receive an "8" are entirely a summary of the readings, are probably too short, and may have a number of grammatical/spelling errors.

I haven't given any grades below an "8" yet - they would have to be woefully too short, incomprehensible, or not at all related to the assigned readings.

There's really no reason why these responses shouldn't be 10% of your final grade that's a complete "gimme." Remember, I'll be dropping the three lowest response scores when I calculate final grades.