Grading Rubric
You will have fairly regular opportunities to earn bonus points throughout the semester.

Written Work

Deadlines and Rewrites:  Anything submitted after class, even the same day, will be considered one class period late. (You will automatically lose 20 percent of the point value of an assignment if it is handed in after the class period it is due. If it is handed in two class sessions late, you will lose 40 percent of the point value. Nothing will be accepted after a week.)

You may redo an assignment to get a better grade. (Some grade sheets have another column for a rewrite.) In fact, this will be encouraged, since most journalism involves extensive editing and revising. I would prefer it if you could get all rewrites in within one week of the class session in which I return the work to the class. Please attach the rewrite to the previous version of an assignment.

Presentation: While this is a class in writing for the broadcast media, this is not a production class. The focus is on writing, rather than technology. As such, you may be called upon to write things that you may not need to in a production class. For example, in a production class you likely work with digital recording or audio tape. For this class, you will need to write your news stories, PSAs, commercials and other assignments in proper format. Clean presentation/packaging, proper writing and grammar skills, thus, are an important part of this course, as they will in the future when you apply for jobs in the field of journalism. Many assignments also involve an oral presentation to the class on the day it is due. Thus, all written work should follow the appropriate script format or technical writing guidelines. Everything has to be typed, generally double-spaced, and in 12-point font in either "Arial" or "Times New Roman."  Trying to read a single-spaced document in 10-point or smaller font, or one is an unusual typeface is very difficult. (In some cases, however, such as in certain parts of the scripts or storyboards, single-spacing is the style. See the Script and Style Guide.)

Recordkeeping: I suggest you keep ALL homework assignments for the duration of the semester once they have been graded. I often use past homework assignments as examples of good and bad writing and several of them develop logically from one to another. In addition, I can answer questions about grades only by seeing the actual work you have handed in.

Course Management System:  I utilize a virtual attendance and gradebook that can viewed throughout the semester through the Angel system Your user name is your initials and last name and your password is your date of birth. This password will never need to be changed. Link here for Angel (https://angel.sunyocc.edu/angel).

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