[xmlWiki-developers] Fw: question about book reports

[Arnaldo C. <ar...@mi...>]

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From: "CS327 TA" <cs3...@cs...>
To: "Arnaldo Cavazos" <ar...@mi...>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: question about book reports


> >     a) The extra project counts for 25% of the student's grade, and
> > all other grade constituents are multiplied by 75% to determine the
> > student's final grade.
> 
> That's how it is for 327.
> 
> >     #2 - Assuming that the book reports aren't graded pass-fail, what
> > will the grading criteria be?
> 
> That's a question you should ask Johnson - he'll be grading them.
> 
> 
> > P.S.  One other thing, while I'm writing you - I wanted to make a
> > comment about the midterm.  (This is not a complaint so much as it's
> > meant to be feedback.)  You spent a few minutes in the review session
> > explaining how verbosity would not be rewarded as much as distilling
> > the important concepts into concise bullet format.  Still, I found
> > myself struggling over trying to decide how much I should write more
> > than anything else.  I remember one question saying something like
> > "list several", which usually means "a lot".  Personally, I would have
> > found it easier had the questions been a bit more specific, i.e.,
> > "list three ways", "Give four examples", etc.  There was more than one
> > question for which I'm not sure if I'll be counted off for not writing
> > enough, or for writting too much.
> 
> We won't dock for writing too much, just get tired and cranky. :)
> 
> Still, point noted! I'll pass it on to the others as advice for designing
> the final.
> 
>  - Andrew.
>