The document provides information about the final day of an English writing class. It announces the winners of the house points competition and provides final house point totals. It then explains the process for calculating personal participation points, including factors like attendance, quizzes, workshops, and peer reviews. A table shows the raw score ranges for each letter grade. Students are instructed to revise one of their essays based on feedback and submit it by the deadline. The document concludes by thanking students for the class.

1. EWRT 1A
Day 21
The End.

2. Agenda
 House Points Winners!
 Participation points explanation
 Writing Workshop
 Goodbye!

3. And the winner is…

4. And the winner is…

5. And the SECOND PLACE winner is…

6. And the SECOND PLACE winner is…
Colin

7. House Points FINAL TOTAL!
House Points Comments
Gryffindor 272 One perfect attendance! All three essays on time! Both library
workshops!
Gryffinclaw 248 Two members with perfect attendance!
All three essays submitted on time!
Hufflepuff 160 One member with perfect attendance!
Ravenclaw 374 Three members with perfect attendance!
Ravenpuff 136 Two members with perfect attendance!
Slytherin 195 One member with perfect attendance!

8. Personal Participation Points
 Your personal participation score
for the quarter is the sum of your:
 House Points
 On-time attendance (you get
points equal to the class number. 1
pt for Day 1. 15 pts for Day 15.
Etc.)
 Three quizzes
 Attending 2 library workshops (20
pts each).
 Attending 3 paper draft peer
reviews with draft (20 pts each).
 I won’t be able to calculate final
scores until after today.
 BUT, I can give you an idea of
where you stand…
 This is the process:
 I sum up your raw points.
 I calculate the mean raw
participation score for the whole
class.
 I assign the grade of “B” to the
mean score. I use the standard
deviations to place the rest of the
raw scores on a grade distribution.
 Your final participation score in the
class is that letter grade (which I
will enter into Canvas as a
percentage).

9. Final Participation Distribution
Raw Score Range Letter Grade
<250 C-
250-279 C
280-319 C+
320-349 B-
350-439 B
440-474 B+
475-489 A-
>490 A
Letter Grade
Range
Number of Grades
C 3
B 17
A 11
Class Mean = 428
BUT, this includes Ravenclaw. And if we
include Ravenclaw, almost 2/3 of the
class would be below the mean. I didn’t
want that.
So, instead, I removed Ravenclaw and
calculated everyone else’s grade based
on the new distribution.
Class Mean (no RC) = 395
Standard Deviation = 75
Range = 239-525
Note: these might change slightly after today’s points are added in.

10. Revising
Essay #4
You should have one, complete copy of your draft,
including a properly formatted works cited page.

11. 1. The header: What is the font and size?
2. The heading: What is the order? Date formatting?
3. The spacing: Are there any extra spaces?
4. Introducing quotations: Do you have to? How?
5. Formatting long quotations: How many spaces do you
indent? Are there quotation marks? Where does the
final period go?
6. In-text citations. What goes in the parenthesis?
7. The works cited page? Title? Spacing? Hyperlinks?
Alphabetical order? Italics? Quotation marks?
Check your paper!

12. On your own paper, clearly identify these parts
in the margin with brackets and numbers
1. Your clever introduction
2. Where you have defined and explained the problem
3. Your thesis
4. Your clearly described solution: your plan for implementation
5. Your convincing argument in support of the proposed solution
6. Where you have Indicated and responded to Readers’ Objections
and Questions
7. Where you have evaluated alternative solutions
8. Your conclusion

13. Choose SOMEONE NEW
(someone you’ve never
worked with) to review your
essay.

14. Responders
 Carefully read the essay you are
reviewing, noting only obvious typos or
other errors by underlining. You do not
need to comment. Do not ask the writer
questions. If you don’t understand the
essay, tell the writer in response to the
revision guide or in the margins.
 Answer the revision guide questions on
another sheet of paper or on the back of
the writer’s essay.
 Refer to the parts of the essay the writer
has identified in order to respond
appropriately.
 Be thorough.
When you finish:
Return the essay and your comments to the me. I will
check your work to ensure you have been as helpful as
possible.
While you wait for your essay to be returned, answer the
revision guide questions for yourself.
When you receive your essay, look at the feedback.
Think about how you will revise your essay.
Begin the revision process.

16. Homework
 Review your essay suggestions.
 Revise Essay #4 accordingly.
 Submit essay #4 electronically on
Canvas by 8 AM on
Saturday, March 31.
(If there are issues with Turnitin,
email me your paper and keep
trying Canvas. I can use Turnitin
manually if necessary.)

17. Thanks for a great class!!!