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Communication Issues How to Address Me I am Mr. Mallory, not Dr. Mallory; I am an instructor, not a professor. Please address me accordingly. Cancellation of Class If I am not in the classroom at the beginning of the scheduled time and no “official” person or bulletin indicates the cancellation of class, wait at least fifteen minutes for me to show up. Materials I will not keep extra copies of handouts in my briefcase from one class meeting to the next; therefore, if you miss class, I will not provide you with previously distributed materials. Buddy up with a couple of trustworthy classmates who can collect handouts for you and provide you with notes, info, etc. Get their e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and contact times. Do not ask me to “redo” the class for you. E-mail & Web Page ▪ From time to time, I will communicate with you via Gordon College e-mail. Whatever I send will be important and timely, and you are responsible for the contents of all messages. There may be long periods in which I send nothing, but it is vital that you check daily for my messages. ▪ My Gordon College e-mail address is jmallory@gordonstate.edu. ▪ Electronic attachments sent to me must be in a form that that can be opened by Microsoft Word ▪ Use only your Gordon College account to communicate with me via e-mail. I will not open messages sent via another account. ▪ Unless otherwise directed, do not submit assignments via e-mail. ▪ All e-mail communication is to be professional and should contain in the first sentence your name, the course number, and the meeting time of the class (for example, “This is Gunter Quillsack in 1102 from 4:00 -6:00 . . .). Your message should be clear, concise, and grammatically correct. Please do not use vulgarities, “smiley faces” or other strange symbols, marks, or abbreviations. Check my faculty web page regularly for important handouts, exercises, questions, and links to useful web sites. Hard Copy/Handwritten Notes to the Instructor ▪ If you have a non-e-mail question or request, help me remember by writing me a clear, concise note with your name, the date, the course number, and the meeting time of the class in the first sentence (for example, “This is Gunter Quillsack in 1102 from 4:00 -6:00 . . . ). Include your e-mail address if you want a quick answer. ▪ I will take attendance each session by circulating a sign-in sheet. Sign it if you were present when I entered. If you enter after me, you are considered late and will inform me by way of a note with name, date, course number, class, and your humble apologies. Place the note in my hand at an appropriate time. Do not sign the sign-in sheet. Take the nearest vacant seat and do not walk in front of me if you can avoid it, please. Save your questions until you are recognized. ▪ If you know ahead of time that you will not be staying for the entire class, write a clear, concise note to that effect, give it to me, and speak to me before class starts. Missing a major portion of a class meeting counts as an absence.
Office Conferences When you attend a conference for a major paper, you are required to have a printed rough draft and list of specific written questions or concerns about your paper. Failure to have either will result in cancellation of the appointment and a zero for the major paper. Please bring copies of all past essays with you to office conferences. At all conferences, you will need to sign a sheet to indicate your attendance. Assignments ▪ You must turn in written work directly to me; neither I nor the department is responsible for papers left in mailboxes or given to other persons to deliver. ▪ You are responsible for all material covered in class, whether you attend or not. All readings, lectures, discussions, handouts, oral reports and films may be material for quizzes, tests, in-class assignments, and the final exam. ▪ You will not be permitted to make up work/quizzes, tests, etc. if you are absent prior to the date of the work. If you are present, you will do what the class does. Reading and homework, integral parts of the course, should be begun soon after assigned. Assignments may or may not be collected during the following class meeting; it may be that I will not collect and assignment until the end of the unit. Outside assignments may be collected and counted as quizzes. Regardless, all assignments are due when collected and are not accepted late. I reserve the prerogative of altering assignments, quizzes, tests, and due-dates for any student to meet individual needs. ▪ . |
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Deadlines: ▪ A major paper is considered late if it is not submitted into my hands—or, alternatively, to turnitin.com—when others are collected at the beginning of class on the due date. Computer, printer, or other technological malfunctions (including ink-on-paper problems) of any sort are not valid excuses for failure to meet deadline. Turning in Assignments Late ▪ You may not turn in homework late, nor may you make up quizzes or other in-class non-essay assignments. You may make up Regents’ Test practice essays or other in-class essays at my discretion and convenience. ▪ All made up assignments have to be submitted mo later than April 21. ▪ A late essay must be turned in within one week of the original due date or it will be recorded as a zero. ▪ You are required to turn in all major papers. If you fail to turn in any one of them, you will receive an “F” for the course, no matter how well you have done on other assignments. Furthermore, my allowing you to submit a paper late does not mean that I will grade it. I will evaluate it when I can, and only if your overall performance merits my doing so. Any essay submitted late, for whatever reason, will forfeit a minimum of one letter grade (10 points). ▪ If you do submit a paper late, it must be accompanied by a separate (second) formal business letter in which you explain the situation fully and ask me to grade your work. Under no circumstances will you be given a grade for more than one late major paper. |