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See the points awarded by date & time of submission at this link: Grades

If your submission was relatively long, I treat it as two or three submissions and award points accordingly. Most submissions which are considered 'significant' will receive 2 points. Submissions which are particularly good will receive 3 points. Submissions that are small (but nonetheless useful) will receive a 1.

If your contribution received a `1', this does NOT necessarily mean that it was not a good contribution. A `1' is given for edits which, while small, are nonetheless very useful for making the text more readable.

Sometimes a 0 is recorded when the website records that a submission has been made, but a student has only opened the site to observe. Don't worry about this. The important number as far as your grade is concerned is the OVERALL points that you accumulate, NOT the points you receive for any particular contribution. Some people may accumulate many points with many small (1-pt) contributions, while others may accumulate many points with fewer, longer contributions.


 * Some Suggestions about Editing**

If you are asked to edit a section of the wiki page, what should you do?


 * 1) Correct any and all spelling and grammar mistakes.
 * 2) Ask yourself: how can I make the material more organized? Good writing flows. Readers don't like to read groups of sentences that don't relate very well to each other. If a section of the wiki page includes several different topics, try "gluing" the topics together with transition sentences.
 * 3) Are you confused by anything that is written? You might read a sentence and think to yourself, "I believe I know what the author is trying to say, but the way it is written is confusing." If so, try to rewrite the sentence so that it is clear. If you REALLY cannot figure out what the person is trying to say, you might simply put a section in brackets: { } and label it as something that needs to be clarified.
 * 4) The class wiki page has many authors, but all of them should be students in Sociology 215!! What I mean is that all contributions must be written in students' own words. Paraphrase -- don't copy. On occasion, you might find it useful to include quotes from the reading materials or from sources online. Whenever you are using someone else's writing, you should enclose it in quotations. Short quotations are fine, but long "copy-and-paste jobs" aren't.