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Answers to Grade Inflation    

Grade Inflation (Corrections for run-on/comma slice)

Line 5: ....in the spring semester, 1997, were A's, and only 1.1 percent were F's. 

Line 6: The percent of A's awarded to graduate students was even higher, where almost two thirds were A's.

Line 12: ....students; this means that an A from SMSC ..... (OR students. This means that .....) 

Line 15: .....school; he or she may not be accepted despite a high grade point average.  

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  Announcements: Due Dates for Drafts & Revisions (Tentative)

      IMPORTANT: All students must write a Classification and an Argumentative Essay,

      but may choose to write either a Cause & Effect Essay or a Compare & Contrast Essay.    (If you decide

      to write both types of essays, the better score of the two will be counted for your final grade.)   

• Classification Essay (Revision)  By May 10th, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• Cause & Effect Essay (Draft)  By May 10th, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• Cause & Effect Essay (Revision)  By May 17th, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• Compare & Contrast Essay (Draft) By May 24th, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• Compare & Contrast Essay (Revision) By May 31st, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• Argumentative Essay (Draft) By June 7th, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• Argumentative Essay (Revision) By June 14th, Friday; 5:00pm at the box of X506

• The International Writing Exchange (IWE): Spring 2002 

  Collaborative Writing Projects http://www.ruthvilmi.net/hut/Current/iwe.html 

   

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