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Programs: Writing Workshop

Students: First Week Roster Information

Because BRUTUS, the university computer scheduling system, affects our means of enrolling closed-out students in open spaces and of maintaining the enrollment limit of fifteen, it is imperative that you follow to the letter the following detailed instruction or you may end up with a heavier student load than you should have. One extra student may mean fifty extra papers to grade. If problems arise, let us know.
  1. Use the official placement list and check the placement of all your students before your first class meeting. You can find the placement list in this folder on the Humanities Network: Writing Workshop/Placement Tests.
  2. For those students, who are not on the placement list, mark "NPT" (no placement test) on the roster, administer the writing sample essay to them, along with your other students, on the first day of class. The writing sample essays will determine the student' placement. (Because the writing sample acts as the placement test for NPT students, it is important you allow one full 48-minute class period for the students to write the essay). The "NPT" students should be told that they may be enrolled in the wrong class and that they should call the Writing Workshop office (292-8134) before the next class meeting to verify their placement scores. Leave a copy of the writing sample essay for each NPT student in the placement basket to be read by the instructors. Write your name, course number and class time on the back of the essay.
  3. For those students whose placement is not in the course you are teaching, please indicate the appropriate class on the roster. Ask those students to leave class immediately and to come to the Writing Workshop office so they can be added to a Writing Workshop class (space permitting) or send them to their advising unit to add an English class.
  4. Keep accurate and consistent attendance record for the first two days of class.
    • A checkmark = present
    • o An X = absent
    Return a copy of your rosters to Del immediately after the second class meeting (no later than 4:30 p.m., September 23, 2005. Del will disenroll students who are absent both days and create space for students waiting to enroll.
  5. DO NOT SIGN forms for students seeking permission to enter your classes. If you grant permission for students to add, you make our efforts to maintain small class sizes unmanageable. Because the University wait list will be in effect for Autumn Quarter, some students may add your courses through BRUTUS up through the first Friday of the Quarter (September 23, 2005. But, as you may remember some students may not be AWARE they have been added, at least for a period of time. We will try to give you updated rosters after the first Friday.
  6. There will be no official add/change day-students will be added to classes or placed on the waiting list on a first come/first serve basis.
SENIOR LECTURERS and Writing Worskhop AA should plan to be available the first week of classes for placement reading.
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