Official Syllabus Change

After discussing this on Tuesday and Thursday, the following syllabus changes are now official: 

1. We are cancelling Blog Post 6 so that you all have more time to revise.
   
2. The eight percentage points from that assignment will be distributed equally between Worksheet 2, Blog Post 2, Worksheet 3, Blog Post 3, Worksheet 4, Blog Post 4, Worksheet 5, and Blog Post 5. This may seem unfair to people who have been doing well on their blog posts but not their worksheets, in response to this concern, I will be changing how end of semester revision functions.
   
3. Since the weight of each worksheet will be going up, it seems that you all should have the ability to revise them as well, but there is a problem. If everyone revised all of the work they did for this class, I would not have the time to grade it. As a compromise, each student will be given the chance to revise five assignments if they wish. These assignments can be either blog posts or worksheets.
   
4. Some of you may have already begun work on Blog Post 6 or been interested in writing it. Since I obviously find value in the ability to write a theory/application paper using difficult material, I want to encourage these efforts. If you choose to write a theory/application post anyway (I will make the new word count 1,200) then I will add three percentage points of extra credit onto your final grade.
   
5. Tuesday’s peer review session is now an independent workday focused on either revision or Worksheet 7.