To receive the grade of

The grade for the course will, for the most part, be based on the quality of the student's final project--typically, the student's pathfinder.

To receive a grade of:	the Final Project will exhibit these characteristics:

A	It is a truly excellent, even superior, piece of work. Its information is very well selected and organized. It indicates a commanding grasp of the content covered, and a grasp of the most effective ways in which the bibliographic product's users will best understand and utilize the content presented.
A-/B+	Some characteristics of an excellent project; some characteristics of a good project.
B	It is a good, solid piece of work that fulfills the assignment well. The bibliographic product is based on appropriate and adequate data. Its general purpose is clear, and it is effectively presented. It may provide information that, taken as a whole, is less obviously seminal or comprehensive than an A project.
B-/C+	Some characteristics of a good project; some characteristics of an adequate project.
C	The C project is adequate to fulfill the assignment, and its general idea and treatment is clear. Its content may be oversimplified, or based on a bare minimum of important sources and citations. It does not adequately cover the objectives implied by the project's scope and audience characteristics.
D	The project does not fulfill the assignment. It may omit large amounts of information or important types of sources of information lying within its declared scope. It may entirely lack a required element (scope, organization, audience, etc.) of the project. Plagiarism (using material without indicating this was done) will result in an F.

The course Exercises are intended to give LIS5703 students practice in the skills that will assist them in completing their final projects. To this extent, the Exercises are not the final, most direct evidence of a student's work in the course. However, the completion or lack of completion of Exercises on time by a student is assessed on a completed/not-completed basis, at a small, 15 percentage point basis in total, and added together with the final project grade, to determine an overall course grade for the student:

For students whose final projects earn them a grade between two letter grades (an "A-/B+" or a "B-/C+," for example), the students' ongoing participation in the course--as exhibited through the completion of the Exercises--could make a difference in their course grade: an A- versus a B+, a B- versus a C+.