The author's sample syllabus comparison is a gold mine for us thinking about the kind of congruence we might want to have. So on the left side you have the original, and on the right you have the revised. And so starts with what it used to sound like, required books. It used to talk about attendance and student decorum, and now it says, how to be a part of this class. This rewrite is not contrived in any way; i saw myself developing as an instructor in leaps and bounds just going through this exercise.