Specific Directions

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Can you help me understand this Writing question?

There are three discussion board topics this week and you can choose on which discussion board topic you will post. To access the required reading, click on the Week Four Discussion Board link. Please choose ONE discussion board topic and submit your posts only to that topic. You will not get more points for posting to more discussion board topics. You get graded on how thorough and complete your discussion posts are so focus is very important; think of it as quality over quantity.

Once you have finished all of the required reading, please post an answer to the discussion prompts for one Discussion Board topic. Be sure to respect the informed ideas and opinions of your classmates and express your ideas in clear and concise English. For each discussion board you are expected to post one initial entry and at least two responses to initial postings by your classmates. if a discussion board already has eight (8) initial posts, you must post to another discussion board topic. Please be succinct. The discussion prompts are not intended elicit long essays but a dialogue with each other on a particular topic.

Specific Directions

  1. Original post: respond to only ONE discussion board topic
    1. Check Course Outline for due date
    2. Due before 11:59 PM on due date
    3. Write around 250 words
    4. Provide appropriate topic-label to post
    5. If topic already has eight (8) initial posts, you must choose another topic to earn credit
    6. Add something NEW to the discussion rather than merely restating what has already been posted
    7. No credit if posted after due date/due time (exception: documented emergency)
  2. Follow-up posts (at least 2 for a passing grade); there is no limit to the number of follow-up posts you can make – making more than two response posts, as long as they are substantive (simply stating “I agree” or “Good point” doesn’t count), will improve your discussion grade.
    1. Check Course Outline for due date
    2. Due before 11:59 PM on due date
    3. Write around 100 words per post
    4. Respond directly to classmates’ initial post(s)
    5. Add something NEW to the discussion rather than merely restating what has already been posted
    6. No credit if posted after due date/due time (exception: documented emergency)
  3. MOST COMMON DEDUCTIONS for initial post and replies to classmates
    1. Partial credit: writing errors (spelling, punctuation, grammar)
    2. No credit: responded to prompt that already had right (8) responses from classmates
    3. No credit: made initial post and/or response posts after due date/due time

You contributions to discussion will be evaluated in accordance with the rubricsand you will receive points for participation.

Critique at least two of your fellow students’ postings.

Thereafter, the professor will guide the discussion.

To access the Discussion Board, click the Week Four Discussion link above.