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Guidelines for Discussion Posts

Students must complete 4 discussion posts worth a total of 40% of their grade, with each post being worth 10% of the grade. Posts should be a maximum of 500 words and must connect course material to external research. Posts are graded based on a rubric evaluating prompt response, understanding of materials, ideas, references, writing quality, and citations.

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Guidelines for Discussion Posts

Students must complete 4 discussion posts worth a total of 40% of their grade, with each post being worth 10% of the grade. Posts should be a maximum of 500 words and must connect course material to external research. Posts are graded based on a rubric evaluating prompt response, understanding of materials, ideas, references, writing quality, and citations.

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4 Discussion Posts (40%) – 10% per post

 Students must complete a total of 4 discussion posts by the end of the term. Each week, there will be a
discussion board that will ask you to answer one question, pertaining to the topic of the week. There is
a total of 6 weeks, therefore you can choose any 4 classes you choose to write a discussion post for.
Please do not create a post for each week, only choose 4. Each post will be worth a total of 5 marks.
 In your discussion post, you will be asked to connect what you have learned in lecture/readings and
connect it to external research. Questions will be posted for you to respond to for each discussion post.
Posts are expected to be one paragraph, maximum of 500 words.

 Each week, your post must be created by Sunday at 11:59pm.

Discussion Post Rubric

Criteria: Exemplary Very Good Good Unsatisfactory


4 (A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 1 (D and Below)
Discussion Post Post thoroughly Post addresses most Post fails to No post/very
answers the prompt of the prompt(s) and address all minimal post.
/5 and demonstrates demonstrates components of the Writing contains
strong understanding of prompt. Makes more than 5
understanding of material with short or irrelevant grammatical,
materials with well- developed ideas. remarks. Post lacks spelling or
developed ideas. Post references connection to punctuation errors.
Post connects to assigned content external research. No
external research and may not make Writing includes 4- references/citations
and embeds connections to 5 grammatical, found.
meaningful external research. spelling, or
questions to the Writing includes less punctuation errors.
community. Writing than 5 grammatical, Missing majority
is free of spelling, or citing in APA
grammatical, punctuation errors. format.
spelling or Minor errors in
punctuation errors. citations using APA
Research is cited format.
appropriately in
APA format.

Total for all Discussion Posts: /20

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