Discussion Topic

Focus on the assigned textbook readings found on the Course Calendar (since the last forum was due), but ARGUE TO  include and relate these to the assigned online readings IN THE PAST WEEK too.

General Instructions:

You must post your responses to forum questions twice in this course: Start in the Homework folder under Lessons, then after posting your 5 paragraphs (see just below) in the dropbox there (NOT in the comments box - you may paste it in or upload a .doc/.docx/.pdf/.rtf file there (No .pages, Google docs, Sharepoint,  or any other format). Review the SafeAssign report there. It will flag the quoted passage(s) in it, but if cited effectively, that's fine. Fix anything else; the program allows you to check your work. I'm NOT trying to "catch" you, but given this functionality to help you not make or leave an error here, uncited quotes and paraphrases left uncorrected will be considered plagiarism. (please only use quotes to support what you are submitting - what you are thinking is what you are trying to express here, not just pasting others' ideas into assignments.)  YOU MUST CITE WITH PAGE NUMBER AN INCLUDED QUOTE FROM A REQUIRED TEXTBOOK (NOT JUST ASSIGNED ONLINE READINGS IN OR THROUGH THESE BLACKBOARD PAGES) IN EVERY PART OF ALL DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENTS EXCEPT PART 5. REMEMBER, NO TEXTS NOT ASSIGNED IN THE SYLLABUS OR FOUND HERE ON THE COURSE'S BLACKBOARD PAGES MAY BE USED IN THIS COURSE. FAILURE TO INCLUDE CITED TEXTBOOK PASSAGES OR USING OUTSIDE RESOURCES ARE PENALIZED VIOLATIONS. YOU SHOULD EXPECT TO SEE A SMALL PERCENTAGE TO SHOW UP ON THE ASSIGNMENT'S SAFEASSIGN REPORT; AS LONG AS YOU HAVE PROPERLY CITED IT, YOU ARE FINE.) Then copy and paste what you posted into the Homework Dropbox into the Discussion Board Forum accessible through the Calendar or the link on the left of your Blackboard screen. Follow the Homework/forum posting 5 paragraph format: 1. Objective Summary, 2. Focus objectively on something particular, per specific instructions, OR YOU DECIDE WHAT PART OF THE ASSIGNED READINGS ABOUT WHICH TO GO INTO MORE DEPTH.)  3. Relate these readings to previously studied course material. 4. Reflect on the above subjectively. 5. Discussion question. You must cite at least one quote from the assigned reading in each posting. After others have posted, post paragraph 5. Respond critically (not negatively, but substantively, analytically - AND YOU MAY NOT USE LIKE/DISLIKE OR AGREE/DISAGREE WITH regarding a posting by another student) to a class mates posting. Your 5 paragraph posting is due on the date listed. Your NUMBER 6. paragraph response to another's posting in the forum is due 2 days later. Do not forget to add your response posting in the forum board into the drop box under homework, or better, post it first into the drop box, review as above, then cut and paste it into the discussion board as a response to the other's posting. All of this applies top all subsequent forum activity for this course. THIS IS NOT A 5-PARAGRAPH ESSAY! EACH PART (EXCEPT PART 5) SHOULD BE IN THE LOGICAL FORM OF A WELL-EVINCED ARGUMENT.

USE THIRD PERSON VOICE FOR PARTS 1, 2, 3, 5 AND 6 FOR ALL DISCUSSION FORUMS; ONLY USE FIRST PERSON VOICE IN PART 4 OF EACH DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT.

PLEASE LABEL EACH PART AS UNDERLINED HERE:

1. SUMMARY OF THE PAST WEEK'S ASSIGNED READINGS
2. FOCUSED EXAMINATION OF JUST ONE IMPORTANT ISSUE OR POINT IN THE PAST WEEK'S ASSIGNED READINGS
3. RELATES THE PAST WEEK'S READINGS WITH THE COURSE'S PREVIOUS READINGS
4. PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE WEEK'S STUDIED COURSE MATERIAL
5. DRAFT A DISCUSSION QUESTION ABOUT THE WEEK'S STUDIED MATERIAL (WITHOUT PROVIDING A RESPONSE)
6. SUBSTANTIVELY REPLY TO A CLASSMATE'S POST THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN REPLIED TO BY ANOTHER CLASSMATE

Lateness, failure to include a cited quote and to exclude an uncited references PER ABOVE will impact or disqualify your grade.

THE SPECIFIC QUESTION APPLIES ONLY TO THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF EACH DISCUSSION ASSIGNMENT!

Specific forum instructions:

Compose this forum based on any to all of the readings assigned in this course since the due date of the previous forum. Follow the paragraph template instructions above.