1. What's due today? Your Week 2, Chapter 2 Freelance Writer assignment is due tonight by 8 with responses AND DECLARATION by 11:00.
- I have slightly tweaked the grading rubric for this assignment (although nothing major) to hopefully make it a bit clearer what my expectations are for the assignment.
- I also added a link to the bottom of the rubric that explains how to use proper punctuation when writing dialogue. Use it!
2. What's coming up? Monday is another busy day! Your Chapter 2 Final Thoughts assignments are due by 11, your Chapter 3 Starting Assumptions are due by 8 with responses by 11, AND your Chapter 3 Reading Quiz is due by 11.
3. What else? If you have not yet looked at the Chapter 3 Digging Deeper assignment you need to do so today! This assignment requires that you work at least 2 days ahead to complete it on time.
4. What am I doing? Trying to catch up on the discussion board! Yipes! If it's any consolation, I'm having a hard time keeping up with all of these assignments too! It's much easier for me to do during the regular school year. I'm a bit behind but plan on spending a large chunk of time this evening reading over all of your posts.
5. Reminder! I've attached (below) a copy of the email I sent out on Friday explaining my expectations for your writing assignments. This email was not meant to ream anyone out, but should serve as firm reminder about what I expect to see on the discussion board.
6. Don't forget that your OU login ID changes tomorrow!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and let me know if you have any questions!
Heather
COPY OF REMINDER EMAIL BELOW:
Hi folks. I have finished grading your Freelance Writer assignments and have posted your scores and my comments in the gradebook. Some of you did very well, some of you not so well, but for the most part you all scored around 6 points out of 8. Regardless of your score on the assignment, is it important that you read what I have to say below as it pertains to all of you and many of your future assignments.
1. Responses: You are responsible for declaring the 2 points for your responses to your peers' Freelance Writer assignments. I have not yet looked over your responses to make sure they are substantive, but I noticed that some of you forgot to declare.
2. Content of the article: The one thing that most of you lost points for was failing to make the article the main focus of your assignment. Most of the articles that you selected had TONS of information in them that could be easily added to your assignments to make them more informative (and make the article the focus of your post). I'm going to spend some time this weekend re-wording the grading rubrics to hopefully address the issue in upcoming assignments.
3. Key terms: You all got off pretty easy this week with your key terms because most of the terms are common, everyday words used by the general population. This won't be the case for the rest of the semester. It needs to be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR from the context around the vocab word that I know you know what the word means. If I have to guess or make assumptions I will take off points.
4. References: You must cite ALL references you use in completing your assignment and they must be formatted properly. To use information and not cite the source is plagiarism (as you should all know after taking the plagiarism quiz). This includes your textbook!
5. Spelling and Grammar: There were some major issues with spelling and grammatical errors in your assignments and in the discussion board in general. It is rude to make me and your peers read posts that are laden with errors. I am extremely picky about this. Every single person in this classroom is going to have to write and write well no matter what profession you go into. There are many, many resources out there to help improve your writing (books, internet sources, the OU Writing Center). I expect that if you have problems with spelling and grammar that you will take the initiative to fix these problems. It is a waste of my time and your classmates' time to have to weed through a bunch of grammatical errors.
6. Preview your post: I forgot to mention earlier in the semester that there is a "preview" button that you can use in D2L to see what your posts look like before you submit them. In the bottom left hand corner of the message composition window there is a little piece of paper with a magnifying glass in front of it. Use this to preview your post.
7. OU Net ID: Just so no one panics your OU 4 x 4 will change as of Monday. IT has been sending out reminder emails, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded once more! :)
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