Happy Wednesday!

Hi folks! I hope you are having an excellent week so far. I am, but I think it's because I'm partially delirious from lack of sleep! :)

Here's what should be on your radar for today and tomorrow:

1. What's due today? The functioning link to your Adopt-a-Species blog needs to be emailed to me by tonight at 8:00 p.m. I'll send you a quick email back when I get it either letting you know that I posted the link or telling you that the link didn't work. So if you can, stay close to your email until you hear back from me.

2. Adopt-a-Species responses: Don't forget that I have assigned you two people to respond to for this assignment. You can find out who by looking at the response grid in the A-a-S discussion forum in D2L. Your responses to your classmates are due by tomorrow at noon.

3. What else is due tomorrow? Your Chapter 8 Final Thoughts are due by tomorrow at 11. Your Chapter 9 Starting Assumptions are also due tomorrow by 8 with responses by 11 and your Chapter 9 Reading Quiz is due tomorrow by 11.

4. Plagiarism? Every week I submit all of your assignments to Turnitin.com, a plagiarism detection program. It hands me back a report with highlighted segments of your assignments that are copied word-for-word from other sources. A few of your are having some problems with this and I'm going to start cracking down if it doesn't stop. Remember--even if you change a word or two while copying the rest of the sentence or phrase it is still considered plagiarism. Put things in your own words and you won't have any problems.

5. Grading? I have two more Chapter 7 Freelance Writer assignments to grade. I petered out at about 11:00 last night, so I'll finish them up this morning and get your grades posted ASAP.

That's it for today! Let me know if you need anything!

Heather