Thanks for weighing in on our mid-semester survey! I especially appreciate those who framed their answers in a respectful way. Based on the results, here is how we will move forward:
- Homework will stay the same. You must continue to bring a physical version of your homework answers to class, arrive on time, and participate in the discussion for full credit on homework assignments.
- WW3 may change. If you want to complete the assignment like you did for WW1 and WW2, you can. A new option can also be substituted for WW3: The Weekly Write-up Alternative (WWA) quiz. DO NOT DO BOTH WW3 AND WWA. Pick one.
How the WWA works:
You pick your article from the Pinterest page. For WWs you could use articles you found on your own, but not for WWA. Thoroughly read the article, take handwritten notes (you are not allowed to copy typed notes into your quiz), and generally prepare to give an ethical analysis on it. You can leave the article open in a tab or window while you take the quiz in another. Copy the article URL to paste for one of your answers.
Start the quiz. You will have 45 minutes to complete it. Students with Ross Center accommodations will have those in place. The quiz must be complete by 11:59pm on the due date. If it’s submitted after, or begun after, the due date, your quiz will have a late penalty as mentioned in the syllabus.
You only get one attempt for the quiz. Make sure you give yourself a generous window in which to complete it. Once you start it, you must finish it in the same session.
Some questions are multiple choice.
Other questions just require you to paste the article URL, title, or publication date from the article. Further citations and references are not necessary.
The remainder of the quiz is comprised of the same type questions you would answer in the paragraphs of your write-up: weighing viewpoints, applying terms, etc. ALL of these type answers must be typed into the text boxes as you complete the quiz. You are not permitted to paste those answers (from Google Docs, Word, Grammarly, the internet, etc). The answers from those questions must be typed out entirely by you based on your understanding of the article during the quiz time.
When answering the question about the class terms, include information about which day of slides you found the term definition on. Further term citation is not necessary.
The “write-up average” column remains weighted at 25% of your final grade. Depending on your chosen options, that column may be the average of:
– 3 weekly write-ups
– 4 weekly write-ups (if you chose to do the optional 4th one)
– 2 weekly write-ups and 1 weekly write-up alternative (WWA) short answer quiz
– 2 weekly write-ups, 1 weekly write-up alternative (WWA) short answer quiz, and another optional WWA (WWA4) if you choose to do the WWA4. Both WW4 and WWA4 are optional for everyone.
No grades are dropped in the course. Optional assignments are averaged in. As always, any answers derived in part or in whole from homework help sites, uncited internet sites, or generative transformers will result in failure both of the assignment and the course.