The goal of this exercise is to generate discussion among assigned student groups on the issue posed below. Discussion is online and occurs through discussion groups linked in Blackboard.
I will post some questions to prompt discussion in your group's discussion page.
To get to your discussion group and participate, login to Blackboard and then follow the link to our class. When there, click on the "My Groups" tab in the left column, which should pull down to show you a link to your discussion group. Clicking on that will reveal several options. You should select Group Discussion Board. This will take you to the discussions for your group. Select the appropriate discussion topic to go a web (blog) page where you can read contributions by others and add your own.
10 points maximum, but you are welcome to make additional postings
You must complete your work by the discussion's assigned deadline to get full credit.
NOTE: Scholarly article = peer-reviewed document that is a journal article, book or other major peer-reviewed publication for a discipline. It is not a blog or other opinion piece, nor Wikipedia, information web sites or the like. It also does not include newspaper or magazine articles. Rather, you should cite primary sources, which can be found through the lists above.
Also, you should give the citation in your posting where you actually use the information and not in a reference list at the end of your posting. This helps distinguish information from cited sources from information that is your interpretation of the sources. You should give your citation by given the author(s), year, title, and journal or book publisher. Simply giving a web address is not a good idea, because I have found that often the posted links do not work (perhaps they were not copied completely).
Plagiarism is unacceptable! You must document the source of any piece of information that is not yours in the dialogue. This of course is necessary also in order to get credit for referencing a scholarly article, as requested in the "Grading guidelines". If you choose to copy a phrase directly from a source, you must place it in quotes and cite its source. However, it is recommended that you employ your own words to describe a set of data or to explain a concept. The sources of data and each assertion that is not yours (including interpretations and point of views) must be acknowledged by citing the source within your dialogue entry. Because you are not writing a formal paper in the dialogue, please treat citations a little differently. Citations in this case should be in parentheses and give the author(s) or "Author et al.", followed by the year and the source of the information (e.g., journal name and page numbers).