see the rubric below How the rubric looks in the grade book • Original post worth 50 points: your score is: • Citations in essay worth 7 points: • Proper reference list worth 5 points: • Clickable URLs worth 3 points: • Essay – adds substantive information to discussion/good analysis & synthesis – worth 35 points: • Response post 1 worth 25 points – your score is: • Citations in essay worth 5 points: • Proper reference list worth 3 points: • Clickable URLs worth 2 points: • Essay – adds substantive information to discussion/good analysis & synthesis – worth 15 points: • Response post 2 worth 25 points – your score is: • Citations in essay worth 5 points: • Proper reference list worth 3 points: • Clickable URLs worth 2 points: • Essay – adds substantive information to discussion/good analysis & synthesis – worth 15 points

5) Then COPY & PASTE your entire, completed essay into the discussion and submit it. These details are worth significant points for both the original post and the response post. Not having citation IN the essay, or a reference/works cited list, and CLICKABLE URLs will cost you as much as THIRTY (30) out of one hundred (100) points!!! These discussions are weighted heavily in your overall grade for the course, so doing poor quality work can seriously hurt your grade.

Below is a very small excerpt from an original post/essay by a former student: – see the citationsIN the essay - and the reference list/works cited below the essay Use them as a model when writing your posts/essays. ALSO, please note that all the links are “clickable”– that means we can follow them by clicking on them in the discussion forum. The way to do this is: 1) type your entire essay and reference list (or works cited list) in a Microsoft WORD document 2) Copy the url (web address) from the address bar 3) Paste it into the WORD document at the end of the reference it belongs to 4) And then HIT THE ENTER KEY… you will then see it highlight and underline and that means it is working (clickable) link.