Higher Education
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APU EDUC522
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ASSIGNMENTS
Regarding late assignments, they will be accepted for three days following the due date. A 10% penalty for each day the assignment is late will be deducted from the grade. After three days, the assignment will receive a zero grade. Exceptions will be made to this policy in the case of emergencies, as long as the student notifies the instructor prior to the assignment due date.
Always refer carefully to the rubric that accompanies each assignment. The rubric is used to score the assignments and, if you use it as a checklist, you will be sure to address all required elements.
Spell check and proofread all work, including discussion postings. Read your work aloud to yourself or to someone else. Our minds move faster than our hands, so it’s easy to miss things in our writing that will make it difficult for readers to understand. Also, a university course is a formal, academic environment unlike casual chats and discussion boards; accurate and scholarly writing is expected.
Make sure you fully understand paraphrasing, quoting, and correctly citing sources and that you avoid plagiarism. This is a much more complex concept than it may appear to be at first. The main points are:
o Nothing should ever be copied and pasted unless it is surrounded by quotation marks and properly cited.
o Changing a few words in a passage is not acceptable as paraphrasing.
o The majority of the text should be your own original work.
o Your own writing should never be recycled. If you copy and paste your own work, you must cite it. This should be done very rarely; the majority of the work must be new.
o Here is a Powerpoint presentation I created that I believe will help clarify this subject a lot. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions about the presentation. Your feedback will help me to improve it.
Presentation: Plagiarism, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources
DISCUSSIONS
Students are expected to respond to questions weekly in the discussion area and to respond to at least two classmates with thought-provoking questions or comments. Just saying, "Great post" is not acceptable. Responses should add something to a meaningful discussion.
Initial discussion comments must be posted by Day 3 because this gives your classmates time to read and respond to them. Discussion comments will not be scored if they are posted to the forum after the week ends because this would be like talking in an empty room...your classmates will not see them.
APA Format
Course readings are expected to be incorporated into postings and written assignments, and all references must include citations in APA format, according to the APA 6th edition manual. In addition, all discussion postings and written assignments are expected to be checked for correct spelling and mechanics. Refer to your 6th Edition APA Publication Manual , especially for references and citations (page 169 – 224).
Recycled Work
You are expected to submit new and original work for each assignment in this course. If you wish to incorporate prior work submitted in another course, you may cite yourself as a source, in APA format, just as you would other authors’ work that you refer to. All work submitted in this course must reflect new learning related to the course concepts and learning objectives. Therefore, the majority of the work is expected to be original. Under no circumstances are you allowed to submit an exact copy of a prior paper in an attempt to satisfy an assignment in this course, and if submitted, this paper would result in zero points being given for the assignment.
My email is [email protected] and my Skype username is lisa.rodriguez920. I check my email daily and will reply to all emails within 48 hours, but usually within one day.
Regarding late assignments, they will be accepted for three days following the due date. A 10% penalty for each day the assignment is late will be deducted from the grade. After three days, the assignment will receive a zero grade. Exceptions will be made to this policy in the case of emergencies, as long as the student notifies the instructor prior to the assignment due date.
Always refer carefully to the rubric that accompanies each assignment. The rubric is used to score the assignments and, if you use it as a checklist, you will be sure to address all required elements.
Spell check and proofread all work, including discussion postings. Read your work aloud to yourself or to someone else. Our minds move faster than our hands, so it’s easy to miss things in our writing that will make it difficult for readers to understand. Also, a university course is a formal, academic environment unlike casual chats and discussion boards; accurate and scholarly writing is expected.
Make sure you fully understand paraphrasing, quoting, and correctly citing sources and that you avoid plagiarism. This is a much more complex concept than it may appear to be at first. The main points are:
o Nothing should ever be copied and pasted unless it is surrounded by quotation marks and properly cited.
o Changing a few words in a passage is not acceptable as paraphrasing.
o The majority of the text should be your own original work.
o Your own writing should never be recycled. If you copy and paste your own work, you must cite it. This should be done very rarely; the majority of the work must be new.
o Here is a Powerpoint presentation I created that I believe will help clarify this subject a lot. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions about the presentation. Your feedback will help me to improve it.
Presentation: Plagiarism, Paraphrasing, and Citing Sources
DISCUSSIONS
Students are expected to respond to questions weekly in the discussion area and to respond to at least two classmates with thought-provoking questions or comments. Just saying, "Great post" is not acceptable. Responses should add something to a meaningful discussion.
Initial discussion comments must be posted by Day 3 because this gives your classmates time to read and respond to them. Discussion comments will not be scored if they are posted to the forum after the week ends because this would be like talking in an empty room...your classmates will not see them.
APA Format
Course readings are expected to be incorporated into postings and written assignments, and all references must include citations in APA format, according to the APA 6th edition manual. In addition, all discussion postings and written assignments are expected to be checked for correct spelling and mechanics. Refer to your 6th Edition APA Publication Manual , especially for references and citations (page 169 – 224).
Recycled Work
You are expected to submit new and original work for each assignment in this course. If you wish to incorporate prior work submitted in another course, you may cite yourself as a source, in APA format, just as you would other authors’ work that you refer to. All work submitted in this course must reflect new learning related to the course concepts and learning objectives. Therefore, the majority of the work is expected to be original. Under no circumstances are you allowed to submit an exact copy of a prior paper in an attempt to satisfy an assignment in this course, and if submitted, this paper would result in zero points being given for the assignment.
My email is [email protected] and my Skype username is lisa.rodriguez920. I check my email daily and will reply to all emails within 48 hours, but usually within one day.
