Write and proofread real good. Okay??

You must demonstrate college-level writing in both the website analysis paper and in discussion forums. There will be three points possible each week for writing in the discussion forums, meaning you need to proofread your posts, check for spelling errors, capitalize, all that basic grammar-related stuff, and make sure that they make sense, to get the full three points each week (there will be a separate grade item for this).

• A ‘3’ means your posts are in order, make sense, thoughts are well-organized, and you’ve probably done some proofreading before hitting the ‘submit’ button.
• A ‘2’ means you’ve probably done some proofreading, but there are still some pretty glaring errors.
• ‘1’ means it’s not really clear you’ve proofread the posts for the week, or your posts have so many errors in them that they’re hard to follow, and in any case readers may not take them as seriously.

I’m mainly doing this because writing is just so critical to finding work, communicating with prospective employers, and we all need to show some self-awareness about our writing. This will show up as a separate grade for each week of the course. Also, if there are multiple threads, and you participate in all of them, the maximum you can get for writing is 1 or 2 out of 3 points for the week. And the points add up over ten weeks.

3 points possible per week, 30 points total for the term.