Feedback on Assignment Two

I have reviewed the weblogs for Assignment Two and will provide each of you with feedback and grades today in class. However, there are a few pieces of feedback I will also provide here to everyone.
In general I liked the range of topics in student's entries. Most of you included issues relevant to the field. Most of you also did a good job of meeting the technical requirements of the assignment. I especially liked some of the conversations that emerged among people in the course. There are a few areas that need attention, however. Please take these requirements into account for all future work for the course.

1. Acknowledging Sources: You must acknowledge all your sources clearly, and clearly indicate when you are quoting from another source.


2. Cutting and Pasting: Use the cut and paste feature sparingly. There are too many cases of entries made up entirely, or almost, of quoted text. From this point on, each of your entries must include a minimum of 75 percent of your own words and all quoted text must be clearly offset from your own words.


3. Writing for Other Courses: Treat material written for other courses as you would material written by other people. You may quote from it or refer to it, but you cannot simply post material written for another course on your weblog without acknowledging it as such.


4. Post Consistently: Too many people rushed to post entries just before the final due date of the assignment. Assignment two was designed so that you would post at least a couple of entries each week. I only reduced grades a bit for posting deluges this time, but that will change in the future. When I ask you to post a couple of entries per week, that's what I want to see.

We will talk more about these things in class. Please ask me if you have any questions.