1st dropbox assignment

SW

• Stage 1: Please write an X hundred word maximum answer to the following question by TBD, 2022, 11:59pm.

• Topic:

• Advice about collaboration: Collaboration is part of the academic process and the intellectual world that college courses are based on, so it is important to me that you have the possibility to collaborate. I encourage you to collaborate with other students, but only up to the point of sharing ideas, references to class notes, and your own notes, verbally. It is also a great way to make sure that a high average level of learning and development occurs in the class. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to NOT share text of draft answers or outlines of your answer. Keep it verbal. Generate your own examples.

• Prepare your answer and submit it in the following way. You will lose points if you do not follow these instructions:

1. Do not put your name in the file or filename. You may put your student id number in the file. Always put a word count in the file. Save your file for this assignment with the name: "filename".
2. To assure anonymity, you must remove your name from the the "author name" that you probably provided when you set up your word processing application. For instructions on removing your name from an MS Word file, [click here].
3. Format your answer in double spaced text in a 12 point font, using normal margins. Do not add spaces between paragraphs and indent the first line of each paragraph.
4. To turn in your assignment, log into courses.alfino.org, click on the "dropbox name" dropbox.
5. If you cannot meet a deadline, you must email me (unless you are having an emergency) before the deadline or you will lose points.

• Stage 2: Please evaluate four student answers and provide brief comments and a score. Review the Assignment Rubric for this exercise. We will be using the Flow and Content areas of the rubric for this assignment. Complete your evaluations and scoring by TBD, 2022 11:59pm.

• Use [(Link) this Google Form] to evaluate four peer papers.

• To determine the papers you need to peer review, I will put a file called "#Key.xls" in the shared folder. It will have a worksheet with saint names in alphabetically order, along with animal names. You will find your saint name and review the next four (4) animals' work below your animal name.

• Some papers may arrive late. If you are in line to review a missing paper, allow a day or two for it to show up. If it does not show up, go back to the key and review the next animal's paper, continuing until you get four reviews. This assures that you will get enough "back evaluations" of your work to get a good average for your peer review credit. Do not review more than four papers.

• Stage 3: I will grade and briefly comment on your writing using the peer scores as an initial ranking. Assuming the process works normally, most of my scores probably be within 1-2 points of the peer scores, plus or minus.

• Stage 4: Back-evaluation: After you receive your peer comments and my evaluation, take a few minutes to fill out this quick "back evaluation" rating form: [backeval link]. Fill out the form for each reviewer, but not Alfino. You must do the back evaluation to receive credit for the whole assignment. Failing to give back-evaluations unfairly affects other classmates.

• Back evaluations are due TBD, 2022, 11:59pm.