Review
Review this week’s readings, activities, and presentations, and reflect on your own life experience to address the following questions.
Respond
- Choose a topic that is relevant to your academic and/or career interests. This will be the topic for your PASSport Annotated Bibliography (final version due Week 8).
- Search the APU Library databases for resources related to your topic.
- Find and cite a full-text article, ebook, or other electronic resources from the APU Library database. APA style citations can be difficult to format correctly in the discussion forum, however, make a good-faith attempt at formatting your citation in APA style.
- Describe your research process and strategy:
- What was challenging about navigating the library?
- Where do you need further guidance?
- How can you discern whether the resource is “academic” enough for a college research paper?
Discuss
Post a minimum of two substantive responses to your colleagues. Responses should demonstrate active participation in academic discourse about texts and/or resources, connect relevant experience and academic knowledge, and communicate meaning with clarity and fluency. Responses could include suggestions for further resources, questions of clarification, or providing context and insight. Avoid simple posts of agreement; if you agree, explain why, and then thoughtfully further the conversation.
Assignment Requirements
- Initial Response
- Addresses all questions/statements in the prompt.
- Extracts and constructs meaning through interaction and involvement with assigned readings and resources.
- Connects relevant experience and academic knowledge.
- Gives proper credit to sources used, though strict APA formatting is not required.
- Uses proper “Netiquette” (proper language, tone, mechanics, etc.).
- Peer Responses
- Builds on others’ responses to further develop discussion (avoids postings that are limited to 'I agree' or 'great idea', etc.).
- Extracts and constructs meaning through interaction and involvement with assigned readings and resources.
- Connects relevant experience and academic knowledge.
- Gives proper credit to sources used, though strict APA formatting is not required.
- Uses proper “Netiquette” (proper language, tone, mechanics, etc.).
Discussion Instructions
- Post a substantive response to the prompt by the first deadline shown in the weekly overview text.
- Engage in discussion with peers about their original posts in an exchange of ideas, information, and perspectives that continues through the second deadline shown in the weekly overview text.
- Posts and responses made after the academic week will not count toward your grade.
- Always check your forum posts for spelling and grammar errors. Click the link in the Assignment Helps to learn how to spell-check your forum posts.
- Always refer to your course syllabus (opens in new window) for details on grading criteria and the university
's late work policy.