The Discussion Board assignments are the main assignments throughout the course that allow students and instructors to interact and discuss topics as if we were in a regular classroom setting. The goal of these assignments are:
1. Professional Writing: DBs require professional writing skills to communicate your answers to the prompts. After reading the text, you should be able to explain answers to the questions using a combination of paraphrasing the text, quoting the text, and including personal stories that go along with the points.
2. Proper documentation: DBs require that you have a References list at the end of your Posts. Additionally, you must provide in-text citations within the writing to indicate when you've used the text as your primary source for that specific sentence.
3. Interaction: the DBs are meant to create an interactive environment for students and instructors to collaborate and discuss the topics presented. Offer constructive criticisms in a professional manner and provide a substantial response to other posts using your text and personal examples to illustrate a point.
Lastly, please feel free to include a Word Doc as an attachment but also cut and paste your written portion into the actual DB window.
I hope this provides you with clarity for your DB assignments. Please send me your questions.
Craig Mattox