Online Discussion Grading Rubric

Online Discussion Grading Rubric

10 = Answer was complete, written in your own words, and at an excellent academic standard. Answer shows understanding of the reading, as well as careful and thoughtful interaction with the reading. Answer was free from major grammatical errors.

9 = Answer was complete, written in your own words, and at a very good academic standard. Answer shows understanding of the reading, as well as an ability to interact with the reading. Answer contained only 1-2 major grammatical errors.

8 = Answer was complete, written in your own words, and at an acceptable academic standard. Answer shows understanding of the reading, and an attempt at interacting with the reading. Answer contained only 3-4 major grammatical errors.

7 = Answer was complete, written in your own words, but it was not at an acceptable academic standard. Answer shows understanding of the reading, but not the ability to interact with the reading. Answer contained 5-6 major grammatical errors.

6 = Answer was incomplete, written in your own words, but was at a poor academic standard. It is unclear whether or not you understood the reading. Answer contained many grammatical errors.

5 = Answer was incomplete.

0 = Answer was plagiarized.

Weeks 3-4 Online Discussion Clarification

Hi all! Your assignment is to look at each of the 6 systems from the "Basic Needs" section. Then, for each system, you must think of 3 examples from your own culture. I don't know how the rumor got started that you only need to write about 3 things, but it isn't true. Also, I'm not asking you to give me a summary of that section. I read the section already, as did you. We know what's written in it. I want you to interact with the material by giving examples from your culture. Here is an example from American culture:

1) Economic System: Wall Street/Stocks, Free Trade/Capitalism, Government help with small businesses

2) Marriage & Family: Civil unions, Justice of the Peace or church weddings, Adoption

3) Educational System: Free public education, Parents can choose private or public education, State Universities

4) Social Control System: Elected sheriffs, Democracy, National Guard

5) Supernatural Belief System: Freedom of religion, New Age, Conservativism

6) Systems of Communication: The English language, Freedom of the press, The role of the media

This took me about 10 minutes to write. This is not designed to be a long assignment. I just want you to think about these 6 systems in your own culture. You don't even need to use full sentences, unless you want to. If anyone who has already written their comment would like to revise anything you've written, please feel free to do so. I won't grade the comments until after class next Friday. I'll see you all then!