Journeys to America
Summer 2011

Instructions for Discussion Forum: Due August 9th by Midnight

PLEASE NOTE: AS THIS ASSIGNMENT IS TURNED IN NEAR THE END OF THE SEMESTER, YOU LIKELY WILL GET ONLY A SCORE FOR ASSESSMENT & PERHAPS A BRIEF COMMENT BUBBLE AT THE TOP OF YOUR COMPILATION

--Cut from Blackboard your substantial Forum contributions and paste them into a Word file, grouped by author/text in the sequence of the syllabus (i.e. Columbus ... The Tempest ... Equiano … etc.) and upload the file with the title “Forum” to the Turnitin assignment dropbox within Blackboard. Please convert to single-space if you can.

--Substantial = a posting that demonstrates you were responding to our authors and their texts, or reflecting on others’ responses to our authors and their texts. Minor chit-chat should be weeded out but that doesn't mean you need to cut a "sidebar" conversation about morality or whatever.

--It is ok to leave your words that reflect the Forum context (e.g., “I agree with you, Hilary, Ashbridge is suffering from depression ….”), and indeed such shows that you’ve been engaged with your classmates as the semester has proceeded.  But don’t include the actual posting from a classmate to which you are responding.

--You should edit for clarity, wordiness/repetition, and grammar/spelling. In most cases, cutting-and-pasting and editing should take about two hours or so.

--Do NOT try to add a bunch of stuff artificially at the last minute on an author or text you otherwise neglected in the progress of the semester.  I have been reading the postings on a regular basis, and will have a clear sense of who has arrived, as it were, to the party after the party is over.  I also double-check via Blackboard the “time-stamp” of the postings.  Such additions will be more or less ignored.