60%: -"Scaffolding"/Peer Evaluations

• Five Issues: 2%
• Research Plan Worksheet: 5%
• Science/Technology Essay: 5%
• Mining Resources: 5%
• Annotated Bibliography: 8%
• Evaluation of Websites: 4%
• Timeline of topic: 5%
• Data and Topic Information: 8%
• First version of paper and Peer review of draft 5%
• Second version of paper: 5%
• Summaries: 8%

10%: Independent Presentation-Oral

10%: Independent Presentation-Written (Final Version)

10%: Group Discussion of Independent Presentations

I expect you to pay attention in class and participate in class discussions. The nature of this class requires sincere effort from all participants. Missing classes is to be avoided at all costs. Attendance will be kept and used to help foster class participation. Coming to class late is disruptive and will be noted. If there is any reason you cannot attend class, it is your responsibility to make arrangements with me before class.

When considering how to demonstrate outstanding class participation during class discussions consider the following:
Relevance: Your comments should pertain directly to the materials at hand. If you have to start off your comment with "this may not relate" you are probably quite correct. Does your comment clarify the issues or does it take us off the track?
Advancement: Your comments should deepen the analysis. They should also incorporate the tools that we are trying to develop. Do your comments move us forward or do they require us to backtrack or detour?
Logical: Are your comments logical? Are they consistent? Do they relate and connect to that which other comments have revealed? Are you drawing upon your interdisciplinary knowledge?
Originality: Are you being creative? Do you point out relationships to other subjects which we have discussed in the past? Are your comments mundane or repetitive or are they new, offering fresh insight to the subject matter?
Factuality: Your comments must be factually based. Until we agree on the facts of the case, analysis is spurious. This does not mean that there is only one interpretation of the facts, it simply means that will want to constantly clarify the facts as we progress.

General Etiquette:
• Please turn off volume on cell phones while in class.
• Please enter quietly and unobtrusively if you arrive late.
• Please participate only in the primary discussion (don't converse with your neighbor - it is distracting).

The portfolio is a written record of what the student has learned over the course of the semester. It should include:

1. Class notes: including all written assignments.
2. Evaluations: a section in which the student evaluates him or herself, the instructors, and the course; and gives constructive suggestions about improvement for teaching styles, course improvement, or improvement for the student.

• Course evaluation
• Instructor evaluation
• Self-evaluation

• Cheating, dishonesty, and plagiarism will not be tolerated and may result in failure of the assignment and/or course. Please review these articles on plagiarism: "What is Plagiarism at Indiana University"; "How to Avoid Plagiarism"; "Avoiding Plagiarism"
• Late assignments, although accepted, will be docked one-half letter grade for every day late beyond the day assigned.
• If you have a reasonable explanation for needing to turn in assignments at any time other than that assigned, see me to discuss arrangements for your situation.