Critical Thinking Project General Guidelines

Grading Rubric CT1 (wiki help)

Part 1 Instructions: Introduce Yourself and Describe Your “Preindustrial Village.” Whether in the past or present, how do you draw day-to-day support from your primary face-to-face and door-to-door social networks? In other words, when it comes to your in-person social support networks, who are the people in those networks, and how do you depend on them for support? These are the people with whom you communicate in person. Face-to-face! These individuals do not have to be only people you live with. They can be friends and extended family with whom you visit and count on for support. To assist you in describing your face-to-face social networks, I would like for you to draw on and incorporate ideas from Charles H. Cooley’s “Primary Groups” chapter in Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind (here's another version in "roksworld"). This chapter, as well as the entire book, are freely available on the Archive.org website.

• Create your Part 1 (Personal Wiki Page)
  • To create this page, open the "The Networked Society Wiki)" page (link found our MyGateway class site navigation menu and in the "Assignments" area, or use this link to access the wiki outside of MyGateway--if you are not logged into MyGateway, you'll be prompted to log on) and then click on the "New Page" button located near the top-left area of the wiki page. Remember to name your wiki page: "your last name, your first name-CT1 personal wiki page."  After you have created your personal wiki page click save and exit, return to the wiki roster page and make your name a link to you personal page.
• Introduce yourself to the rest of the class. Include information about your major, your sociological research interests, and interests beyond the classroom. This portion of the assignment should be at least 125 words in length (i.e., about one half of a double-spaced page).
• Reflect on and discuss your past or present primary face-to-face and door-to-door social support networks. Describe, in particular detail, just how you depend on them for social support. What do they provide socially? What do you provide to them? This portion of the assignment should be at least 250 words in length (i.e., about one double-spaced page). We want to see critical thinking.
• Create all other project pages (for parts 2-5), linking them to your part 1 page and to one another. Include 5 hyperlinks to your now internal (existing) wiki pages on every page that you created—each page must include a link to the "Home" and the "Roster" page and to the other pages for parts 1-5 of the project (see the tutorials, below).
• In all, your Part 1 contribution will set up the framework of your semester-long project, introduce yourself to the rest of the class, and provide a discussion on your in-person social networks. Your introduction and reflection on your face-to-face and door-to-door social networks should be at least 375 words in length (try not to exceed 500 words in length). This is equivalent to 1.5-2 double-spaced pages.

Additionally, you are expected to integrate:

• At least 3 images throughout your page.
• At least 3 “external” hyperlinks (i.e., links to sites on the World Wide Web) into your text. Do NOT simply copy URL addresses (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/) and paste them onto your page. These will not count toward the minimum requirement. Use the wiki features provided in the user interface to create your external hyperlinks.
• For Part 1, your images and external hyperlinks should represent you and your interests. Including at least one image of yourself is preferred.
• Appropriate spelling and grammar are crucial elements. This is a university-level course, and I expect your work to be free of mechanical errors. Check your spelling and proofread ALL of your work to insure grammatical correctness and ease of reading!

Finally, you need to review the work of at least four other students and post comments (minimum 125 word--constructive critique) on their wiki pages (you'll find a place to add comments near the bottom of every wiki page). Your Comments are due by Thursday, February 12 by 11:59 PM. You must email Prof. Keel with the names of the students on whose work you commented and include the text of the comments in the email (no attachments). If email notification is not made, comments may not be evaluated.

As a general tip, use the grading rubrics, which can be found at the bottom of each assignment guidelines page, to double-check your work before you submit it. These are the same rubrics that my teaching assistants will follow when grading your work, and so there should be no reason for you to not use them to check your work on your own.

For help creating a personal wiki page, see Prof. Keel's video tutorials on "Working in a Wiki, "making links," and "inserting images" in the Wiki Help folder of the class MyGateway site (Critical Thinking Projects). See also: Wiki Help and Tips and the "Wiki User's Guide." Be sure to review the changes made to the wikis since I last updated these tutorials.

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