1. What makes a person’s character good or bad? How do sources agree or disagree with you? What can you do to improve your everyday critical thinking and reasoning skills and how could these skills help you achieve good character? How do the GMC core values – Duty, Honor, Country, and the GMC Honor Code (“I will neither lie, cheat, steal nor tolerate others who do.”) attempt to help you achieve good character? Do you think having these values and an honor code help you achieve good character? Why or why not?
2. Research a topic in the GMC Library that is of interest to you. Make sure that you select Peer-Reviewed and Full Text when you conduct your research. Write an overview that describes your issue and briefly discuss the different sides of the issue. (This is where you will need 1 article that has opposing sides)
GMC Library Link:
https://icof.infobase.com
(issues and controversies)
– You are to pick the topic
Responses: Must be 100 words in length
Response Rubric
Rubric
General Guidelines
-Take the time to organize your thoughts prior to formulating your response.
-Use weekly readings and videos to help inform your responses.
-Use proper citations and formatting when stating examples or quoting sources.
-Carefully proofread your response before submitting it to the forum.
– Provide peer feedback using polite and courteous language.
-Post substantive contributions. Posts such as “I agree” or “Good job” will not be awarded any credit in the discussion forums.
Rubric Guidelines
Timeliness (Creation) measures when you first post your response to the discussion forum question. To earn full credit, you must post your response to the main topic before the first post due date for each forum.
-The due dates for posting your first posts in the Critical Thinking Exercises can be found on the course calendar, course schedule, the News and Announcement forums, or in the actual discussion forum post directions themselves. If you have any questions, contact your instructor at the appropriate email address found in the syllabus.
-Please note that discussion forums are graded as separate assignments. For courses that have more than one discussion forum, guidelines and requirements are for EACH forum, not collectively.
Content/Topic Relevance (Content) measures your maintaining focus on the topic being discussed. To earn full credit, all your discussion forum contributions need to address the main topic. Use the weekly reading materials in your responses and be sure to answer all questions in the prompt.
Engagement/ Interaction with Instructor/Peers (Number of Replies) counts the number of peers you interact with. To earn full credit, you must engage in a dialog with at least two or more peers. The content of your posts must be meaningful and relevant and should encourage further discussion.
Overall Mechanics / Professionalism measures your ability to communicate effectively. To earn full credit your contributions must be written in a professional manner, be free of grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors, and citation of source/s is in MLA style.
Participation counts the number of days you were active in each of the discussion forums in a module. To earn full credit, you must contribute to the forum over the course of two or more days for EACH forum where there are more than one in a module, not collectively. For example, if you have a course that has two discussion forums, you must participate and engage the required number of days and times for EACH forum. They do not count together. They are graded separately.