MGMT 250: A Note about Grades
This weekend I am completing grades for the first deadline of the blogging assignment. In this post, I remind you of the grading scheme for Part One of the four blogging deadlines, and I offer some suggestions about attaining "appropriate" status for your blog.
GRADING: The first part of the assignment is worth 1pt. total. I allocate points as follows: .5pts if the post is on time, .5pts if the post is appropriate. So that we are all clear, each post and comment in the future will be judged on these two criteria (i.e., timeliness and appropriateness). An example:
By each of the remaining three deadlines, your are to write 5 appropriate blog POSTS (worth 2 points) and 2 appropriate blog COMMENTS (worth 1 point). If you post two blog COMMENTS by October 13th, both on time, and one with grammatical errors, you will receive .75pts out of 1 possible point for your comments. The blog POSTS (the remaining, 2 possible points) will be calculated in the same way.
APPROPRIATE: Please see the Blogging Assignment Guidelines (on Blackboard) for the complete definition of "appropriate." One criterion for an appropriate blog in this course, as mentioned in the guidelines, is the absence of spelling and grammatical errors. Many students will notice that you have lost points for grammar and spelling errors. No matter how great your content, I cannot give you points for an appropriate blog if your work contains these types of errors. While the general term "blog" may imply "casual writing" to some students, I want to remind you that a "MGMT 250 blog" carries with it the standard of quality writing akin to what we would expect you to use in your memos and case studies.
RECOMMENDATIONS: Remember, an appropriate post need only contain 5 sentences. If you are struggling to express an idea in a concise manner, I suggest several possible approaches: (1) break the sentence into smaller sentences, (2) cut the sentence all together, (3) express this idea in another blog for which you are not expecting to receive credit.
I think my best recommendation is to limit each blog post to one key idea. Express your key idea, make sure it is appropriate, and post. IF YOU FIND YOURSELF WITH SEVERAL IDEAS, Great news for you! You now have fodder for multiple blogs!
Make each idea a separate blog; you will increase your volume and decrease your chance of losing points. For example, in making a grammatical error in 1 of 3 paragraphs, some students have lost points for their whole blog. Assuming each of those 3 paragraphs contained different ideas, if these students would have made 3 blog posts, they would have received credit for 2 posts and only not received credit for one post. Outcome: 2 appropriate posts vs. 0.
I hope that this post might help some of you who are confused about your first round of grades and are perhaps nervous about future submissions. My impression is that everyone is on track with content and tone; you just need to pay close attention to your grammar and spelling.
Best of luck!
MM
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