Your assignment is the core product from this class. In the syllabus I outlined "stages" to go through and associated points to earn. These stages are designed to help you move the assignment along and to avoid leaving the completion to the very end. The stages will have deadlines (see below) and I will take off points for late completion but I will be very lenient in terms of how polished or final the stages are. In other words, the point is not to hand in perfected little sub-projects but to move the major assignment along in a draft form. Any sort of perfecting you want to do can be done as you move along or for the final submission. Getting full points for individual stages only requires that the stage is there at the deadline and is in a passable draft quality.

For example, I don’t require full sentences if you are at the stage of having lists of content and I don’t require that you have all content figured out and written in stone. In fact I would like to see development in content as you move along and learn more. Your interests ought to change as you learn more. However, I do require that your content is intelligible, that spelling errors are minimal (after all everyone has a spell checker these days) and that your sources are cited completely. You can freely pick the formatting of your literature cited but all the usual information needs to be there: Author(s), year, title, source (journal with issue and page range, or edited book, publisher and page range, or book title and publisher, or URL and when it was accessed etc). And the formatting should be consistent.

In addition, don’t forget that there is a substantial part of your grade assigned to “class participation” (35%). This includes commenting on other people’s assignments. Read other people’s assignments, leave comments, make suggestions and get inspiration for your own work. I’d like to see some cross-fertilization here – in a later stage quite possibly links between assignments (but be aware that they are works in progress). In particular people who are quieter in class should take advantage of this possibility to improve their class participation grade.

I will start grading the assignments on the morning of the next day after the deadline. I will save the version I find on that morning for the records. If you would like me not to start grading because you are late you will have to let me know but I will take off 1 percentage point per day late. If you have valid personal reasons to be late, you will have to let me know before the deadline passed.

The wiki assignment in stages                                                                                    Deadline

-          First outline/draft with sources: 5%                                                                          Jan 26

-          Fleshing out: text, multimedia – sources: 5%                                                           Feb 18

-          Case study and global evaluation and outlook/policy/management: 5%            March 6

-          Final submission: 30%                                                                                               March 13

Spreadsheet for grading of final submissions