COURSE and ASSIGNMENT
REQUIREMENTS:
•
GOOD GRAMMAR. You must be fluent in English or you will flunk.
•
Faithful attendance. Because of the extremely
condensed nature of the class, if you miss a day--regardless of reason, you
cannot pass. MAXIMUM grade with a half day’s absence will be a 'B." You
cannot make up assignments missed.
·
Email
and Fax assignments not accepted.
•
Be on time for class. I take this
personally and being late is the quickest way to get on my
bad side. Two times late
equal one absence. If you are more than 15 minutes late, it equals an absence.
·
Adoption
of a mass communications professional who uses Twitter in your major. Interview
and Tweet to entire class viewpoints for in-class discussion the day before
your five-minute class presentation. Information on potential professionals and
industries provided first day of class.
·
Three-page
summary paper comparing two of in-class speakers with information from
·
adopted
tweeters. Information on first day of class. This will be graded on the
basis of grammar, punctuation, spelling and how well you analyze and draw your conclusions.
·
Daily
Tweets on combined class Twitter site #clarkclass about class speakers and
issues.
·
Comments
on class blog reading, by assigned deadlines.
·
Twitter
Top Ten project paper, completed during
holiday break and before final. Discovery and analysis of ten twitter Internet
links and their influence on the twitterverse. Five-page paper, plus sources.
Due on day of final. Information on first day of class. This will be graded
on the basis of grammar, punctuation, spelling and how well you analyze and draw your conclusions.
·
Final
test.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES for three-page paper
and Top ten paper: No fancy covers. First page includes your name, date,
subject title. Fourth page lists sources contacted. Paper to be stapled in upper
left hand corner. All work, except in class exercises, must be typed,
double-spaced, using Times New Roman or Palatino typeface, on one side of the
paper, with 1” or 1 1/2"
margins.
Follow Associated Press style. Make sure your toner is readable (dark). Work
will
not
be accepted unless it complies with these guidelines. E-mail submissions
allowed only
on
designated assignments.
DEADLINES: Must be met.
Absolutely. Period. End of Discussion. Journalism is a deadline
business.
Accordingly, late work will not be accepted. Don’t bother to hand it in—you get
a
“0”
grade. Absence is no excuse.
GRADING SCALE: 100-91--A; 90-81--B;
80-70--C; 60-69—D
· Daily Tweets on class
Twitter site—100 points--20 percent
· Adoption and posts of
professional Tweeters and presentation--100 points--20 percent
· Paper on speakers--100
points—20 percent
· In-class
assignments--50--10 percent
· Twitter top ten project
paper—100 points—20 percent
· Final Test—50 points--10
percent
· Total Points—500
· (Points are subject to
change reflecting class activities. Final scale will be posted last day of
class.)
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