Weekly Posts

 

Each week there will be reading assignments posted on the course website. 

The readings will be from the Jurafsky & Martin textbook or from conference and journal articles related to the weekly course topic. Readings are required unless marked as optional.

 

For each required reading, students should post on courseworks: 

 

One positive and one negative aspect about each of the readings (for each chapter/article, both the positive and the negative must be explained in several sentences)

 

For some weeks, you will be asked to find a new, fairly recent article on the topic, provide its location, abstract and full bibliographical entry, and explain why you think this would be a good article to add to the readings for next year.

 

The deadline for the post on courseworks is Monday at 11:59am each week.

 

Posts will be graded with the following scale:

 

4 exceeds expectations 

3 fulfills all requirements and shows critical thinking

2 missing some requirements (e.g. did not post for all readings)

1 very sketchy

0 not submitted

 

The submission link will remain open until Tuesday at 3pm.  

Submissions received after 11:59am on Monday but before 3pm on Tuesday (late posts) will lose one point.  Submissions will not be accepted after the late period and will receive a grade of zero.