🚩Week Four Guide: Required before posting
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Diagnosis and Treatment
ESSENTIAL OBJECTIVES: 1. Analyze the shifting concept of maladaptive behavior within the cross-cultural spectrum of human conduct, and 5. Identify and analyze several legal and ethical issues surrounding the research and treatment of mental disorders.
REQUIRED REFERENCES: Read, listen to, and/or watch each of the required references for the week. Use theory, facts, and expert opinion from those sources in your case study report when discussing and analyzing one or more people in "Maddogs I Have Loved," the week's case study.
PEER REVIEW: For extra credit this week you will help your colleagues by offering specific editing tips to improve their writing content and mechanics, as well as by making suggestions for adding relevant media. By doing so you'll earn extra credit, as well as improve your own skills in both academic writing and media literacy.
Peer review is relatively new at the undergraduate college level, and it's an effective learning strategy (see, e.g., https://www.southwestern.edu/offices/writing/faculty-resources-for-writing-instruction/peer-review/benefits-of-peer-review/ ). If it's done well, peer review works well, not just for improving one's writing and posting skill, but also for building community within any classroom.
The key is to be respectful and positive when offering your suggestions, while being open and receptive when on the receiving side. It's easy to feel defensive when a peer is giving critical feedback, especially if you don't agree or suspect they're wrong.
When suggesting editing tips, choose obvious mechanical things (like title capitalization, centering images, correct APA). Avoid stylistic issues, unless they would be obvious to any reader.
First, show the writer what they've done, then how you believe a corrected version would look and why. To confirm your suggestion, please check "Online Writing and Posting Tips" in the Course Resources Module, or google the writing issue.
If you receive feedback and disagree with it, explain why. To confirm your position, please check "Online Writing and Posting Tips" in the Course Resources Module, or google the writing issue.
Again, be specific when offering feedback or replying to it, whether for writing or media, or about posting issues. For example, suggesting that they find an image or video to go with their theme isn't helpful -- they already know that from the posting instructions.
When suggesting media to a colleague, you should embed in your reply post an example of the media you found on their behalf, explaining how you found it (e.g., which search terms you used), and including a link to the media.
Feel free to adopt the media suggestions of your colleagues, that's what they're for--it's open source sharing!
I also realize that you may prefer to work on your own to find media to add to your initial case study text-only report.
USING MIXED MEDIA: For your mixed media case study report due on Saturday night, you are required to use other types of media besides text, such as images (like cartoons, photos, graphs, charts, or artwork), audio (like radio shows, podcasts, or music), video, and multimedia Links to an external site..
Using mixed media in academic work is relatively new, so there are few rules or fixed expectations, especially when it comes to how much media to include. To me it's a personal decision based on content as well as aesthetics. On the one hand, your media should improve the visual appearance of your text, making it appealing and drawing the reader's attention. On the other, you don't want to drown out the text by overloading it with distracting media. So here are the key questions to ask yourself:
How much media is enough? Too much? And overall what does it look like on the page? Does it appear crowded or intriguing? Does it add to the text content or distract from it?
Another important aspect to consider is whether you've given your readers the option of drawing upon different learning styles by including different types of media.
Are images enough? Should I include a video? A podcast or radio broadcast? A chart or other graphic that provides specific content? How many videos (and for how long) can I reasonably expect people to watch?
Balancing these two sets of questions is the art of creating mixed media academic work. It's both the challenge and the fun of it!
No matter what, you must
1) tell us why the media is there as you would any major source by introducing it and/or quoting from it; and
2) embed the media into the body of your text (instead of linking to it outside of Canvas); and
3) included correct APA in-text and full references for your media (possible exception = images for aesthetic reasons only, which require a brief attribution below them).
AS NEEDED, READ AND STUDY: The "Guide to Finding, Using, and Citing Media" in this week's module under Homework>1. Case Study (and at the Course Resources Module).
The information in this guide will help you learn how to find, link, embed, and cite a variety of mixed media in your Canvas reply posts, which is required for the first time this week.
MEDIA PROBLEMS? If you encounter media problems at Canvas:
-- google the issue (e.g., search "add images at Canvas"), often the fastest route to an answer
-- or contact the Canvas Help Desk any time of day or night for live help:
24×7 Help Desk - Available from the Help icon (on the far left-hand side of your screen) are links and phone numbers that provide expert assistance with all things Canvas, via chat and voice communication, 24x7x365!
-- or search the Canvas Guides:
Canvas Guides - By using the Canvas Guides available from the Help icon, you can learn how to navigate and manage this course on your own.
-- or email me from your CCV or personal email to robert.mandatta@ccv.edu
Have fun with this new challenge, and let me know if you aren't! I'm here to help.
Robert
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