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Assignment: Critical Thinking Exercise
Why is cyber security so important to protect as a critical infrastructure?
Participation in critical thinking exercises is essential to the successful completion of this course. Keep in mind the following guidelines to help you develop and formulate sound, thought-provoking responses and earn the maximum grade available.
General Guidelines
1. Take the time to organize your thoughts prior to formulating your responses.
2. Carefully proofread your responses before submitting them.
3. Provide peer feedback using polite and courteous language.
4. You must use proper APA style to cite and list your references.
5. No credit will be given for posts made outside the week the critical thinking exercise is assigned.
6. Substantive contributions are required. Posts such as "I agree" or "Good job" will not be awarded any credit in the critical thinking exercise.
Guidelines
1. Main Topic Relevance: measures the relevance of your response to the main topic. To earn full credit, your post must contain content that clearly addresses the main topic of discussion.
2. Main Topic Critical Thinking: measures your critical thinking ability in your response to the main topic. To earn full credit, your post must be well developed with substantial, relevant supporting details that demonstrate critical thinking.
3. Main Topic Timeliness: measures when you first post your response to the main topic. To earn full credit, you must post your response to the main topic before initial due date.
• The due dates for posting your first posts in the critical thinking exercise can be found on the course calendar, course schedule, the News and Announcement forums, or in the actual discussion forum post directions themselves. If you have any questions, contact your instructor at the appropriate email address found in the syllabus.
• Note that critical thinking exercises are graded as separate assignments; guidelines and requirements are for EACH exercise, not collectively.
4. Main Topic Post Length: counts the number of words you use in your response to the main topic. To earn full credit, your post must be 250 words or more in length.
5. Peer Response Engagement / Topic Relevance: measures your relevance to the topic being discussed and your engagement with peers. To earn full credit, your peer responses must engage dialog relevant to the topic with at least two or more peers.
6. Peer Response Length: counts the number of words you use in your peer responses. To earn full credit, your peer responses must be 100 words or more in length.
7. Overall Mechanics / Professionalism: measures your ability to communicate effectively. To earn full credit, your contributions must be written in a professional manner using APA guidelines and be free of grammatical, spelling, capitalization, or punctuation errors.