Thanks to the COM352 students for contributing a bunch of new pages! I'll be moving these pages into the main area of the wiki soon.

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overview

Your answers are to be posted in the wiki. This means (as a part of the quiz) you will have to learn how to create a new page and experiment with formatting (to make your answers read cleanly and have a pleasing layout).

directions

Type your answers in a word document first and save them. Copy and paste each question into your document, and place your answers immediately after each question. Do not put your name on this (you will “sign” it with your wiki username when you post it).

After completing your answers, follow the directions below the three questions in order to post your answers in the proper location within the wiki. You may read your classmates responses (if they are posted before you) however, you must give credit so as not to be guilty of plagiarism. Remember, the goal here is not “ being right”; the goal is to present a clear argument for your point-of-view. If other students write in such a way that it assists your thinking – do not hide this! Remember – thinking is a public activity!

quiz questions

1. Looking at the quiz two results for Anonymity or Accountability, characterize each different viewpoint (notice that there are four categories, but really only two viewpoints): how many responses compose the majority (what is the majority view?), and how many minority views are there? Include evidence (direct quotes or paraphrasing). Note: this question is really about the range of belief students in this class have for what it means to write in/for the public sphere.
2. Based upon the categories of viewpoints that you generate for question #1, look back at the quiz one results in terms of possibilities and drawbacks, what evidence supports each of the different views? Include evidence (direct quotes or paraphrasing). Note: this question is really about the range of evidence concerning what the students in this class think it means to write for the public sphere.
3. Do you notice any discrepancies between any of the viewpoints (minority or majority) that you identified (for question #1) and the evidence you name (for question #2)? What logical explanation can you suggest that might explain different perceptions (readings) of the quiz one results? Note: this question is really about the logic of evidence concerning what students in this class understand about what it means to write in/for the public sphere.
4. Based on your review of the quiz results (as represented in your responses to the preceding questions), what can you conclude about the results of quiz two, Ready or Not for public writing?, compared with the results from quiz one, Contributing to the Wiki? Note: this question is really about the quality and depth of commitment that students in this class have to the ways and means of writing in/for the public sphere.

posting your responses

Steph has created a page for Quiz 3 Results. It includes a Table of Contents with each question in a separate section.

Please post each of your responses in the proper section. The easiest way is to select "edit" for each section, and paste in your response. Please be careful not to erase another's student's work! Be sure to sign each of your responses.

Save the page. Move to the next question. Repeat.

NOW, the most important part of the quiz, is to make links FROM your very own user page TO the pages with the answers. You will have to do some research (also known as snooping) and either figure it out from the tutorials or see how your peers have done it and copy them. THIS is not plagiarism. THAT is unethical because you take someone's unique thoughts and words and pretend they are your own. Copying CODE that is COMMON to a particular software system is simply being smart. steph (COM) 13:04, 20 February 2007 (EST)