Short Response Guidelines and Rubric Overview

HIS 200 Week 2 Short Response Guidelines and Rubric Overview: The short response activities in the webtext throughout this course are designed to show your understanding of key concepts as you engage with course content. Prompt: During the second week of the course, you will respond to several questions in the webtext as you complete each learning block. At the end of Week 2, you will review your answers to these questions and ensure that you have responded to each question. It is important that you answer each question; otherwise, the words “[no response]” will appear in brackets when you submit the assignment. The questions and their original locations in the webtext are listed in this table in case you want to refer back to the reading as you edit, but you can edit your responses to all the questions directly in Theme: Approaches to History, learning block 2-4 (page 3), before exporting to Word for submission to your instructor in the learning environment.
Question 1 What types of primary and secondary sources will you need to use to support the topic you are examining in your essay? You do not need the actual sources yet, but you should have an idea of what they might be (such as an eyewitness account of an event, for example).
Theme: Approaches to History, Learning Block 2-2 (page 4)
 
Question 2 What are two or three keywords you could use to look for sources to answer this question? Theme: Approaches to History, Learning Block 2-3 (page 2)
Question 3 What subject terms can you use to continue your search? Theme: Approaches to History, Learning Block 2-3 (page 2)
Question 4 When you search for CONSTRUCTION, you get a lot of extraneous answers. What Boolean operators and corresponding search terms could you use to narrow your search?
Theme: Approaches to History, Learning Block 2-3 (page 2)
 
Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your response to Question 1 should be between 2 and 3 sentences in length. Your responses to Questions 2, 3, and 4 may be answered in incomplete sentences. Follow the instructions at the bottom of Theme: Approaches to History, learning block 2-4 (page 3), to download your work and submit it to your instructor as a single Microsoft Word document uploaded in the learning environment. Refer to the Submitting Webtext Assignments Guide for assistance on downloading, saving, and submitting this assignment.
Critical Elements Exemplary Proficient Needs Improvement Not Evident Value
Engagement Written responses completely address all short answer prompts (100%)
Written responses completely address the majority of short answer prompts (85%)
Written responses address the minority of short answer prompts (55%)
No written responses provided to address any short answer prompts (0%)
30
 
http://snhu-media.snhu.edu/files/course_repository/undergraduate/his/his200/submitting_webtext_assignments_guide.pdf
http://snhu-media.snhu.edu/files/course_repository/undergraduate/his/his200/submitting_webtext_assignments_guide.pdf

 
 
Relevance Written responses directly address short answer prompts, drawing from presented course concepts and terminology (100%)
Written responses are topically related to short answer prompts, but responses do not consistently draw from presented course concepts and terminology (85%)
Written responses do not address topics identified in short answer prompts (0%)
20
Accuracy Written responses are completely accurate (100%)
Written responses contain minor errors but are mostly accurate (85%)
Written responses contain major errors (55%)
No written responses are provided (0%)
20
Critical Thinking Written responses demonstrate understanding of course content through inclusion of original ideas and examples (100%)
Written responses demonstrate understanding of course content through reiteration of provided materials, but do not consistently include original ideas and examples (85%)
Written responses do not reflect original ideas and examples (0%)
20
Articulation of Response
Written responses are captured in complete sentences without grammatical errors impacting legibility and the clarity of response (100%)
Written responses are captured in incomplete sentences or include numerous grammatical errors that negatively impact legibility and the clarity of response (85%)
No written responses are captured in complete sentences (0%)
10
Total 100%