Week 2 Discussion Feedback

Hey all, I just wanted to give back some feedback after grading the first set of discussion posts.  Overall, students did a great job at responding to articles pertaining to geotechnical engineering.  Posts were engaging and thought was put into writing each section of the posts. Here are some bullet points on improving the posts:

• Add more content about what you thought was interesting/confusing.  Often, students only wrote a couple of sentences for each part that pertains to the articles.  Students also summarized the articles instead of answering the questions required for the posts.
• Focus on the week specific question. This week's question was: One aspect of geotechnical engineering they thought was interesting.  I know this question was already one of the deliverables  needed to write the discussion post (one interesting part about the article), but we were  looking for more than a couple sentences that pertained to this aspect.
• Please make sure to post your discussions on time!  This was the one and only time that you received credit for a late discussion post.  The following weeks will be recorded as a zero if submitted late.

Please let us know if you have any questions!
-Taylor & Mitch