Notes
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Purpose

Your Research paper Section Three will ask you to create an atypical vacation travel plan and argue that according to the science of happiness, your atypical travel plan will be more satisfying than a regular vacation.  In this discussion, you will share your own travel plan and learn from feedback from your peers as well as providing them with peer review of your own.

Main Post Instructions

Read these Atypical Travel Plan Instructions carefully.  Then write your own travel plan based on your own choice of destination in Word.  Lastly, cut and paste the whole text of your Atypical Travel Plan into your main post.  

Reply Posts (2 required, 50+ words each)

1. Do you think the other student’s travel plan fulfilled all the criteria listed in the Instructions?  Was there any aspect of the plan that was missing?
2. What parts of the other student’s travel plan did you like?  Explain why you liked those ideas.
3. Suggest improvements by referring to parts of the other student’s main post that you would like to see changed or discussed in more detail, either with more explanation, clarification, or support.
4. End your reply post with an interesting question that is relevant to that student’s travel plan.

Grading

Requirements

• 1 main post (200+ words) that fully responds to Dr. Kwa’s prompt
• 2 replies (50+ words each) to others’ main posts
• Very Important:  You are required to end all of your main posts and replies with a question that is related to your thoughts in your post. 

Originality 

Please make sure to give credit to other students by name should you discuss their ideas.  If your discussion forum plagiarizes ideas or wording from another student’s post or an outside source, your post will not be accepted for credit.

Discussion Formatting and Other Important Tips

•  Main posts should be titled “Main Post”
to distinguish them from replies
•  Paragraph formatting: Divide your post into separate paragraphs.  Skip a blank line between paragraphs, and do not indent paragraphs (e.g. business letters).

•  Make sure to answer all parts of Dr. Kwa’s instructions for each discussion.

•  Avoid recopying Dr. Kwa’s questions and writing in a question and answer format.  
Write in well-organized complete paragraphs.
• Must show language respectful of other students and Dr. Kwa.  Disagreement is fine; hurtful language is not.  Flaming posts will be immediately deleted from the forum.
• Must be proofread and reasonably grammatically correct.  I recommend that you first write your post in Microsoft Word, save it, and then cut and paste it into the forum.

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• Remember to capitalize “I,” beginnings of sentences, proper nouns etc.
• Use proper punctuation, including periods at end of sentences.
• Avoid all capitalized letters in words since this looks like screaming in written form.
• Avoid run-ons and fragments.
• Avoid abbreviations used typically when texting or writing casual emails.
• Always spell-check.