DISCUSSION BOARD FORUM INSTRUCTIONS
There will be 8 Discussion Board Forums throughout this course. You are required to share your own informed opinion in response to the provided prompt for each forum. Each thread must be at least 250 words with a minimum of 2 citations from at least 2 scholarly sources. In addition to the thread, you are required to reply to at least 2 classmates’ threads. Each reply must be at least 150 words.

Responding to a classmate’s thread requires both the addition of new ideas and analysis. A particular point made by the classmate must be addressed and built upon by your analysis in order to move the conversation forward. Thus, the reply is a rigorous assignment that requires you to build upon threads to develop deeper and more thorough discussion of the ideas introduced in the thread. As such, replies that merely affirm, restate, or unprofessionally quarrel with the previous post(s) and fail to make a valuable, substantive contribution to the discussion will receive appropriate point deductions.

This course utilizes the Post-First feature in all Discussion Board Forums. This means you will only be able to read and interact with your classmates’ threads after you have submitted your thread in response to the provided prompt. For additional information on Post-First, click here for a tutorial.

Topic: Public Opinion

How do you think the public views the prison aspect of the corrections system? Do those perceptions differ from the reality? Are convicts being corrected?