

#NETIQUETTE INCLUDES WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING POINTS PROFESSIONAL#
This is an excellent opportunity to practice your proofreading, revision, and rewriting skills-valuable assets in the professional world for which you are now preparing. Read your post out loud before hitting the send button. Once you've hit the send button, you've rung the bell. Review your written posts and responses to ensure that you’ve conveyed exactly what you intended. The definition of netiquette implies, among other things, that users must follow copyright laws and other prevailing regulations. Netiquette focuses on the acceptable use of online resources in a social environment. How others perceive you will be large-as always-up to you. Netiquette is a set of professionally and socially accepted rules to be practiced when using any online medium.

Remember, You Can't Un-Ring the Bell: Language is your only tool in an online environment. Netiquette includes rules that provide guidance for appropriate social interaction and technical performance online.No YELLING! Using bold upper-case letters is bad form, like stomping around and yelling at somebody (NOT TO MENTION BEING HARD ON THE EYE).Understand they have had different life experiences and all of our world views are simply different. Racists, sexist, and heterosexist comments and jokes are unacceptable, as are derogatory and/or sarcastic comments and jokes directed at religious beliefs, disabilities, and age. We all come with different perspectives, so please be respectful and resist the urge to tell anyone they are wrong. Use no language that is-or that could be construed to be-offensive toward others. Respect Diversity: It’s an ethnically rich and diverse, multi-cultural world in which we live.Cite Your Sources: Another big must! If your contribution to the conversation includes the intellectual property (authored material) of others, e.g., books, newspaper, magazine, or journal articles-online or in print-they must be given proper attribution.Correct spelling, grammatical construction, and sentence structure are expected in every other writing activity associated with scholarship and academic engagement. Write as if you were writing a term paper. Use Proper Writing Style: The academic environment expects a higher-order language.Acknowledge the points made with which you agree and suggest alternatives for those with which you don’t. This will help you avoid repeating something someone else has already contributed. Avoid Repetition: Read everything in the discussion thread before replying.For the maximum benefit to all, everyone must contribute. It is not enough to log in and read the discussion thread of others. Participate: This is a shared learning environment.Notice that most of them are just as applicable in face-to-face discussions. To counteract that shift, to raise general awareness, and to help you enhance the learning experience of your students, here are some online discussion rules to include in your syllabus.
