IHP 340 Journal Guidelines and Rubric Overview: Journal activities in this course are private between you and your instructor. Journal activities are designed to help you make meaningful connections between the course content and the larger goals of this course. While a certain level of informality is permitted, proper grammar, spelling, and APA citations are required. Your journal post should reflect academic rigor. Journals in this course are graded individually. Review this tutorial for information on creating a Blackboard journal entry. For the journal entries in this course, you will be relating course concepts to your own personal experiences, sharing personal opinions and viewpoints, and engaging with course concepts and materials at a deeper, more reflective level. Approach these activities as (a) an opportunity to reflect upon and apply what you learn each week, and (b) an opportunity to share your knowledge and expertise based on your educational and professional experiences in the past. Prompt: For each journal entry, the following critical elements must be met: Fulfills all requirements in the individual prompt Provides relevant application of course concepts Supports ideas and observations with examples from personal or professional situations Guidelines for Submission: Each journal entry should be 1 to 2 paragraphs in length and should be submitted through the Blackboard journal tool. Instructor Feedback: This activity uses an integrated rubric in Blackboard. Students can view instructor feedback in the Grade Center. For more information, review these instructions. Critical Elements Prompt Course Concepts Personal or Professional Situations Exemplary (100%) Meets \"Proficient\" criteria and references course materials Meets \"Proficient\" criteria and supports response with course materials Meets \"Proficient\" criteria and further relates personal or professional circumstances to scholarly research Proficient (85%) Response meets all elements outlined in the prompt Clearly relates course concepts to the applicable journal prompt Logically supports ideas and observations with examples from personal or professional circumstances or experiences Needs Improvement (55%) Response meets only some of the elements in the prompt Relates course concepts to the applicable journal prompt, but response lacks clarity Supports ideas and observations with examples from personal or professional circumstances or experiences, but response lacks logic Not Evident (0%) Response does not meet the elements in the prompt Does not relate course concepts to the applicable journal prompt Does not support ideas and observations with examples from professional circumstances or experiences Value 20 30 30 Articulation of Response Journal entry is free of errors in organization and grammar Journal entry is mostly free of errors of organization and grammar and any errors are marginal and rarely interrupt the flow Journal entry contains errors of organization and grammar, but errors are limited enough so that entry can be understood Journal entry contains errors of organization and grammar that make the entry difficult to understand Total 20 100%