Dialogue About the Environment

Books and Other Resources we will use:
The Legal Environment of Business Text and Cases 11th Edition. Frank Cross and Roger Miller authors. Cengage
Learning. ISBN: 978-0-357-12976-0 (hardcover); 978-0-357-12983-8 (loose-leaf). We will only be using the book – no other access code is needed.

Chapter Discussions
For discussions, we will be using the service PackBack (see below). For each chapter, every student must find a web article (no earlier than 2021) that deals with the chapter or topic we are discussing. This can be from a newspaper, magazine, or similar periodical as well as more scholarly articles. You must summarize the article and state how it relates to the chapter. Provide a link to your article! Further, you must respond to a minimum of two posts from your peers for each topic. Be specific and detailed in your discussions and responses. To receive full credit, you must have a minimum of several sentences summarizing your article and a minimum of several sentences detailing how your article relates to the chapter we are discussing (as well as the 2 response posts). To receive full credit, your discussion posts and responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 of the appropriate week. Do not write discussions/responses in word and attach them. Write directly in PackBack. Further, you must post the proper discussion during the proper week. Do not work ahead, and no early or late posts/responses will be accepted. As a general guideline, your discussion
posts should be around ½ page in length, and your responses should be ¼ page in length.
The purpose of the discussions is to promote a dialogue among you, the students. Turning them in at the last minute goes against the spirit of the assignment. Therefore, you will not receive credit if you do not do the assignment on time. You have all week to do it, so there is no excuse for not getting the assignment posted in time. To receive full credit each week, you must sufficiently do one discussion post (over the correct topic or you will not receive credit) and sufficiently respond to two other student’s posts (on the correct topic – do not respond to a post that was from a previous week. You must respond to posts concerning the appropriate weekly topic or you will not receive credit).
Also, do not work ahead. Sometimes Packback will flag and remove a post or response that violates its guidelines. It is your responsibility to 1) know the Packback guidelines (the two issues I see posts getting flagged the most are asking your question in the wrong way or quoting too much in your post or response), and 2) doing your post early enough that if it does get flagged and removed that you can fix the issue before the deadline. Discussions may take up to two weeks from submission deadline to be graded..

All discussions will be uploaded to Packback for plagiarism.

Packback Questions
Participation is a requirement for this course, and the Packback Questions platform will be used for online discussion about class topics. Packback Questions is an online community where you can be fearlessly curious and ask open-ended questions to build on top of what we are covering in class and relate topics to real-world applications.

Pack back Requirements:
Your participation on Pack back will count toward 10% of your overall course grade