First, you will post a thread of 400 words or more. There must be a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed journals for all initial DB post. Three additional sources beyond the course material (The class textbook is not to be used for initial DB post) are required for the thread. Then, you must reply to at least 2 peers’ threads in 150 words or more. Must be a minimum of 1 peer-reviewed journal per reply. All citations must be in current APA format.

Responding to a classmate’s post requires that you critically review their work.  You are Iron Helping to Sharpen Iron(Proverbs 27:17) in your reply posts.  You may use your review of their work to help move the conversation about their topic forward.  You are helping them, in your review, to build upon their initial posts to develop deeper and more thorough discussion of the ideas introduced in the initial posts. As such, reply posts 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.