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You are expected to prepare in advance for the twelve in-class negotiation activities. Each negotiation preparation activity has you respond to questions asking you to organize your thoughts around course concepts while considering how you may apply them during that negotiation.
Preparation is key for effective negotiation!
Instructions & Evaluation
Each of your negotiation preparations is marked as Accepted or Incomplete. An Accepted negotiation preparation earns the full 300 negotiation experience points, while an Incomplete preparation earns 0 points. Partial credit is not awarded. So follow the instructions below very carefully.
Now in order to be Accepted (and earn the full 300 negotiation experience points) your negotiation preparation must satisfy all of the following six specifications:
| Specifications | ||
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| NP1: |
Make a serious effort to answer each and every preparation question as clearly and completely as possible.
There is no expectation of perfection here. Just make that real effort to answer all those questions. |
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| NP2: |
Strictly follow the specified word count. (The precise word count may vary from preparation to preparation.)
The cover page, title information, references, and acknowledgments, do not count. |
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| NP3: | Number your responses to each question. | |
| NP4: |
Be in your own words.
In other words, please paraphrase material without directly quoting me, the text, or any other sources. |
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| NP5: | Follow the formatting requirements, which include having a properly filled out Commitment to Academic Integrity Form. To help you with this, please use the templates for the negotiation preparations. | |
| NP6: | Use APA-style citations to cite all your sources (this includes the required course readings) and acknowledge any assistance (this includes help from classmates, your friends and family, Center for Excellence in Writing (CEW), artificial intelligence (AI) tools, as well as from me). |
If your submission fails to satisfy any one of those specifications, then it will be marked as Incomplete (and earn 0 negotiation experience points).
Using Philosopher’s Stones
You may exchange philosopher’s stones for the Guidance philosophical power:
Guidance
Cost: 4 philosopher’s stones.Area of Effect: 1 negotiation preparation activity.
Duration: Instantaneous.
You select 1 negotiation preparation activity and give up 4 philosopher’s stones. You then gain the full 300 negotiation experience points for that negotiation preparation activity.
You may do Guidance at any time during the semester. For example, in week 14 you may use your stones on a negotiation preparation activity from week 2. For that reason, I encourage you to save your philosopher’s stones until the end of the semester. At that point, you may then decide whether to use them on any negotiation preparation activities.
Academic Integrity
These negotiation preparations are closed to collaboration. They are not a group activities. Ultimately, I expect that you do these entirely on your own. After all, I am primarily interested in your preparations for the negotiation activities!
However, please just be honest if you do receive any assistance or use the ideas of others. This includes using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. In any of those cases, be sure to:
- Note the assistance you received on the cover page’s Commitment to Academic Integrity Form, and
- Properly cite that assistance and/or acknowledge it at the end of your negotiation preparations.
In addition, please do not share anything in your confidential negotiation instructions with anyone. This ensures that no one has an unfair advantage during the negotiation.
If anyone asks you for help, direct them to me instead.