There will
be three papers and reading response essays.
[Students must also participate in the course electronic conference site.]
FORMAT FOR PAPERS:
All papers should be typed or printed out, double-spaced, in 10 point,
letter quality print.
No title page, no cover, no folder. Staple or paper clip the pages together
in the upper left corner.
Put your name, the course and section, the instructors' names, and the
date of submission on the upper left of the first page.
Quotations, facts, ideas, phrases, etc. from outside sources must be
properly documented.
Documentation must be in the MLA Style.
PLAGIARISM:
"Plagiarism is the act of using another person's ideas or expressions
in your writing without acknowledging the source. The word comes from
the Latin word plagiarus ("kidnapper"), and Arthur Lindey defines
it as 'the false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking
the product of another person's mind and presenting it as one's own' (Plagiarism
and Originality [New York: Harper, 1952] 2). In short, to plagiarize
is to give the impression that you have written or thought of something
that you have in fact borrowed from someone else...The most blatant form
of plagiarism is to repeat as your own someone else's sentences, more
or less verbatim...Other forms of plagiarism include repeating someone
else's particularly apt phrase without appropriate acknowledgement, paraphrasing
another person's argument as your own, and presenting another's line of
thinking as though it were your own...If you have any doubt about whether
or not you are committing plagiarism, cite your source or sources" (MLA
Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 3rd.ed. Eds. Joseph
Gibaldi & Walter S. Achtert. [New York: The Modern Language Association
of America, 1988] 21-23).
We want to add two other common forms of plagiarism or academic dishonesty
to this list:
1) Handing in someone else's essay (or portion thereof) as your own.
2) Handing in an essay that you wrote in the past for another course
without having the permission of the instructors of both courses.
Please note that plagiarism and academic dishonesty are serious matters.
They can result not only in your failing the course, but also in your
dismissal from the university.
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