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Required Texts:
- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. I, 7th edition.
Note: it is expected that you will
review the introductory material provided by the editor to the works we read from this volume.
- Arden of Faversham, ed. Martin White (available as xeroxed copy from UCEN Bookstore).
- Xeroxed Reader (available from UCEN Bookstore).
Plagiarism Policy:
Plagiarism occurs when one passes off as one's own work the ideas or words of someone else. This can happen whether the ideas or words come from a published source, a spoken source (such as a class lecture or discussion), or another student's paper. It can happen whether the ideas or words you appropriate are substantial, sustained, and multiple or merely bits and pieces that you believe are unimportant. And it can sometimes happen regardless of whether you have any conscious intent to do evil. Since responsibility for one's own intellectual work, and respect for another's, is the very condition of possibility for a university as a community of intellect, plagiarism is treated very seriously.
Where is the line between plagiarism and imitation or allusion? When is an idea or phrase so commonplace (or traditional) that no source can really be judged to "own" it as individual "intellectual property"? And what is the appropriate form of acknowledgment: must one always footnote or otherwise explicitly acknowledge a source? Or can a blanket or initial indication of indebtedness serve the purpose (of the sort: "Spenser says in The Faerie
Queene . . . ," followed by a sequence of sentences one of which acknowledges Spenser but all of which are meant as paraphrases of the poet)?
There are no hard and fast answers to such questions. The scholarly community has developed traditions and conventions to govern such matters implicitly, and the puzzlement of beginning students is often due to the fact that they do not know what conventions to use in "borrowing" from a source.
The best (and safest) policy is to consult your T.A. if you ever find yourself uncertain about indebtedness.
Enrollment and Attendance Procedures :
AVOIDING AN AUTOMATIC DROP:
You must attend BOTH the first and second section meetings of the discussion section, or you will be dropped from the course.
SWITCHING SECTIONS:
If, for some serious and legitimate reason, you feel you must switch from the section you are enrolled in to a different section, you must do three things:
1) Attend the section you are enrolled in and/or inform the T.A. of your need to switch. You must inform the T.A. of your need to switch before or during the section meeting time. You must continue to attend this section or otherwise keep in touch with your assigned T.A. to ensure your class enrollment. You may not be able to get the section you want.
2) Attend the section you want to be in. Fill out the form below to get on the waiting list for that section and hand it in to the T.A.
3) At the beginning of the third week of classes, check with a T.A., or see the list posted beside Prof. Fumerton's office door (SH 2710), to learn if your request could be accommodated.
ADDING THE CLASS:
If you are not yet enrolled in the class, you must do three things:
1) Attend the section you want to be in. Fill out the form below to get on the waiting list for that section.
2) At the beginning of the third week of classes, check with a T.A., or see the list posted beside Prof. Fumerton's office door (SH 2506), to learn if your request could be accommodated.
3) If you are able to add the class, get an approval code from the T.A. and call in the number to the Registrar.
To download the form you need to fill out in order to switch or add a section, click here.
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