Monday, September 28, 2009

Week 12 Assignments

Seminar
•Overview of the Writing Process
•Overview of Various Citation Methods and Avoiding Plagiarism
•Effective Strategies for Brainstorming
•Effective Strategies for Drafting
•Effective Strategies for Revising

Homework
Read text pgs. 380-407
Complete Discussion Questions
Complete Journal

Discussion Questions
1.Plagiarism is a serious offence with technology being so available, provided your ideas for solving this problem on Dillard University’s campus.
2.Research writing tools on the web. Write an advertisement for the product and post your findings.

Journal
“Free write “ 1pg.
Suggested topics
•College success
•Major
•Lesson learned
•New adventures
•What's next

Think About
•Ways to improve writing for all classes.

See
“Your English instructors discuss ways to improve your writing”

DO
•Research Reference Point Software for writing assistance
•Visit the writing lab get help in a writing assignment
•Write a paper and have an upper classman critique your work

5 comments:

  1. 1. To solve the problem for plagiarism on Dillard Univesity's campus I think that the university should enforce the policy on plagiarism.

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  2. 1. I believe this problem can be solved by encouraging students to become more independent with work and resources.

    2.I agree with Tequila also in this discussion,a policy of Plagiarism should be enforced.

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  3. Shakira Hunt said...

    1) I believe that the problem can be solved by having the students e-mail their work. By doing this the professors can copy the work and paste it in to a search engine and see if it pops up under a website.

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  4. If students were often encouraged and told how smart they are they would probaly rely on themselves for answers.
    2. Book answers.com

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