Failure to have a draft ready for peer review or failure to attend peer review will affect your course grade adversely. Due dates for the essays will be noted on individual assignments sheets. Since revision is required of all formal essays written for this course, access to a computer or word-processor is essential. Letter quality or near-letter quality printing is recommended. A formal paper in unreadable dot matrix will not be well-received.
All students have access to the computers on campus.
You'll find the tutorial for word processing in MS Word for Windows on the file server under Tutorial. Keep a backup copy of every assignment you turn in, in case it should become lost. There are three basic forms of plagiarism. One is unintentional, when you use other writers' words and ideas, often in a research-based paper, as though they were your own. This type of plagiarism sometimes occurs because of unfamiliarity with the conventions of documentation in academic papers.