All the work you do in this class must be your own work, although you are encouraged to share ideas and to collaborate on projects with other writers. All the work for this class must be work originally done for this class. Turning in your own work from other classes, current or past, as original work is also grounds for failure. Saving all your drafts and notes is a good idea, in case you need to show your writing process. If you are ever in doubt about what constitutes plagiarism, see me or a Writing Center tutor.
Exploratory journals are due when assigned.
We will regularly share journals in class, so be sure to write things you are confident of talking about with others. Practice essays for the Regent's Exam will most likely be done in your journals. All of your written work must have your name, my name, the course number, and the date in the upper left corner of the first page, and every page, including the first page, must have your last name and the page number in the upper right corner of the page. You will be choosing your own topics for the drafts and papers in this class. Your audience will always be your peers in this class unless I specified a different audience.