I will meet with each group to go over the drafts of your papers. My participation in these workshops is intended to model good feedback strategies and to show you individually and as a group how to make your writing more effective. In both cases, each of you is expected to arrive promptly and to respond with suggestions and feedback to your colleagues work. You should take others reactions to your writing as evidence of how successful you are in getting your point across, though you should also be alert to other readers own weaknesses or preferences. I reserve the right to return, ungraded, papers that have not been adequately proofread, do not meet the minimum word requirement, do not in good faith meet the above guidelines, or do not respond to the assignment.
Plagiarism can be intentional, can be due to carelessness, or can be the result of ignorance.
In any case, it must be avoided. We will therefore discuss what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoided it. Intentional plagiarism will without exception have painful consequences, including failing the paper and possibly the class. When you do not indicate a source that you ve used, you are plagiarizing, whether or not the words you use are a direct quotation, slightly altered, or paraphrased. If you want help with anything connected to this class at any time during the semester, I will be glad to provide it.