If you quote, paraphrase, or use another's ideas, you must give credit to the person whose ideas you are using. For Writers provide guidelines for MLA documentation. If you have any questions, please ask. If you do plagiarize, you will fail this course. Response papers are intended to help to prepare you for class discussion, improve your writing, and generate ideas for longer papers.
Responses are due the first day of our discussion of each play.
These short papers should be no less than one and no more than two double-spaced, typed pages. Your response paper may also include your personal response to the poem, or perhaps how the poem relates to other reading we have discussed in class. Attendance and class participation are required. You are expected to have read and to be prepared to discuss the readings assigned for each class session. Your class participation grade will be determined by your ability to engage in productive class discussion.