The course encourages you to commit yourselves to yourselves to your own words and ideas. In such a situation, you invest in your own writing because something more personal is at stake. When you write with this sense of commitment, you reveal yourselves through your own words to the world of readers. As your ideas and words are respected as personal property, you learn to respect the ideas and words of other writers as another s personal property. As you are encouraged to claim ownership of your own ideas, you are encouraged to recognize the owners of other ideas.
Plagiarism is the highest crime that a scholar can commit because it denies legitimate ownership.
A word to the wise is sufficient. Brainstorming, freewriting, and prewriting activities. Collaborative exercises and discussions. Small group critiquing. Drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading.