In the first week of the semester students will acquire an email account. After the account is established, students will be given an email disk and taught how to submit their work in this format. Since a significant portion of the class work will involve peer review of writing projects, it is essential that all students complete writing assignments on time to share them with their peer group. Plagiarism Plagiarism means submitting someone else's work or ideas as your own. Although students are encouraged to work in peer groups to explore new ideas and techniques, it is inappropriate to take sections of another writer's work or unique ideas without assigning appropriate credit to the original source.
Plagiarism can result in failing a particular paper or the entire course.
For clarification of the school's policy on this issue, refer to the Student Handbook. At this stage of the writing process, primary emphasis should be placed on the full exploration and development of insightful, focused, fresh ideas. Peer Review - Peer reviews are conducted by classmates to offer their peers an audience reaction to works in progress. A second draft may, in some cases, be quite similar to the initial draft, although in other cases the second draft may involve such a radical rethinking of the initial draft that it bears little resemblance to the first version. In either case, the second draft is more polished on the thematic and structural levels.