Plagiarism Warning

I need to warn all of you about your essays on the death penalty. I have graded one section's papers and found that many students decided to copy their essays off the Internet, or take large sections from articles on Wikipedia and otherwise and try to pass these off as their own writing. Students who engage in this sort of activity will receive a failing grade on their essays.

I have told you about the issue of plagiarism and this kind of activity falls under the aegis of plagiarism.

If you need to quote another source, you must:
a) NAME THE SOURCE AND THE PERSON WHOSE QUOTE YOU HAVE BORROWED
b) LIST THE SOURCES AT THE END OF YOUR PAPER

If you fail to do these things, you will be penalized.

I cannot stress how severely I look upon plagiarism. Even if you take someone else's writing and put it in your own words (paraphrase) it is still plagiarism if you do not attribute your sources.

You have been warned.

Class 14

In today's class, students presented their advertisements - good job, everyone! We also had a lecture on Propaganda, and began to watch the Gus Van Sant movie "Finding Forrester". Your assignment was to write a blog post on William Forrester's character, looking up the word agoraphobia and relating it to him. You should also look up the real-life writer J.D. Salinger and see if there are any similarities between him and William Forrester in the movie.

Inspired by the Youth For Human Rights videos

http://dawn.com/2008/11/10/op.htm

Class schedule

Sorry to have had to miss class last week and also Monday - I've had a very bad throat infection. I hope to resume classes by the end of the week, possibly rescheduling today's EWS Section B class for Thursday afternoon. You will be informed of the schedule.